The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-12-09
MORMON TEMPLE
WONDER PALACE
BEAUTIFUL STRUCTURE is DED.
IcATED NEAR CITY OF HON.
OLULU. COST $4,000.

acknowledgements at cost
of approximately $150,000, the mag
nifcent new Mormon temple at Laie,
forty miles from Honolulu on this
island, Oahu, stands monument to
seventy years Of effective work by
the Church of Jesus Christ Of Lat
ter Day Saints in Hawaii
On Dec. 20, 1850, only three years
after the great migration of the Nor
mons to Utah, the first party of Nor
mon missionaries landed in Hawaii, a
little more than thirty years later
than the first Christian missionaries
from Boston.
In this first Mormon party was FL
der George @. Cannon: latter coun-
sellor to the first presidency of the
church in Salt Lake City. He remain
ed in the islands number of years,
learned the native tongue and trans
LATED the Book IF Mormon into Ha-
waiian.
Visited by Smith.
Joseph F. Smith, the late president
of the church, came to Hawaii in 1854
as missionary, being but Is years
old at that time. He remained in the
islands four years and returned in
1886 for stay of two years, during
which his son, Elias Wesley Smith,
the
Hawaiian mission, was born. Twenty
years ago President Smith made his
last visit to Hawaii.
At present the Mormon church has
more than fifty places of worship on
the different islands of Hawaii, with
a membership among the natives OF
approximately 10000. Its property,
including the big sugar plantation at
the Laie settlement, is worth millions
of dollars. A year ago the church paid
5000. 600 for 500 acres of sugar cane
land adjoining it's plantation, eleven
miles of railway and an irrigation
system.
The new temple at Laie has beau
tiful setting in a tropical garden OF
five acres, GROWING small hill.
The temple, constructed of pulver-
lied lava rock and reinforced con-
crete, is built in the form of a Greek
cross, occupying a space of seventy
eight feet square. 1t is said to be an
exact replica in design and dimen-
sions of Solomon's temple, and is
rather suggestive of the Aztec style
of architecture.
Woodwork Is Wonderful.
japanese oak and Hawaiian oak
were utilized for interior work, while
many of the rooms are tapesterled.
Mural decorations in certain cham
bers are allegorical Of events describ-
ed in the Book of Mormon and in the
Bible.
The Hawaiian temple is the seventh
to be erected by the Latter Day
Saints. The first temple erected still
stands at Kirkland, o., but it is no
longer owned by the church; The
temple at Nauvoo, ILL.,, was burned
and the charred walls were later
wrecked by tornado. The other four
temples are located at Salt Lake
City, Logan, st. George and Mantl,
Utah.
independence, Mo-, originally was
designated as the temple site In
revelation said to have been made to
the Prophet Joseph Smith. No work
ever has been undertaken, but the
church holds the commission to erect
a temple at Independence to be a
sacred trust, and it is expected that
it will be built later. Another tenn
pie is under construction at Cards
ton, Alberta, Canada 1t is said that
the next temple probably will be
erected in Arizona, where there is a
large Mormon colony.
The Church of Christ of Latter
Day Saints, among the many sects
and churches protesting Christianity,
claims to stand alone in the teaching
and practice of temple ministration.
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