Show THE MORMONS AT HOME f I 1 I 1 wall never ci cease se to bo be a themo theme for criticism friendly or otherwise it is a subject of iro im porta uce and furnishes food for reflection for the statesman the theologian olo gian and the historian and it is a great puzzle to them all they cannot solve it to their own or any one alses satisfaction scarcely any two tivo of those who visit isit utah and write of its people or their religion speak alike on the subject still it u ii interesting to read the views of I 1 various writers on utah and mormon mornion afra affairs irs they con continually advertise us and keep up an inquiry that pleads leads some to investigate and e gucco gb mb cco e d b t e acquainted with bur our irue true alus s this ia is what we desire 4 A gentleman from the south recently visited this territory and lias has written some odthe of the impressions that i lie received 1 concerning the people while w laile he be was in T bicy I 1 are published in tho the grand Il elavon Livon midi alich herald the writer was I 1 0 VA somewhat I 1 I 1 surprised I 1 to ecdao seso large an attendance and eo ro fanean edifice in which to meet in in the F far ar west I 1 reared by a people the world has 0 to look upon pon as semi bar 1 barous bi rous ilem atten attended deda a number of mec rings in the assembly hall ad aad witnessed the adminis I 1 tra tri I 1 tiou 10 0 of athe the sacrament of which lie kwaks as its follows athe r 0 the hall in each instances instance i as pack ZI to the utmost outmost there being from twenty V ai nty five hundred to three thousand in i n attendance agthe As the warmer n eath er r and summer comes on th their meetings will iw be held beld in the n wore commodious tabt tabu bacle the and dignitaries of the tb church occupy the highest seats in the synagogue I 1 in tit front which gradually ascend to the highest being occupied by tho the venerable much married president taylor the successor of brigham young just back ot of the officials in the gallery winch ex jends around the tile room is 13 their f fine ino 0 organ place for a largo large chorus C choir r in front the singing is good below the seats of the dignitaries and immediately I 1 in n front of the audience is a tho the long communion table with its ta elaborate fiher service of pitchers and an cups and an cake bread baskets 1 presided resided over 0 er by by a dozen or more 11 deacons beacons of some title communion I 1 services oer vices are held hold every c ery sunday sanday bread and water water instead of wine wine being distributed while tho the regular exercises are going on usually it requires about all the time of the session sion to complete the service BO so largo large is is the congregation all classes of f the faithful old and young including tho the very young in m their mothers arms J p partaking ir 1 taking of the elements k I 1 jon on his first visit to botho the assem bly hall tho tw 0 gentleman was very much puzzled by both what he saw and heard he said the speakers represented all grades of education I 1 some illiterate d others educated but lie con confessed fesse d that the doctrines they taught contained a great 1 rent deal of truth mixed with w what h at ho he called 1 t efnor the first speaker the bor cor u heard was an elder who hd h biad d juat just returned from a mission to the southern states the I 1 people eople I 1 ot whom and the lower low cr classes of europe constitute tile most hopeful which to make converts cona v A ta to llie tile mormon faith lie ile a the elder reported a great gre at change in public sentiment going on allover all over the country in regard to I 1 the mormon people and that there was much less prejudice U dice a against adust them than there was a year boand adf go alid and the tite people le are moie more accessible to the truth a the correspondent whose name ii i i not given appeared to bo be much impressed by what he saw and h eard liard of Mo monism while in ill I 1 4 this territory of his attendance at meeting on another sabbath he ile I 1 I 1 said I 1 I 1 listened to four returned missionaries 11 they heep keep numerous misi ion arlis in the field and they are con going going and coming one of these had in labored in scotland another in in EnZ 1 england land a third in wales ardithe I 1 list last in the southern states of this t country their reports were characterized by great same neg all referred to tile th great prejudice existing I 1 wherever they went and which they I 1 had hadj been jeen the mea means of fill allaying in in anno measure they had failed to mafli the masses or to gather grimany in many 1 var i inverts on verts but still they were happy happ y t I 1 nud aud had gained a it great deal of expel nence kach each closed with an ein emphatic 1 declaration of it hi is belief in joseph 0 eph 1 demith aa arrua prophet inasmuch it t as this is ft a fundamental article of their faith on which the whole avs i tern tem hangs bangs and which is much spoken ap against dinst and ridiculed by the wicked Gentiles itis it ia doubtless re regarded gardeA as is important to keep it ever before be the people that by constant asse assertion artion if in no other way the they may MY ho so impress orthe it upon the minda of the not over in tell igent masses as that nothing can I 1 M 71 7 1 1 I I 1 ever ve era I 1 avat it or shake their aln ir t onal dence allt ill 1 a de ia j OL S ss y J our ur ait visitor yi 1 demonstrated I egl if C 1 I 4 aliu tiling which aich i is 1 14 0 tit 1 mormon ll 11 ch not ri 4 tary in it lif doc doctrines or the authorities of tile church ch u reb they anre tho same at home as when abroad rhey are one they nrc are firm they are tire em eni f y ap n lakai and thia this knol knowli dg gaja k 1 els them willing t to 0 ell d ur I 1 W algay and sacrifices I 1 for the principles s of the t reliction which lW 36 have I 1 chosen r wl ACK rec receipt apt of a 1 j ticket to the tile grand grarld national celebration at santa fe new mexico during luring the month of july commemorating the 0 anniversary niver sary of the settlement of the oldest town in m the united states in the thirteen origin original a I 1 states J jamestown the oldest settlement 1607 when florida was acquired from spain st augustine founded iu 1566 1565 became tile must most ancient ancien tand and in 1816 by the tile con quest ofner of new calli came e into possession of salt santa ta F fe could I 1 I 1 boast an in binti dt calir considerably liler ably greater tl than lan a any 7 other the coin completion of thy div third Abird of a thou thousand years of acm Z ddn of such jaren 1140 1 ly i local ly but to the entire u that the Board oard of trade at tit sante fe apropo proposed zed that it should he ile signal izod by a grand national celebration 1 which V aou i ou ili ida t loraw d draw people from nil parts of alie country to its most ancient historic shrine and the I 1 people appt only I 1 ir of Sant sall tiFe I 1 Fe but all new Mexico hav c taken hold 1 odthe of the work of preparation with such zeal as to leave no doubt of ita its complete Euc success the month 0 of july ar will ill t he devoted devot ed to the celebration that time tinie being I 1 sc so 1 lecter both because it is ii the most convenient period for busi tiem men and tourists from the east ris qt to attend and also bec because aue the weather donw mexico at v aj ab i sol perfect 1 66 each h ald ilay lj j l being clear cle ar and bright while the high altitude makes the temperature cool and delightful L II 11 id is proposed to have two great ti pat exhibitions in in per I 1 buil buildings dinga throughout the celebration one of ll 11 historical is relics relies and curi udd the other of the mineral and other productions of the territory |