140 years ago today - Jan 11, 1874

[Brigham Young Sermon] ... He said, Brother Joseph was anxious to get the Temple finished in Kirtland; when they came to prepare the inscription stone of the Kirtland Temple, it was found, after the inscription was cut on the stone, no one seemed at hand to gild the letters out of doors. Brother Young said he would do it, and did it. The inscription cut on the stone was: '"This building was erected by the Church of Christ. 1834.'" One day President Joseph Smith and himself were looking at the stone after it was done. President Joseph said '"Brother Brigham if you were to indite the inscription for that stone, what would it be?'" President Young replied he would use much the same words, but would make in the inscription: '"This building was erected by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.'" This was all that was said and that time about the matter; but the first time he (Brother Brigham) afterwards noticed any public record naming the Church, he read it under the name of '"The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.'" -- St. George, Utah

[Source: The Complete Discourses of Brigham Young, Ed. Richard S. Van Wagoner, Smith-Pettit Foundation, Salt Lake City (2009), http://bit.ly/BY-discourses]

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