"The Signers of the Declaration of Independence"

I have been really into church history lately and I found this story in this book and I have left all the reference information as to back it up, so you don't think i am making stuff up, and my husband thought it was really cool and so I needed to share it.

Taken from the book "Classic Stories from the Lives of Our Prophets"

Chapter about Wilford Woodruff the 4th president of the Church

( Wilford Woodruff in Journal of Discourses, 19:229.)

"The Signers of the Declaration of Independence"

I feel to say little else to the Latter-day Saints wherever and whenever I have the opportunity of speaking to them, than to call upon them to build these temples now under way, to hurry them up to completion. The dead will be after you; they will seek after you as they have after us in St. George. They called upon us, knowing that we held the keys and power to redeem them.

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." These 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 out minds were reaching after our more immediate friends and relatives. I straightway went into the baptismal font and called upon Brother McAllister 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.