Mexico weekly ledger., 1916-05-18

over the Denver and Rio Grande rail-
road ON our way to the coast and Che
expositions. The Mormon City is
a picturesque place in a beautiful
valley surrounded by now capped
mountains. But it is not Of the
beauties of nature or the city's gran
deur that we intend 70 write, for they
have been described in these columns
by more able pens than ours. We
planned before hand to spend Sunday
there and it SO happened this particu-
lar Sunday on the calendar wal Moth
er's Day. As Time, in his careless
march, is passing and brings round
the day again It may be that some
viii be understood in the Mormons
commemoration of it. The idea is a
beautiful n and it had never oc-
Cured to us how thoroughly it has
grasped the hearts Of the people. We
arose early that bright, breezy day,
and, while the Mormons were yet
asleep found our way through the
beautiful streets and parks to the new
Cathedral where we attended 6 o'clock
mass. The Cathedral is Of gray stone
situated on a hill amid stately houses
of wealth and splendor. Its lofty
spires tower heavenward and SEEM
ingly avir with the n capped
mountains as to which will get rear
err the Great White Throne.
Later, all was life and activity and
we realized they were observing
Mothers Day. At every turn, we
were confronted by handsome youths
pretty school girls, rosy checked hap
Ply children, and the ragged urchin
with baskets Of flowers, each getting
the ~passersby with the self same
questions, FORMATIONS for Mother,
25c a Dozen" "Are you a mother?
take some they are free to you," and
the news boys yell, Morning paper,
tells all about Mothers Day" One
tiny little boy with a bag of papers
over his shoulder, and a basket Of
carnations in his arm attracted our
attention by calling loudly, morn
ing paper, mudda flowers. He was
SO small and cute we stopped and
said to him, "you are a mighty little
mar to be selling papers and flowers,
ooh no. he replied, "Fve been doing
it all my life" SHOW old are you"
we ask, and he answered proudly,
"Why I'm tours years old and next
timesI1l be five" Oh how beautiful
it all seemed, this outward expression
for mother; how sweet the sentiment.
and what pleasant recollections it
brings to them whose mother is near
or far away. But Oh! the loneliness
and the heartaches it brings to US
whose sweetest memories of a life
time are consumated deep down in her
narrow grave.
The chief interest of the visitor to
Salt Lake City centers about the
great Mormon Temple and this we
left for the afternoon as we wanted
to hear the great organ and widely
famed Mormon Choir. The Taber-
nacle is an immense auditorium
seating 5000 people and it is in this
building they hold most Of their ser
vices for only the mormons of excel
lent standing are allowed to enter
the Temple.
The services began at two o'clock.
We went early, but the crowd was
there ahead of us and we had to take
seats in the gallery. But the building
is SO constructed that really there
are no choice seats. The great choir
Of 500 voices was thanked on each
side Of the organ and when they rose
to sing it was as if a great wave OF
faces came up from a sea Of humans
ty at exactly the same moment.
Numerous hymns were sung and we
kept wishing the entire service wauld
be Of song, it was all SO grand. AS
the Mormons observe the ancient law
of taking no collection, no collection
box went round. The next thing was
the sermon. We didn't learn the speak
er's name but his discourse was on
women, Mothers of Men," He had a
great power Of speech and combined
lin a most complete manner the elo-
%ouence of the orator and the grace OF
the actor. He began with Eve, the
mother Of us all and, as we walked
with him through the mists OF the
ages he enumerated and extolled the
valiant deeds and virtues of the
worlds great women who were moth
er's Of men. He showed us how from
the beginning u Lord favored moth
ers and cited Hager, the mother OF
Ishmael. to whom He sent an angel
to point out the well of water and
comfort her with the assurance that
IHe would care for her and her boy.
Then too, Of the pity He had for the
widowed mother, whose son He raised
to life. AS we came down through
the centuries of time he pointed out
many women of whom our little mind
had never heard. 1t was doubly IN
teresting when he came near today
/ and eulogized the mothers OF men
with whom we are familiar in books.
Space forbids an extended review but
it is to be hoped the readers OF this
article will be able to form an idea
of whom were the mothers Of men.
We remember Madame De Stael OF
France, the only person whom the
great Napoleon feared. The speak
er was evidently not an admirer OF
Napoleon for he praised the mother
who opposed him and said, the great
warrior was more afraid of her pen
than all the armies of Europe COM
bined. He complimented France by