DEDICATORY PRAYER OF THE MORGAN STAKE AND MORGAN WARD HOUSE July 10, 1938 By President Heber J. Grant Our Heavenly Father: In humility, in gratitude, and in thanksgiving, we come before Thee on this occasion with our hearts full of joy for the accomplishments of the people here in the remodeling and rebuilding of this old meetinghouse. We thank Thee for the faith of the people and for their contributions and for the goodwill, also contributions of friends here, people not of our own faith. We thank Thee that this building has been so beautifully remodeled, rearranged and additions made to it, and that it is now in such a fine and splendid condition that we feel proud and grateful for it. We are grateful to Thee, Heavenly Father, for the Gospel of Thy Son Jesus Christ. When we think that Thou didst see fit to come with Thy son into the world and didst introduce Thy Son to the boy Joseph Smith, and told him to listen to the Redeemer, we are grateful unto Thee. We do thank Thee that the Savior didst give instructions to this boy that he should not join any of the churches, but that he should live worthily and eventually become an instrument in Thy hands and again establish the Church of Jesus Christ upon the earth. This was the greatest manifestation that we have any record of where God the Father and Jesus Christ, his son, both appeared at the same time. Accept the gratitude of our hearts that Thou didst send Thy servant Moroni, who delivered the Golden Plates to him, which contained the record of the Book of Mormon. We thankThee that Thou didst restore the priesthood by allowing the men who held it to come into the Temple in Kirtland, and restore it. We are grateful that Thou didst send John the Baptist, the man who baptized the Savior, to come and lay his hands upon the heads of Joseph Smith and Oliver Cowdery, and gave them the power to baptize. They were commanded to baptize each other, and we rejoice that Thou didst promise them through John the Baptist, who baptized the Savior, that the Apostles of the Lord Jesus Christ, Peter, James and John, would later restore the higher or Melchizedek Priesthood, and restore the Apostleship upon the earth. We thank Thee for this marvelous manifestation and for the remarkable testimony which Thou didst give to Joseph Smith and Sidney Rigdon and which they gave in these words, "And now after the many testimonies which have been given of him, this is the testimony, last ofall, which we give of him; that he lives, for we saw him, even on the right hand of God; and we heard the voice bearing record that he is the Only Begotten of the Father—That by him, and through him, and of him, the worlds are and were created, and the inhabitants thereof are begotten sons and daughters unto God." (D&C 76:22-24) Oh Father, we thankThee for the restoration of the Gospel, and that we have been made participants of it, and for our parents, and the wonderful men from Joseph Smith to those of the present time who have stood at the head of the Church, in time and devotion, and willingness to sacrifice; for the faith of Thy people, that they were not discouraged, that after being 127