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That was the reason for the existence of the Tremont Temple. I don't know when this building was built, but I should suppose it was sometime in the late eighties or early nineties. It was built as kind of a cross between a theatre and a church. In other words, it was meant for the use of a body which had religious ideas, but didn't propose to treat them in churchly or ritualistic fashion. Therefore, the building had galleries around it and was quite typical of the Congregational churches that were built in the eighties - not of the early ones, but of the eighties type. It has galleries that go around. It has a pulpit which is not like the old-fashioned pulpit, but is kind of a platform that extends out onto a small apron into the auditorium. It vaguely reminded one of the Congregational churches not of the early, pure, clean, white New England type, but of the later ones. There were carpets on the floor. The pews, benches, and so forth were made of a kind of a mixture of walnut and maple - light and dark wood. I see the place plainly.

We stood to make our speeches from the pulpit. I spoke at the very end of this meeting. I think I was the last speaker. I thought the audience would be pretty well worn out and I knew I must make it short. I tried to make it short. The burden of my speech was, “What's been done in the State of New York can be done anywhere. It is the