--- title: Improvement Era description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930. authors: - Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations collections: - periodicals tags: - magazine - improvement-era periodical: Improvement Era volume: 16 number: 1 published: 1912-11 publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations publisher_place: Salt Lake City language: en type: magazine reference: 'Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations, "“The House of the Lord”," *Improvement Era* 16, no. 1 (November 1912): 72.' source: url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1601unse transcription: Transcribed from the Internet Archive scan of each issue (the item for each issue is named in the issue's own source); unnumbered advertising leaves are omitted, printed page numbers are kept as page markers. identifier: improvementera1601unse start_page: 72 end_page: 72 rights: status: public-domain basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1912-11) source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1601unse publication_year: 1912 note: The Internet Archive item metadata carries a blanket "© Copyright by Intellectual Reserve, Inc." notice. The library owner judged it inapplicable because this issue was published in 1912, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright. --- # “The House of the Lord” 71 IMPROVEMENT ERA either in this world or the world to come, and not until then, of course, may he claim all the blessings. The earlier he accepts, the earlier will he obtain the blessings, and if he neglects to accept the laws, in this world, knowing them to be true, it is reasonable to suppose that disadvantages will result that will cause him deep regret. Joseph F. Smith. 'The House of the Lord' This new book, dealing with the subject of temples and temple work, has recently issued from the Deseret News printing establishment, and the Era has received a copy. The matter consists of 336 pages, including forty-six full-page, photo plates. Of this number thirty-one are first-class interior views of the Salt Lake temple, each picture protected by copyright, showing every room in the great structure. The text and descriptions, printed on high-class cameo of dull finish, are by the well-known author, Dr. James E. Talmage, one of the Twelve Apostles of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. In the opening chapter is given a general view of sanctuaries of ancient and modern times ; followed by a chapter enlarging on sanctuaries of early dispensations. "The Need of Temples in the Present Dispensation" is treated in chapter three which is reproduced in full by courtesy of the publishers as the leading article in this number of the Era, and which answers the important question, "Why do the Latterday Saints build and maintain temples?" The remaining eight chapters deal with "Modern Temple Ordinances," a detailed consideration of modern temple service, under the headings (1) baptisms, specifically baptisms for the dead; (2) ordinations and associated endowments in the priesthood; (3) marriage ceremonies; (4) other sealing ordinances; "Modern-day Temples," including data concerning those at Kirtland and Nauvoo; and a historic treatise of the "Great Temple at Salt Lake City," with a description of its exterior, its emblematical stones, and its architectural style, — a style which the architect, Joseph D. C. Young, told the author might be called the "Romanesque modifield by the Castellated." In chapter eight, the interior, including