Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-11-23


Secret and stupendous forces burst
the earths crust, and neaye mp tho
mountain. The softly falling snow &c
cumulntcs and, concealed by the cold,
forms the glazier which grinds down
that mountain When fhc tremendous
weight of ice has done its WORK. 1t
gently sinks into the embrace Uf the
ocean, whose warmth soon makes tie
iceberg part Of its own vast Volume
Sun and wind take of this water where
with to make the vapors that must
keep up the fall of snow, and thus
goes ON the work of Gods creations,
FINISHED but renAwed forever" EN-
plosions of "A power no man can con-
ceve of; grinding with a weight and
force and pressure that are measureless
by finite faculties; innuences Of sun
and atmosphere, most sweet and gem
tle yet equally as potent as the tS-
plosions and the grindng;-snch are
some of the agencies the Master Work
man of our universe employs for His
purposes, throughout nianmate na-
ture.
And ms He deals with rocks and ice
and vapor, He likewise 1egls with
man. The race has its explosions that
throw up mountains to he ground
down by GLACIERS that cink into the sea
OF time and again become varor, then
snow, then ice again, while cold aud
air and sunshine play VOL the parts
assigned them. And thus man learns
by what he suffers and experiences,
and thus his perversity and forgetfIl-
ness make necessary a ceaseless round
not in time, viii bring him 20 Il state
of faith and knowledge wherein he viii
not need to pass through fire In orGer
to know that 1t viii burn.
The centuries that nave passed
since the serpent in the garden did his
work NJ beguilng. have, in circllng
procession, brought their respective
events, pursuant to the order that was
| fOreordained. Looking backward half
a thousand years we see the fifteenth
century slgnalized by great discoveries
/ Of unknown regions Of the earth; the
| sixteenth saw q wonderful revival of
| letters and intellect; the seventeenth
| was distracted by religious wars, the
| eighteenth witnessed :he greatest
/ growth of liberty the world has ever
seen, while the nineteenth has epltom-
| ICED the progress Of all that have pre-
ceeded It. But what of ,he twentieth?
Science has annihllated time and
space, and thus has brought together
on one threshing floor. the American
with his great ideas. vast landed areas
and costly style of living;the European
with his shops, factories, commerce
and inadequate farms. md the Asiatic
that. like an animal, is content II only
life Is heightened. What win come of
the tremendous clashing among these
classes OF the earths inhabitants that
must take place before the twentieth
century has run half its course?
European economists say that Eu-
rope must combine against America. OF
the commerce and industries of all her
countries viii be ruined, because tho
new world possesses advantages which
shortly must place the old world at It's
mercy, unless q combination for COM
mon defense be effected. hut America
secs In the cheap and sklllful labor OF
China and Japan the utter ruin Of her
own artisans and laborers, unless a
wall can be constructed high enough
and strong enough to keep the AsiatiC
and his wares OF American soil Man,
cupldlty impels him to seek the cheap.
est market when he wants to buy, re.
gardlcss Of the future, and this Gle,
ment OF his nature threatens to pu'
AN the markets Of the world on an ever
plane before him. What must result
No man can measure in advance IN,
consequences; but certain It Is, &c
cording to all human means of fore
casting the future, that within gen
grafton the labor and commerce Of tn
world will witness such competition
aud such collisions of interest as tn
: race has never known. That violen
d disturbances Of values can be avoid,,
/ is not to be expected, and what othe