[George F. Gibbs] Yours April 20 to President Richard W. Young of the Ensign Stake was referred by him to the First Presidency, in which you state that Gottlieb Wuethrich, who was excommunicated for participating in taking interior views of the temple by stealth for public purposes, had sought to regain his standing in the Church by baptism.
The presidency endorse the position taken by you in regard to this matter, in effect, that the nature of the offense was so grave that no particular rush need be indulged in to extend to him our fellowship; and that it will be in order for him to manifest to the fullest extent the fruits of repentance. And it is understood of course that nothing shall hereafter be done in his case by way of permitting him to regain his standing in the Church without the written authority of the presidency.
[Source: George F. Gibbs, Letter to H. W. Valentine, Basel, Switzerland, as quoted in Minutes of the Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1910-1951, Privately Published, Salt Lake City, Utah 2010]
wonder if he used a good old German camera such as a Zeiss or a 4X5 Hasselblad.
ReplyDeletehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hasselblad (Swedish).
ReplyDeleteCorrection: Hasselblad is medium format camera (2.25" x 2.25" film image).
ReplyDeletelarge format cameras are 4"x5".
ReplyDeletehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_House_of_the_Lord
ReplyDelete1912 book by LDS Q12 apostle James E. Talmage with interior photos of SLC temple.
sounds like the 1st Pres'y. were completely clueless.
unless of course they were peeved because Mr. GW violated copyright restrictions.
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ReplyDeleteGottlieb was a gardener on the Temple grounds. He was befriended by Gisbert Bossard, a young disaffected Latter Day Saint. It was Gisbert who had Gottlieb let him sneak into the temple to take the pictures of the sacred interior. Mr Bossard and Max Florence attempted to blackmail the church and extort money for the pictures. They were thwarted in this as James E Talmage was given the assignment to prepare a church authorized edition of a book with authorized photos of the temple interior. Thus ended their sinister designs.
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