Brigham Young University - Banyan Yearbook (Provo, UT)

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Far ill the d ' ntauce, as you journey from Cedar City in Southern Utah ilotvn among the great oases of the Virgin Rirer Valley, you will heboid from among the peaks of Zion that towering monolith which the first white men named ' The Great White Throne ' . This Great White Throne is the vast keynote of 7,ion. If Jiffs its summit three thousand feet aboie the floor of the valley and seven thousand feet above the level of the sea. Its four sides fall sheer, and the foot of man has not yet scaled it. If gleams by day in awe-inspiring majesty, and by night it glows with a pervading presence under the stars. Under the moon it is even more super-natural. It seems to me that Sinai tvas nothing compared to this vast monolith of the Great White Throne in the new Zion of Utah, and yet if was from Sinai that God thundered His commandments to Moses. Here, though, is a more fitting rock for God ' s feet. And it may well be that His feet have been upon it and that His thunders have gone forth from if to man in ages now long since buried with the dust of time. Nor may we doubt that God may speak again from this rock to men in days that are yet to be. — John Steven McGroarty. .NJJ IM? g t

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Gazing out over a sun-baked prairie valley, a man — Brigham Young — inspired by Vision, exclaimed, This is the Place . But before the man came, God, in quest of a spot in which to home an Israel of modern times , found the place and epitomized it with the words This is the Place , an appellation for future peoples to repeat and to im- mortalize. Preserved and hidden up through the aeons of time to fill a great destiny and to home a great people, this land of shifting sands and howling coyotes has become a land of fruitful fields and happy homes. But what the man saw in Vision and what God beheld before him, is only now being revealed to the eyes of men. A variety of entrancing beauty that dazzles the wildest of imaginings notv lures multitudes of the world to bask in the rcstfulness of its charm. Wearied of crazy man-made things, they come; refreshed and strengthened t jrough contact with sublime God-made things, they go. Enthralled before the majesty of God ' s Handiivorks, men of all climes stand here with boived heads to meditate. Inspired by the faith and nobility of God-loving Mormon Pioneers, who first made the -way to these Temples of God , men are here taught to appreciate. Verily, This is the Place. fi- :0 P; ((ii»?Sv ' 8.i«A-