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Show 94 SALT LAKE VALLEY hundred and eighty feet, and its length two hundred and fifty feet, with ends rounded off, and to rest on similar sup ports at the sides. It is to be used as a place of worship in the summer season only, and below the arch is to be left open. The Prophet informed me, and I have no doubt he is good authority in such matters, that the arch of the Tab ernacle has a wider span than any other wooden arch in the world. It is calculated to seat twelve thousand persons. It is progressing rapidly toward completion, and nearly the whole arch now is covered in. An immense organ is also building, and I have no doubt within a year the new Tabernacle will be occupied. The present Tabernacle, which is in the same inclosure, consists of a long, low, shed- like building, capable of seat ing less than a thousand people, and is used only in the win ter. During the warm season their worship is in the " Bow ery." This consists of a shelter from the sun, made of green boughs placed on a frame- work of timber, about ten feet above the ground. At one end is the pulpit, of very large size, made of rough boards, which are whitewashed. Along the back of this are arranged the seats for the officials, a host of whom occupy the pulpit whenever there is public service. The President's seat is in the middle, and extend ing from, toward either end of the row ; the other officials, of whom I shall speak in another letter, are seated according to rank the highest next to Brigham's colleagues in the presidency, who are seated on his right and left. Sunday afternoon service in the Bowery reminded me very much of old- fashioned camp- meetings I sometimes attended when a boy. Next to the Bowery the theatre is the most popular place for the faithful in Zion. It is always filled when there is a play, and by a class of people certainly not capable of a very profound appreciation of the drama. They prob ably go from a sense of duty ( the same that takes them to the Bowery on the Sabbath), for the theatre is owned by the Presicknt, and conducted by one of his sons- in- law for his father- in- law's pecuniary benefit. Every saint then |