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62 ." They contributed their mites and their labour, and by the 27th of March, 1836, "the House of the Lord" was so far finished as to admit of dedication.

It was no Solomon's Temple, but, for the few Saints who reared it, it was a commanding building. In those days "the Lord" had to do everything, so that this house was not built up "after the manner of the world," and he commanded that "the size thereof shall be fifty and five feet in width, and let it be sixty-five feet in length, in the inner court thereof." The Prophet having given the general outline, the Temple went up and was reported to be finished in this fashion:



The internal divisions were arranged for the gradations of Priesthood: the west end of the lower, court to the