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Show PIONEER DAY. H Any movemcnt.wliethcr religious or Hf, national, which leads to the settle- H ment o( a new country, is full of slg- H nlflcancc In tho upbuilding of a nation B and often In the history of the world. H The coming of the Latter-Day Saints B into Utah by way of Emigration can- H yon J uly 24, 1847 Is of the same nature B as the landing of tho Pilgrims at Plymouth, Mass. In 1020, the Hugue- ; nots In Georgia, or the Quakers In fl'i Pennsylvania. They all started In a BftH religious treic, took on a political BBl character and became vast colonizing BB' enterprises, though never losing sight HM of their religious origin. Wherever Hjp loyal New Englariders arc to be found it they foregather on December 21 to 1 commemorate the beginnings of New ' , England and In like manner faithful B Utahns celebrate on July 24 the day B on which their state was born. Too- fl often tho various festivities of a noil- B day overwhelm Its sacred character Vs and cause Its origin to bo put in the B background. This was certainly not s the case in the first celebration of Bf Pioneer Day In Cache Valley. That 4 took place in Wellsvllle in 1857. John B'f Thlrkell was the orator on thatoc- caslon and delivered a glorious proph- Bf ecy. A frost had killed the potato HV crop the day before but the speaker BV predicted the success;) of the wheat Vi crop and also the erection of a temple f in the valley. Those were days when Vf the material and spiritual things of Bk life were the Urst to be considered and Bf the modern craze for pleasure, to the Hk exclusion of all serious thought, had HR not yet worked Its prevcrtlng Influence 7 on holiday celebrations. Life was & not then "all beer and sklttles"by any Hftf means but now that we are running HR" to the beer and skittles extreme we Hj'i will do well to remember the almost BT sacred origin of many of our holidays, k, especially that of Pioneer Day. The V; :' hardships of tho first settlers, their HT' hopes and ambitions, and their ira- Hru pllclt faith In the future of the new HE) state should beobjectsof veneration for HE, the members of the present generation Hj and the yearly celebration of Pioneer HF Day should emphasize for them the Bkv lesson of how much may be accom- P. pllshed by faith and work. |