Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-05-11

I ) sermon pf The most weird and
/ The Dry Bones gruesome spectacle TO
\ In the Tomb be Witnessed upon the
/ whole earth must I'M
| uuestIonably be the Catacombs of Pa
I lermo. Descending a long flight OF
| steps the visitor IS soon in the atmos-
| pherc OF death on all sides are en-
| 5Jlmed or petrlfed bodies. or skeletons
! ON which the withcred, parched SKIN
makes them even more CHASTITY ana
Z hldeous; many thousands of them
many standing, many IN more recum-
/ bent posture. many lying down; some
! clad in their ordinary garments, some
| In their winding sheets. some IN the
| coarse canvas grave clothes IN whlch
SiciliBn paupers are buried. Here Is
long row Of priests. standing UP side ny
side as II they were In the chancel OF
their cathedral, all CARRIED In surplice,
/ and stole, and biretta; theirs ghastly,
evil-favored visages positively repus-
i've; their skin like tough brown parch-
ment drawn tightly over their dropping
jawbcnes, and their biear eye-sockets
grnping with a malevolent. lethal stare.
Here one Of Ciarbaldfs generals, In
uniform, perihed and apparently as
fresh as when shot down on the field
of battle nearly 30 years ago, the death
wound on his forehead still visible. OR
here gaunt, cadaverOus form standing
IN threatening attitude, a deathly leer
ON his grisy, distorted countenance.
ana the skin of his hideous face Shrunk
and withered SO that his projecting
teeth appear to be utteTiug a snarlipg
defiance. And then. still proceeding
dawn the long galleries yet more and
more grUesome sights are witnessed;
tier above tier from floor to ceiling Of
whole regiments Of apparently. pau
pers row after row of females clad in
white flowing shrouds. many OF whom
IN their youth doubtless Sicillan beau
ties; now but haggard and grisly de-
fOrmttieS, and even hundreds OF babies
and children of all ages, some In their
cots, others III wooden boxes, others
lying IN a heap as though In Il plague
pit. But enough of these repellant
sights: enough of the danB masma OF
this house OF death. And when the up
per day is again reached, and the
glad sunshine and the flower perfumed
atmosphere have dispelled the depres-
sion and iugubriOus melancholia of the
place. the thought crosses the mind
that day will come when. at the
sound of the Archangel's trump. all
these dry bones will suddenly start
into life. Then win some, who during
their time of probation have served
and obeyed their God, and the punish
ment of whose breaches of His laws has
been borne in their stead by His Son.
then will these with ecstatic joy bound
upwards to the skies. But what must
rejected the gospel and have preferred
their own opinions to the word of AL
mighty God
The Beauty IT was said Of oliver
OF Being Wendell Holmes THAI
Always Alive one characteristic
endeared him to hui
manity was the fact that from the
crown of his head to the sole of his foot
he was alive. have always thought
this charm was possessed in n rare de
gree by Dr. Teunis S. Hamln. He was
alive; always whole heartedly interest
ed in all affairs religious and civic, and
he was none the less interested In the
lives of the men, women and children
about him. Whether in the pulpit or
whether one met him socially. his vigur
and brightness had the power to in
spire uplift, and win hearts In the
young peoples meetings, where he was
so tireless and well beloved a worker.
IT was frequently said. "Dr. Hamlin un-
derstands everything we do. and seems
Just as young as any of US" ] rcmem-
Der so well hearing from him the fol-
lowing words few days after the
twentieth century began words that
now seem perfect in their fitness.
Speaking Of a conversation between
himself aud a friend who made the re-
marx; Il wish ] could be alive when
the next century comes" DR.. Hamlin
said: II replied, alive? / shall be alive
then just as much as today No truth
Is more vital to me than this: there is
no break in life. / do not believe that
death makes any change in the human
spirit. Washington Herald.
Explanation Of The most popular ana
Commercial superficial exnlana-
'flses. ton of crises is that
somebody or other gets
Tat scared feeling and communicates
1t to others, who pass It on in turn. I'M
III general lack Of confidence" results,
The crisis, in other words. springs from
an abnormal state of mind, not from the
working of economic law. This psyche
logical theory is not in harmony with |
OBVIOUS facts. II fails 10 explain. for |
instance, why crises were rare up to |
loo years ago. why they recur with such |
STRIKING regularity and why they are |
more frequent, If anything, among |
phlegmatic than among excitable peo- |
pies. a second explanation, or rather |
group OF explanations. ascribes crises |
TO oVerproduction, Supply, at least in |
certain lines outruns demand ac |
cordlng to this theory, the market is |
sIutted, prices drop, factories stop |
working and the crisis is over 1t Is |
Wen to recall that many a war, with |
us inevitable readjustment of supply |
ana demand. has gone on and many a |
Calamity has occurred without bring |
ing on a crisis. 1t Is one thing 10 say /
mat over production or waste of any |
klhd produces loss; and an entirely dif- |
Iereht thing to say that 1t leads to ]