Are we right in our conclusion that a font had been built? Yes, a temporary font had been built in the basement of the Temple--a temporary one--but obviously one that answered the requirements of the revelation. Moreover, in this temporary font, which was used by the command of the Lord through the Prophet Joseph Smith, baptisms for the dead were performed from November, 1841, until it was replaced by the permanent font, and then these baptisms continued in that until the Saints were driven from Nauvoo. BAPTISMS FOR THE DEAD OBLIGATORY. We will now examine the thirty-second verse; it is: "But behold, at the end of this appointment, your baptisms for your dead shall not be acceptable unto me." That means, of course, the baptisms in the river shall not be acceptable after the font is built. But listen to this: "And if you do not these things at the END OF THE APPOINTMENT ye shall be rejected as a church, with your dead, saith the Lord your God." If you do not do what things? Does it mean if you do not build the Temple at the END of the appointment? That would be absurd. It means, if you do not perform your baptisms for your dead and the ordinances for the dead at the end--not the beginning, but the end--of the appointment, then will you be rejected with your dead. So you see it was not the failure to finish the attic, or to carve figures in the woodwork, or embellish the building by placing pictures on the walls, or painting them; it was not for this that the Church was to be rejected; but it was to be rejected with its dead if it failed to perform the work in the Temple for the dead when the opportunity was afforded. Now let us see if this view is not in harmony with other Scriptures. I turn to the second section of the Doctrine and Covenants. Here the angel says: "Behold, I will reveal unto you the Priesthood, by the hand of Elijah the prophet, before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord. "And he shall plant in the hearts of the children the promises made to the fathers, and the hearts of the children shall turn to their fathers. "If it were not so, the whole earth would be UTTERLY WASTED AT ITS COMING." Why would the earth be wasted? Simply because if there is not a welding link between the fathers and the children--which is the work for the dead--then we will all stand rejected; the whole work of God will fail and be utterly wasted. Such a condition of course, shall not be. When Elijah restored this Priesthood, he said that the time spoken of had fully come, and that the dreadful day of the Lord was near, even at the doors. Let us now see what Joseph Smith had to say in relation to this. Speaking of the baptism and salvation for the dead, he said: