The new temple in Philadelphia

The new temple in Philadelphia January 25, 2016

 

The rising (or risen) temple in Philadelphia
The Philadelphia Pennsylvania Temple as it appeared back on 15 December 2015. Since then, among other things, a gold-leafed statue of the Angel Moroni has been placed atop its tallest spire.
(Wikimedia Commons)

 

Cody Quirk calls my attention to this article, which was published on 15 January:

 

“Golden statue of angel Moroni placed atop Philly Mormon temple, marking ‘significant milestone'”

 

He says that the anti-Mormons are running wild in the comments section.  I wasn’t able to find the comments section, though.  Which may well be a divine blessing to me, a “tender mercy.”

 

Here’s a more recent piece about the new temple, with some good accompanying photographs (located in the “Slide Show” to the left of the article text):

 

“The Look of Mormon”

 

I looked last night, and the critics were already beginning to froth.

 

“We are going to build temples. This law is given to the children of men. . . .  

Some say, ‘I do not like to do it, for we never began to build a temple without the bells of hell beginning to ring.’ I want to hear them ring again. . . .

We completed a temple in Kirtland and in Nauvoo; and did not the bells of hell toll all the time we were building them? They did, every week and every day.”

Brigham Young

 

 


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