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Show SS' - Land of the Pioneers Utah, We Love Thee It is soon one hundred years since a little band of outcasts and wanderers made a clearing in the sage brush near the place where the Center Theatre stands and began to build shelters and plow and plant that they might subsist here on one of the far west frontiers. From that very humhle and obscure beginning all that we see in every direction has come. What sought they in this very uninviting desert and wilderness? They sought a home and the means of sustaining life. ' They sought a shrine for their faith. They sought the freedom for which same of their forbears had fought in the Revolution. They sought to live at peace with men and God and to set up a community and an ensign here that should speak of them to all the world. When we honor them we honor ourselves. We need today their faith, their courage, their fortitude and their will to work out temporal and spiritual salvation. God bless their memories. ... (S-, |