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Show B Almost li.-ilf a century hns B passed since the Pioneers found B peace, and rest in these mountain B vales, but what a change has been H wrought since their leader cx- B claimed: "Enough, this is the B place." The dreary white alkali H ' wastes and gray s.tge brush plains B have been transformed into fruit- B ful fields and orchards and the H highest honors are due to tliosi H pioneers who built Midi an oasis . H in the desert. We now look H back upon the time when they B made that unparalleled exodus, H and like the 1'ilgiim Fathers, H they journeyed towai ds the setting H sun in search of ftecdotn and H peace. They left the haunts of H civilization, the cut lain of oblivion H hid them from view as the) H plunged into the wilderness of an H unknown west. They toiled 011, H some in wagons, some on foot, H some pushing handcarts across H those dreary plains amid a hundi cd B dangers. Some weary pilgtins B laid dotvn at night with their H burdens for pillows nud when the H morning sun kissed their hollow H cheeks they did not tespoiid to H its light and warmth for the weaiy H soul had heard the call, "Come H unto mc all ye that are weary and H heavy laden and I will give you B rest." Thus that dreary marili H of 1500 miles was marked by the H graves of their dead but the B bright pillar of hope led them on H to n promised laud in the valleys H of the mouulain and from the H hcigh's nbove they looked down H 011 their destined home. Not n B land flowing with milk and honey H but 11,011 the desolation of H centuries where they must caive H for themselves an abiding place. H lirigham Young had bteu their H Moses lo lead them thiough .lie H wilderness so he was then Joshua H and was the diiector in then H colonizing tlies: valley. How B well they succeeded is evidenced H by Utah as it is, one of the B greatest commonwealths of this H great Republic So long as these H mountain peaks shall look down H upon peaceful low 111 and utile) s H so long will the memory of those H caily selilurs be I1u110n.il nud H revered and each succeeding H Pioneer Day will sfcV thouwuuU B assembled to pay them reverence. |