| Show HOW NEWS IS GENERATED harpers ls weekly of a recent date has an article professedly descriptive ut j ahe interior of if the temple tu iu this city the following is ia an extract from it the interior of the temple has an air of mystery about aboul it up to date none but the faithful have been admitted to its sacred precincts and as none of the inquisitive gentile reporters are allowed to enter the newspaper descriptions of the inside are inaccurate and chiefly the result of the imagination ot of the u ubiquitous one scribes As a matter of tact there are portions of the interior which are as sacred as was the holy of hollos holies I 1 in the days of the temple constructed by the wise son of david As aa an elaborate elation te description of the temple follows there are two or three deductions which abich proceed from the foregoing the writer while showing that the loner inner de iian vart ments are r rot ot for general genera visitation or description also shows or implies that he was there thus conveying convoying the idea that he has been false to one party or the other not true to those who trusted him here or nt ni t true in the statements made to the paper mentioned the hardihood to put it mildly which enables a writer to declare that only the 1120 faithful are admitted and then proceed to make it appear that he was admitted is ia also a matter to comment upon and by what authority HUt hority does he be the newspaper of the inside as inaccurate and imaginative the NEWS contained an elaborate account in which neither of those literary features figured in the slightest sligh tot furthermore a great many besides the faithful a sneering euphemism for latter day sainte in good standing have gone through the temple not since it was given up to ceremonial work of course but after it was completed the article concludes with a statement that the cost of the structure was to the latter figure being considered by those who are in a position to know to td be the correct one 22 the probabilities are that neither the writer nor anyone else ever heard anyone in a position to know P P make any such statement it all looks very much like a bid for notoriety and the attendant rewards by one who advertises himself as able to get information from the too inside id 6 90 which others are unable to obtain this community and others at a dis die tance have very frequently been imposed upon in this manner and thus the essay lacks even the fashionable merit of newness the people tf f this country and the world are welcome to know any part of mormon meth odb and church procedure when the same even remotely concerns them or would be likely to afford them any kind of legitimate gratification |
