Show ua k 0 z t 1 T I In III th tb r BiB to be the limitations C n fi ar that It can a av of if 5 v written In heed head lInell 11 pose poe will require 11 he conditions prevailing min to the Church h o of J Jr Jeet H yet r k dY Plaints faints on the Ut lith r rf f T sr t and the conditions pre preng I I order that the n ng n ty years may be to Borne som Bornet Bornen t h Ds t observed and under n nt at I temporal to arI pr toe ChII wee then pioneerIng ly e LU than three yearn yearl before lrI Jn I Young a d 1 entered Salt Bait Lake val al Hw e advance agents of the tit aUn n fallow lIow pitched their tenta tent cult ng Ing the parched and ster eler n a nt back the joyous word won I en f fell l en route for tor the tit end nil heir h lr co In the tb theta ling Ini place had been foun Church r pits ex ng II Ig three years which hat had 1 fr r 11 Ile advent ot of the pioneers n ot of the period to tot h t had beer been counties tt to n 1 ll and Weber rah tah and San Sanpete te count coun r tF tte h and In Tooele to the theP P I t encampment Salt Sail Saily 1 y ugh Ih laid out on Its pres pree In n wee II not yet an moor rh 1 d r rod Its te population Wu Brat Wun n f Utah hid had not n L filled under her of at government t rr 1 form lly Y the provisional gOY gov gOYn n of at Deseret antI and andr H r f d by b the govern d at W n Ingon It And andt AndI t I n r three toree because volun tm hy by the people rh outside of the rot Wrt r In Utah above men meni i 1 chiefly between nn and m m Thousands were r V g v 1 fr rd and other thour thou r 11 a r the hp route were to do Dy By r g t I 1 so eo rr 11 n 1 of the Saints Sainte from s Iny of at them had been r 1 t r and those thole who had bad badi i nt III lal 1 were enduring the ther Yr r n to 0 pioneer life so tar far fard 11 d the Ilip renters ot of the Sainte S l by h p for them through a avire 1 vire was 81 In the hands hanl l rd r r n rit The Tern Tem oF aL rp rested hy by the Saints In ineve eve 0 11 r poverty and at much II mneR ot nt MIl nil a tome torna IA days R before beto th the open If r r J having completed the c 1 before Ito b by the I f w that there r r r 1 There the h work t r t 1 and the endowment ot of s hI he performed v H lIhr l 1 oily none and an hilt but little Ting there thI adjuncts of nt d n for tor many years n r WPM were doomed to a hard c In a land Ind 1 t r d 1 to tn one to all allu 11 u if lone III their sue suert rt of the Church r fr r 11 l And now ns as nAl mla q nips I R appointed unto Joca Jo ca I 1 11 Prophet to In InIn In Introduction ot of all ther the r pertaining to the I 11 4 r the Fullness of It Timet il foundation for tor vi h 11 ot of Rod en 80 that all RII en hutch and andr r f 0 hili hie death Is II to be rea re renos 1 nos M the development ot of that 11 in n the more extensive 11 Th nd It application 0 of the I fight to tl an ever widen and peoples And f f the he ot of their thelt 1 I ot of thou thON who aCt ac rt of the yeAr pr preceding f r h Or period had I n es h ml mi spirit and amI q I hur h Several of the theM M Ar s had hn been rent abroad r r f r ot of th the Gospel to for tor torr forr r John Taylor Talor was F and nn Germany r rland and Italy and andI I Scandinavia nut But as al r I not reach reuh their fields fild r n their missions until d r e Or of June IBM 1860 the bf be bec I c 1 nos ot of thE work In n nother 1 other lands belong to tor r f the last fifty fUty years eart iq f the 00 Gospel 1 1 had been ot of the States ot of then the therome n same rome parts ot of Cane Cana Caner CanaI r I h Islands bland and In the theo 1 o r f the South Pacific API Ae ot of Mormon and other Ire arc had been published I language only With t r the Saints from Nau I both hoth those In v I werE but r on the opposite side fit of the Missouri from Bluff the Frontier Guardian wu Wat ld and the ot of the Star Etar was wall continued In Inland lOngland Another thing thin to be eCI wit to the spiritual condition e esting x sting at al the of nt the III pt rind under review II Ie that hat the III don on from and the consequent upon that event ent results In making strict discipline alt all but hr possible Many Man In these thOle d dare wanders away beyond the cans of the shepherd or of the Ih flock ock many sinned and the the theof of Gods planting could Mt bf be capful I Iy watched or dl M about or or pruned To add to the and troubles of at those da days a numbs number ot of men ambitious or of or or both took ot of tb the times end and claImed to be the legal to the th Prophet Joseph all as President ot of the th Church sad Ind many Saints In the teat sat tend branch but newly II In Inthe the faith and with but little knowledge concerning the order ot of the Priesthood were led away by their ThuI Thu our period opens with Ith the Church more men menor or less Ie In agitation An Incomplete exodus from the th east un under ft WAY the thi work ot of pioneering a new country with the attendant hardships born ot of power t ty and isolation to be endured as yet nothing settled with reference to U civil government under which thy they were went to live exiled from the city elty they had founded the temple they hid had budded it In ruins driven from to InhabIt It the and the desert and be become come neighbors to the savage The Saints Int were without Influence among men In the so 10 poor IOOr as to do them reverence human sympathy was 11 withdrawn from them their country countrymen countrymen men looked for their extinction pro of at sectarian religions hoped for tor It their devotion to their faith was wa sneered at and called dim by come they the were deemed mad by others othera fools led by knaves tw few pitted them fewer hell helped them though their condition was wal such uch one would think to soften adamantine hearts un were ere they except U God was WAIl their this on the one hand band handOn bandOn On the other the they were possessed or of a atrue atrue true and holy faith In to them had been committed I a dispensation of 01 the Gospel of 01 Ju Jesus Christ with the hood the authority of at fled which alone ma mey administer its ordinances ordinance to men menor or mike make proclamation or of It to tile the world WIthin them was wa the conscious nen nela that they were the children of hod the assurance that they lb were the Church ot of the born a knowledge that the covenant they th had made with the Lord by nce WI was accepted This was WAI their strength And now no let the curtain tall fall fallo to o rl rise again after atter halt half a century has pallid away Behold I a land A desert reclaimed and given Iven to and ando to o The wilderness and tb the MIlitary places have been made glad Id for tor them hem the desert has hae been med to reo to Joice olce and blossom as tine row roM the parched Ground has become Q a pool OOl and he thirsty land springs of water The lew sw and scattered settlements ot of fifty years ears ago o have multiplied and expand oil s1 Into ot of the American Union 1 use UM the plural ad for lor the Ihl influence ot of Mormon formon colonization has not been beell confined W to Utah alone alon From Canada In the north long the line ot of the RockY Mountain alleys the settlements ot of the Salute Saints Into Mexico From occupying a tew ew straggling settlements a thousand mil beyond the frontiers of the Unit United ed 4 States and some lome thousands Ing ng a 11 still lUll more precarious existence lung along the line ot of their march Into exile the he Church now ses a heb hab In Utah and several surrounding States and Tern tori Dries and In western Canada lanada and A habitation permanent and andIn I In n a land chiefly redeemed by the In I and enterprise ot of the Saints A habitation which affords opportunity tor or the development of at the genius 0 of I Mormon A land which enforces In order to live upon It and et a lend land which yield to the husband I pan man a rich return for tor his hll toll A habl removed from the centers or of population set eat and west loIt to e escape PI contact with Dine lome ot of the worst evils that riot there and nd yet et In contact with thou hose centers to rep reap the advantages ot f modern civilization And here Israel Irael I t growing In the lit little tle le one hal bas already become a multi multitude tide tude having Increased from lea I than fly thouSAnd Ovule IOU II to something like three hundred thousand and from poi po easing a few lew scattered frontier nests to dwell In to more than flee hundred undred titles towns and vIII villages where hero peace prosperity and liberty pre III all So here Israel In a favored habl scion Ie In numbers and rowing firmer In the faith and the ot of God Tha confusion re no tram from the deAth ot of the and nd the expulsion from the east t hu has ng since passed away end and le Ie succeed ed d by the most mOlt perfect order Tb Church In Its various gathering plu places II s Into Stakes ot of Zion Yon each with its It of three ugh Priests and its Uth Council of The respective wards ward oom comprising tb these Stakes ar are presided pre sided over by Iud and fathers In fn l rl assisted by quorums ut of and Teachers lAnd and 1 to guard the III gad truth Wa lJ n this tOIa o II regu tar lill supreme the lives of at tb the peu III pie and un the tbt whole tent Un MIl as tv to there Is Ia none The ut of sue suc In and presidency is III well u lUlU and Tile ine I learned t that L till Church hurch is Ie r rulan ulan moan any man great he be zany uv in nv lilies moat man may Fume and the thi as al guy NU gas sven men milA but the Church their gulag and its a III II by their Instead of 0 one une temple In ruins and nu no VII en n the uld ll also l in u wares Willen nad taken LUn away even Ise vt ut tI the they y In Ow II nut II a pout un on tae wash nn Ills bouts w ow 1111 fur the acid aad A as It Will wee half halfa 1 II a age tiers 11 are now tour temples where this work may W i and in them inure murl worn orK b he Owen dole for tur tn ins dead deall than for tor the Uv liv living ing in ibis generation Hum owing without the J invert fur lur In the youth ut of her people the Church LII Is now so III situated that hilt her children possess every f a achilly chilly fur tur enjoyed by other people ot of our count country east or wt welt end and andIn In addition tu to the common and high school academy and advent advant I provided by b the secular I authority the Church herself herselt use h es tn in many of her Stakes schools ot of the high school and academic grade where here In addition to the ordinary lay branches branch taught In such uch institutions special courses are prescribed In theolo theological studies In harmony with liar her doe doc doctrines trines Nor do her efforts at spiritual and morAl education stop at this She hu hl provided auxiliary associations for tor such luch instruction Among th thew a Sun Sunda Sunday da day School chool system which while It might sound lOund like vain boasting to nay It I is I believe lIeve the most perfect In the world In addition to this too im improvement provement societies exist In each cool ward for tor the growth ot of both tex sexes end and for tor the same Ime purpose Y n n eo mary many far tor the very young I All of at which have been bilen developed with within I In the period under review I Since the opening of 0 our perIod ot of fifty years missions minIons have lIae been opened and the Gospel preached In the tallow Ing In countries France Germany Hal I Iland land Belgium Denmark Sweden Nor Norway Norway way Iceland Italy Switzerland Jersey Islands Malta Cape ot of Good Hope Mexico among a number 0 of Indian tribes In the We Western tern States and Territories ot of th the United States Sandwich Islands Samoa Friendly Iel hi ends andl New Zealand Turkey and Pales Palestine tine while the number ot of missionaries I engaged In preaching the Gospel has been increased from Ii a score or two at atI I most to eighteen hundred Instead 0 of the precious word of at God as contained In the record ot of the being confined to the language the Book ot of Mormon lormon la I published In ten oth other er languages rig vir French German Danish Italian Dutch Welsh Swed I lab Hawaiian and Maori Meorl It hu has also allO been translated but not yet et published Into and modern Hebrew the Doctrine and Covenants also allo has haa been published In several European languages Instead ot of the Church publishing one semimonthly periodical In England and another In a frontier settlement In Inthe Inthe the United States Stat It now hi has the Deseret News NeI as a Church organ years yean old today toda published dally dailY In the chief city ot of the Saints and ot of the In Intermountain In the Millennial Star Starle le II also allO still published In England but butI b I issued weekly kly instead ot of month monthly I I ly Another periodical ot of like charac character ter and issue le II published In the Scan I language and another In the German for tor the Swiss and German mission Periodicals are also allO published In the Southern and Southwestern States Stat missions respectively while monthly and semimonthly magazines are published puI h by the auxiliary associations ot the These periodicals periodical together torether with the rapid ot of books book setting fort the history and the doctrine de ot of the Church and written In advocacy and defense ot of the I faith are gradually bringing ln Into exist existence once ence a literature for tor the Church ot of Christ and she is II destined de yet et to be bean bean an educational factor In the earth Ig Ignorance Ignorance norance is Ie not the handmaid ot of the Church On the contrary knowledge Is Isher isher her handmaid science her kinswoman tIft fJ t 1 L t tl l i tJ iW c I l Yf t Oe r 1 N A 3 Its S Sr r Jf c 1 li k JHN fiRST PRESIDENCY OF TilE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER DAY SAINTS the arts her servants and history her prophet and I is and shall be yet et more abundantly her vindication Of 01 all allchurch churches church the Church ot of Jesus Christof Christ ot of S Saints was destined and the put past fifty years yearl hu has been brought to be the one moat In harmony with lIh the spirit of the age The know knowl knowledge I edge ede which men by slow degrees and painful toll toil are acquiring concerning the heavens the earth the atmosphere the ocean tile the secrets secreta they are wresting from nature as to her processes the mastery the they are win ping over her forces the development ot of Instant communication the rapid transit over oer ocean ean and all are but the fulfilment ot of her Iles cles whIch she ventured In the early earl years ars ot of her existence to promulgate concern concerning Ins the development ot of earths glories mans powers and Gods great greatness ness nel and goodness These and other forces yet to be brought to light have hae been and will be the means under Gods hands ot of preparing the earth for tor the abode ot of men and women redeemed and sanctified through the work ot of the agency to bring about the moral and preparation toman to In Inman man that 11 tit fit him for tor the glorious sphere the Almighty and All Glorious Father le II preparing for tor him The progress In the work of at God so sotar tar far Indicated results from the direct t means employed And should we un undertake to true trace the progress made by indirect t torcH forces that have hae al aleo o bun been at work I 1 should enter upon a field too loo ex ax exten ten live for tor this writing nut But I cannot forbear attention to the tact fact that such indirect forces have been opera operating tin I to spread abroad the great reat truths which God revealed to His Church through ml Ills servant Joseph Smith Tens ot of thousands thousand have ac accepted those truths many without knowing the source whence they flowed and others while knowing It kept It coll eo coaled aled But whether known or whether r |