William Lang — Vision of the St. George Tabernacle

While still living in London, England, and working as a skilled stonecutter, William Lang experienced a vivid dream or vision of a magnificent building he was destined to help construct. After converting to the LDS faith and emigrating to Utah in 1863, he was called to the Cotton Mission in St. George. Upon seeing the architectural plans and the site for the St. George Tabernacle, Lang immediately recognized the structure as the exact building he had seen in his vision in England years earlier. This manifestation served as a divine confirmation of his calling to the desert settlement and his role as a master mason in the building of Zion.

Recording note: This account is preserved in Lindau Merrill Riggs, 'William Lang,' Daughters of Utah Pioneers History Collection, submitted to the DUP Lesson Department by Delores Riggs. It is not available in a public online archive, so no verbatim first-person text of the vision is included here.