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Show CONDUCT DEDICATION—Top officials of the LDS Church stand before the n ew Oakland, Calif., temple or ng at dedication ceremonies Tuesto officiati pri day through Thursday. Joseph Fielding Smith, pres- jdent, Council of Twelve Apostles; Hugh B. Brown, first counselor; David O. McKay, president, and Nathan E. Tanner, second counselor (left to right). Telephoto.) dedication of a new $7 million Mormon temple, said that in his early California travels he found but one Mormon Gridley. — Now, the church—at silver-haired Mor- mon leader said, there are hun- dreds of Mormon church build- - The ings and more than 300,000 church members in California. McKay heads a list of Mormon leaders who are participating with an estimated 30,000 other Mormons in three-dayceremonies |) long dedication which began yesterday at the Oakland Temple. 5 | O14 SACRED PLACE . Ae The temple will serve as the| most sacred place for a Mor-|' mon district bordered by the): _Washington-Canadian border on the north, Reno, east and Fresno, Nev., on the) Calif., on the south. | temple’s gardens’ contain. _picturesque pools _ lountaims of“Or cascading 3 * The temple’s and water.): interior includes @ a baptismal font resting upon 12 eS ge The ne ee The new Mormon temple overlooks San Francisco Bay from) its 23-acre site on an Oakland hillside. It.can be seen not only by day, but by night, with its five illuminated gold-leaf towers. | Oakland. structure, the 15th Mormon temple in_ the world, attracted 350,000 visitors during a three-week public viewing last month. : Western district members raised $670,000 of the temple’s cost by tithing and the rest of the expense was paid by the two-million worldMormon’s. wide membership. a President McKay indicated that the 16th Mormon temple might. be built in Sweden. No firm decision has been made, a spokesman said. A rma golden oxen, representing the 12) tribes of Israel. poOatnmos OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) Times have changed since David O. McKay, the 91-year-old president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, journeyed the length of California in his youth. McKay, in Oakland for the nee California NOG Changesin fot © _(UPI-Standard-Examiner |
