| Show MORMON PIONEERS PRAISED l IN ADDRESS OF Ml WELCOME I The following address addre of ot wel- wel welcome wel-conio wel I IThe como come was delivered to II a band ot of old pioneers bv by Mr Mrs Edward Idward I 1 Inich I Rich Ruch on the Ibo Ho lawn of ot the tho Virginia hotel July 24 when the Daughters of the Pioneers Pioneer organization enter enter- entertained entertained I the tho pioneers In various groups The current ent of ot life like Uke that ol ot a river Must duet ever flow on Howe on flows on tor for forever ever everIn everIn In tho the same old channel changing channel never neer Wen Mon still 1111 1111 drive e and still tIll are drIven As they pass through time on the thenay way nay to heaven haven Th The weak w ak must mut lose loe 10 e the strong trong must win winAnd And nd things must mut he ho as the th things have boon been sewn Seventy years have flung their el weight ht on time time since President dent Young and his band of I follo followers MI first beheld the Inland sea SOIl now familiarly JnO known n as th the tho Great Salt Sail Lake Born Barn Born forth on a 8 litter weak enk from an atlA attack k of mountain fever Pr President Young wa Va raised up by devoted hands handa to behold the Land Landof Landof of at Pi Tho The spirit of light rested upon me and hovered I pier er ert the t hc valley lie and I felt that here the saints Inta would find protection and safety Bate These Thee words uttered later Iter by thus this great leader ot of men give t lo to Us Ua an Index to the wealth prosperity and happiness of hh his people Aloe Also Al o In quoting the Inn Inn- lan Ian language guage of woodruff uttered about that time we see the hand ot of destiny 1 We We Ve have ac accomplished more this year said salol he ha ho than can be found on record concerning an equal number of ot men In the same time since Inco the days of ot A Adam Wo We have travelled with heavily lIy laden wagons more than a thousand milts miles over tough louch roads and canyons searching out out a 8 land landa a resting place for lor the tho saints MInh We hand hao laid out but a n city t two tuo 0 miles mUl's square and built a fort tort of ot hown Umber timber drawn seven even miles from the mountain mountains and of sun dried bricks or surrounding ten acre acres of ground 40 rods of which ere a ere cohered CO with nith bloc block hou houses besIdes planting pla about ten acres Of corn and vegetables A All I thIse this nc e have done In tn a single month T RECORD Where re Oh where on the pages of f hIt history or can n h be found a record like 1110 unto this Where on en all the tho recorded pages pes ran can be found to 1 d such luch unerring judgment such un Ini erv- erv Int ing Integrity as was u s manifested by v this great l man BrighAm Bri YO ln Young o Ages Aces A 1 yet ct et unborn will III do him honor andRIng and sing RIng his praises A poet ha has already sung aung of ot him One thing thin certain I Is however This man holds most moet wondrous ondrous er le er let er Moving 1110 Rome some ot of o every nation Complexion race raco and station To oro endorse enloe hl hi And believe hi his revelation Mot Mo c ell them litem from afar to meN meet And lay liy their trophies at his hla feet ff To cill call It Ignorance superstition Does not alter Aller the condition Where shall hal we 0 find save In the archites es of h A en on the tho gOlden notes s unerringly etched by angel hands hanI a record of hi his mission and its Ita faithful and devoted fulfill fulfill- fulfillment ment We Ye may s search the hearts of those thOM whom horn time hn ha has dealt kIndly with lIh and Who ho yet remain with us as AA living rs ot of o his Ilia ds merit And find there Ineffaceable tablets chose hop eiery ery line Is a volume when measured bv by the lone loie and dew o o de lion of ot the authors rte X e can inmany In Inman Inmany many man a wave a s become fam familiar liar with his acts ot of love lose and daring which base 01 already become as household words Word and still have hove hut but a faint falt I conception ot of his greatness lIe Ile wl h his followers ers Set out the tho will of God to do doAs As they the tha will of ot God construe and In all they did they were sat sat- sat satisfied that the approving voice ot of Him who all 11 things well would say eIlY a as He hath bath before said Id Thou hast t been faithful over overa overa a 8 few things thing I will Hill make thee rulers over o many things DnA BRAVE J BAND DAND And what of ot those tho s that that Spar Spar- Spartan Spartan Spartan tan band that whom duty duly d IY called and God blessed See them leav leav- leaving leaving ing home homa and kindred Launched upon uon the desert strand Denoted e exiled Mormon band Ox teams mule teams made mode the tho train ThAt took the band acro across the piam Can enn fancy tancy In its Ill Its towering flight Portray a more 0 eight ht Than Mormon band oer o 0 er desert strand Marching to the promised land Treading the tho trackless waste that lay between them and home ed loved 10 ones loft left behind civilization In the background strong only In faith and all that goes to make heroes and heroines The They start out out leaving like a martyr band The Tho sacred altars of ot fAtherland I Crossed a trackless desert strand Leaving blood trail In the sand nd I Armed ArmM with Christian fortitude They Journeyed In la this solitude Nothing seemed to confound them I Natures s God Cod was vias all around them Here the antlered elk bile could lIer the timid deer doer would dart herd herds a and antelope Saw them from the distant slope Snuffed the scent cent Away Aay they went With snort and dash And thunder crash As It if they meant The tempest wind To leave behind Here would rise tle rl e prairie lark tank There prairie dog would bark Shy CO coyote ote and mountain lion Met them on thole way nay to Zion J the shade hade 61 ot chimney rock Whoso peak Is lost lot In heavens heaven's blue bIlle Be Beyond ond the tho Black Hills Hill's dismal smoke Beyond Be De ond the riser rh or fords and foun foun- fountains fountains Across tho the snow capped Rocky Their journey they pursue What sought they thus afar Bright Jewels je of ot the mine The wealth of ot seas ens the spoils of ot ar arThey They sought a 8 faiths faith's pure shrine Ale A e call It holy ground The blood trail where they trod They have ha e I left rt unstained what here they found Freedom Fredom to worship God LONG LOG STRUGGLE STR Westward esl empire bas has made Its way and directly In 1 pa pathway stands a proud city Civilization Is not a flower ot of o Eden Edon It blos bios blossoms blossoms soma amid the storms and tem tem- tempests tempests tempests pests of ot life where There man has baa been made noble by independent Inde Inde- Independent Independent pendent by toll brass e bra o by the tho thrill of ot conflict where here brain and Ine alien wrestle with the tho realities ot of existence The lives and labors of noble men and women omen these theao mart martyr r pioneers who ho have tolled through the heat and oppressIon of mental and physical disQuIet And care are today told as Il a astory astory toO story and written In epic verse vene But their true history 1 stands out In bold relief relict against the golden sit sky on the tho shores of ol tiro great Salt alt Lake take and the tho monuments there bere t erected the course courso of empire will forever stand to ten tell the story of ot their deletion de They came they 8 sa they conquered con con- conQuered con conquered The They brought with them willing hands and hearts of ot steel They have made mad the desert to blossom as liS a 0 garden they have made It to dwell In lux- lux lux luxurious urious habitations hero before wu was the homo home ot of unsightly nature and unseemly savages They have bequeathed to us ua a 1 goodly herl- herl heritage heri lag tage They have made the valleys to term teem with life lite and bustle A hundred thousand happy homes appear Peace order liberty and law prevail The generous virgin soil soli has hils been awakened from its Ils long repose and Holds a 1 hundred hundredfold hundredfold d fold the tire labor bestowed upon It Years Yeah ago all nature turo hereabouts seemed the home of desolation today we se 0 are an Integral part pott of this great nation the halt half WILY way house On the great reat national high high- highway highway way the guide post to point th the aay my to greater achievements achievement and explorations the finger board pointing to the setting sun un And to whom shall we ve give Ive credit 0 To whom shall ahll we do honor To whom nhom shall we bow the knee or ordot shout In praise 0 doff dott the hat or Surely not to those thoe who have sought ought Idle fame famo and reposo repose In inthe Inthe the tho lip lap of ot wealth and ond sin Surely not to the Indolent parasite parasite whose who ghoulish desires desire only lead leod to a a end OR OIt PIONEERS We hate bale met mot today to do honor to the tho memory of ot the pioneers Who were driven to a foreign strand trond To seek cook new homo homes In desert Iland land To those thoRe noble noble patriots who have havo figured on the tho Unwritten pages of ot our nations nation's history who tied fled from persecution s a rage rago rag In Inthe inthe Inthe the land of their birth and sought solace and freedom where dwelt th the savage beast beut and far fAT more savage men Who Vho fled too from froma troma a land where Christian and liberty of ot has hILS al- al always al ways been a guaranty Where passions passion's cauldron was in a 0 con con- con con- constAnt constant constant stant bubble bubblo and Crossing country fording flood They sought ought a 0 place lace to worship God CHEAT LORDSHIP Follow them across the old Mis Mis- Missouri Missouri plunging and gruff follow them through their long and zig zigzag lieng zag Lg with their hearts at times almost wrung with anguish and ready to hang hanS their harps on the tho willow when hen nearly 0 overt er stream and rl river ricer er tobe to tobo tobo bo be murmuring their dirge See Seo them poor except In faith with nth hope alone to buoy them up See S e them trAveling Over thousand miles of ot plain Through the sleet mud snow now and rain rain Crossing count country fording flood Almost perishing for food Making trail In sand and tod EOd Where human foot toot had hod never trod They followed the sun In Its course to 10 win freedom and safety and mark marlc a 11 trail where nations could follow tollow and where hero liberty's shrine might be erect erected d and It her r denoted subjects find a sanctuary Seek today the graves of those whom horn hom death has claimed and taken from this noble band and drop a 8 tear on their sod co cohered erod Couch and whisper to their spirits that their works do follow them Smooth tho the hoary head het and wrinkled brow and tottering gait ot of those Spartans who ho are ae a e still with us who ho breasted the storms torms and tho the gales and bore bON the heat and burden of ot the tho days ot of long loner ago bid them be of ot good cheer bid them raise their droop droop- droopIng drooping drooping ing heads and look up at the brazen serpent of healing tell them the tho day of ot their triumph I Is here a 0 nation does them honor their people and their country recognize their tolls their children are rising up and calling them blessed and God has pre pre- prepared pre prepared pared for tor them a a habitation n a city not made with Ith hands eternal In the heo heavens ens Let Lot us today by our gratitude and devotion erect to the mem mem- memory memory memory ory of ot the tho dead deall pioneers Il a mausoleum mo In our hearts that Ill III stand when hen time shall be no nomore nomore nomore more and ond letus let lef us take the hands of those that live and bid them all hall cro crowning crooning them with Ith the tho conquerors wreath shout their praises until the welkin rings and earth earths and hen heaven en echoes and echo s echo te-echo echoes re-echoes their worth orth Ask AsIc ot of o the tho bleak and biting wind Tho The rh ero rocks and deserts left leIt behind The rolling prairies prairie's waste ot of waves aves A path or of o pain a trail of ot name name- nameless nameless nameless less graves The Tho city ell fair where whore widowed lone lone- loneliness liness Weeps her lost children In the wilderness 1 She he rh river riser er broad along whose ley ic k bridge Their bleeding feet red hued each frozen ridge The Cb Christian world that drone droe dro e them forth foith to die On birren wilds beneath a 0 wintry 0 een en the coldest heart for for- forbear forbear for forbear bear to say eay cause causo has hos gratitude to weep thIs day Oi Or I consul o for tor or a flow ot of manly tears That Thit brave brace band Immortal pioneers |
