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Show LANDMARKS AS SEEN BY REV. CARVER Mrs Margaret font Browning ren-! ren-! dered two numbers last night at the First Preahyterian c hurch. Mrs. Browning will sing again next Sundaj night The church was decorated with cut flowers. Rev. Caner, speaking upon the Ancient Landmarks," said In part 'We read that at the time of the entrance into Palestine, Moses com-mended, com-mended, that the 16,000,000 acres be di Ided as follows. 600,000 families were to hac about twenty acres each land 2,000,000 lefl lor public domain The land thus apportioned was to be held forever. If the father sold It, th? J son could reclaim it or the father would regain It at the year of Jubilee, which came every fifty years. The sentiment was so strong In favor of , this law, that one king lost his life because he took a peasant's land The landmarks marking these lands were never to be moved. "About one-half a milo sou'h of West Ogden, upon the sand rklge stands an ancient lnndmnr1 It is on of the monuments elected by Fremont 'when he made a survey across the continent. There Is a much more famous one near the northwest corner of the Salt lake temple. It was placed first by Parley Pratt He was an eminent mathematician and de-, rived his latitude from the sun and his longitude from his watch which had not been corrected since he left ' Omaha and yet when, with the best! . Instruments, the I'nlted States Geo- ' logical Survey corrected It, It was onlv four feet too tar west and seven j feet too far south. Remarkably ac-1 ac-1 curate when one considers the Im-j 'perfect tools with which he had to work. When the ecological survey I ! was made, the experts started with a I line ten miles long, laid out upon the Pacific shore at sea level They ti l -1 angulated from the ends of this line A moUPtain peaks to secure the elevation, eleva-tion, when they reached I'tah. they laid oute another ten-mile line ilon the bed of Salt Lak for correction They found that thev were only fifteen fif-teen Feet wrong In securing elevations from here to the coast They left a inou'.'tnc nt on Observatorj and North Ogden peaks. These landmarks are iron posts driven four or five feet In the ground and hnving a lead top upon up-on which the altitude is recorded.' .. I, iii I i Ther Is one such landmark set In a ' large boulder Just north or the hole! I at Brighton, giving the altitude When the party of geological surveyors sur-veyors reached Demor, another line ten miles was laid out upon the level and the work again corrected. The government also daces landmarks at j township and section corners The city has placed landmarks just under the surface of the intersection Ol the center of each street and from ( these all city surveys are made just j.is the county surveyor makes his irveys from the section monuments The f-jt says Thou shalt not re-jtnovo re-jtnovo tbo ancient landmarks.' and It n red to th boundary lines and marks defining the limits of landed j property One of the merits of the Hebrew law given through Moses was thr. way in which it safeguarded the property of the poor. We use this text tonipht, not in regard to the landmarks land-marks of property, but in regard to the landmarks of morals There are j no new standards of comparison like jthem. Read apain the ten command-i command-i ments or the formon on the mount and scp how thev utter convictions ili--ui imbeded In our erv nature. e cannot get away from their teaching teach-ing and maintain any real strenenh of character Carry thorn into 19H with you Make them a more constant standard of your life Come back to them often and correct your conduct by them I'cmove not these ?nec-nt landmarks of spiritual and moral life from your daily living. "It was not until the fourteenth century cen-tury that the almanac was a reality The name is of Spanish-Arabian origin and it probabl originated with rhem. Time was not so valuable in the older days and men Iked more at ease. A sun dial or the cock crowing crow-ing was exact enough Rut Hie sun dial was very nnexnet Ahaz had one that threw its shadow upon a fllpht of stairs, each step marking the hour. Chanticleer was very unreliable at l'ight for he would crow when th. temperature was the lowest af night and the dew and wind influenced his telling the time. He would usual 1 crow just before a rain storm. Out-almanac Out-almanac with Its common data, lock over five thousand years to pi eel and It Is one of the common very great achievements of the race "The simple knack of being prcnipt lias been n most powerful factor in many s man's advancement Admiral Nelson uaed to say that he owed c -trythlng to always being a quarter of an hour beforehand Mitchell, the B tromomer. raid he owed rih nuccess to being in the habit of counting a id calculating the value ft a thousandth of a second. Time today Is a most nine, fac tor, but It is time coupled with the best aids and Incentives ib;it makes for progress "There Is a tendency today Impelling Impell-ing us to yield the old strength factors fac-tors of life and follow only the modern mod-ern ideas Such a trend of life must miss much of the very best In life There are mountain streams ih.it flowing from perpetual snows retain! their individuality :,nd clear purjt) even when thev fommimical.' with slower and more muddy waters Such streams after uniting still retain their purity and one side of lh: united j stream is marked by clearness Theiv I are winds that blow from mountain ranges cool and refreshing even when j passing over parched and arid wautei There are lives matured and trained in godly homes and going f-oir the home influence still retain its very best qualities even in adverse conditions condi-tions The best ot the past s retainer re-tainer in tho temptations or the new.; to so rear children that thev will re- j tain the landmarks of parental faith and training is the highest reward of i godly home The guests of a house may be its glorv but the children growing in It will be i'-s final udg-1 ment. As we face a new year in the short cycle of our life let U3 pondei I for a few moments what landmarks i of the past we desire and need i" retain re-tain in the new year. One of thc old, old trends of life that we will surely want to carry all our years Ik the sense of the divine Presence is one ol th few links I that unite ns to the years 3l his-j tcrles dawn. The ancient worthies' and the modc,-n ervantfi of God me?t : In this, that ihv live with Ood in j thought and service Clearer and clearer has the path of lliose uho I walk with bim grown Vow we have the completer. s of Ihe Christ Ufe to lighten li and beautiful copli f ris word to reveal it Can we snj how-pver, how-pver, that we are morj wUh hire ! than those who had neither1 If not the fault is purely with us The rxt I ?ud most fruitful days of vour life 1 thia year will be those days with ! which Ood has 'no mot o do l "A standard of meaaire it of no i value Just because it is old and often 'used Many of jau . standards of weight ami nic.su:0 found t,i be deceptive de-ceptive by the saler o weights anil measures in :m eastern city had been I used for years Nevertheless the best standards of life are the old ones. Thr I word of trod still is supreme as n rule of faith and practice. It Is a ; landmark all shouil retain." |