The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-10-24
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Tho form Of Tic Tabernacle was suggested by
Rr;oham Young; whether ho was guIdcd py
s.rcvcl,tion, we are not told. Tho head Duiiaer
thinks .any person who has not seen tho build
inc can have a very good idea Of the rocf by
;r,oo;ninr the back or shell OF common Eastern
Ground turtle, OF huge proportions. but 1t s more
frequently likened to the hull OF an od-fashiOneu
ship, without any keel and turned topsy tufSS'
This roof is supported by forty-our piers OF CUT
sand stone, each nine feet by three Nne OF tiese
piers stand in straight line on each SIDE Oh the
building and from them springs an arch Oh ior's
eight feet. Thirteen piers stand In circle a'
each end Of tho building, from when spring oil
aou,, number of arches Between these piers are
windows containing altogether twenty-five 'hou-
sand panes of glass, ard doors. VI the la'1ci'
fourteen are for The ropuace, one for the fresi-
-Young-one for the choir, ana others tor INC
bishops and priesthood. The lnterlor VI the
binding is thus described The stand tor tne
.neakers is at tho West end OF the building,
and covers scvcnty-fve hundred feet OF surface.
The front of the stand is segment of circle.
Before it are seat and desk for the bishops and
Others who administer the sacrament. The hrst
seat IN the centre Of the stand OF platform is Tor
the Presidency of the Sta e, the next for tho quo
rum of the Twelve the third for the First fTesl-
dency Back of these arc seats for choir OF ohe
hundred and fifty singers, with the great organ,
vet unfinished. behind them. On the right ana
LETT are seats for from eight hundred TO one 'hou
sand persons. The speakers desk Is sixty 1eet IN
front Of the Western piers. In front OF the stano,
for seventy iee, tho floor is horizontal thence TO
the East end the floor rises with grade OF one foot
in Ten" The room will scat between eight and nine
| Thousand persons. In this building there are
moro than one million five hundred thousand feet
Of timber. The roof is covered with three hun
dred and fifty thousand shingles The greates6
number at work upon the tabernacle at any one
time was two hundred and five. About the 1st OF
September Young issued q call to the carpenters,
masons and pastorers, urging them to assist IN
finishing the building at once. 1t was gen rally
obeyed. Young has, in fact, shown the deepest
interest in the work throughout, and has cypress
ed himself fully satisfied with the result. Inc
| Telegraph says: "It is grand building. OF which
the saints have reason to be proud, Ind we but
echo the feelings Of every faithful sailt in wishing
lenrthened life to President Young that he there
in NAV long continue to instruct ard lead Israel to
tho accomplishment Of the designs and purposes
of the Most High"
| THs NORTH BRITISH REVIEW says: "It will be
said, have not religious agencies Of oil kinds been
busy at work for tho last three centuries, and
behold the result! In tho warmest advocates OF
religion, bitterness and division; in the great
mass of tho thriving classes, rawness narron ness,
vulgarity; in the lowest position barbarism and
profanity. Has not the religious idea been tried
to the uttermost, and found wanting? Intensity
to the uttermost the dssidenoe Of dissent and
the Professionalism Of the Protestant religion will
this cure the Inherent Philistinsm OF our people,
achieve the ends which culture longs for2 No one
can pretend that the religious organizations as they
now are havo done this, or are on the way TO
do it. So much is their spiritual strength spent
in enforcing sectarian and divisive ideas. Seeta-
risnisrl whatover else it may hayo done, has Ger
tainly not promoted the harmonious expansions
OF human nature which Mr.. Arnold aims at But
there are signs enough that its day is waning On
all sides We see the new wine-a purer Christian
spirit, new and strong as ever ready to burst the
old bottles if only new ones were at hand to pro-
sorvc it. Amid all our narrowness and !imita-
tons, end contradictions, is not tho horizon Visi-
bly widening around us? And as it widens, and
as social PHILOSOPHERS, one after another, try to
keep pace with it and fall tho adaptation Of Christ
to gil the hearts of all men individually, and the
necessity of Him to become the cementing bond of
renewed humanity, will become moro than ever
apparent. In subservience to Him is the right
place for culture. Large service lies ready for it
to do if it only understand its true calling, to be
the minister of faith higher than itself. .As an
irstruncntality OF this kind, culture may become
most benefcent power, probably the powcr most
needed in this age. But it must be as means, not
as end; as servant, not as master.
BErcuER, in Norwood, has the following beau
tfu picture of Christian family, stricken by the
hand of death. Young Wentworth had fallen at
the battle of Manassas Mr.. B. then speaks OF
the family cater tho Funeral" :" Had an entire
stranger entered Dr. Wentworths family he would
scarcely have suspected that great sorrow had
befallen it. He might remark tenderness mani
tested by one toward another, unusual even in the
circle Of affectonate people The voice OF singing
was there, but the music flowed deep, carrying
few bubbles upon its surface. Even mirth reas-
serted its wholesome sway, but it was manifested
more by the dewy freshness given to conversation
than by positive eforescenco Of it's own. In this
case happily sorrow worked upon the moral SEN
tments and developed serene and high JOY
There was no drug in it deadoning to the sens
bility. al OF life had become richer by what 1t
had lost. The heavens seemed nearer The light
est duties and most trivial offices Of daily hfe
seemed colored with celestial hues. When Death
is interpreted it means Life It's ministry is to
enrich life, not to rob it, 1t takes away the fesh
but pours back along the way upon which the de-
parting spirit went a flood Of light and influence
which heghtens the colors and doubles the value
of all that remains behind. The worth Of common
things depends upon the sentiments which we
have twined around them. Sorrows are gardeners,
and plant flowers along waste places. and teach |
vines to cover barren heaps. The common duties
OF life, unDlessed, are but as fences of stone or
timber; but blessed with sorrow, each stake carries
it's twining morning glory, and moescs picture the
stones and glowing ampelopss tufts the walls
with its Autumnal red.
MIR. AarEJa sKETouLEE better known as
'Mrs. Brown" thus discourseth on "Kings and
Queens" 'Tm sure, who'd be king or queen,
can't think, for the way as they did use to treat
'em was downright shameful, a-'aoking on 'em to
bits il battles, and ashootin' On 'em in the eye
with harrow, let alone cuttin off their 'eads as
think it was Charles the Twelfth. Not as them
kings was account neither, as was dusty lot with
their wives and their boauties and troatin 'em
VERY bad, as ono 'ad six on 'em as he went and
cut off one arter the othor. Certainly, did pity
them princes ss was smothered quite cool by their
own uncle In the Tower, as I've seen myself as
must ave been blackarted willin, as they do say
was born with teeth the same as King John the
Third, as was a gloomy tyrant, as lest all lis
things at the wash, as he took to art that deep
as to die on it; seemed foolish act, tho worry
asgravatin', the same as 'appened to poor Mrs.
Symons, as ad the close basket cut Off tho back