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Show LECTURES 01 UTAH AND THE MORMONS Lectures of chautauqua grade ,th the starry heavens as the only opy are 311 innovaliou anrt 1' nk Pickering conceived the idea lv two weeks since at the Um-Zti Um-Zti college auto camp in Galesburg. 1, the people enjoy then, was ev-,Led ev-,Led by the crowd of fifteen hund lich enjoyed the "Cliff Dwe,-e Dwe,-e s of Ancient America" Wednesday night at Waterworks park. Sacred Temples. Thursday night the closing lecture ,,U be given. "Utah and the Mor ,nn8" Nearly two hundred beauli-views beauli-views will he shown depicting the Srdshlps endured by the Mormon ;oBeers in their tramp across th, at desert in 1847, their constant fovalty to their country, then- almost Tnelous civic and educational pro-ess. pro-ess. and their wonderful temples, ich are claimed to be modeled at-iM at-iM the temple- of Solomon. Ihc unentic views of the interior ot the at Salt Lake temple, which cost o r million dollars, will be exta nt-pd nt-pd No stranger is ever permitted in these temples, so sacred are thev h?he scenic beauties of Utah, so mile known outside the west, and the natural wonders, including the greatest natural bridge in the world will be presented. "Utah is a wonderful won-derful state," says Mr. Pickering, and the last frontier of undeveloped resources in America.' It was recently re-cently estimated by a geological expert ex-pert that the undeveloped coal, iron, copper and other mineral and metal fields, if converted into cash, would buy the nation five times over and a iV-rplus would be "left sufficient to pay the world's war debt." ' Go to Springfield. Mr. and Mrs. neniis daughter Phyllis will leave Friday for Springfield for a lecture engagement engage-ment in a hall, but will return next week and at the solicitation of many citizens who were unable to attend the opening lecture, will likely a?aii present beautiful "Yellowstone Park" some evening next week. Peoria Illinois Daily Journal, July 13, 1922. Talks of Utah. Last evening, before a vast throng of people, Mr. Pickering told his audience of "Utah and the Mor-fint Mor-fint records, uiuua. x ov ' " histories written by fair-minded non-Mormons, non-Mormons, and from such noted peo pie as Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Elbert Hubbard, and Dr. A. E. Winship of the Boston Journal of Education, he proved that the much misunderstood members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, commonly com-monly called Mormons, are a strictly moral, law-abiding people; that polygamy, po-lygamy, practiced by only 4 per cent of them fifty or so years ago to mee, a peculiar condition, has been a dead issue for over twenty years; that Joseph Smith's grandfather was a captain of the militia at Lexington during the first real struggle of our national independence, and that. Mormons Mor-mons have never failed to more than answer every call for men or money from the government. The temple views were remarkably remark-ably interesting, as were the brie! descriptions of the baptisms for the dead, and the marriage ceremony, where young couples are united nor "until death do vou pari," hut "f- time and all eternily." These tern Pies are held so sacred that shoes are removed before they are entered, and not even Mormons, who drink tea or coffee or use tobacco or liquor are permitted in them. The Peoria Daily Journal, July 14, 1322. |