| Show IN EARLY DAYS SALT BAIT LAKE CITY april having interest in pioneer ro minis which are having widespread notice at the present time I 1 solicit a short abort apace la in your columns with the hope of f showing some incidents that evidence the great of god to this people in the times when man mand a power however great would have done but little to shield them from utter alter failure in colonizing this land forsaken and avoided as aa a barrenness too great for civilized people until we Mor cormons mormons mons faced it firstly no snow laid in salt lake valley forty hours in the winter of 47 and 48 1 I ploughed sloughed hed land every month of that winter and bowed each month but one surely the climate ban baa evidenced by each succeed lag ing winter and by tob testimony ol of bridger and others other and tempered to the lambs lumb sll so ao cruelly shorn io in 1111 if it bad not been so what would have become of our cur unloaded bouts bets of burden having traveled over a thousand miles milea of tract lese desert and mountains no grain no hay bay no shelter belter no nearer civilization than eight hundred it if it had not been so BO tempered I 1 were there would not be 1 any semi centennial jubilee in 1897 again in var cur broken impoverished persecuted condition with every state in the union refusing us a 1 home in all our broad eastern land with a host boat of had been influential men sailing polling one ODD or many wap with brannon ran nans a actual emigration of a body of the saints to california with the she vancouver project with strang up the mississippi with bishop millar bluet and others pulling all 11 II ways way diverse from the fulfillment of the prop prophecy hocy I 1 heard board joseph smith make in the public street la in nauvoo years jears before 1846 that ahls people should become a mighty host in the rocky mountains 0 add to wig this avalanches of condemnation that ostracized ostracised this place as impossible to civilization anti and I 1 inquire shall hall we question but what goo brought us here and that the twelve were the recipients of the promise that god reveals his secrets pearata to hie HI servants erva ats the prophets and were true and nd loyal to him and his cuU mid amid all the dlo div ruse fuss and lo jo bores beres and lo jo theres that shrieked their claims among the ranks et at israel and it we know that hat the great purpose has tul ful filled israeli prophecy that the house bouse of the lord should be built in the tops topi of the mountains and nd the nations of the earth should flow unto onto it ft shall we not in our great efforts for material display keep alive the holy altan altar of remembrance and aad that all that we are here our heavenly father has bae made for ui shall dball we not remember that in our first years here when confronted by crickets locusta locus tc tp and late and early rosta frosts our only possible safety was in goo that this was waa so BO impressed on our understandings that when our seeding was finished we used to go on to the highest point of our hold field dedicate land seed and labor and wilb 1 uncovered heads ask our ho heavenly aveney father to give us a harvest that was my way and the way of many others and we tib tb ought it a good way then to obtain material aid to found a christian commonwealth PIONEER |
