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Show News and Features oi Interest to Residents oi Davis County. LAYTON. DAVIS COUNTY. UTAH A Century Plus Four On Tuesday, July 24, Utah will celebrate the 104th anniversary oi its inception. A century plus lour will have passed since the first band oi pioneers, under the leadership oi Brigham Young, entered the Salt Lake valley. In the brief span of years since the Mormon leader uttered his historic words, there have been tremendous advances, miraculous transformations, and achievements that bespeak an inspired intensity of purpose and devotion to guiding principal. The prophecy had indeed come to pass, and the desert to bloom as a rose. Waste and desolation gave way to the ingenious and eiforts oi a determined people, and a new empire arose, abounding in productivity and incalculable in potentiality. inde-(atigab- le The early pioneers were a hardy, and sagacious people, and it is appropriate that their deeds be remem re-source- iul . . . . bered with iitting ceremony and celebration. However, these deeds oi the past are best remembered as a pattern and guide to be applied to the iuture. A periodic glance backward should be evaluated as it benefits the motion forward. To turn to the past with unbridled idolatry and unguarded zeal might be to neglect the road ahead. the pioneers best is to resolve that their virtues shall not fall into the dust of history, nor relegated as trophies into museums, as have their guns and tools, but kept alive and dominant in the souls of a people confronted with a future more challenging than ever. To honor The best monument is that which has its eye and gestures fixed forward, bespeaking a surge forth for greater fulfillment in the era yet to come. |