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Show in elaboration and embellishments, only the most enduring material should be used; that so far as possible with the means at hand the house should be made beautiful and possess a character of its own. He believes it a duty to include in the range of intended and deliberate usefulness not only those who are our companions here, but those who are to come after us, and then he quotes: "Men cannot benefit those that are with them as they can benefit those that come after them; and of all the pulpits from which human voice is sent forth, there is none from which it reaches so far as from the grave." Then, proceeding, he says: "Every human action gains in honor, in grace, in all true magnificence by its regard to things that are to come. It is in the far sight, the quiet and confident confi-dent patience, that above all other attributes, separate man from man and nears him to his Maker; and there is no action nor art whose majesty ma-jesty we may not measure by this test Therefore, There-fore, when we build, let us think that we build forever such work as our descendants will thank us for, and let us think as we lay stone on stone that a time is to come when those stones will be held sacred because our hands have touched them." His deep words flow on gaining in power and sweetness as he progresses through page after page. He was writing simply of structure struc-ture building, but he weaves inspiration into every stone and makes sounding every ancient rafter. "When his description is completed if we clone our eyes and think, the description is as apt for a human character as for the use of materials in a house. Not many men can be long remembered. remem-bered. Most men are so poor mentally that their minds can at best upraise only most humble pictures, pic-tures, but these can be made enduring if they are fashioned in truth, in justice and in honor. This applies more to communities than to individuals. Every community throws off the impression of itself. Not many names can be remembered of thoBe who died at Valley Forge, but the patience with which they bore their sufferings; the pathos of the picture they made as they sank uncomplainingly uncom-plainingly to rude graves, made an impression on their age which is magnified as the years sweep by. The reason was because they, like Ruskin' house building, suffered in regard to those that were to come after them; they had the quiet and confident patience that neared them to their Maker, and the sorrows under which they waited were like those effects of Michael Angelo when "the shadows as media of expression" take on "all degrees of nobility." As this continent has been settled, especially as the eastern half was being settled, some generations genera-tions of men and women died. The men faced only endless toil from the cradle to the grave. The women not only faced the toil, but at the same time repressed in their hearts a thousand longings which, it is woman's honest right to cherish. They died and most of their names are no longer remembered, but the chcracter which they stamped upon their several communities is one of the sweetest memories, one of the most glorious heritages ever left a people. They were thinking of those who were to succeed them. So in their poverty they kept the lamp of learning lighted, and in their humbleness they were still Jealous of their liberties and ready to die In their defence. j What is the nature of the character that is crystalizing in Utah? The State is but young, but already there are some shadows upon It which Bive but small idea of the nobility which should attach to the State. When offices are bought and sold; when free men will degrade their liberties by surrendering their own free thoughts to the Patrol of others; when the superstitious fears of toon, will cause them to violate their oaths, then there is taint upon a State, and its character thus Seated will be cited only as an evidence of a people's peo-ple's shame. |