" - --s 'ojo - Mim Composed for the St. George Choir .on theThirty-iirBt anniversary of the Pioneers entering "Great Salt Lake Valley. oo Air: Wr amp j tramp, tramp. oo 'Tie one and thirty years, since the noble Pioneers, . Bent their way across the wild and traoK- lcss plains; . They'd been murdered and oppressed, in this boasted land of reBt; And were fleeing from their persecutors' chains. cHonus: V f H We thank theo, God I for thy salvation, H Thy outstretched arm has brought us forth H To these Everlasting hills,' where peace ilows like the tills, H And, to-day, we celebrate the Tweuty fourth. H As they journeyed on the road, their only help was God, "While they traveled where the wolf and red man roam ! They suffered and they toiled in being tans Hh exiled, And in time, they reached their Rocky Mountain home. H When they reach' d their desert home, (pitch'd theirtents. for night hadcome) They humbly bowed the knee to God in praver For his'kind and loving hand, in guiding to a land, Where they could breathe the free fresh mountain air. 9 As day and night they toiled, God looked HH on them and smiled. In a land so uninviting to their foes, With famine in their face, yet God did give them grace, ID And they made the desert blossom liko'the Then Senators, so wise, next sought to disfranchise, dis-franchise, And deprive them of the Rights God guaranteed, guar-anteed, In sending men with arms to spread war's dread alarms, But God sent succour in the hour of need. They've enacted laws most foul, and raised "a hellish howl, 'Bout the Mormons ar.d their very many wives; But we ask no odds of men, ,cLet all Israel say Amen !'' 'Tis our God who holds the keys of endle? lives. C. L. Walker.