Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-09-03
A UTAH STUDENT IN
OLD ST. STEPHENS.


How much In keeping with the build
ing are the priests and the attendants!
The former I'm their robes Of office oit-
clating at some ceremony; the latter
In uniform walking through the church
with the air Of proprietorship peculiar
to their race?
or course a stranger not Of the faith,
cannot be expected 60 know the exact
nature OF the service going on. II Is
simply line chanted by the priest ana
repeated by the congregation IN the
same monotonous tone. II IS all, how
ever, perfectly In keeping with the sur
roundings, In fact. without II the scene
would lack something.
1t Is perfectly impossible for one
brought up under radically different
conditions and teachings TO put him
self I'M sympathy with these people or
TO appreciate the fact that they are
I'm earnest In what they do and be-
ieve. An we can do ia TO sit back
and view II from distance much as
one views a theateri and IN reality IL
Is not unlike one What Is real and
deadly earnest TO one Is but play-act-
ing to another, a thought that to many
may be all solemnity, to others Is but
the subject Of an idle jest
But TO return from this depression.
The service over the chanting ceases,
and once more that solemn cathedral
stiffness relgns, broken only by an oc-
caslonal football on the stones as. some
worshiper leaves the building.
As one contempates the massive ma
sorry OF the eighteen pillars that rest
upon the yaultlng OF the nave and
10 ft.aV.tHuikln th4I five
centuries have passed away since hui
man hands laid and cemented those
stones. who were those men that ala
| it2 Their graves have been obliterat-
ed. and their dust may be OF the NOR
tar that holds the modern church to-
gether Even the name of the first
architect has disappeared. We know
of the second one Meistcr Weuzla OF
| klosterneubuTg whom Duke Rudolph
, Y Q3j6) directed to get ont plans for
tIOns. and who probably did lay
the foundation and build part OF the
south tower I'm 1853. lie certainly has
left a monument Of his art to succeed
| Ing generations, hut how many people
iu admring the massive tower stop 20
inquire whose genius II was that put 70
there?
Through the doors OF the tower (the
| whole entrance being called Prinlho)
past the chapel Of St Catherine, the
loiterer finds In front Of him the Thick
| Ia choir. In the center OF which rises the
| red and white marble sarcophagus OF
the Emjeror friedrich III, the most
notable tomb In the cathedral.
Just what idea the sculptor Lefch
tried TO convey by carving hidlous ami
mails. intetspersed with skulls and
bones in TIE marble around the base
Of the sarcophagus Is not quite clear
though the reliefs around the sides rep
resentlng biblical scenes are less DIM
cult TO understand. The whole monu-
ment II a work of art OF the highest or
der. however. aud though 3gl years have
gone since It's completion. from all APP
pearances II might have been done last
| year The MONUMENTS even OF kings.
seldom last so long In such state OF
preservation, Even az best a piece OF
marble Is a tlmsy thing on which 10
record greatness.
At the foot Of the seps leading to the
sarc0phagus set In tn stone pavement,
are three coats OF arms with Latin IN
scrlption. telling a tale OF the days
| when Justice and right were unknown
quantities, II marks the resting place