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Show View from the Red Point . . Latter-Da- y Saint? Certainly, after Brother Brighams revelation as told by Brother Warren, that common old alluvium at ihc mouth of Manti Canyon had to look a little different than it had the day before. Some say, even some Mormons, Well, Brother Warren was not the most reliable raconteur. And if that is so, it is also so that Brother Brigham never denied him. As for the Mormon scoffers, perhaps they should be reminded that there have always been those who considered Brother Joseph himself considerably less than a reliable man. At noon Brigham dedicated the ground to Gods purposes and confirmed for all the blessing of the ground by Moroni-of-OlHe did this in the presence of his spiritual brothers and sisters, who, bv the way, did not fail to come. Then he went away again, and in August Brother Brigham died. . . Just as it was erected thousands of miles from any important Jties of the earth, so the Temple was financed a long ways from earthly treasuries and banks. It was erected by direct and voluntary contributions of skill and labor, and the materials for it w ere financed through some cash from the sale of pigs, chickens, cows, milk, eggs, and mutton and wool, or through direct contributions of work by common people, nearly all of them "poor. Eggs laid on Sundays were called Temple eggs, and of all the chickens in the world. Mormon chickens rested the least of any on Sundays. Everybody who worked on the Temple was credited in the books, but nobody was given as much as one upper penny for his contribution, whatever it was. There were those from Ephraim who walked over daily. Such a one was Andrew Christian Nielsen, the one they called Andrew Mormon-Preachewho walked over daily from Shumways Springs, where he lived. On the other hand, J. P. L. Brienholt calked over every Monday and back again on Saturday night, alter his sixty hours of weekly toil on his Lords Temple was done. Some of them did this for a number of years, and they say that was die beginning of the State Highway between Ephraim and Manti. t hey pounded it out of the sagebrush with their feet, and they say it was in better shape then than it is today. Masons chose the rock for the Temple with the solicitude of Leonardo. You would have thought they were erecting a palace of diamonds for a Persian king of old. Most of what they cut was view of a fully understand that rising to a worthwhile occasion is an attribute worthy of any man, but from the hindsight a hundred years affords it does seem that George did unbetter than that. Leaping to it appears more 1 (Editors Note: View from the Red Point, a popularized account of the beginnings of Utah, by Albert Antrei, is being published serially in the Manti Messenger and Ephraim Enterprise. A significant historical document, View from the Red Point is fascinating reading. Readers will likely want to clip each installment and combine them at the completion of publication into a complete narrative.) South-Centr- al necessarily pointedly accurate. y things, as the saying goes, to many Walker people, both red and white between Canada and Mexico, but nobody ever considered him to be a boob. He had to know that Mary lied, and in his regal dignity he was thoroughly he got from a white embarrased by the facing-dow- n Nobody knows how long it took him to get over it, but it was as sound a licking as a man ever took. Mary won her moment, but it was George Peacock who picked up all the stakes. For twenty years after Brother Heber Kimballs Temple prediction the people of Manti went about the simple business of living and building in the manner common to the day, which means during most of the daylight hours of all weekdays. They died on any day. You might say that eventually they almost forgot about that Temple and why they were there at all, in all the hard labor they invested in their town and with the gradual coming of peace with the Indians. Ute troubles simmered down in time, but a grasshopper plague struck them once broadside, and occasionally they still had trouble making their means meet their ends, and there were not many overweight people among them. There were not many heart attacks either, but there were other things which kept them from living long enough to have them. Living in a wilderness to them meant a kinship with God that folks in more doctored communities and times have to struggle to realize. We have a tendency to think of them as a strong people, brimming with health in all that fresh air and wide open spaces, but they were not. They were tough in faith and in will, but in checking out with cemetery records one soon discovers that their bodies were plagued with disease. In the first ten to fifteen years of their struggle in Sanpete they buried roughly ten percent of their dead from Indian attacks, but the other ninety percent died from what their records called consumption, lung fever, influenza, premature births, at birth, and from a various assortment of of bowel and brain. Sometimes they would inflammations not even guess, and they simply recorded that Brother Several expired passed away from a decease. from yellow jaunders. The New F.ngland Puritan showed in them several times. Welcome Chapman, and Among them, for example, was another named Thankful Stearns. When you get to Freeborn De Mill you can nearly hear the waves splashing on Plymouth girl-squa- . George had been pressing the issue of marriage himself for a long time, but until this moment she had been in no hurry to make up her mind. A knife still vibrating in the table cleared her thoughts of all nagging indecision. Walker stalked out of her fathers house hot with anger. It is not clear whether he took his quivering knife with him or not, but apparently the swiftness of Marys reply had disarmed him, and the name of George Peacock had impressed him, as also did the fact that Mary did not faint. the Quickly, George Peacock was notified, and without he her. for came on his hesitation or part slightest protest Arrangements were made as quickly as possible, and they were married, riding off into the Sanpete sunset, fait accompli. They lived happily ever after in a state of blissful plural marriage. As for Walker, he went to other connubial hunting grounds and other glories. He died just two years later on Meadow Creek, in Millard County, and some would have you believe that it was of a broken heart. But there were too many other things that could have killed a man in those days, and I am inclined to feel that another cause was more practical. W-- Sat Thurs., FrL, May 15, 16, 17 GROCERIES :: MAYONNAISE Kraft Imitation . . . 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He moved more slowly then, and he took Warren S. Snow with him for a walk up the hill. According to Brother Warren, there were few words spoken, the Prop!;-absorbed w ithin himself and Brother Warren deferring. Brig'" .mi was now 76 years old, and he was not well. They stopped nea ne crest of the hill. "Here is the spot," announced the Pro nm according to Brother Warren, "where the Prophet Moroni s; .1 and dedicated this piece of land for a Temple site, and that i, .bo reason why the location is made here. We cannot move it from !:j place. If you and 1, Brother Warren, are the only person who come here at high noon today, we will dedicate this ground.' So there it was, Brother Brigham's revelation about the a and why it would seem that Brother Parley P. Pratt had dr: stake nearby for Isaac Morley to hold aloft and silence in his midst. Nobody can document this, but sur j- it is reasonable to ask. what would be more logical from the pm. m Will Be Thurs., FrL, I y . rock-structu- Mu ss PORK discarded, and this they laid aside for the use of anybody who cared to come after it. There was a rash of building in the 1870s which reflected not only a sharp increase in population, but also the main period of time during which the Temple was built. It was not only homes which were erected of rock and stone, but also sheds, corrals, barns, the city hall, chicken coops, much of the tabernacle on the Temple block, the South Ward chapel, and even the Presbyterian Church. (To be Continued) r, There is something Protestant New England about the manner in which the Mormon approaches God, but he is considerably more optimistic than the old Puritan Father was. Both of them go right to The Head without hesitation, unlike the Catholic, who hesitates, often asking for intercession by the Holy Mother or one saint or another. When Welcome Chapmans little daughter, Fanny, died at the age of three, he and his wife Ann wanted to know quite directly, on her She did die; but who can tell why? Well, there headstone: and 1 assume the mystery has been was only Personally clarified by now. lot of people, and whenever They were a they needed anything they were apt to figure out ways and means of getting it themselves, rather than to expect much help from the General Authorities, who were simply too far away to be of much use. In the second place, they were an observant people with adaptive habits, and all they really ever asked of God Himself was raw materials and the Spirit. Utah summers for instance, are hot and dry, and meeting houses in June, July, and August are stuffy. It made sense to meet outside, so either they originated the idea, or borrowed it, or constructing a wall-leshelter of boughs and posts to meet under the hot summertime. The in Manti was erected or bowery, boughery, in about 1860 just south of their Council House, which was a stone building where the Public Library stands today. Approximately on the site of the present Manti High School, the boughery was forty feet long on a north-sout- h axis, and Small poles were laid across about sixty feet long east-wes- t. lengthwise stringers. On top of these poles was placed a mat of willows, pine boughs, and bullrishes to a depth of two feet. The speakers stand was on the east, facing west. Seats were of heavy slabwood of split logs. The structure was sun resistant, but it wasnt much for holding out rain. It was good for about twenty years of use. It collapsed in the winter of 1881 under the weight of an unusually heavy snowfall. On December 4, 1873 Brother Brigham reminded them suddenly of the subject of the Temple. It was in Ephraim, and the Brethren sat a little straighter than usual to hear about it from the Prophet himself. He was careful, even if sudden, knowing that his words travelled before the wind. As usual, his way was his own, and after mentioning it bespoke of other things and departed again without revealing its location. After his departure, in the ensuing months of silence on the matter, discussion of its location got a little heated sometimes, especially between Ephraim and Manti, He waited until 1875 to settle it. On June 25 he announced The Temple should be built on the hill of the calmly that Manti stone quarry. Then he went away again, presumably this time to give the brethren time to look sheepish and to apologize to one another. Brother Brigham always bided his own sweet time, but whenever he did more the valleys were wont to widen, deserts to shrink, and some even said for water to run uphill. Not until August 5, 1876 was a message from him and the General Authorities read in all the wards of southern Utah by the bishops. Saints, let us :uisc ". . We feel to say to the Latter-Daand build Temples unto our God. Let the bishops of the settlements in Washington, Kane, Iron, Piute, Beaver, Millard. Sevier. Sanpete, and Juab Counties call the people of the wards together and ascertain how much each one is willing to do in labor and means monthly, quarterly, and annually toward the erection of a Temple in Manti, Sanj te County . . . .7 for $1.00 4 here-and-the- Rock. COCA COLA 12 oz cans . d. Manti Messenger Manti, Utah Thursday, May 15, 1975 nJil ASSOCIATED FOOD STORES |