Beyond the West: containing an account of two years' travel in the other half of our great continent far beyond the old West, on the plains, in the Rocky mountains, and picturesque parks of Colorado. Also, characteristic features of New Mexico, Arizona, Wyoming, Montana, Idaho ... Oregon, Utah, Nevada, and ... California, the end of the West ... the great continental railroad, together with the ... most wonderful natural scenery in the world .../ by George W. Pine.

SUNDAY IN SALT LAKE CITY.
Real work now goes on, the hardest of which is the
preaching. Several loaves of bread are cut in slices
and piled upon large platters, on a table in front of
the pulpit, where it is broken in small pieces by a
few men, and put in baskets. Several men take and
pass them through the audience as seated. After
all are served, a number of large pitchers are filled
with water and refilled until all are supplied, when
the sacramental service is finished. This is repeated every Sabbath in a wholesale way, to give
the sacrament to between two and three thousand
persons during the time of preaching. They are
open-communion; everybody can partake if lihe
wishes. The preaching is more after the order of a
political convention in the States than Church worship. No text is taken, but any one of the priesthood gets up and says what he pleases-speaks his
own thoughts in his own language, in his own way;
perhaps several will talk during one meeting. Their
sermons, (if I may call them by that name,) are of a
business character; indeed, they use the day for
business instruction and direction of the coming
week, the every day matters of life, what they must
do, and what they must not do, to make themselves
united, prosperous and strong; to combat and resist the wickedness of the gentile world. Brigham
deprecated severely the dissenters from the Church;
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