Connecticut western news., 1878-08-29
A Mormon Congregation.

Dr. B. F. Taylor recently visited Salt Lake City, and entered the Mormon temple, hoping to hear namesake of his preach. But man named Smith, of the tribe of Joseph, 8 missionary re- turned from Europe, gave rambly talk about his travels and other things. Dr. Taylor being disappointed in the preach CT and the sermon, took the more special note of the worshippers, and this is his description of them: .a..
 Fancy six thousand faces fitted into an ellipse that will seat eight thousand peo- plea huge mosaic of human heads. There were at least thousand children among them, sorted off with picket-lines of mothers between, and about tour- score infants in arms. It would have been an appetizing sight for Herod, and would have kept the baby-eating Saturn in rations for three months. Every style of dress was represented, from the old poke bonnet with puckered face in it's backroom to the wafer of 8 hat with 8 butterfly on it and the lamp-mat trihe just caught on the bump of approbative- ness behind. There was the old beaver, chafed bare in spots, as if it had worked in harness some time, and the new silk that shines like bottle. There was the modern girl hung about with two or three dresses of different lengths and divers colors, and curiously caught up | with half-reefs here and there, as if 8 sailor had been taking ln the top hamper for storm and got blown overheard in the act There was the straight, scant skirt of the ancient girl collapsed about her form like balloon with the valve gone. Aggregate one hundred school house and four-corners country audiences of thirty years ago, sprinkle in few city people here and there, and you have an idea of that great congregation.
 You will look in vain for facial signs of utter misery. There are 1sad-eyed, weary-looking women, and so there are everywhere. You can pick out many a devout believer who came through the wilderness of old. You can detect the honest doublers, and the foxy professors and the sincere worshippers. Drawn largely from the laboring classes of Flu rope, any considerable intelligence and culture cannot be found in the rank and file, but it is an error to think this has not many and remarkable exceptions. There are astronomers and naturalists ot no mean order linguists that could grace professors chair in Eastern uni versailles many men of general cultiva- tion and large business ability, and many women of refinement. ..-. ..
 But the children are marvellous pro- duct. You ride along the beautiful avenues and see groups of them, neatly dressed and bright as quicksilver, play ing in the shade. You meet clusters of Brigham Young's grandchildren, you encounter his sons and daughters Every girl is half-sister to somebody, and boys father may be his uncle and his mother own aunt to his half brother
 The communion service is celebrated every Sunday, and while Smith was yet preaching, the cup-bearers, with silver pitchers of water, were noiselessly serv- ing the multitude, of which every one partook, even to the infant in arms. Then the last hymn was sung, the bene- diction said, and the great congregation poured out from every side, like ants from disturbed hill, and the Taberna- cle was solemn and empty as cave.