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Joseph Fielding Smith Jr.(10th prophet):
The first baptisms for the dead in this dispensation, of course, were in the Mississippi River at Nauvoo. That was a right granted to the Church under peculiar conditions. Today no baptism for the dead would be valid if performed in a stream of any kind or in a lake or any principal body of water, because the Lord has decreed that the work for the dead -- whether baptisms or endowments or sealings -- is to be performed in a house that has been built to his holy name, a temple; and he tells us that it is only in the days of poverty that this rite may be performed in some other place than the house of the Lord.
Source: McConkie, Bruce R., ed. Doctrines Of Salvation Vol. 2: Sermons and Writings of Joseph Fielding Smith Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, 1955. 169.