8 THE GOLD MINE 



But by and by we will awake in the divine likeness 

 and see as God sees. Then what prospects will open 

 before us as we are greeted with the salutations of 

 the universe. Each star has a mantle in color and 

 fashion all its own^ — no two alike; and the stupendous 

 empire stretching to the shores of chaos will rise as 

 endless fields of loveliness filled with the surprises and 

 astonishments of beauty. 



Language labors and falters in the attempt to de- 

 scribe our home in the future, with jasper walls, and 

 opal sea, with gates of pearl and golden pavements and 

 foundations set with precious gems. 



When we have such an inheritance of beauty in this 

 world and the next, why should the farmer, who is part 

 owner of this earth, ignore it altogether, especially 

 since God has made him a creator who, with a wizard's 

 wand, can call up visions, marvels in form and dazzling 

 in beauty ? 



He can take an acre of somber earth and gather 

 upon it the colors of the rainbow, the splendors of the 

 sunset, the radiance of the gems, and it will be a land 

 Elysian — promise and prophesy of what lies beyond. 



We are just on the borders of what is yet to be re- 

 vealed to us here. What changes have been produced 

 in a few years. The carnation of today was evolved 

 from a humble flower. The dahlia had a very inferior 

 ancestry. The phlox, with its marvels of brilliancy and 

 attractiveness, reaching out into hundreds of varieties, 

 was a humble flower born on our great prairies. The 

 paeony of today is one of evolution's miracles. And 



