The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1884-07-21

lie Fni,hfHl-Tnn Treat Organ The
l,ishopx Hreaklug Brtnu for Com.
muntun.
Hdrptrs uoCd:ine for august.
Service in the Tabernacle is held on
Sundays at two o'clock in the afternoon.
The Saints asssmble not only from the
city, but from all the country round, and
many vehicles OF all sorts are left standing
in the neighborhood. The centre Of tie
church fills rapidly with women, while
men predominant in the side lows Of sca.e.
There are seats for thirteen thousand pey-
sons in the amphitheatre and gallery, and
many more crowd in at come Of The great
conferences. A broad gallery closes
around at the front, where the choir sit in
TWO wings, facing each other, the men on
one sids and the women opposite. The
space between is filled by three long Grim.
son. cushioned pulpit desks, in each OF
which twenty speakers or 80 can 81. at
once, each rank overlooking the heads Of
the one beneath. The highest was de-
signed for the president and his two coun.
sellort; the second one for the twelve
apostles, and the lowest for the bishope,
but,l believe the order is not very rigidIy
observed.
The acoustic properties o! the house are
almost perfect. A former deficiency OF
light hiss been overcome by the use Of
electricity; and the chilling baroness of the
huge whllewashed vault is relieved by
haugings Of evergreen and Howera made
OF tissue paper, the effect Of which is very
good indeed. 2 E,.,sI
Every Sunday the sacrament in admis.
tered, the table loaded with the baskets OF
bread and tankardB OF water occupying q
lais ut the foot Of the pulpits. Gradually
number Of bishops take their places be.
hind this table, and watch the congreys.
ton gather, people coming in throuI tho
dozen or more side doors as though the
Tabernacle was huge spoDge absorbing
the population Of the Territory. Ming.
ling with the rest come many strangers,
bringing the latest tailoring and
millinery, and these strangers are always
conducted to seats down in front, where
they can be addressed effectively in body.
At one door stands hinge cask OF cold
water, with several tin cups handy, and
nearly all stop to drink as they come in.
Later you will sss tin pals holdings quart
or more, and having handles on both Sides
circulating through the audience, and 70.
filled from time to time by small Gany.
medes running about in chip hats and well.
Btarched pinsforcs. Precisely at . o'clock
the great organ sends forth It's melodious
summons, and the noise OF busy voices
the hum OF the veritable honey.bees OF
Desere, in their home hive---is nushed. A
hymn Is announced Thy some brother in
businets coat whom you will meet in trade
tomorrow perhaps, and sung by the choir,
for though the tune may be ons OF the old
familiar ones, the audience docs not join in
the singing: 't.,
The music OF the Tabernacle has great
reputation in the West, and II would hard.
" BIZ fair to tlecry it because 1t does not
come up 10 New York performance. It
ia conepicucusly good for the material at
hand and the locality. The organ, a hand.
come instrument, nearly as large 40 the
great organ in the Boston Music Hall, is
not 80 readily discounted, however, and Is
played with much skill, to the constant
delight Of the people. HID:
After the singing comes long prayer by
some layman.p priest, and r hymn, during
Tho singing OF which eight bishops break
The slices Of bread into mo,sels. Then,
while the bread 10 being passed through
he audience to the communicsuta-every.
body, old and young psrtsking-President
Taylor or some other dignitary reads a
chapter from the Bible, usually from Rev.
slation, and makes extempore remarks
poh 1t. Sometimes the Hon. George O;