The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1884-04-05
Copyrighted by c. II. Miller, 1884, and print
in the CARBON ADVOCATE by special ar
rangement with the Author.
SEALED UNTO HIM.
A Story of the Early Days of Mormonism.
By JOAQUIN MILLER,
Author of "Songs of the Sierras," "The
Danltes -" Memorie and Rime,n etc,
CHAPTER w.

DAY OF SUSPENSE.
It was doubtful from the first how the
men sent to execute Judgment" on this
poor girl would proceed. as they rode
slowly down the hill into the camp.
There was no doubt Ia any ones mind
what they would do in the end. But
how and by what tortuouB roads of
cruelty and delay and dismay would they
proceedr By what cruel cat-and mouse
means would they proceed to teach their
terrible lesson of the vengeance and the
power of Dan, "a serpent by the way"
IAN adder in the path'T
When the sun shines hot and clear. n
photograph is taken almost instantly,
which will endure long, long time.
And SO it is in and with SCIENCES like
this. The blood was at fevev heat. The
Imagination was like fame. Terror Of
what was to happen fastened all things
there firmly as if the world stood still
forever. The heart after little time al
most ceased to beat,
Before Us to the south and far away
CLEANED the great sea of salt in the
morning sun. green island of trees
where thousand cattle fed, the proper
ty Of the Mormon church, lay far away
toward the other side. It was but dimly
visible, yet beautiful, peaceful in its far
tranquility as picture of Paradise.
As the eyes strained and swept across
the cleaning sea of salt and rested on
this beautiful island, they seemed to
want to remain there. You could not
turn your head away or withdraw your
gaze. There was fierce fascination that
kept the strained eyes looking down and
out steadily toward that dim and distant
isle of peace and beauty, which was ir-
resistible. The tired eyes wanted TO rest
there forever. Or did the eyes so desire
to remain there, far away in fields OF
beauty and of peace. to escape the
threatened scene of blood and peril ut
our feet.
Beyond The broad and cleaning levels
of this sea Of salt, still beyond the verdi
ant restful isle, and right above and over
the few scattered fields and farm houses
on the near shore. shot the snow-topped d
towers of the Wahsatch, These mag
nificent mountains drew an impossible
wall, a crescent to the east and north,
around the incipient Mormon city.
These mighty towers of snow, this
strange new people, mad on the subject
of religion, called their "towers
of strength" They likened them to the
white towers that were above the mighty
walls Of Jerusalem of old. Everywhere,
in all things around them, they read the
fulfllment Of prophecies, Bible trndit-
ions and Bible truths. The deserts and
the wells in the deserts. the balm-of-
gilead trees, even the locusts that some.
times devoured the land in all these
they read. imagined, believed implicitly.
that they had here, thousands Of miles
away from all the world, found new
Jerusalem; that they were indeed the
children of the lost tTibes--the children
Of Dan indeed, that should judge the
people of the earth as they passed. and
be as "a serpent BY the way, ian adder
In the PATH"
To the east Of this remnant Of dried
up sea, and close upon the salt.white
shore of 1t, there gushed from the rocky
hillside little nver OF boiling water
which sent forth its stream In the early
morning In perpetual drift of snowy
clouds. These beautiful white clouds
rose TO the mouutain-top 10 the east. and
there rested lazily in the sun or Graded
to aud fro above the Mormon city.
Beneath these cradled clouds. far be.
low them, and yet far above the city,and
to the east aud to the north, and RboVt
our own camp, there was drawn in pre-
else level the definite and unmistakabl'
shore and surf-line Of great dried.uI
sea. Hundreds of feet above the blael
aud heavy waters Of Salt Lake. you car
see where the surf rosred iu storm and
tempest when the world was young, tor'
the rocks to splinterS, fashioned eaSsrns