Logan Temple

DESCRIPTION: "There's a mound in the midst of our city That is lovely and grand to behold. It was placed there by God for a purpose More precious than silver or gold." "A beautiful Temple of God, It will help us gain our salvation." It was built for living and dead
AUTHOR: H. G. Stevens (source: Cheney-MormonSongs)
EARLIEST DATE: 1959 (Cheney-MormonSongs)
KEYWORDS: religious | Temple Mormon building
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REFERENCES (1 citation):
Cheney-MormonSongs, pp. 127-128, "Logan Temple" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #10856
NOTES [132 words]: The final verse of this begins
It was built for giving endowments
To the living as well as the dead
And these are the things that's celestial
As the Prophet Elijah has said.
This fits in fairly well with the Saints' belief in the afterlife and reincarnation and resurrection of the dead. The reference to things celestial seems to be an allusion to 1 Corinthians 15:40, which in the King James version reads "There are also celestial bodies, and bodies terrestrial: but the glory of the celestial is one, and the glory of the terrestrial is another." But this is the only use in the King James Bible of the word "celestial"; Elijah never said anything that faintly resembled this. Perhaps it's a reference to some Mormon doctrine? -- note that "celestial marriage" was a term for polygamy. - RBW
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File: ChMS127

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