We stand here, a little handful of men and women in the eyes of the world, but we are called to build up Zion.

Here we have four Temples, thank the Lord our God! Into those Temples we enter and redeem our dead. The Lord has raised up a people for this purpose. You hold the keys of the destiny of your fathers, your mothers, your progenitors, from generation to generation; you hold the keys of their salvation. God has put that power into your hands.

But if we do not do what is required of us in this thing, we are under condemnation. If we do attend to this, then when we come to meet our friends in the celestial kingdom, they will say, “You have been our saviors, because you had power to do it. You have attended to these ordinances that God has required.

– Wilford Woodruff (October 1897)