Show is Z I1 iida 7 A aa A 4 oil 1I vol ap 48 no TC el son richard ai chard Hnelson teacher secondary eov I1 tho the part played bbyr the eoy mons in tho thu amor the S saturday fo comber V t by 37 OF H U T I1 A M H ea RRTT 1II1 PA can S to generous5 share in the opening of a generou the story of tho the0 american frontiers to civilization ho follows the constantly shifting physical great basin nearly akow york to tho groat f rontiers from now cross a continent and then on into foreign lands within seventeen years after the founding of the church the latter day saints had lived on and had conbuted to the development of five american frontiers tributed triexpanding a distance of twenty five hundred miles joseph smith the founder of the church was born bom in a sparsely settled district of vermont during his boyhood he partook of tho the spirit of thu frontier the very air ho breathed charged c d was with was breath it it mana mighty force filch was to transform tho boy into a nan and swoop him with it to the west a thou thousand stand miles to fames as a great immortal fare groat american throughout hout all of I s c or the prophets on he ho one ox rontier f lived life bonti or another lif and played an important role in its history when taut Ts parents moved from place but a boy josephs Joseph to place in search of a better home and an increase in opportunities after having had throe successive crop failure s in vermont they decided to move to western new hew york whore where wheat was raised in abundance that district was filled with rich possibilities when the smiths arrived in 1815 western new itea york was still a frontier although palmyra had been settled since 1790 five years after arriving at palmyra the smith family moved to a farm in the township of Manch ostor hero manchester the boy prophet received his first hoa heavenly venly manifestations later at harmony pennsylvania he received the holy priesthood which gave him authority fron god to blish on earth again the true gospel of the lord etta establish and master april 6 1830 joseph smith organized the church of jesus christ of latter day saints at payette in western new york lie he based the new organization on revelations divine authority and a new scripture all of which he claimed to have received from god he soon collected around himself a group of strong men although some of the converts were nearly twice his age and had much they always remch more education cognized tho the leadership of brother joseph and maintain continued on pago 2 have contributed 11 1 1 19 C 1915 l 1 sl f As must mist have been a with all the dining haelst the city the thanksof tho giving dinner at dining mao endowed with a hall 5 was fooling f a eling of special magnificent ent opulence waa so plain to seo see it was that a good deal of thought and overtime labor had gone into its prepa- and equally evi- ration dent that effort all this extra freely given why oven even gien had teen beer joyously the apples been had on the tables polished to a brilliant go shine I1 good thon this thi a workers had tho feeling of so st into apparently streamed roamed everything in the hall and filled it all with this magnificence beautiful a and this was the thanksgiving dinner of the year a year of a of 1942 terrible war of evacuation and desert land and incredible dust storms a year struck with much bitterness pain and folly and I1 it so was thanksgiving a thanks iving could have boon been touched with bitter may nay be cynicism and that easily it that for some of the residents this was true but that it did happen that for the most part the day was blessed with this air of high festivity is surely to call attention to something precious page continued on pago 0 3 |