The Resurrection

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ARCHITECTURE IN RELIGION 791

forms of art. Such a people had a high sense of appreciation

for all forms that were geometrically well balanced. Geometrical

proportion may be a simple thing, but it is the foundation of

lasting beauty. What we have left of Greek and Roman art,

especially in sculpture, attests to the remarkable fact that these

ancients had a high sense of appreciation for symmetry and pro-

portion.

There is today in Brussels a structure called The Palace

of Justice, often said by architects to be the most beautiful build-

ing in the world. It has no decorations of any note. It is not

Gothic in appearance, and it is hard to say that it belongs to any

distinct style of architecture. 'Tt is beautiful," one writer

says, "because of the unparalleled relations of form expressed

in its proportions." The building at once arrests your attention.

Its beauty impresses itself upon you before you are able to point

out the distinctive features that make it so attractive. Indeed,

it is not the features of the building that charm you it is its ;

beauty which is expressed in its complete form. Measured by this

standard of beauty, and charm of architecture, a beauty that has

come now to be recognized as the most lasting in its effects upon

the human family, the tabernacle of the Alpine stake, located at

American Fork, is perhaps the most beautiful tabernacle in the

Church. When other styles grow old and are out of fashion,

that tabernacle will stand as a unique instance of the imperish-

able beauty of a well adjusted form, a beauty, in other words, of

correct geometrical proportions.

The Resurrection

(I. Thess. 4:13-18)

On the resurrection morning,

When the trump of God shall sound;

And those who before were sleeping,

Will have risen from the ground.

Then the Saints on earth remaining,

Those for whom death has no sting.

Reunited with their loved ones,

Will await their Lord and King.

Then the Savior clothed with power.

Will in fiery clouds appear;

And he'll call his own unto him

"Those whose names are written there."

Earth have been cleansed with

shall fire.

Wickedness and strife shall cease;

Then will Jesus, for the faithful,

Usher in the reign of peace.

KEIVTMERER, WYO.

H. R. Harrison

792 IMPROVEMENT ERA

THE KAYSVILLE WARD HOUSE

This beautiful building, of new architectural design, is located in

Kaysville, Davis county, Utah. The construction was begun in 1912,

and the building was dedicated on the 24th of May, 1914. It is built

of buff brick, stone and cement, and cost $35,000. It measures SO feet

3 inches by 131 feet 10 inches in length, is 50 feet high to the apex

of the roof, and 29 feet high on the inside of tlie auditorium. The

main auditorium and gallery seats from 850 to 900 people, and there

are eighteen rooms in the building; architect, William Allen, Kays-

ville. The building is electrically lighted, steam heated, has modern

sanitary arrangements, a baptismal font, with dressing rooms ad-

joining, a Relief Society, and a parents' class room, and ten commo-

dious Sunday school class rooms. The seating is of quartered oak;

golden finished pews, opera chairs for the choir, new piano and art

glass windows. Lawns will be laid out, and the half acre of ground

connected with the building will be surrounded on the side-walk lines

with linden trees. A cement pavement will be laid when the danger

of the settling of the ground is passed, money being already pro-

vided for that purpose. A janitor will take care of the grounds, with

the help donated by the Lesser Priesthood and others.

The building to the left is the old meeting house, nearly as large

as the new structure, which has recently been remodeled into an opera

house. It is still owned by the ward, and will serve as the principal

place of amusement for the town. It is steam-heated, electric-lighted,

and fitted up with a large stage, with new scenery. It has ample cloak

and dressing rooms. The cost of remodeling this building was about

$9,000, so that within the last four years, since the old ward amuse-

ment hall was destroyed by fire, close on to $45,000 has been spent

in ward buildings in Kaysville.