Show 3 PIONEER DAY About ten years eals ago o one of the tho Eastern papers published a fanciful sketch called The Spirit of oC the theOld theOld theOld Old Frame Church It was the thc central thought of or tho the stor story that In any place where human souls I had been heen stirred to great greal emotion there thero the they would Woul linger there then they would return after death That about the Ue site of every e abandoned home loves fin and sorrows and find sacrifices had marked tho the living Jiving years ean spirits of or tho the departed would make maka assembly In the later years years years-be years because because tho those c places had been so largo large a a. part of oC their lives JIves If Ie the fanc fancy bo ho true then from the lie roadway In Emigration canyon yesterday morning tho the souls of the faithful must have havo looked out In hl seraphic Joy at atthe atthe atthe the alle valley which their living eyes beheld on tho Iho morning of oC Jul July 21 1 1847 1337 Behind the men and the tho women of that little HUlo party reached almost a 3 thousand thousand thousand thou thou- sand miles of de desert crt Such labor and suffering and sacrifice as they had known is happily rarely a apart apart apart part of ot the lot of oC an any human beings Such resolution resolution tion lon such courage couras such devotion such tuch hope as the they po possessed e sed must mark them simply gr great at Little men newer never could havo have reached that vantage ground Small mall souls sous w would uM havo have perished at the tho start Tho valley vaHey was all the emigrants saw It could not have been so fair then as now Although there must have been large larse areas of green for Cor the waters water of oC the Wasatch as hlll hills must have carried blessing to he tho lowlands even cven then thero there must have havo been much of region lII like e that through which thC they had tolled toiled Survivors ors tell us there had been a a. heavy heay rain aln the night before and tho the valley vaHey ma may not all have lave been In view But there was the aHe valley There was vas their future home And after afler their terrible I journey journe It must hn have seemed vcr very fair to them If the spirits of or those men and women could gather there In this new day three score years jears after their burdens were borne to the valley then the he account might bo be balanced Nothing In life liCe could have done lone It It But nUl if Ir they could seo see tho the great city which grew from th their ir little planting It If the they hey could see FCO the temple and the m myriad of oC happy homes that date late from the earlier Pioneer da day if they hey could realize the mighty might stale slate that came camo to answer the tho summons of their courage and their then sacrIfice then Ue wore were repaid Some of them arc are still among us Let their souls be lifted up with the Psalmists Psalmist's exclamation Praise ye e the Lord and all aJl that Is within me bless Ills His holy name And ma may they and those who vho have departed and all we who remain join Inthe in inthe the he fervent thanksgiving ln |