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 O to be more beautiful than those of other days. There is less stirring of teams and nearer approach to the primeval quietude which marked this wide plain until so recently and so ab- ruptly terminated. The little white city of the plain, with it's tents and canvass houses, and the little white church around the corner, seen from a distance on such a morning, present d lovely scene, and novel one. The church is a contrast with itself and with other churches whose spires point alone to heaven. Caught in the mi rage of ever-present seeming water, the church stands as though in bap- tismal font, and points the wayfarer to heaven with it's graceful little spire. But reflected in the mirage is another church. whose spire points downward, as though to draw sharp contrast be- tween the courses which man can fol- low in this world, the. good and the evil.
 The morning is not far advanced, when there begin to assemble the peo- pie who are rescuing the plain, with children predominating, for Sunday school is to be held. And thanks beto the Great Ruler, He still stands su- preme over the pattern makers at Inn perial. The conventionalities which hem in humanity ill other places are here shattered to fragments, and "a mans man for a' that.'' A year hence, clothes may make the man, but for the time being we rejoice that one can go to church in his shirt sleeves, in corduroy or khaki, i'll .prospector's garb- or. the soi1ed raiment of. the la borer, and be neither ignored nor greeted with that effusiveness which betrays stern endeavor to overcome evident prejudice in favor of fine linen.
 It is Sunday school, and. dozen bright faces of child life are there, child life unstinted and unhampered, and some bare feet and bare legs swing | ioyfully in true child nature, as though they might be in rythm with one of Riley's melodious interpreta- tions of just such true-toned child world And the old, old story. of re- demption is told to them by their eld CTS, as it has been rehearsed for twen- ty centuries, gaining ill splendor with each cycle.
 But there are others at this Sunday school. There are half dozen women and dozen men present. And of these brave pioneer women, who shall speak with praise enough? They have come here with their husbands and children to share the privatious of pioneering, and to womanly nature the test of courage and pluck is a severe one. Some of them have ridden half dozen miles on horseback to get here. And among the men there are those who have not for years been at such an assembly, and they seem little awk- ward as they recall times many years vanished, when they would have felt more at home in Sunday school.
 There is little change in the congre gation when the Sunday school adjurns and church begins. Rev. John C. Hay, pastor of this Christian church, or Rev. J. $. Kline, the Methodist pastor residing here, delivers sermon such.a as might grace the pulpit of greater church, and broad catholicity suited to such all assembly of people of many creeds prevails, and accord ing to the usage of the Christian church, the sacrament is partaken of each Sunday morning in that broad and liberal communion which leaves to the conscience of each individual a determination whether he is to partake of the symbol of the blood and body of Christ.
 Service again in the evening, and Sunday closes as it began, bearing to each citizen eff Imperial the token that, free as he may be from the enslaving | C1 inc If if 1,a