[Manuscript History of Brigham Young, Apr. 30, 1846] The Temple at Nauvoo was dedicated this evening. Elders Orson Hyde, Wilford Woodruff, John [Young], Joseph [Young][,] and Phineas H. Young, J[ohn] M. Bernhisel, J[oseph] L. Heywood, and several others were present. Elder Joseph Young [Orson Hyde] offered up the dedicatory prayer, dedicating the Temple, and all that pertained thereto to the Lord, as an offering to Him, as an evidence of the willingness of His people, to fulfill His commandments, and build His holy house, even at the risk of their lives, and the sacrifice of their labor and earthly goods. He prayed for the Twelve [Apostles] and all the authorities of the Church, and for the workmen that had wrought upon the Temple in the midst of persecution, want and suffering, for the deliverance of the poor; that the Lord would direct the brethren of the camp of Israel, open the way before them and lead them to a place of His own appointment for the gathering of all the Saints, that God would avenge the blood of His servants, the prophets and of the Saints who had been slain for the testimony of the truth and mete out to our enemies the same measure which they had meted out to us.
[source: Anderson, Devery; The Development of LDS Temple Worship, 1846-2000: A Documentary History, http://amzn.to/TempleWorship]
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