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Show UTAH ' Tho fairest picture over hung In a rustic frame. Long ago it was the fashion to say that Utah was s mply a desert. Those who said it did not Know tho ways of nature. Where sho had cachidSthe g'reat treasures, what moro natural than ttuifJ sho should place her guards over them? So frli'the long ago she upheaved her mountains, glv.'ng. Uiem n majestic but solemn look to awe tho curious; .comet. .com-et. She spread out her valleys nnd, that, 'their wealth might not bo known, carpeted f.icm 'with tho gray serge of the desert. , V So through-tho ages, no one dreamed. ,o'ff the treasures In her mountains, or how her valleys might be transformed. "i Hut the pioneers came at last. SaveVtha warmth of tho summer nlr and the smile, 'of the sunbeams, thero was no sign of welcome awaiting them, and the desert silence wrapped them 'round llko a winding sheet. ";'S Hut they knelt upon tho desert ground fand gave thanks for the mercies that were theirs", lt was the first prnycr over heard In Utah. Then llslng they sang a pralso service It was thq first music that over rang out on tho air of Utnlw Then thoy went to work and to.led on until tho bloom (led from their faces and their hands grew gncrled. So they filled their measures of life's duties and passed on. But in the meantime the frown of the desert grew less and less rcpellant and In places was re-placed re-placed by smlljs; and ns In compensation foV tKY j'outh thaC had fled and to cover tbo face that hnd become seamed with toll and care, rare flowers .began .be-gan to appear whero only tho serge of tho desert hnd been. In the meantime, too, tho sullen mountains opened their treasuro chambers and poured forth their wonders. Then it wns clear why nt first they had stationed sta-tioned tliolr sentinels of desolation and cold and snow on wutch. It was to hold those treasures In-vlolate In-vlolate until the coming of thoso who could use them wisely. Then rare structures began to appear In ' the Milloys, further and further nwoy the desert receded. re-ceded. Now from the heights such pictures con bo seen In their rustic frames as might have been painted by angel hands with brushes dipped In sunbeams. And If tho stranger will set out from Salt Lake nnd go either north or south he will be greeted with such views hs he never saw before of fruitful fields and thriving hamlets, all watched over by overhanging, glorified mountains, so filled with sunlight, tho songs of birds, nnd bloom ot flowers and fruit trees, that ho will admit tho enchantment, en-chantment, nnd acknowledge that every blessing of God seems to bo In Utah nnd that tho moving pic-tures pic-tures before and around him must havo been painted paint-ed by immortal hands with dykes taken from the fountains whero light nnd love and glories unspeakable unspeak-able are browed. C. C. Goodwin In the Educational Educa-tional Review. J. JU JU |
