125 years ago today - Apr 7, 1893

[Anthon H. Lund, at the Salt Lake Temple dedication]
"Bro[ther] Woodruff: 'I will tell you what has been revealed to me since yesterday: Joseph Smith and the saints of this dispensation the saints of the Christian Dispensation the prophets Elijah Esajah [sic] and the good of all ages have been gathered and when the shout went up from this Temple they carried it on to the throne of God.' ...

Pres[iden]t Cannon [it is not exactly clear here when, I think in the evening session] once I was wind bound in San Francisco Bay. I had a dream that we ten elders on board were pulling at the windlass and trying to raise the anchor when we found we could not budge it an inch. Joseph Smith came and said: "George, come with me." We went to the front. "Now," said he; "we will pray." he prayed and then told me to pray. When we were done he said, "Take hold of the cable." I took hold and without the least effort raised the anchor. He said, "Let this be a lesson to you always." Bro[ther] Cannon said that the power of faith had been much underrated. In faith and with prayer we can do nearly everything.

F. M. Lyman gave us his dream in the Penitentiary and Bro[ther] B. Young gave his early experience in excavating the temple foundation the curious incident of a dollar falling on the corner stone and no body knows who flung it there [when this session closed a sister as taken in labor and birthed in the temple]

[Source: Diary of Apostle Anthon H. Lund, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies]

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