That is a monstrous big building with a great round dome on top, two broad flights of steps lead up into it, we clumb the nighest one and went inside.

The high dome is lined with colored mosaic, and looks first-rate, but I didn't pay much attention to that for right underneath the centre is an exact reproduction of the rock where Abraham offered up Isaac, or got ready to.

How Love and Duty tugged at Abraham's heart and most tore it into as he stood there, and what faith he had.

It is heart-breakin' to think on't, though it all come out right in the end, as the hardest things will if we cling to Duty.
But Josiah wuz gittin' worrisome and wanted to go, but I sez, "Josiah, I must see Solomon's Temple." It wuz quite a few steps away, but I didn't begrech the time or journey, and jest as we wuz goin' up the steps, who should we meet comin' out but Jane Olive Perkins (_nay_ Gowdey) once a Jonesvillian, but now livin' in Chicago, but visitin' her old home and relation quite often.
She wuz dressed beautiful, her neck and bosom sparklin' with diamonds.

I don't approve of such dressin' in the street, but Jane Olive wuz always showy.
She held out both hands in joyful greetin' (the meanin' of which I mistrusted afterwards).