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Kirtland Temple Dedicatory Prayer (1836)

“Prayer, at the Dedication of the Lord’s House in Kirtland, Ohio” (1836)

This broadside contains the prayer that was read by Joseph Smith at the dedication of the Kirtland Temple on the afternoon of March 27, 1836. The text of the prayer was added to the Doctrine and Covenants in 1876 as section 109.

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