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Show I. UTAH'S DEVELOPMENT IS II WONDERFUL Levi Edgar Young, professor of history his-tory at the University of Utah, delft ered a most impressive address in the Ogden Tabernacle yesterday, before be-fore a congregation numbering over 1000. The service was directed by Elder Heber Bcowcroft and, In addition addi-tion to Elder Youngs talk, the congregation con-gregation ns treated to an excellent program of music by the Tabernacle choir, with Walter Stephens as solo-int solo-int and Sam P. Will taker, organist Mr. Whitaker played the organ prf uide and postlude and also contrlb uted a beautiful organ solo which waB appreciated The choir Bang the hymn "Should You Feel Inclined 10 Censure?", the chorus "God Is Our Refuge," and the chorus "See Now the Altar," with Mr. Stephens as so-'olst so-'olst In the last number. The invocation was by President C. F MIddleton and afler a musical number the speaker of the afternoon was Introduced, in his opening remarks. Elder Young said he had been more deepl impressed this ear than ever before, with the abundance of crops throughout through-out Utah and other blessings of nature na-ture given to the people of this state These had impressed him to believe he said, that "man could worship bet-tfr bet-tfr in God's great out of doors' than be could In any church. These things the material phases of life j were phases of Gei s lav He then said that. In view of the present condition of thought among the different peoples on account of the European trouble, and to avoid giving offense, that he would take for his theme the words of Abraham Lincoln, Lin-coln, "With malice toward none and charity to all," that his aim migh. not be misunderstood The announcement of Utah Products Prod-ucts week, Elder Young stated, had brought many things to his mind tha' he desired to speak of. "Through I Us institution.' he continued, "th people are going to learn a great lesson les-son In economic righteousness. There is a religious thought brought out b the movement, as it is to be an expression ex-pression of what the people of the state are doing to make God's earth productive and beautiful." ( '-ntlmiir tlto anonlfpr l'hVp an I I intensely interesting history of the early visitors to the west, telling how, I In 1822, Captain Stephen A. Long of j the United States army, made a report re-port concerning this district. In this 1 report the country west of the one- I hundrdeth meridian was characterized as an arid, unproductive waste fit I only for the trapper and the redsk I Hastings, a trapper, In 1844. made j a similar report. 1 In 1846 the Donner party, composed I 1 of 80 people passed through Utah, i continued on to California and camp- J ed on the shores of Bonner lake where winter overtook them All but I two of the party perished and in I Donner's "log" the statement was written that the land through which i I he bad passed, was one of damnation A and death. Something was lacking, the speak- J er stated. In the perspective and vl- 1 sion of the people who preceded the J Mormon pioneers to the west, as to I the vast possibilities of this great j stretch of country that is now so j prosperous. But the Mormon leader, I I Brigham Young, saw the promise in 1 n the country and, with his people, went to work to cultivate it. j "What did Brigham Young mean?' , Elder Young continued, "when he said ! i 'This is the place?' He meant that I i this was the place where his people J could express their religious princi- ,1 pies in great economic activity " 'jl "In 1824, Peter Skeen Ogden came to the place which now bears his ' i name, to hunt beaver, believing that I nothing else of value could be got- I ten out of the country But in 1852 $3; the Relief society of the city held a a fair 1 a Utah Products' week In which ' ' : was seen the evidence of a remark- 1 M, able progression along the lines of T agriculture and other arts In 1854 3 the first state fair was held and the I J legislature offered three gold medals li for the best displays of wheat and a the governor of the territory offered 1 a prize of $100 for the best display ' of apples. In 1856 the Industrial So- I I ciety of Utah was organized and since i then the progress has been almost "I too fast to follow. 1 "Not only have the people progress- 1 ed commercially, industrially and in I a agriculture " the speaker continued J "but in the recent words of Dr. For- I man of Michigan university the 'arid 3 west is not only a beautiful garden 1 of wheat fruit and flowers, but the . S people have a culture of their own m They are self-reliant, progressive and M hold the standard of Americanism J higher than any others, because of the fl purity of their morals ' m "Education, according to the defl- a nition of Brigham Young, means the I 9 power to think, to create, to act and 9 to appreciate. To appreciate the gio- , M rv of God to to appreciate the glory of life, and on this is the material " m lm of the Mormon religion based m This religion rests, In a way., upon ' .: ' W the potato patch and the wheat fields 1 - a and Mormons do not believe in an ab- I vlM stract God, but find him in their I work "The children should be taught this to9' week what the Utah products move- ypfl ment really means, for there Is noth- oB lnK in tne world so great as the de- &jgH velopment of this state. Its history, fjfm when properly written. Is going to ''"M he e mo8t traglc, dramatic and in-teresting in-teresting of any that has yet been pub- iSm lished." SH In conclusion, he said: "In the Lord's- prayer we ask the 3BH kingdom of God to come to us. It jjctfl 1b coming to us gradually when we SnH remove the weeds, not only of ino-rality, ino-rality, but on our land, and replace MB them with gardens. It will be a LM' literal kingdom, where God will tijafl reign. So we must work and pre- jflH pare the earth for that day. To flH know God, we muBt know life and i 9H learn to create and construct." 1 The closing remarks were made by t HH Elder Scowcrofl, who told his hear- jH er to take an active Interest in Utah 1 H' Products week, saying. HH "We need more factories, more fac- tories means an increase in population jMj 'ipjh - nid an increase In population mear.a i greater demand tor tlH- products of he soil." The benediction was pronounced by President John Watson -no |
