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Show HQW THE TEMPLE IS VIEWED. The following is one of the descriptions de-scriptions of the outside of the Salt Lake temple that is going the rounds of the eastern press: "The temple is the overlowering object which strikes the eye of the traveler as soon as he enters the Salt Lake valley. It stands on a slight eminence and is discernible from all directions a distance of ten to fifteen miles. It stands on the same block which contains the celebrated umbrella-shaped tabernacle taber-nacle and the large assembly hall of the saints, but it dwarfs into insignificance those buildings and 1 other structures of the city. The first idea gained on beholding it is that of an enormous castle of feudal times, and its ma mmoth proportions propor-tions and the solidity of the great blocks of stone suggest that it will last as long as any of the grandest architectural achievements ofantiq-u ofantiq-u i ty . On a near a pp roacl i the elfecls of the battlements, which give the idea of a castle, disappear, the aifgLTlmnTmTiiig1'the'highdiiT. steeple, suggests a cathedral of magnificent dimensions. As now completed, the temple probably stands as the most striking building build-ing in Western America, whether viewed from the standpoint of magnificence, architect oral novelty, costliness or the peculiar circumstances circum-stances amid which it has been constructed. |