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Show ; / ----- ·- --....--.· ~- TIIE lWOSEVELT WJ\RD lTA f.L, nucr, ESN E This b11ildi11g, located in Roosevelt, Utah, is 111 the former Ui,1tah Indian reservation, :111<1 is used both for a11111 s cmcnl hall and stak.: amt ward purpos es. 1.t w:1s erected in J()J(), and is ,wt d ed icatt'd. It is built of !u111her at a cost of $··1,500. The hci r; lit of tl,c i,uildi11~ is 20 feet, outside measurements ,15 by 75 feet, with a s eating- ca · pacity uf 35(J. l l has o nly ouc ro,,m :111d is a typical pi o neer c,milii11a1in11 house. The :irchil cd was Sa111t1d l\·lcl•'<·..:. The l:111d cu11 11c~tc<l with it i,; JOO hy E o feet in ~1zc. '1'!11: J:111itor of th(! li <,us ,... el l war.J has cl1ar[.(<: .. r the· 1>11ildi11[.(. a ward wh, ·r': II.er• · ;i re 11111: ~. :,,:,111,n ( f 1::!c11 k d -.·,;,111~; ,, :,•;1 \ ~ 1 /l! ll "! I \\! II ) ( l1;ll'! ll :1r!: : ;t. I', : ::l ;! j. ,! 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Sll1nc-ti111l'S, 1 'wlw11 tl1c S1,i1 ii 11f (;od L:,1· :• f:r,· is :, •n, t.l. ·.1r11, ·~~< 0 1 .. • i11g," lite ll'IH,k IHh!y j1Ji11s i11 :111 .ipprnpri,tlc liy111n :, ;id j,,y.,11:·: 1!1-,n•hy n'rciving· pii,vsical :in,! spiri111al rdr,··:d11nl'ni. l'dl':ti11. l.ocatc1I i11 St. George, Utah, a111I crc1·tcd in IH71, dcdicat,·,1 111 1875, and hnilt of cut red sandstone. It is 106 feet 111111(,. 56 feel wide a11cl 40 feet to the square, and the tower 140 fcl'L high. It l'Ost '$100,000, n1111 has a scnli11g capacity of 1,000. There arc five rooms Architect Truman O. Angell. There art! 256 square rods of lnn<l ~urronndeJ 1by mulberry an!I silver maple trees., The honse and grounds are cared for by the St. George wards. 1 he basement h:1s :1 cement floor, with cement walls hclow the gro1111d .. There are toilets and wash basins in the cast cnJ of the basement, 111 separate rooms. "1•1uv1,:n TH ·1·1rn i,;nu1.'s s1Nc1,1rn Ill•:s11m' 1 Thcni 111ay he J,ndi(·s rrllg-io11s :rnd hnclics scr.111:ir wi1!1 who111 the pnhlic prayer is more or less a fonnal i11stit11tion, httt with Ilic Latter-clay Saints prayer is an holy ordinance, as the following shn\\'s: "T co111111and thee that thon shalt pray vocally as wrll as in thr heart: yea, hefnre the world as well as in secret, in pttblic :1~ \l'l'IJ as in privall'. "Pray unto the Loni, call upon liis holy 11 ·' IMPROVEMENT ERA Vor•. XVII MAY, 1914 No. 7 Loud Laughter a Sin PROll', N. L. NELSON, OF THE WEmm ACADEMY. "Therefore, cease from all yo11r light speeches; from all laughter; from all your lnstful desires; from all your pride and light 111inclccl11css, a11Cl from all your wicked doings. * * * Cast away ynur idle thu11gli1s ;,nd your excess of laughter far from yon. * * * do tl11:sc things with thanksgiving, .with cheerful h<.'arls and conntcnancl·~ i 11ut with 111nd1 la11g-hlcr, for Ll:is is sin, lint with a glad heart and a chccrf11I co1111Lc · 11a11cc,"--lluc. a111I Cov., 88:121, 69; 59:15 . . It is now forty years since I first read these passages and wondercal that the Lord shonld condemn so i1111ncl'nt and, to 111e, so admirable a thing as hearty laughter. 1 am afraid that as a boy the meaning of ''glad heart ancl cheerful countenance," which · thl! Loni offers as a substitute, di<! not strike lily attention, and certainly no cine ever pointcll it ot1t to me. T fear also that, hy thl' law of contrast, my mind jumped to the opposill! extreme; inter·· prcting as pleasing- to heaven the gTo;u1i11g· hl·art. a11d the lu11g, drooping co1111lena11cc-likc that of old Brother .Moody ancl old Sister Gloom who, although they were among the first to accept "Mormonism," failed to slough and kave behind them in the old country the sour ancl solemn shams of sectarianism. As a consequence, the years from twelve to eighteen, whirh mark the hoodlt1n1 c:poch in 111y can:cr, were years nf rehl·lli1>11 :11111 cldiann•, ·1 had 11nt n•ad ~·lilt1111's "I.' /\llq~To," IJ11l had it ro111e within lily kc11, J. should certainly have approved this sta11:t.a: "lfostc thee, nymph, :111<1 liring with lhl'C ~IAJOR J. H. GI LBKRT yn . • : 1 fi l clition of the Book of Mormon. The principal ~Ollll!? 51 lor ~ '.e -in 180.1, autl tlictl i11 Palmyra, w:1s horn 111 R1ch: 11011 '., 1c 10 mouth 5. The photo was · N. Y.,. Ja1.111~r~ 26, 18955, •\lfE::,it;ri' 'i'.able,, in thi-s number of the E11A, taken 111 l11s :1bt year. ee • lie Y~irk 97 e·ir; Jest ;ind yo11U1f11! Jolily, Imps and cranks and wanron wiles, Nods and hecks and wrc:1thc1I smiles, Sport tl1al wrinkled care 1kridcs, I.:anghtcr holJing both his sides." ,i * * As it was, the hero of that silly epoch, the incnrnation of my |
