Image from page 15 of “Utah : its people, resources, attractions and institutions” (1915)
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Identifier: utahitspeopleres001915chur
Title: Utah : its people, resources, attractions and institutions
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Temple Square Bureau of Information
Subjects: Mormons Mormon Church
Publisher: Salt Lake City [Utah] : Bureau of Information, Temple Block
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University
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sign of welcomeawaiting them, and the desert silence wrapped them round like awinding sheet. But they knelt upon the desert ground and gave thanks for themercies that were theirs. It was the first prayer ever heard inUtah. Then, rising, they sang a praise service. It was the firstmusic that ever rang out on the air of Utah. Then they went towork and toiled on until the bloom fled from their faces and theirhands grew gnarled. So they filled their measures of lifes dutiesand passed on. But in the meantime the frown of the desert grew less and lessrepellant, and in places was replaced by smiles; and as in compensa-tion for the youth that had fled and to cover the faces that had become seamed withtoil and care rare flow-ers began to appearwhere only the serge ofthe desert had been. In the meantime, too,the sullen mountainsopened their treasurechambers and pouredforth their wonders. Then it was clear whyat first they had sta-tioned their sentinels ofA Canyon Trail. desolation and cold and
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Utah. 13 snow on watch. It was to hold those treasures inviolate until thecoming of those who could use them wisely. Then rare structures began to appear in the valleys, furtherand further away the desert receded. Now, from the heights suchpictures can be seen in their rustic frames as might have beenpainted by angel hands with brushes dipped in sunbeams. And ifthe stranger will set out from Salt Lake and go either north orsouth, he will be greeted with such views as he never saw beforeof fruitful fields, and thriving hamlets, all watched over b}^ over-hanging, glorified mountains, so filled with sunlight, the songs ofbirds and blooms of flowers and fruit trees that he will admit theenchantment and acknowledge that every blessing of God seems tobe in Utah and that the moving pictures flashing before and aroundhim must have been painted by immortal hands with dyes takenfrom the fountains where light and love and glories unspeakableare brewed. THE OLD MORMON TRAIL.
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