Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1901-11-23

IN ulttffnt customs, ana llhklIb W
them one homogeneous mass TWINS
peaceably side by side and working
unitedly aud intelllgently towards
common end and purpose, and you slill
have only a part-and that a material
pMt-of what has been accomplished
BY MOrmOnism.
But there Is a physiological as wen
AZ sociological phase To the subject,
one ihat an Anglo-suXon, be he English
on American, cannot fail 10 appreciate,
Himself q product Of race amagama,
lion, and owing thereto his general
physical excellence and racial suprem-
ncy L would REQUIRE no argument to
convince him that the highest type OF
man Ia The composite type, blending IN
one race the best qualities OF many.
The typical Engllshman Of today what
IL he bus mixture of Celt, Briton.
Saxon, Norman ana DaneY The typlcal
American, what Is he but the JOINT
product OF tho best and most enllght-
ened peoples on earth2 The typical
Mormon history Is but repeating itseli
In creating him by a union OF forces
and powers that are sure TO make Tor
the physical and intellectual better
ment OF mankind
The whole idea Of Mormonism is I'M
pfoyement- mentally physically NOR
ally and spiritually No halfway edu-
cation sufhces FOR the Latter-day saint.
lie holds with Herbert Spencer that The
function Of education Is TO prepare
man for complete living but be also
maintains that complete living should
he interpreted life here and hereaf-
ter" Joseph Smith declared that the
glory Of God ~ Intelligence, that man
~ saved no faster than he gets knOWl-
edge. and that whatever principles OF
intelligence he attulns TO In this life,
they win rise with him In the resurrec-
ton giving him the advantage over ig-
N0rance and cvi I'm the world to come.
Tie taught that man by constantly
Progressing may eventually develop
into a divine being Ike unto his Faith
en- in heaven.
TO promote these ideas and also 70
educate himself and bis associates In
the learning Of the world the Prophet
founded schools In OHIO Missouri ana
Illinois. myself though not then con
nected with the Church, was attract
ed to Kirkland by the repute Of the
Hebrew school that Joseph Smith had
founded, and while studying there with
him and othor leading Momona as my
fellow students ] was converted so the
faith, A university was organized at
Naur0p and anGtupr az Salt Lake CITY
the latter only seven months after the
planting Of the pioneer colony In the
Great liasln; and even earlier this mi
grating community while hating ON
the Missouri, and Immediately after
entering salt Lake Valley established
schools for the education or their chill
dren Wherever Mormon settlements
have sprung I'D the village school has
been among the first things thought of
and provided FOR President Young
founded before his death the Brigham
YOUNG Academy at Provo and the
Brigham Young College at Logan, and
had IN View the founding OF sim high
a. institution at salt Lake City II
vas provided that Iva these schools re-
ligion and manual training should be
taught along with other branches Of
learning The church since his day has
pursued the same policy founding the
L0ttor-lay Saints University at Salt
Lake City and academies In many Of
the stakes. Utah with her state Uni
versity, her splendid public school sys-
tenn, ana other scholastic institutions,
stands among the foremost OF the
states in educational development,
M0rmonisms FIRST schools were es-
tablshed at Kirkland IN 1882, and were
subsequently, taught IN the Temple al
that place These buildings however.
Of which the Saints have erected six
and now possess four--are not designed
for regular school work, but are used
almost exclusively for sacred ordi-
nances The greatest of them the Salt
Lake Temple, is built OF native granite,
quarred In the mountains twenty miles
distant, and hauled thence mostly by
ox-teams IN times of hardship and pow
erty owing t. these circumstances
this Temple cost about four million
dollars and required forty years for
It's construction.
In the Tabernacle adjoining the Tenn
pie stands the great organ, built thirty
years ago by Mormon artisans and
mostly from native materials Always
q wonderful instrument famous far be-
yond the borders Of the State, 1t has
kept pace with musical progress, tak-
ing on from time TO time the latest
improvements until today It Is de-
caTed by competent critics here and
elsewhere to be the most perfect instlu-
ment of it's kind In the world, In
variety OF construction and the pass
ing Of tonal qualities II is said to be the