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Show r, labo: in any reasonable "way to get to the land that God had designated desig-nated for a gathering place for his people, in order that they- might train up their Children in the ways of the fLord, where they could hear a prophets voice and mingle :;with the saints of God and share with them in both sorrow and joy, and be' one with them in all things in right-eousness. Thiry-scven years. havelelapsed since we first arrived in Salt Lake City, and .we have lived- with this people and have seen the dealings of God with them and seen his .wisdom .wis-dom made manifest in many iways for their : benefit.,; ;,Vhen,; clpuds have hovered dark around us and our way seemed closed u p ' and ' no possible 'escape from the wicked, and' the power of the destroyer, God' has always. shown . his -power and provided a way of excape, ' and we have seen many times that ihe darkest dark-est hour is just before, the dawn. ' , That we may all conduct .-.pur lives sd that we ; may be worthy , to receive of all the. blessings that God has in store for those who keep his commandments and prove ourselves ' worthy to-be-ushered .intrv his king? dom when all our earthly , work., is completed is the desire of theaiitKor of this Handcart Experience. ' - jt William Atkin. Written for Thb Dmojh, HANDCART EXPERIENCE. CONCLUDED. Our hearts fairly leaped for joy on arriving safely with our two little children,' on this much favored soil where we had so long desired to be, and for which we had toiled so hard to reach. We found friends in abundance abund-ance and obtained employment and was soon surrounded with the. comforts com-forts of life. We .'found the Latter-day Latter-day Saints all that our fondest hopes had ever imagined, honest, industrious indus-trious and indeed the very , people they had -been represented toois to be, trying to do the will of the Lord. The. writer of this little Handcart Experience has written it with a desire to. show to the youth of this people lhat their fathers and mothers moth-ers were willing to pull a handcart |