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elderolddog
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Date: September 22, 2018 09:04PM
http://www.fullerconsideration.com/templenameoracle.phpIf you go to the footnotes, you'll learn an interesting tidbit about the early practices surrounding the 'new name'. You'll even laugh... Oh heck, here's the one that made me laugh the most:
"Fanny Stenhouse wrote that in 1860...
"A new name was then whispered into my ear, which I was told I must never mention to any living soul except my husband in the Endowment House... There was among our number a deaf woman; Mrs. Whitney had to tell her her name once or twice over, loud enough for me to hear, and thus I found that her new name, as well as mine, was Sarah. To make the matter worse, another sister whispered: 'Why that is my name too.' This entirely dispelled any enthusiasm which otherwise I might have felt. I could well understand that I might yet become a Sarah in Israel, but if we all were Sarahs, there would not be much distinction or honor in being called by that name. As a matter, of course, I supposed that the men would all become Abrahams." (Tell It All, The Story of a Life's Experience in Mormonism, pgs 360-361)"
Seriously, read the footnotes!