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Show IlRHillAM x()t NO ACADEMY. The Kin liallJIng at Pram Indicated Teslsy, Ipaeui to tks nasaasv yaws. The dedicatory service ntlhe new Bllghaiu Vouug Academy building oommenceil to-lay about boon and were of the most Impreatlfe character. Largo numbers of visitors were In attendance from Halt Lake, Ogdeu and illll'eisnt auta of Uuh county. UarrlagtaHere waiting at tho depot to convey them to the building. The t-ervltoa were hold lu Iho largo assembly assem-bly room orthe new building, which was crowded full of people, protiably two thousaud or moru belug pieseiit. On the stand, Inoated lu the center of thu room, Mere seen Presidents Vv llford Woodruu; Ueorge Q. Cnuuon and Joseph F. Hiuilli, Apostles lllchards nud Lyman, IJlstiop I'rrrlon, Uovernor Thomas, Judgo Jouea, CsbUIn Willi-nrd Willi-nrd Vouug, Piofi-ssors Maetrr, Tal-in Tal-in igc, Clutl and Paul, together Willi A. 0. Hiuoot and memtra of the academy board, with mauy others. Ihe Academy rluJcnls numborlng several hundred, headed by their uniformed uni-formed ban 1, marched liuu Iho bullJ-lug bullJ-lug alter the visitors were seated. They presented n very creditable appearaurc. Wllhln Ibo hall ware stationed the Provo Tabernacle choir, glee club and l,rn band. Tno services consisted of music aud aivschc. The sji-eoh ut Proftsaoi Macscr was a masterpiece of sentiment and leituoi, and Its closing aemencea brougnt lears to Ihe cyca of many In Ihu nudlence. 'II, e governor, In his speech, hlgbly compliiuonted the board ol trustees un theieeultof their labors, aud the city cf Protooutho possessing so fine an educational Inttnutloii. He was fie-qucntly fie-qucntly applauded during Itsdillvcry. President Hlll90tfctatoU ill hi speech that six liuudrrd studeuls lould be comfortably accommodated in the building. lleuiarks were alto ruadoby Aichl-tecl Aichl-tecl D. C. Vouug, Judge Diuenberry, Prof.ClulI, Ihe new prluelpal, ami Piu-sldi-nts Wnodiuir, Cannon aud Hmlth. Piof.Clull slalv.1 tha Institution was uow a iioniuhcoiuruiicia! and military luilltute, as well as ruiilntalulng its original character .as designed by Urlgham Vouug and canleU out tiy I'roiessor Maeaer. President Wood-luirihaukedUouthatlieliad Wood-luirihaukedUouthatlieliad lived to tee this dy, lofeired lo Ihe tally Bo'.tleruent or Utah and raid that no people had dono more for the t-duct-lluu of their children than the people of Utah. Ho would say lo all thu lisciitrs, "Don't fall lo teach the children to honor (lod, It you are told that religion should not bo taught In schools. Tell such per-hol.a per-hol.a that llieie la a Clod In heaven ami He has led this people, preserved and gulled Ihem, nnd thai nothing ex-lata ex-lata in the ConttltUilou prohibiting prohibit-ing ua from teaching our children religion. He felt that the young should l.o taught lo honor lead, that thcrulsH mturuevtlemoand that all tu--u would b require J to glvo an ac-v ac-v lint for tlieiltedadouelh thu body," Dueenbery read lesolutlons culoglitlu of Prof. Maeaer. These were endorsed unanimously, Thu visitors partook of an i legunt lunch prepared lu Ihe building, build-ing, sevens! hundred rs in jotrtaklng. The whole atlalr wa a line success. |