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Show THE PIONEER PEOPLE. ' I The I'loncor people. One of the mightiest forces for good the nges hnvo evolved. They begun ns children of liberty. They believed In God and His Providence. They took truth, rnd Justice and tolerance as their eternal Ideals nnd marched fearlessly forward. Wilderness stretched before them they subdued them. Mountains rose they crossed them. Deserts obstructedthey ob-structedthey passed them. Their faith failed them not nnd nn empire was theirs. From border to border cities rose, fields blossomed, railroads ran; but ery where church nnd school were permanent proof that tho principles prin-ciples of their origin were tho life of their maturity. Pioneer methods chnnged, but pioneer character stern, rugged, Indomitable remained tho same. Thoy outlived tho hand'enit but not tho lllble. They delved Into tho earth but remembered tho higher things. They began as children tf liberty, nnd children of liberty thoy remain. They began ns servnnts'of tho father of light nnd his servants they remain. And so Into their hands, and tho hands of their posterity, I; given more of power nnd opportunity thnt they may work even larger righteousness righteous-ness In the world nnd scnttor over over widening fields the blessed seeds of human happiness. This advance these accomplishments accomplish-ments they made because n frep people with unfettered minds nnd unquestioning un-questioning belief Joyfully fnced tho universe of human possibilities. These possibilities are not exhausted. Wo havo hardly passed their boundaries. The Pioneer people nnd their posterity poster-ity nro not exhausted. Thoy havo only on-ly tested their strength. God's w.vrk for them in the world Is not finished; HI future missions for this people will be grander than any he hns given, giv-en, nobler than we can now comprehend. compre-hend. And' these tasks as thoy come we will accept and accomplish ns ouc fathers accomplished theirs. And v.hen our generation shall have passed pas-sed uwny and our children shall catch fiom our aged hands tho stnndnrds wo have borne, It will perhaps still bo the old flng of Yorktown, nnd Appo-mntox Appo-mntox nnd Manila Hay. The music to which they in their turn will then move onward will perhaps still bo tho strains thnt cheered th dying Warren War-ren on Hunkor Hill nnd Insplrod men that answered tho call of Ilrlgham Young to go to war against Mexico. For in this great world of ours events nro numberless nnd mighty and no man can tell which wire ruiiR around tho world. Tho nation basking today in tho quiet of contentmont nnd repose may still bo on tho deadly rlr- celt nnd tomorrow writhing In the tolls of war. And the fato of nations Is still decided by tlu-lr wnrs. You I mny tnlk of orderly tribunals nnd i learned referees: you mny sing In i your schools the gentle praises of th i quint life, you mny strike from youi books the last note of every iimrtla anthem, nnd yet out In tho smoke am! uiuiidt' ill be i-t iriLiip of houe.1 nnd the silent rigid upturned face. I Men iiisy prophecy nnd vdmen pray, but peace ill come here to nWo for-over for-over tin this earth only whertthoso principle!) of Uplli, of llbeity, of Justice Jus-tice and tolerance, for which ur pioneer pi-oneer fri'thers foughT",' bird-' nnd died, and. bequeathed ",'!$ us an- Mernhl Inheritance. jorevcrj .become the accepted ac-cepted charts to' guide theldestnlcs ot men. ' . . |