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Show THE CITIZEN 10 UTAH THE BEA UTIFUL" By MARGARET priest, the first white man to look upon this valley. Camped with his comrades beside the Spanish Fork, September 23, 1776. . . . Tho the pathfinders die, the paths remain open. So reads the inscription on the tablet erected in 1923 by the Daughters of the American Revolution, and by the city of Spanish Fork, Utah, to perpetuate the memory of that event. While the history of Utah is Inseparably linked with the padres of the great California, and stands beholden to the archdiocese of San Francisco; today Salt Lake, the largest diocese territorially in the United States and one of the smallest numerically, has become an. integral part of the largest archdiocese in the country numerically, and one of the smallest in geographical expansion. The year just passed has been, indeed, a significant one in Utah. It was the sesquicentennial of her baptism. America as .a nation, in 1776, was shedding the blood of her sons that the United States might live to posterity. That same year, in the great stillness of her unclaimed wastes, a party of Spanish Franciscans, under the valiant leadership of Escalante, trudged across her warm, red, south country. They were seeking a direct route from Santa Fe, New Mexico, to Monterey, California. They penetrated her northern quietudes of lake and forest, and there offered the unbloody sacrifice. History marches in centuries hot In days and months, or even in yejars. Significant events of the present stand at attention. They lay reverent hands on the past. In the hour of such a the spirits of those who have gone, return to hallow the land of their endeavors.. Their names and their deeds are on the lips of those who follow the "path that remains open." Those in the flesh upon this opened e path catch a new glory in the a new promise in the wind upon their eager faces. Just this has happened in Utah. She is in review. It took 150 years to awaken Utah to consciousness of her Catholic romance. Hers has been an exultant awakening. There is a lure in this new country. She is in the making. The spirit of pioneers is still her energizing force, Utahs history is not a complicated one. Its very simplicity makes its importance illusive. It draws its romance from the fewness of the number and the character of those few Spansouls who laid her corner-stonish missionaries located the ground, and trappers blazed the trails. The Indians who roamed these regions were not highly civilized. Game was too plentiful climate, atmosphere, living, too sufficient, to inspire personal ingenuity. The Utes, in the north, were a roving, treacherous, warMoquls, In the south, ring tribe.-Thwere agricultural and agriculturally lazy because of earth abundance. Recent explorations in the south are unearthing archaeological finds to intrigue and task the scholar. The colonization that superseded the Indians Escalante: A Spanish . , ben-edicttio- n, . . sun-shin- . e. LEE KEYTING was rapid and American. Brigham Young had built three cities before he reached his ultimate. When he built Salt Lake City, he built it to stand. He laid it out in strong, straight, long lines. He was prodigal of space. Wide streets and good roads secure the valleys and run like open adventures into its hills. He sent members of his flock into the outlying seclusions. He imposed on them agricultural necessities. They lived like the Indians on the soil. When Father Scanlan arrived as parish priest in 1873, he could claim but 800 souls in a parish of 87,000 population. There were but ninety Catholics in Ogden and Salt Lake. Nine families, in what became his cathedral city seven years later, were those with whom he started to build. Today, in a population of 450,000, the Catholics number 12,000. eliminates perspective. Proximity One might well question the perspective on a diocese but two bishops old a brief forty-si- x years with her third bishop on the threshold of her adventurings. By. reason of the .vision of the two men who have passed, however, there is a definite perspective. A people must have a house. Bishop Scanlan, the first bishop, reclaimed enough from the swamplands of inertness for his church. Two years after his arrival, he solicited the Sisters of the Holy Cross for aid in opening a school. He located that land and drained it of the impossible shouldering the difficulties with frenzied heroism. He gave them schools and not those of pioneer ruggedness. He imported teachers who brought the advance and learning coincident with th.e erudition of the eastern seaboard of the late nineteenth century. It is. well to remember that American literature and thought were then in the first period of national consciousness. The mottoes on the episcopal coats of arms of Utahs three bishops are challenges that have rung through her spiritual capitol, and indicate a complete cycle of religious consecration: Quid timidi estis (Right Reverend Forti-tud- o Lawrence Scanlan, et pax (Right Reverend Joseph Mihi vivere ; S. Glass, Christus est (Right Reverend John Joseph Mitty, 1926). "Why do you fear? (I bring you) fortitude and peace. (For) to me, to live is Christ." Conquest ; understanding ; illumination. These three forces 'have laid siege to the soul of Utah, and made her mystical freewoman of Christs endeavor. Looking back, one sees that the man who stood here on the midde ground of episcopal succession, Bishop Glass, began to build on teh drained swamp He pointed a proud finger to the past of Utah. Fired by an intense realization of her heritage, sustained by the natural beauty of the land to which he came and energized by her utter need, he made Catholicity in Utah a beautiful thing. He dedicated to God the best he could find of contemporary art in decorating. the magnificent English 1891-1915- ); 1915-192- 6) Gothic cathedral which Bishop Scan- lan had completed. Pointing to the solid foundations that had been built by his great predecessor, Bishop Scanlan, in his forty-tw-o years of labor, Bishop Glass insisted that there was nothing too good for Utah; and he made Utah believe it. She is firmly convinced today, that in the person of her third bishop, the very best has come to her. One must understand this to appreciate Utahs present jubilation and seise of security. It is not a newspaper sentimentalism. It is ipstinct with psychological confidence. Shortly after the death of Bishop Glass, Mass was celebrated in Spanish Fork for the first time since the intrepid Escalante, 150 years before, had lifted the chalice to the rising sun before the wondering eyes of the Indians. It was a field Mass. It was a state celebration. People from Ogden, from Provo, from Salt Lake, and from points more distant, motored to this historic spot, where, fifty miles from Salt Lake City, Escalante had turned south and westward again. It was the first ecclesiastical recognition by the Church of her own initial step in Utah. Of more signal importance, however, was the opening of Saint Marys College and Academy of the Wasatch, by the Sisters of the Holy Cross. His Eminence, Patrick Cardinal Hayes, blessed this majestic new building of Spanish interpretation which sands high on the eastern foothills. It scans Salt Lakes western skyline, with the great Romanesque capitol building. Beneath, rises the minaretted temple of Moroni, the towers of the Cathedral of the Madeleine, and the .constantly increasing skyscrapers those lifts of industrialism that have given to American architecture its native symbolism and strength. If educational advantages are the measure of the progress of any community, the history of the Sisters of the Holy Cross in Utah is her greatest pledge for future greatness. Unless one has stood on the ground of the mother-hous- e at Saint Marys, Notre Dame, Indiana, one canot realize in what terms of immortality these spirits build. They build in thousands of acres not" city blocks. They plant reckless that hardwood trees-r-gail- y the hands that seed them will be idle for their flowering. By a unique entity, the establishment of the Holy Cross order in America, and the founding of Salt Lake by the Mormons are synchronous. They both came into being about the same time. When the great French educator, the Very Reverend , Edward Sorin, C.S.C., was dreaming of Indiana as the frontier of his endeavod, Joseph Smith was reaching for freer wastes in 1841. Buffeted through the Middle-Wes- t, the Mormons were. leaving Illinois about the time that Father Sorin was breaking ground in Indiana for his stronghold of intellectual conquest. The year that Father Sorin sailed for America, Brigham Young sailed for England on the first missionary trip for his sect. By 1847, Father Sorin was firmly established in Indiana and Brigham Young had walked to Utah and said: "This is the place. . An interesting letter has light, from the pen of John nolds, writing in the. Kansas in the year 1903: ... The Reverend Father De Sm Kansas City, probably the wV January, 1862. lie had walked i tire distance from St. Louis to City, as transportation had cln the Missouri river, and staging tended' with too many difTicultii the disturbed condition i. lng.to to the Civil War. He was on w back to the plains of New i1 where he had spent many yean, the Indian ribes? From my recollection-o- f whatt, De Smet said to me at that tlm,? the Mormon immigration to Valley in Utah; it. is true that! De Smet had met Brigham in the banks of the Missouri rhS advised him to go to Utah vb followers, where they would bit turbed by the trend of immigrt many years to come; and that De Smet furnished the Mormon wl with a vivid description of the U ful and fertile valley of Salt also a map and chart of the J across the plains to that promlntl Father De Smet must have beel archangel whom the Mormonip 1 Iu rdm ally credit with appearing unto: ham Toung and directing his 4 across the western wilderness 4 hitherto almost unknown partfl country. That Brigham had no i knowledge of just where he settle with his colony, is a well fact, and after meeting with FbtL Smet, he determined to seek the described to him by the Jesuit and kept the matter a secret unti self until he had discovered the location on the map furnished However this might be, no too great can be paid those whos it the first Catholics in their en to erect a church for their fellies schools for their children, and i le t sick. for their CO pital Utah has a picturesquep ast 53.Ion the peoplethe temple city ofi that in less than a hundred yec proselyted the earth. To the Mi she is the land of promise, aid the chosen people of the last i&leiH yej -- H'miiuiiitiHHiiiiiHiiiiraHUiiiiiniiiniiHiiittiiiimMimn W. H. DAYTON s i jfjcles 3Hj. lib DRUG unties. COMPANY 2Tthe High Class Drugs Hhre Expert Pharmacists Specializing in PrescriptuiJ Sipiril 80 East 2nd So. Phone Wsi ilex. . so Physicians tho ,31 tha Sup 2aii of -- tad m Company jitem y Wity SURGICAL S Paul Md bi tal. 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