Show EVIDENCE OF DIVINE authorship the san ban juan times published at farmington new mexico has bae A an account C of the observance at froitland fruitland Fruit land aidi na N M of utah la pioneer day when as the paper states the forty ninth anniversary of the arrival in the great salt lake valley of 0 the mormon people was wag duly celebrated on the most ot of the participators participatory were Mor monc though there was no line drawn on religious view arbe exer olaes chies common to such occasions in utah were given including a speech by J B R young lu in which the times says say he set et forth many olst historical orical facts facie anent the perse cautions cut ions trials and privations of the devoted followers of the mormon religion from the time they gave up their nome borne in nauvoo ill III up to the time they established kneir homes in tue toe salt dali like valley vailey IP our san juan describes b uc as ah moat nom toe tu um ui of LUC atal ti tog ul of we me groces dion trum from the meeting house lor for the chauy grove on the dan juan river where the proa program tram was wae rendered reu dered to the cleoe ot 01 the be evening dance it also aleo states that luat atie occasion of those these festivals at has a signify cadace alike interesting and remarkable 11 ble forty nine dine years yeara ago this thia great region nad had little lu common with its ite present with its ite present commercial and nati national oual aspect hect a howling bowling wilderness wilder new wild and bare as ae awo fb desert across which the prophet led the israelites of old unpopulated populated ua save auve where the hostile savage lurked ready to co slay ready to torture and avoil then it gloo on across this uncompromising sahara were led a band of men women and children led curiously enough to the then most unpromising and bleak spot that human imagination could s depict forty nine years ago last friday the mormons cormons reached salt lake after months of privation and suffering led to that thai spot by an unerring instinct by a direction that in its results leaves proof if anything in the annals of history ever did of divine authorship this devoted band formed at ai once a city and increased a faith that in its tenets its proofs has defied the criticism and attacks of its most learned opponents if actual material facts are sought as evidence of the importance of the occurrence celebrated last friday we have it in the existence ot of a city unequalled unequal led in beauty and interest in the states stales we have it in the propagation and increase of a faith throughout the world we have it in the formation of institutions that excel in an educational system that is acknowledged to surpass all others in an agricultural plan that thai has revolutionized in the founding of a community and home life that are examples of brotherhood and true citizenship all ali the good results named have followed the coming here hereof of the pioneer ere and are evident to all 11 II ob observers servera and the times rightly attributes them to the moving cause thereof the divine 6 authorship which formed the mormon people into a compact religious organization the historical proofs of that au authorship thoro bip which the times refers to cannot be overcome or explained away they are material undeniable evidence of jehovana Jehova ha bla power with me be latter day saints |