While listening to the brethren today, I have thought of this sacred spot, this building, this sacred ground where the Latter-day Saints are wont to assemble twice a year from all over the Church, coming here to listen to the living oracles, the men who have been chosen by the Lord, upon whose shoulders rests the responsibility of this Church and this work which the Lord has established, and O, what a sacred spot this is destined to be! When I think of the great designer of this building, President Young, and his brethren who have occupied the stand, the pulpit here, and how freely the word of the Lord has come to the people by the inspiration of the Almighty, words of wisdom, words of intelligence, words fraught with the power of God, I think what wonderful occasions have been in this building!
– Francis M. Lyman (October 1897)
One of the rare positive uses of “fraught.” (I had a professor who would describe a tricky ethical situation as “fraught” and then complain that “fraught” is almost always bad — nothing is ever “fraught with chocolate.”)
More seriously, I love the sense of the Tabernacle as a sacred space.