Show AN extraordinary MOVEMENT WE had bad no desire to throw even the shadow of a straw in the way of the partial holiday given by the bankers and business houses bouses to their employee employed emp loyes today that they might have an opportunity ol of going to the big tent to hear the revivalist and he singer who have appeared before large audiences during several days and evenings past the holiday will be over before what we have to te say appears in print but we are of the opinion that the whole proceeding to Is extraordinary and at the same time somewhat in consist ent and the proclamation of the mayor is still more 9 sr it looks to us entirely cut of place the civic authority which he represents should be kept anti rate from ecclesiastical affairs it it had been a mormon mayor who had issued such a proclamation cries of church and state would have stirred the country from the rocky bocky mountains east and nd west to the shores aborts of the atlantic and nd pacific oceans in ID about three weeks there will be in this city a great conference oen ferenee of the latter day salute saints from all I 1 arts of the country will the stores and banks and trading houses be closed on a week day on that occa occasion elon not very likely and yet thero there would be more pro probable babil atles of a larger attendance in the tabernacle of persons persona thug relea released seI from ordinary duty than there has haa been of similar persons persona in the big tent before the revival vallI was waa commenced here one of the statements made to boom the be revivalist was wa that so great was the attraction stag mae neti nethem amy and what not of the preacher that merchants and bankers in a certain california city closed their business places to flock to hear the great revivalist the conveyed colv e y e d w was as th that a t it w was as a 9 spontaneous p on rush of people aroused to religious impulses impulse we hope this will not be sau of the closing movement in bait lare lake city it was worked up by the resident preachers and the whole thing proclamation included was done at al their earnest solicitation As to the results of the tent service we do not pretend to give RUY any estimate from what we have seen and heard beard we are of the opinion that they chev will not be of any ally great profit either in numbers added to the churches or in a financial sense we believe the preacher to be very much in earnest and we hope some permanent good to the cause of morality will accrue from his bis energetic efferts efi eft erts but the closing movement we look upon as very much of a farce and the mayor mayors Is proclamation as exceedingly absurd |