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Show The Morgan Stake Tabernacle was completed at a cost of $8,000 and dedicated by President John Taylor. The building bos been dedicated on two other occasions. Once by President Joseph F. Smith in 1901 after being damaged by fire and again by President Heber J. Grant after it bad been remodeled in 1938. interesting. He spoke on the energy and growth of God's people and then said, "Waiting spirits wish to tabernacle where they will not be in danger of being disembodied before entering the world, or murdered soon after."44 In June, at the monthly priesthood meeting, President Francis expressed concern about the wards not owning necessary property. He told the brethren that they should follow the counsel of Joseph F.Smithattheprecedinggeneral conference and purchase property for schools and church buildings. The brethren were also reminded that sending children to gentile schools was a grievous sin.45 Reorganization of the Thirty-Fifth Quorum of Seventy The first quorum of seventy was organized on 28 February 1835 underthe direction of Joseph Smith at Kirtland, Ohio. By 1846 there were thirty-four quorums of seventy organized in the Church, the thirty-fourth quorum of seventy being the last one organized in Nauvoo prior to the departure of the Saints for the West. On 16 February 1853 the thirty-fifth quorum of seventy was organized in Salt Lake City. From this point on all who were ordained seventies were placed in the thirty-fifth quorum until it had seventy members, at which time another quorum was organized. Most of the members of the thirty-fifth quorum when it was organized were from the Salt Lake Valley; however, there were members from Iron County, Spanish Fork, Rush Valley, Springville, Kaysville, and Ogden.46 With quorum members living so far apart, "the only meetings that could be held were 'mass meetings' in appointed districts, instead of in quorum meetings."47 The quorums of seventy were finally set in order in 1883 under the direction of President John Taylor. A written document to correct the problems and set the seventies in order was presented to the Quorum of Twelve and the First Seven Presidents of Seventy on 14 April 1883 and approved by them. President Taylor then presented the document to the Lord and received confirmation that it was acceptable.48 The revelation "proposed that quorum districts be organized with the establishment of headquarters for each quorum, where its records should be kept; such districts to be distributed throughout the Church territory under the direction of the first council [of Seventy] as the number of the priesthood |