I want to lay before you what there is for us to do at
the present time; and in doing this I desire particularly the attention of
President Lorenzo Snow, of the Salt Lake Temple; President M.W. Merrill, of the
Logan Temple; President J.D.T. McAllister of the Manti Temple, and President
D.H. Cannon, of the St. George Temple, and those associated with them. You have
acted up to all the light and knowledge that you have had; but you have now
something more to do than you have done. We have not fully carried out those
principles in fulfillment of the revelations of God to us, in sealing the
hearts of the fathers to the children and the children to the fathers. I have
not felt satisfied, neither did President Taylor, neither has any man since the
Prophet Joseph who has attended to the ordinance of adoption in the temples of
our God. W have felt that there was more to be revealed upon the subject than
we had received. Revelations were given to us in the St. George Temple, which
President Young presented to the Church of God. Changes were made there, and we
still have more changes to make, in order to satisfy our Heavenly Father,
satisfy our dead and ourselves. I will tell you what some of them are. I have
prayed over this matter, and my brethren have. We have felt as President Taylor
said, that we have got to have more revelation concerning sealing under the law
of adoption. Well, what are these changes? One of them is the principle of
adoption. (Wilford Woodruff, "The
Law of Adoption," April 18, 1894)
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