| Show A GREAT STATE IS UTAH I I wo boast here of a good many advantages advan-tages over most other Stales but the very greatest advantage as we sec It I I is that which students have over students stu-dents of the TCnst The first Is the climate i mate No child Is ecr obliged to remain I j re-main away from school because the day is too cold or loo warm There Is ota I ot-a day In the rear on which he cannot t study If his physical health Is good I and there Is not a spot between the I 1 seas thnt Is healthier except of course when some Imported contagion comes h I Then the character of the place Is an inspiration The natural surface of the 1 State is sere and brown But touch It F with water and the flowers come the hlooms oC spring the fruition of the harvest and therein is an objOct lesson for the student Behind the dead lan Behluc ciiacs and the dlfilcult problems A II glory shines to the earnest seeker AS he delves there are flashes of light that I come to him as the frat plants of I spring seem to him when they spring from the soil and as they grow the t vision of the loveliness of learning shines before him an enchantment I Again the miner is stranded He works a few days for wages with the proceeds he purchases a pick and shovel and 0 few days food and with these he climbs the heights One piece ot rock looks different from the rest he breaks It from the ledge the inner surface I sur-face fixes his attention he breaks 00 I I more he carries a sample to an assayer or tries It by his own rude process and I I I I When the result is finally known he delves further into the stubborn hill IJ f and soon he knows that while all the I t surface was sere and forbidding tho outward showing was but one of natures I tures masks her way of hiding her I treasures that a fortune Is I at his feet The student sees this and a second I I Inspiration comes to him for on the I I heights of knowledge richer gems can I be uncovered than were ever found In I the rough hills This State ia peculiar for giving these p surprises to her children and liva hundred I f hun-dred ways every day reads the lesson to them that they have but to try with I tl all their strength and the reward will if I come Meanwhile there is the charm of the sunlight on mountain and valley I I 1 and lake and sky and the marvelous pictured are painted dally until i unconsciously 1 uncon-sciously the eager mind takes In and L absorbs their loveliness and the contemplation I con-templation of the beautiful becomes a I matter of course so that when an I artistic soul saturated with these pictures i I pic-tures essays to give them expression I I the hand Is Insulred I The dawns arc inspirations the su sets are Inspirations and when the l 1 pomp of a storm is unfolded l then there arc pictures which the dweller In the I t lQwlands never beholds The bringing I of the moisture from the ocean the turning the rain into snow the floating l It inland on the clouds these are natural phenomena But when It Is t brought inland and the cold of the I I heights stretches upward seizes and compresses the clouds and compels j concls I p them to unload their burdens upon the 1 mountaintops that the springs In the I t I hills may be fed that is n display which the thoughtful soul cannot contemplate H without emotion for really It is the work In a mysterious way jvhich performs 1 per-forms Gods wonders Utah is a great I II State It |
