Wednesday, November 18, 2009

The Signers of the Declaration of Independence


I know most of you know this story but it truly amazing! When I post blogs about the Founding Fathers and share my testimony of them I feel I am in a way helping in restoring and building up the truth so that everyone can see. Below is Wilford Woodruffs description of what he experienced in the St. George Temple in 1877.

Wilford Woodruff
I will here say, before closing, that two weeks before I left St. George, the spirits of the dead gathered around me, wanting to know why we did not redeem them. Said they, "You have had the use of the Endowment House for a number of years, and yet nothing has ever been done for us. We laid the foundation of the government you now enjoy, and we never apostatized from it, but we remained true to it and were faithful to God." There were the signers of the Declaration of Independence, and they waited on me for two days and two nights. I thought it very singular, that notwithstanding so much work had been done, and yet nothing had been done for them. The thought never entered my heart, from the fact, I suppose, that heretofore our minds were reaching after our more immediate friends and relatives. I straightway went into the baptismal font and called upon brother McCallister to baptize me for the signers of the Declaration of Independence, and fifty other eminent men, making one hundred in all, including John Wesley, Columbus, and others; I then baptized him for every President of the United States, except three; and when their cause is just, somebody will do the work for them.

1 comment:

AmyGale said...

I have never heard that! That is so cool! Thanks for sharing that!