Without Disclosing My True Identity
(^40) Acts 17:29.
(^41) Luke 17:21.
(^42) Acts 17:24–9.
(^43) D&C, 84:27.
(^44) D&C, 42:36; 127:4; 128:24; 138:48, 54;
See also Boyd K. Packer, “A Temple to Exalt,” Ensign, Aug. 1993: 7. “Say the word temple. Say
it quietly and reverently. Say it over and over again. Temple. Temple. Temple. Add the word holy.
Holy Temple. And you say it as though it were capitalized, no matter where it appears in the
sentence. Temple. One other word is equal in importance to a Latter-day Saint. Home. Put the words
holy temple and home together, and you have described what a temple is. The house of the Lord!”
Other recent articles/talks include:
“Let the Work of My Temple Not Cease,” Ensign, Apr. 2010: 43–5;
Thomas S. Monson, “The Holy Temple—a Beacon to the World,” Ensign, May 2011, 92–4;
Julie Wright, “My Temple Recommend Had Expired,” Ensign, Jun. 2010: 34–5;
“Come to the Temple and Claim Your Blessings,” Ensign, Jul. 2011: 7;
“Being Worthy to Enter the Temple,” Ensign, Aug. 2010: 8–9;
“Our Responsibility to Be Worthy of Temple Worship,” Ensign, Aug. 2010: 7;
Thomas S. Monson, “Blessings of the Temple,” Ensign, Oct. 2010: 12–19;
“Making the Temple a Part of Your Life,” Ensign, Oct. 2010: 76–8;
In fact, a search of the word “temples,” in the Ensign on the lds.org site results in over 6,000
results. The LDS church has printed whole magazines on the temple, the most recent being the
October 2010 Ensign issue.
(^45) D&C, 103:9.
(^46) Christopher, Sacred, not Secret—The [Authorized and] Official Guide In Understanding the LDS
Temple Endowment (Salt Lake City: Worldwide United, 2008).
(^47) D&C, 84:39–40.
(^48) Contrast with DHC, 4:552, which dates it as March 16.
(^49) “Joseph Smith’s brother, Hyrum, had become a member of the Mount Moriah Lodge No. 112
in Palmyra, Ontario County, New York sometime in the 1820’s.” (Mervin B. Hogan, “Utah’s Memorial
to Freemasonry,” The Royal Arch Mason: Missouri Edition 11:7 [Fall 1974]: 201, as cited in Stanley B.
Kimball, “Heber C. Kimball and Family: The Nauvoo Years,” 456.) According to one source, Hyrum
“was a founding leader of the Nauvoo Masonic lodge.” (Bruce A. Van Orden, “Smith, Hyrum,” in
Encyclopedia of Mormonism, 4 vols., ed. Daniel H. Ludlow (New York: Macmillan, 1992) 3:1330.
(^50) See Introduction, n. 56.
(^51) Compare DHC, 1:78; D&C, 21; 124:125.
(^52) See subheading titled “The First Presentation of the Temple Endowment” in this chapter.
Compare this with DHC, 5:1–2, which states that those in attendance were seven in number,
including James Adams, Hyrum Smith, Newel K. Whitney, George Miller, Brigham Young, Heber C.
Kimball, and Willard Richards.
(^53) “...And if General Bennett’s true feelings toward me are not made manifest to the world in
a very short time, then it may be possible that the gentle breathings of that Spirit, which whispered
me on parade, that there was mischief concealed in that sham battle, were false; a short time will
determine the point. Let John C. Bennett answer at the day of judgment, ‘Why did you request me to
command one of the cohorts, and also to take my position without my staff, during the sham battle,
on the 7th of May, 1842, where my life might have been the forfeit, and no man have known who did
the deed?’” (DHC, 5:4.)
(^54) DHC, 5:12, 18–19, 42–4.
(^55) See Appendix 2, “Mormon Polygamy—The Truth Revealed!”
(^56) BOM, 1 Nephi 4:13.
(^57) DHC, 5:4.