Show jhc PAST ntrsiLNr ASH mum On Monday April 5157ut filly on ycara act Lldar Ilebor 0 Klnlball = it tlxteami prepared lot the jour I rdes ney train the Missouri river to the f G llocky McunUlut made tire start r yo westward frcta Winter Quattiri where a considerable I pinion of tile lt I exited Saints hal spent the decor = winter 18407 alter they had been irde driven from 7 > auvoo through rellgloui is ab persecution The mil day April 0 IheHiventeenlll Annual Ueneral COL fereoeeof the Church was held and Illhleecllsloday ltdj Sta the text day the 7h resident brig = = t bm Young Joined the Pioneercamp rden In miles to tbawett folD that time tar 0lbo wok of the g steel migration I that ever has occurred of a body of people In Utter day was carried out Flveyeara previous to that lime In RN 1842 he 1lopb1 Joseph Smith MIND the leader ot that people > tat 11 C 11r 41 I who loll n victim to H ruthless mail In 1841 iredlctel that the Litter day hjslnts would yet become a great people In the Kscky MuilD aim aDd several yenra before then i In Itlltln ha had told Ibo moro Intimate In-timate 01 Ilia brethren 01 the future migration Wes I ward Hence the move fifty years ago Wei a luIOInl of prophecy though It was brought about by a cruel and unuitlBable per lecutlcnot IheBalutt Blxly seven yetn ago on Wednea day April 0 the Church was organ zid In oyeltr New York with tile promise through the Prorbct Joseph that It would irogini and bo illati Hefted and would bo the preparatory work of ushering In 1 tun millennial reign ol Christ whose Church It Is i i And everyltop that bat beau taken since then In the fate of diniculllea that Deemed Insurmountable ha been n verification ol the prophetic power and divine testimony possessed pos-sessed by Joseph Bmltb the first 1oldnl Rod lrphel 01 the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Balnls The situation of today Presents Avery a-very different aspect In tome reiptcts to that ot either ol the dates namod TfLuChurch Is I the Name engaged In I besamo great cause upon which It started cUIthe salvation of the human 1 I I man family and Ibo establishment of eacu union and lovo In a universal elffu upon the earth But from the few members that met la layette It has Increased to hundreds of thou eandi and from the Almost unknown organization that was tcllcvid by those who understood not Us genius be a thing of little moment and tlelt ncJ soon I perish II has boom a power In the earth the oborveJ Dr all observers In every nation on the globe from the band of exiles that turned their weary eyes westward from Winter Q letters with an Invincible faith In the diviDe million President Joseph Bmllh whose place as Presiding officer 01 the Church wan succeeded lo by President Ilrlgham Young we now change the galls to a leople I firmly and safely established In the valleys of the mountains covering a stretch lot country reaching from Canada on the north to Mexico on the south From the cutest the faithful Church mem beni Ip had rolled on the promise ot he Almighty through Ills Prophets and by Ills Spirit to them Individually Individu-ally and lie has never fallal them Glancing the put and present what may be sail of tile future of the Bslut7 Upon the basis of fulfilment of prophecy given through Church eiders It Is that the Church will con I Inue to progress and ultimately fill tile > whole earth for that prophecy baa been fulfilled In the past and this I gives positive auutance of conllnu once In the same line There Is no change today from the path laid down at the outset 01 Ibo one along which to travel The work of r carrying the Uospel tbu nallonr end of leaching It at home U i adhered lo wllh flimueis and Is Increasing In Intensity with Improving opportunities for perform lug It the Iron odIhe word ol Uod coming through direct revelation Is the lollexlblo rule of faith And bus gulled by the word of the Almighty i Al-mighty 00 danger cn come 10 overthrow over-throw the Church or stay Its pro gIf I g-If there baa I been success by the Mormon people In their material al 1 alls If there has been success to the Balutsln their Church matters and lion can dispute that them has been with each successive In their bit loryIbo there must ba success In the future Ihocauio Is I tha same and hiicfltctsulio mUll bealmllor llence the reason for Increased faith and Joy among the Hiltit What ticks been 1 done bat riilulral a mighty zeal 1 and earnestness In lab > I what Is yet tj do call for 0 Ilia rujulrernent Hut the I mull 1 of 1 pressing forward under the sjme guidance and In tile some trlrlt It love patience I unselflihutsr union and dettrmluatlou must be the fulfil went 01 an immutable premise of Vic cry |