"But how are they to become saviors on Mount Zion? By building their temples, erecting their baptismal fonts, and going forth and receiving all the ordinances, baptisms, confirmations, washings, anointings, ordinations, and sealing powers upon their head, in behalf of all their progenitors, who are dead, and redeem them that they may come forth in the first resurrection and be exalted to thrones of glory with them; and herein is the chain that binds the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the children to the fathers, which fulfills the mission of Elijah. And I would to God that this Temple was now done, that we might go into it, and go to work and improve our time, and make use of the seals while they are on earth. "_The Saints have not too much time to save and redeem their dead_, and gather together their living relatives, that they may be saved also, _before the earth will be smitten_, and the consummation decreed falls upon the world. "I would advise all the Saints to go to with their might and gather together all their living relatives to this place, that they may be sealed and saved, that they may be prepared against the day that the destroying angel goes forth; and if the _whole Church_ should go to _with all their might to save their dead_, seal their posterity, and gather their living friends, and spend none of their time in behalf of the world, _they would hardly get through before night would come when no man can work_." On the 12th of May, 1844, the Prophet Joseph said: "It is not only necessary that you should be baptized for your dead, but you will have to go through all the ordinances for them, same as you have gone through to save yourselves. There will be 144,000 {92} saviors on Mount Zion, and with them an innumerable host that no man can count." We learn from the foregoing quotations the following important facts pertaining to the salvation of the dead: 1. Salvation in behalf of the dead is the binding or sealing of the hearts of the fathers and the children, the welding link. (Doc. and Cov., 128: 18, Reorganite edition CX: 18.) 2. It is the most glorious subject belonging to the everlasting Gospel. (Doc. and Cov., 128: 17, Reorganite edition CX: 17.) 3. It is the greatest responsibility in this world that God has laid upon us--to seek after our dead. (Times and Seasons, Vol. 6, page 616.) 4. It is obligatory to man. (Times and Seasons, Vol. 6, page 616.) 5. Without it the whole earth and its inhabitants would be smitten with a curse. (Malachi 4: 6. Doc. and Cov. 128: 18, Reorganite edition, CX: 18.) 6. It is an eternal doctrine prepared before the foundation of the world. (Doc. and Cov. 128: 5, 8, 18, Reorganite edition CX: 5, 8, 18.)