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Testament In Stone
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Inizia a leggereLunghezza: 110 pagine55 minuti
- Editore:
- Lulu.com
- Pubblicato:
- Jun 23, 2014
- ISBN:
- 9781312301566
- Formato:
- Libro
Descrizione
Understanding the symbols of the Nauvoo Temple has never been easier.
This easy-to-read volume is a great addition to any library, and the perfect companion on a stroll around the Temple.
Its message is clear: Every stone testifies of Christ.
This easy-to-read volume is a great addition to any library, and the perfect companion on a stroll around the Temple.
Its message is clear: Every stone testifies of Christ.
Informazioni sul libro
Testament In Stone
Lunghezza: 110 pagine55 minuti
Descrizione
Understanding the symbols of the Nauvoo Temple has never been easier.
This easy-to-read volume is a great addition to any library, and the perfect companion on a stroll around the Temple.
Its message is clear: Every stone testifies of Christ.
This easy-to-read volume is a great addition to any library, and the perfect companion on a stroll around the Temple.
Its message is clear: Every stone testifies of Christ.
- Editore:
- Lulu.com
- Pubblicato:
- Jun 23, 2014
- ISBN:
- 9781312301566
- Formato:
- Libro
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Testament In Stone - R. Lane Wright
Testament in Stone
Symbols of the Nauvoo Temple
and Their Meaning
R. Lane Wright
Photography: R. Lane Wright
The Nauvoo Press
Nauvoo, IL
© 2014 R. Lane Wright
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any means without permission in writing from the publisher, The Nauvoo Press, P.O. Box 134, Nauvoo, Illinois 62354. This work is not a publication of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. All views expressed herein are the responsibility of the author and do not reflect the position of the Church.
Visit the publisher at www.TheNauvooPress.com
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First Digital Edition
ISBN: 978-1-312-30156-
Printed in the United States of America
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To my wife Carol.
Your love of the Savior brings me closer to Him.
This work has a living bibliography
available at www.TestamentInStone.com
Foreword
The saga of the Nauvoo Temple that began in 1841 and continued into the twenty-first century is a story of faith, sacrifice, and obedience. I am not capacitated to build according to the world,
the Prophet Joseph Smith told a Pittsburgh Gazette editor. I know nothing about architecture and all that.
Yet he had definite ideas about how the Nauvoo Temple should be constructed: I have seen in vision the splendid appearance of that building illuminated, and will have it built according to the pattern shown me.
The pattern was intricate in design and meticulous in detail and symbolism. It called for a three-story gray limestone structure, measuring 128 feet in length and 88 feet in width. It depicted ornamental crescent moonstones, sunstones and five-pointed starstones carved into the exterior walls to adorn thirty pilasters. A belfry and a clock tower dome with a gilded weather vane was drawn atop the structure to give height and beauty to the temple. From the foundation stones to the symbolic angel atop the tall spire, Latter-day Saints built as they lived—steadfast and immoveable.
Yet the beautiful temple they constructed was reduced to ruins in less than twenty years. On October 9, 1848 the Nauvoo Temple was severely damaged by an unidentified incendiary, which reduced the temple to an eye-sore, a blackened shell of limestone. On May 27, 1850 a severe wind, what some described as a tornado, ripped through the temple, destroying most of the north wall and so severely weakening the east and south walls that they had to be removed. In 1865 the Nauvoo City Council ordered the removal of the teetering wall as a safety precaution. For generations the grandeur of the Nauvoo Temple lay shrouded in ruins.
Now, my brethren and sisters,
said President Gordon B. Hinckley in the closing session of the April 1999 General Conference, I feel impressed to announce that among all the temples we are constructing . . . we plan to rebuild the Nauvoo Temple.
Ground was broken, sod turned, and work recommenced on the footprint of the original Nauvoo Temple. Translating past exterior images and symbolism into present day reality proved more difficult than the new builders had imagined. Yet they moved forward and reconstructed the magnificent Nauvoo Temple.
My dear friend, R. Lane Wright, has caused me to take a closer look at the exterior of the reconstructed Nauvoo Temple. Wright’s excellent research, clear and succinct writing, and photography, has helped me better understand the importance of symbolism as portrayed on this House of the Lord. Thank you for sharing your insights with me.
Susan Easton Black
Emeritus Professor of Church History and Doctrine
Brigham Young University
Introduction
I love Church history, and have always been interested in the details of any story. I also love old things. Holding something in my hands that was used by someone else, and imagining the thoughts, experiences and events that surrounded its use. There’s nothing like standing in the actual place historic events occurred, seeing what they saw, and actually walking in their footsteps. Nothing, that is, except being in a place where the Savior and his Prophet walked. I’ve now had the chance to do so.
I like this quote from Roger P. Jackson (principal architect on the Nauvoo Temple reconstruction) regarding the rebuilding of the Nauvoo Temple:
Another reason this building has caught the imagination of the Church is the lesson from Luke 15 about something being lost and then found. When people lose something of significance, they go looking for it; they light a candle and sweep the house and seek it diligently (see vs. 5, 8). When they find it, whether it’s the lost sheep, a piece of silver, the wayward son, or, in our case, the Nauvoo Temple, they call together their friends and say,
Rejoice with me (vs. 6, 9) because that which was lost is found.
We
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