--- title: Improvement Era description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930. authors: - H. R. Harrison collections: - periodicals tags: - magazine - improvement-era periodical: Improvement Era volume: 17 number: 8 published: 1914-06 publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations publisher_place: Salt Lake City language: en type: magazine reference: 'H. R. Harrison, "The Resurrection," *Improvement Era* 17, no. 8 (June 1914): 791–792.' source: url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1708unse transcription: Transcribed from the Internet Archive scan of each issue (the item for each issue is named in the issue's own source); unnumbered advertising leaves are omitted, printed page numbers are kept as page markers. identifier: improvementera1708unse start_page: 791 end_page: 792 rights: status: public-domain basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1914-06) source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1708unse publication_year: 1914 note: The Internet Archive item metadata carries a blanket "© Copyright by Intellectual Reserve, Inc." notice. The library owner judged it inapplicable because this issue was published in 1914, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright. --- # The Resurrection — 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.