After Joseph Smith received the revelation recorded in
Doctrine and Covenants 95, Church leaders held a conference to discuss the
construction of the temple. “Some were in favor of building a frame house, but
others were of a mind to put up a log house. Joseph reminded them that they
were not building a house for a man, but for God; ‘and shall we, brethren,’
said he, ‘build a house for our God, of logs? No, I have a better plan than
that. I have a plan of the house of the Lord, given by himself.’” After Joseph
explained the full pattern of the temple, all the brethren were excited. They
traveled to the building site, removed a fence, and leveled a field of wheat
that had previously been planted by the Smith family. After the grain was
cleared, Hyrum Smith “commenced digging a trench for the wall.” (Lucy Mack
Smith, History of Joseph Smith by His Mother, ed. Preston Nibley [1958], 230,
231.)
-How did The Brethren respond to being chastised by the
Lord?
