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Show ILD.S. SEMINARY: ISTUDENTS HELP BREAK GROUND ! First Shovelful of Earth Turned by Students of Provo Seminary. The students of the Provo Latter-day Latter-day Saint seminary Monday afternoon after-noon broke ground for the new seminary building. The dedicatory prayer was offered by President T. X. Taylor after which Norman Creer, chairman of the student committee, threw the first shovelful of dirt. Pie was followed by other members of the committee, bv President Pres-ident T. N". Taylor, J. YV Knight, j and S. P. Eggertsen, and by other interested persons present. The site of the seminary building is on Third West street, south of the high school. On account of the stormy weather the preliminary exercises were held at the high school auditorium. Chairman Xorman Creer presided. The exercises began with music by the high school band, invocation by Seminary Instructor J. A. Washburn, Wash-burn, and congregational singing, "High on the Mountain Top." Miss Snioot's Address. Miss Anna Siuoot, representing the seminary students, spoke as follows : "We are not here today to set ! aside a building for the purpose of religious education. This is a great step towards bringing our people back to the knowledge of God and of Christianity, which has been so woefully neglected in the past few years. Xot only do our own people feel this need, but men all over the nation are alive to the fact that ; this is the only means whereby the world can be saved. "In the last Literary Digest an account is given' of four young men, who were sentenced to death in Brooklyn for murdering and robbing rob-bing two bank messengers. Three of them were little more than 21 years old, and the fourth was only a few years older. After passing the sentence Justice James C. Crcf:-sey Crcf:-sey in commenting on it says: "Most of the criminals are boys and young men. To be exact, over SO per cent age. If the people of Brooklyn ask why so many youths become criminals crim-inals I can tell them. A dozen years of investigation and experience experi-ence in these matters have demonstrated demon-strated that the vast majority of all the youthful offenders com-'Shited com-'Shited crime because they had bad associates and were not under the proper influence in the years when boyhood was turning into manhood man-hood between the ages of 12 and 18.' "In the same article the writer shows the public has almost discarded discard-ed every form of religious and moral instruction, because of the fear of mixing church with state, and has even surrendered the home as the mainstay of virtue. He goes on to say that the gallows and the chair are sorry substitutes for the Sunday Sun-day school and the old-fashioned nltar of maternal knees. Thomas D. Boyd, president of the University Univer-sity of Louisiana, says, 'No social or moral problem can ever be solved without the aid of religion.' |