![]() ![]() ![]() forgetting the old and moving forward with the new.” “They saw this time, this commencement on this temple, as a new era. “I think it’s truly a remarkable story, and you never hear it,” Olmstead said in a recent interview with the Church News. Though the old Scottish tune is rarely associated with the early pioneers of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, or even considered a religious tune, Church historian and curator of Church history sites Jacob Olmstead said the tune served as a commentary on the fact that the early Saints were beginning a new era in Church history. “We two have run about the slopes, / and picked the daisies fine / But we’ve wandered many a weary foot, / since auld lang syne.” Among the turning of shovels and prayers to dedicate the land for the purposes of the Lord, the crowd began to sing an old familiar tune. Gathered around a simple, rather barren plot of land in a vast desert valley marked by just five years of habitation, a small group of people, shovels in hand, broke ground on February 14, 1853, on what would prove to be a building project of more than 40 years. Have questions about the Salt Lake Temple renovation? Read FAQs.Public is invited to tour Salt Lake Temple after renovations. ![]() Learn more about the Salt Lake Temple renovations beginning December 2019. ![]()
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