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Show 176 MORMON WORSHIP dent's appreciation of education may be learned from the following : On Sunday afternoon, in the Bowery of Salt Lake, be fore 3000 persons, during the summei of 1855, Orson Pratt was addressing the people on the necessity of study ing from books. Said he : " Suppose you and I were deprived of all books, and that we had faith to get revelation, and no disposition to under stand that which has been sought out, understood and re corded in books, what would be our condition ? It would require an indefinite period in which to make any progress in the knowledge that is even now extant." Brigham rose, his dignity hurt, his temper ruffled, and he administered to Pratt, the presumptuous offender, one of the most outrageous tongue- lashings ever conceived of. He said : " The professor has told you that there are many books in the world, and I tell you there are many people in the world; he says there is something in all these books, I say each one of these persons has a name ; he says it would do you good to learn that something, and I say it would do you just as much good to learn these somebodies' names. Were I to live to the age of Methuselah, and every hour of my life learn something new out of some of these books, and remember every particle I had acquired, five minutes' reve lation would teach me more truth, and more right, than all this nonsense that I should have packed in my unlucky brains." The sacrament of the Lord's Supper is administered every Sunday afternoon. Water is substituted for wine ( which was formerly used, but has been abandoned because too expensive) as one of the emblems, and after being blessed is passed around through the congregation, during the delivery of the sermon, and appeared to me as any other than a solemn service. The water and bread is blessed by Bishop Hunter, the Chief Bishop, and passed by three Elders selected for that office, to the President, his two colleagues, and then to the others on the stand in the order |
