The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1909-09-18
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inetII 70 the west, and Dean Harris latest work.
j. t'ler Doyle and Reverend Alvah Doran a dis
my ulshed convert from the Episcopalian ministry
f fTiu recent graduate of the Apostolic Mission
mousse have given many lectures and 1oieoiono +;
summer in the Rocky Mountain region and ~, +i
acme coast, preaching from the Church Extension
C1apel Car. Accounts of their experiences. NOT
aoly the cordial welcome they received in Mormon
communities, have been published in the weekly
o"gDollc papers. We hope to give review of Faith
CT Doyles apostolic vacation in a later number
lhe Missionary is glad to have the following it,
erary note from his pen:
ne lntermOuntain region inclosing the Great
BASIN, whose metropolis is Salt Lake CITY reaches
from the Rockies to the Serras. 1t is a country
unique IN It's characteristics In some places if IS
a land flowing with milk and honey and in others it
IS parched and desolate plain, but throughout its
enCre extent 1t IS a land of glorious sunshine Its
greatest need IS water, and where it gets that in
abundance, the desert blossoms as a rose garden
Inc nrSt white men to traverse this region were
the Spanish franciscan missionaries The Very
reverend w. R. Harris, D. D.. LID dean of the
Salt Lake diocese, has rendered invaluable service
TO history by discovering the Diario of FRAY Dom
Imguez and Fray Escalante in the National Library
OF the City Of Mexico, and giving to the English
public an English translation of it. The Friars
give in their own simple, sincere and painstaBing
way daily record of their travels from the city
OF Santa fe n. NJ, to the Great Salt lake and back
IN the autumn months of 1915. While the stirring
scenes of the Revolutionary war were taking place
on the Atlantic seaboard, they were the bearers of
the message of Christianity to the many Indian
tribes of the intermountain region At the same
time they bazed trail that was followed few
decades later by other missionaries and has since be-
come a great highway of commercial traffic
The most inspiring thing in this wonderful tale
of missionary endeavor is the spirit in which was
undertaken and the energy with which it was car
ried through. These missionaries sought nothing
but souls and they sought them with intense ear
nestness looking neither to the right nor to the left
for any worldly gain, for any earthly glory.
Da mihi animas, give me souls their only ambi-
ton, and in the attainment of it, no suffering was
too severe, was any sacrifice too great if only
the way of salvation were shown to the savage who
sat in darkness.
The title of Dean Harris book is as follows:
"The Catholic Church in Utah. Including an Ex-
position of Catholic Faith, by Bishop Seaman A
Review of Spanish Missionary Explorations, Tri-
bal Divisions. Names and Regional Habitat of Pre-
European Tribes. The Journal of the Franciscan
Explorers and Discoveries of Utah Lake. The
Trailing of the Priests from Santa Fe, N. NJ. with
Map of Route. Illustrations and Delineations of
the Great Basin. By Very Reverend W. R. Harris,
DID, LID, Author Of Early Missions of Western
Canada, ETC.. etc. Intermountain Catholic Press,
Salt Lake City, Utah"