Show PAST PRESENT AND FUTURE 0 oa a monday auril jut just fifty yen yeara lego affo elder heber G C kimball with six ix team prepared for this the four oey day frons from the missouri river to the rocky eky made the start abart answard Wee from winter quarters Qu artere where a considerable portion of the saints lainta bad spent the dreary winter of 1846 7 after they had been driven from nauvoo through religious toe the next day avril april 6 AM he seventeenth annual general coo con of the church was waa hold held and be le next x t day the alb president brig tt barn lin yo young ung joined be pioneer camp calap ton tea miles to so abe treweet went from that time ong oo 00 the work of the greatest grea teat migration last ever boo bai occurred of a body of in ID latter days day was wai carried out people 0 a ra five V years previous to that time in 1842 the be prophet joseph smith abou the leader of that people bat wo tell fell a victim to a ruthless ruth leaB mob te in 1844 predicted that the latter lay y saints baiata would yet become a 8 creat people in the bocky moua haliw and several years yean before then than be had told the more ln in of bin bi brethren of the future westward hence the move falty years yeara ago W was as a fulfilment fulfillment ot of prophecy though it was waa brought mat boat by A crual cruel and unjustifiable per of the saints aeden betre ago on wednesday april 0 6 the church was wan organ ima in 0 o payette fayette now new york with the through the prophet joseph t it would woula progress and be etab linnee od and would be the preparatory work of ushering in the millo millennial reign of garlit whose church it la Is and add every tep stop that has been taken stamm then lo in the face of difficulties teat seemed insurmountable has haa tea been a of we he prophetic and divine po by joseph joaeph smith the first Preel deat and prophet of the church of jenoa christ of latter day swings salota toe the situation altu atlon of today promote a very different lerent dif 1112 to in oma MOMS respects rei to go chatot of either of the datin date named toe church la Is the oame engaged in the some great cause upon which it barted out outtie the salvation al of the human buman family and the establishment ot of union and love in a universal upon the earth but from the air members that met la in payette fayette it has ae increased Inore aeed to hundreds of thou made and from the that was waa be believed by abo who understood not its if genius to so be a thing of little moment aad hollod declined DOd to perish it bow baa bosoms become a power in the eam t of all to in every atoa an pa Sitio globe from facin the bond wood tamed lhoir weary eye QuI euan ri fes blui an invincible faith in the he divine mission minion of president joaeph smith whose place as ae presiding boffl of the church was wan succeeded to by president brigham young we now change the be gazi gaza to a people firmly and safely established in the valleys valley of the mount mounta alne inel covering a stretch of country reaching from canada oo on the north to mexico on the south prom from the outset the faithful churon church mem berillo beriL ip lp bad relied on the promises promise of we the almighty through his prophet Prop heta and nd by hl his spirit to them ally lly and he has never failed them glancing cing at the past and aad present ent f what may be ail elij of the future of th he dainto upon the basis of fulfilment fulfillment of prophecy given through church leaders it la Is that we the church will go contons continue a to progress pro grew and ultimately fill too toe whole earth for that prophecy has been fulfilled in the he pat past and min bl gives positive assurance aur anoe of anoe in the same am line there la Is no change today ram from the path laid down at the outset an ai the one along which to travel the work of carrying the gospel to we the nat nations ione and of teaching it at home is to with firmness and to increasing in intensity with improving opportunities for perform jog it the iron rod the word of godi god coming through direct revelation in ie abe inflexible sule rule of faith and lburn guided by the word of the almighty no danger can come to overthrow too church or stay its if progress reu it if there has haa been success by the mormon people in their material at lairs laira if there has baa been success to the salote la weir their church matters mattera ind none can dispute that there has haa been with each successive era in kusir hie tory then there auit lis be success in the future toe cause to ia the same flame and the effect i also mut must be similar beil milar hence we the reaf reason ion for increased faith and joy mong among the salute batata what has hai been done has ha required a mighty zeal and earnestness in lab pr r want to yet to do calls tor for a like requirement but the result of pressing forward under the same me guidance and in the same me spirit of love lore pat patience lence unselfishness union and aad determination mastbe must be the fulfill fulfil ment of an immutable promise of |