A Nature Spectacle

A NATURE SPECTACLE "Beauty is its own excuse for being." And beauty may satisfy the eye, stimulate the mind, or |

be a feast unto the heart and the soul. The 1

life of man is threefold, and at the Fountain of Beauty his nature must be filled. He who drinks not at those eternal waters, 1

knows not life. Without the perception, the love of beauty, one cannot learn the fulness of creation. |

| In Beauty dwells the Divine. This is an exceptional year. In our mountain | land, nature with her elements earth, air, water, — \

\ fire — has proclaimed beauty. Never have the 1

[ spring blossoms been more abundant, the summer | verdure more profuse. Of uncounted numbers 1

i have been the leaves upon the trees; the mountain 1 heights, transformed each hour, served as a won- 1 der link between the wonder of the earth and the 1 wonder of the skies. Yesterday closed with a sunset, a sunset excep- |

I tional in this year of exceptions. Over the Inland I

1 Sea, gold and scarlet, the western clouds, the high- I

I floating cirri, the piled-up cumuli, were gorgeous |

| with color, were radiant as of liquid gold and I

1 molten rubies, and the void above them was of 1

| gleaming beryl passing into deepened cerulean [

1 where space was filled with earth's shadow cone. |

1 And above the clouds, too, the love-planet, Venus, 1

| burned white and clear, while in the east the sky j

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I was richest amethyst, with one spot of quickening | i amber, where, above the Wasatch, the moon was | i rising to flood with solemn light the vale below. 1

I Indeed it was a spectacle! 1 And this was free for all men to behold. Free unto the sight of all men; no ticket was 1

| needed, there was no price to pay; free unto all are |

I the beauty and wonder of creation. And yet few, |

| indeed, were the persons who looked upon that ra- 1

! diant spectacle of the earth and skies. Is it so | with the wonder gifts of life? Do men neglect that § which is real, to seek that which is but imitation? 1

Those who neglected that wonder-truth of nature |

| hastened to places of amusement and bought their 1 tickets to look on sham. Round us are the spec- 1

tacles of nature, the miracle of life. Truly, there 1

is that to satisfy the eye, stimulate the mind, and |

to be a feast unto the heart and the soul ! How do | we select, how do we absorb into our being? Do | we make ours the true and leave out the sham? |

Are we en rapport, in harmony with that which is 1

most beautiful, the highest —that which is eternally | true? Through beauty, physical, mental, spiritual, | do we realize the divine? 1 Sometimes we look on transcendent manifesta- 1

tions of beauty that sunset was one. In one be-— |

holder, at least, it awoke a longing to make com- 1

plete the spectacle of the divine, with that trinity, § the corporeal eye, the intellect, and the soul. Alfred Lambourne. %

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