The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-04-07

VS.: "Hossanai H0ssanal Hossana
to God and the Lamb. Amen,
amen. Then the congregation joined
in singing, 1.-THE Spirit of God Like
II Burning" President George @. Cam
non followed in an address. Presi-
dent Woodruff spoke and ut
tered q prophecy concerning
the future of the people of
God. The prophecy was not divuIeed, but
1t 10 understood to refer to the growth and
prosperity of the church and the increased
happiness of the saints. At the afternoon
session delegates were admitted by ticket
from the various states to the number of
2.15O. and the greatest secrecy was OBJ
served.
ton OF being the second costliest and most
elaborate ecclesiastical structure in the United
States. Truman O. Augell was the architect
who prepared the original plana
The temple II 0urmounted by Q figure repre-
Senting the angel Maroni, statue twelve feet
In height. Of hammered copper, plated with
heavy gold leaf. It stands 222 feet above the
earth. and 10 indeed most graceful aud pretty
object. holding TO ito lips . golden trumpet.
through which 10 being sounded the CAD It'd
ings OF the Latter Day Saints to the people of
the earth. The angel Maroni, according to the
Mormon belief, appeared and revealed to Joseph
smith the hiding place of the golden tablets ON
which 10 inscribed the Book of Mormon. This
statue, as seen from the street, IL . most fitting
crown to the grand architectural lines on which
the temple IL built The east part of the temple
IN for the Melchisedec priesthood. representing
spiritual AFFAIRS, and the west for the Aaronic
priesthood, dealing with temporal affairA There
sre In the building many stones symbolical Of
the different conditions of mankind. At the
A~>A
then sunstones, starstones, cloudstones, etc
The architecture is without known parallel in
ancient or modern times There are four doors,
two on the east and two on the west cornera It 10
looked upon As one OF those described in the
first two verses OF the fourth chapter of Micah
lts whole length is 1856 feet, and width ninety.
six feet There are six towers, three on the
east and three on the west end OF the structure
The four corner towers each start from footing
twenty-six feet square, aud continue sixteen
ana half feet At this point they reach the
line OF the base string course, and are reduced
to twenty-five feet square. At the height OF
thirty EIGHT feet they reach the second string
course aud are reduced to twenty three feet
square. Then they continue thirty-eight feet TO
the third string course The string courses con.
tinuo all around the building, except when
separated by buttresses, and consist of massive
holdings from solid block stone. The two cor.
ner towers on the east end then rise twenty-five
feet to cornce, and the two west t0wners nine
teen feet. The four towers then rise nine feet
to the top OF the battlements They are cylin.
drical. seventeen feet in diameter inside. Each
OF these towers has five ornamental windows.
The two center towers start from a footing
thirty-one feet square, and break off in sections
in line with the corner towers to the height of
the third string course he east tower then
rises forty feet TO the top of the battiemeuts,
AMI the west tower thirty-four feet All the
towers terminate in spires, the details OF which