| Show SCANDINAVIAN h k The Tho who hay hav f ji I nt tended d ihn Iho unIon hero here In of ot Introduction Intro nf ot the tho li III hi Ih Scandinavian c by Kru l have havn hud luid u ii I tune time or rejoicing urn rh t Their meeting I have been b n voll attended und and the oi e l illy by ty b tho th oli 11 r J vol r have boon Inri n nt t I Them oro arc only A n few tew j of c the convert loft lett and to 10 tin thu younger generation their experiences when Round almost almot like a n lo to loI toI I 1 TIM The woe wan nt at a time i 1 I front from roiTI a merely m human point ol oli ot of i vi ow Impossible It wail J In October 1319 that It wan decided on oni 4 J i The Pioneers I hod hai barely birely 1 lh thc i 11 I I mob of ot states and found n n a aI I refuge here hart when hen they began begun 4 to tc think about sending the tho ho Gospel men nes aige to the tho world They hail had erected r clod 1 i for tor themselves some primitive huts huta for tor torf ij f shelter but hod few tow of ot the thc necessaries 4 4 and ariet none of ot tho the luxuries of ot life Ute Hut Iut I 1 their first thought wn ns of o others othera They fj y not Hot In a n to form arm mission i j nry ll with annual feK t II for 0 r mom mem memi momI I i l ii 11 I th they y had hod no C or ur if t nl itt schools In which to tn train men toen tn n for or work but lut they thy had nub III In f 0 11 unit when the Un voice of ot 1 i told that the tho wa was to be beto 1 to 10 every they obey ohey obeyed fd ed d Missionaries were sent Kent Int out to Eng f land 1 Jon Italy 1141 Denmark Sweden rJ J antI the Society Inlands I What tho the condition of tho the people In III inh h th thIo o wim WM aX at u the time may nitty bo gathered from an nn tie by tho the First I IV l In 10 the of ot 1849 I In l tho the former of ot February the BIshops took an RII Inventory Inventor of ot tho the bread broad broadi breadstUff i i stuff In tho the valley when It wa fI report port I ed Id that there WM S little moro than i J of ot a pound i zer er day dRY for tor fort fori t eCh ch Boul a uI until tho th th of ot July J ly The Tho i I common price irice I of ot corn oarn since Ince harvest WOK tra two titillaTe Homo had sold for throe three at pren prea nt lt there wa WM none In the market for tor aele M at 01 any nn price at from four our to five nV dollars 1 Mill n 1 pot to i from nix Ix to tt twenty dol dollars lars per pr and though not to be bo bought at any price at present It wa waI I expected there then would be u a I good cupply for fur seed aced by another year Such Sudi was the financial condition of tho the Saints Paints when thoy they contemplated tho the conversion of tho the world The Introduction of ot the dia In took place under peculiar circumstances The st wore met In many man by persecution Some Sarno vcra thrown Into spine were tho the victims of or mob violence But theto did not top op tho progress of o the work The Tho Lord ns na In the tho days dayi of ot the apo j 4 t ties the labors of ot Ills lila ser IIer by g miracles Tho The sick were healed by hy the prayer Imer of ot faith Evil spirits were vere cut cast out Friends were raised up and the tho work spread Truth prevailed Sometimes the tito me lOe rR welo vero led like Philip to the thy man from Ethiopia by an Rn In Inner Inner ner nor force toreo to KO go 0 to places and preach anti and they followed the tha voice vole and always found willing listeners A A great real many man of or the tho poor received jut tho th That was van natural Among the th poor pour are found the physically cally und and mentally strong those who huo have not nl lost los their tl lr best beat qualities as ps men und and women by dIssipation d Rut Hut mimy were well welt off ort And they were Billing to give Ivo their brethren bl all finan financial cial uld In tn their power J to come como to the volleys valleys of o the mountains and In this way WR Zion was built buill up Sail Said President dent Lorenzo Snow no on ono occasion During a residence ft pt s t many years In I had a p splendid op opportunity of or becoming bc Intimately ac acquainted with the Scandinavian Co plo who constitUte a I goodly portion of Jt the population of ot that county and andI I 1 learned to tu thoroughly appreciate their Value as citizens and na as n members of ot the Church My II experience leads mo flu moto fluto to my say a that the Scandinavian element clement lifts has been a potential one In the progress of t the tho Church In the building up Ul of ot Zion They rhey are nrc recognized all nil ov over r tIlt the land anti and rightly too to as nil a sturdy turo thrifty and frugal race raco anti and I ster liter sterling ling lbs 1111 qualities combined with their hon honesty esty Ht their uprightness lO and their fidel fidelIty l 1 ity to 10 the truth have hn made them a ii I strong and Influential clays In our U It l I Iii estimated that there are now of c In Ini Won Ion The rho little lit tit acorn has hili Indeed be bl become beI I i come come u it mighty olk whose whom branches r all over the land In every settlement you Ott will find them and the fults of ot their Industry I I 1 and l skill kill arc arci i seen een on hand They wore were among the In many of ot this s i Intel mountain region 1 and nit shared to the tho thet t F full extent In the tho hardships hardship and priva I f Incident thereto In fact act they k have hac been nn an almost Indispensable fae fac faer factor III I t r tor In the building up of ot the tho country countr i ft they th have labored III bored under sonic Kome on account r of nf it pen a 11 foreign tongue ton e and nm met meet t Ine I nl III lii n I some mc C quarters quarte I they have by b their unflagging toll toil and andi I i forged anti and made a n power In the th community j Today rod A of or n the Tf roes arc n ns s prominent in nil all the avenues of Ir trade trad J as nil n well BM IM In tn political and amI tI cal CRI aI Irot All through th tha ChuNh they theyS t S hold positions In iii 11 the tho Priest hood honti Anthon H U Iund Is III one onn on r 1 nf or the r 1 I tI s anti the hl hi hiJ his J terian of r ho the Church Brother need another of fIt the tit ha hal 1 a 1 mother r rn C Cn n fl is t I one of nr the Ih First iven v n rr of or Seventies lI Then there th nrc 11 two presidentS president of ot stakes several t to i re of nt stakes e a 1 number nf ot l and about nl 1 and Dinners counselors all of f In rAl l Irrl theY the hold hoM hol 1 position positions of or n It Itt re t and trust In literature th V h hat V furnished u us UP several rood nn nit imMs ata in jn Ill and ml I v r 5 r In cal ral matters they excel and In ia Agriculture ture tore they uro arc Ir Ond to noun none Front this It can eRn bo ho seen scott that both 1 oth In civil and religious life Ufo they are aro valuable members of ot the community ThU won spoken nine years ago RItO Since then Ihen President linn has Men been called home homo And Anthon H U Lund has been gIven the exalted and responsible place of at First Coun Counselor elor to tn the tho tint dent of ot the Church In III which position h lie he tho the respect confidence and love loe of ot his hla associates anti and the tho entire Church |
