Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1903-12-26

I may view only the exterior.
Then we visited the famous Taber.
nacle beneath whose turtle shaped root
| 10000 worshippers may sit, and whose
acoustic properties are unrivalled In
the world You can hear whisper
ana pin drop 200 feet away. In Il
is the immense organ possessing $40
stops, which like the two great struc-
lures, were conceived and constructed
py the genins and patlencs of their
Mormon" architects. We were shown
about the grounds OF the ecclesiastical
enclosure-though not permitted 10
enter the Temple-by courteous man.
nered lady whose black eyes fired with
religious enthusiasm as she explained
the great buildings. my son is a
missionary In Japan, giving his life
10 the Lord. He breaches in Japanese.
ana Is translating our holy books into
the japanese tongue" she said, turn
Ing to an intelligent Japanese tourist
who was OF our party,
We also bought some Mormon" liter.
ature In the fine modern sky scraper
building OF the Deseret News and the
Drlght young man, selling us the
DOCKS showed MS with evident pride
the stores of elegantly printed and
bound volumes all done here I'm Salt
Lake city. They print their books in
every modern tongue and their mis-
soinaries distribute them all over tho
world.
INSTITUTIONS OF LEARNING.
Later, we viewed the fine college
buildings where higher instruction is
given to the Mormon" youth. We also
saw the famous Lion House." over
whose portal lies sleeping lion once
the oltices Of Brigham Young, now oo-
cupied by the ecclesiastical managers
OF me church. And also we viewed
.he Beehlve House" where once Brig
ham dwelt the Tlthing House where
are received and stored the eccles,-
astical 1.-THE tax of ten per cent OF all
crops raised and monies earned by the
devoted Mormon" believers: and the
great bank run In connection with II.
All these evidences OF practical, or
ganized, devoted religious world zeal
nave we beheld gathered and centrally
grouped In the great city founded and
raised by these curious vet capable
religious delusionsts.
| asked about "Mormonism' OF a gen.
Tile stranger from another state and
he replied In deferential tones: "No
man In his senses now throws stones
az the Mormons, they are among the
most INDUSTRIOUS most thrifty and
most respected people of the west"
10 wander along and through the
residence section of the city is also
thing TO surprise. Street after street
OF me private houses, each mansion
standins IN its own garden. upon its
own lawn. Many Of them very modern.
ana very many of them far exceeding
In cost and imposing eleRanca am, roai
dence Charleston, West Virginia. can
yet boast-equal to the most sumntu-
Gus homes of Plttsburg or St Louis
and most Of them owned and lived in
by cultivated families OF the Mormon"
cult! And how the zeal and faith ana
religious ardor OF this strange sect
even now today burns In the atmos-
phere OF this their Holy City, II ia
me same spirit that we meet In Holy
MOSCOW, Russia's sacred capital-but
more enlightened. more practical.
ana 'Mormonism' Is already poiti.
cal as well as religious power In the
West. In Idaho, In Colorado, in Neva-
ia, In Arizona, the Mormon" vote IA Ia
be considered and even. catered 10
In Alberta, the Mormon" settlement is
said to be the most prosperous i'm the
province. In Mexico the Mormon"
settlements, their astonishing produce
tivity and fertility, are already teach
ing the wonderstruck Mexican what
irrigated agriculture may do. And as
1 beheld this and the evident success
or a, religious sect which mixes fanatl.
cal zeal with astute practical manage
ment, ask myself what Ia the real
secret OF their accomplishment and
their power! Is 1t the theory and prac-