Comments on: Mormon History Coloring Book, 1923: August, “Temple Building”

By: Researcher

Researcher — Mon, 25 May 2009 20:03:58 +0000

Thanks for posting these. I finally followed the example of your other reader (I can’t remember the name right now) and printed a bunch of these off for my six-year-old to color during church.

By: Ardis E. Parshall

Ardis E. Parshall — Mon, 25 May 2009 18:33:04 +0000

Alison, I don’t think we’ve discussed that at all. You’re right, children as young as 8, once having been baptized themselves, did often go to the temple, sometimes with Primary classes and sometimes just as a family thing, to do baptisms for the dead. Somewhere in my stack of potential posts I have a story or two regarding little kids and the temple that I’ll find again, sooner or later.

By: Alison

Alison — Mon, 25 May 2009 17:20:47 +0000

Apologies if this has been discussed previously, but does the phrase about “little children” being baptised for the dead in the temple refer to them doing so before age 12?

I know that things were a lot different in the earlier part of this dispensation; a friend of mine told me that her parent/grandparent was baptised for themselves at age eight in the Cardston Temple, apparently a common practice.

By: Left Field

Left Field — Sun, 24 May 2009 12:45:05 +0000

Given the importance that we now give to the statue of Moroni, it’s interesting that the statue is cut off from the one temple that had one. By contrast a few years ago, the Friend depicted the Manti Temple with an angel on its west tower, apparently thinking kids wouldn’t otherwise recognize it as a temple.

Also interesting is the Utah-centric text with the Hawaii Temple.