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Show RUSHING THE WORK ON BIG TABERNACLE Preachers, Laymen and Skilled Workmen Put In a Busy Day in Auerbach Field. Preachers and laymen, led by a few skilled workmen, hammered lumber iuto j submission yesterday, with the result ! that wheu darkness fell over the city j the tabernacle on the Auer.baeh field, I which will house the Biederwolf revival j campaign, starting Sunday morning, was ! about half under roof. Today it is ex-1 petted that another large crowd of workers will appear to continue the job. Professor George B. .Sweazev of Westminster West-minster college will lead about thirty of the young men students to the tabernacle taber-nacle grounds for an assault 011 the piled lumber todny. Dinner will again be served at noon ill the social rooms of the First Methodist church. "Never have T seen a bunch of men do so much work as was done since Saturday noon, ,J said L. H. Page, contracting con-tracting carpenter, who is superintending superintend-ing the building of the tabernacle. "There was not a piece of lumber raised at noon Saturday, and tonight about half of the roof is on. We should have a much larger crowd of workers tomorrow, to-morrow, and I hope to see the building completely under cover bv Tuesday night." The ministers on the job yesterday, working in overalls and swinging hammers ham-mers lustily, were the Rev. George E. Da vies, the' Eev. B. F. Bronson, the Rev. Horace Sanderson, the Rev. P. A. Simp-kin, Simp-kin, the Rev. C. A. Snyder, the Rev. William Liljenberg, and the Be v. Martin Mar-tin Thomas. |