The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1880-07-27

g In the passive have emulated tn,
+ heroic example of the noble Pilgrim
= mothers, who, for the sake of wOr
e shipping God according to the die
tates of conscience in COMPANY o.
the Pilgrim Fathers, dared the per
us OF the brlny deep, and in a desc
J late country assisted in planting &
= colony, designated by the Almighty
as a precursor to the founding of q
government under which his king
{ dom was to be established. What
would the Pilgrim Fathers have
done without the Pilgrim Mothers?
And now, wnen through this over
ruling and protecting care of God,
we are no longer chased and driven,
we, the women of Utah, in organ
lied capacities, as efficient helps to
the priesthood, are exercising all the
talents and influence with which
God has endowed US, to bless, COM
fort and sustain the needy, and pu-
rify and elevate society.
With feelings of gratitude and
tenderness. mingled with a holy rev.
erence, we, as mothers, wives, sis
tiers and daughters, greet YOU, hail
you with honor, brave-hearted
ers-silver-haired veterans of
lions Camp, and heroic volunteer
Of the Mormon Battalion! And
while we give honor to the living,
our hearts instinctively go out in af-
fectionate and honorable remem-
brance to the absent, whose faces
we do not behold, but whose lives
were so closely interviewer with
those who are before us. ave name
no Names" but offer silent tribute
to the sacred memory of the honor
ed dead.
For one retrospective moment we
are looking back over the vista of fifty
years, the horologe of time has
struck with telling force, the chimes
of the first half century since the
Church Of Jesus Christ was organic
ed on the earth in this dispensatiOn.
Years full of startling episodes, of
thrilling tragedies-recOrds Of good
and evil, misery and happiness, and
though many have peacefully fallen
asleep, and thousands have died by
the Wayside, and though we have
mOurned q martyred prophet and
patriarch, yet we rejoice to-day with
| the living oracles of the Holy Priest
hood; and when we look abroad up
on our fair and happy homes, our
verdant, smiling valleys, and realize
the peace, plenty and prosperity that
surround us in this our holy year of
Jubilee, we, the women of Israel, de
sire to cOnsecrate ourselves anew to
the work of the Lord, and mingle
! our voices with those assembled here
to-day, in one burst of glorious mel
ody, with loud hosannas, that the
ensign upon the mountains has been
i lifted to the nations, and that for tif
| ty years the mothers of Israel, with
the sons of God as co-laborers, have
| borne the burden and heat of the
day, passed through trying ordeals,
| proven their integrity before Hea-
ven, and propose in the future, as in
the past, to keep the commandments
of God, that we may obtain a full
ness of celestial glory, and be crown
ed with eternal lives.
This was enthusiastically applaud
ed, at intervals, from beginning to
end.
The Tenth Ward Brass Band,
under Captain Symons, then per-
formed a selection, after which the
following address was delivered by
PRESIDENT JOHN TAYLOR.
We have been detained for a long
time. However, if you have felt as
[ have, you have been very much
interested in the scenes that have
passed before you, in the spectacle
that YOU have witnessed, in the
speeches which you have heard, in
| the beautiful music which has been,
discoursed, and in the reflections
upon the position which we occupy
today, as Latter-day Saints. We,
in former years talked of events that
are now transporting. We looked for
ward to the day that we now enjoy
with pleasing hopes and joyful anti
cipatiOn. Now we realize some OF
the blessings that we heretofore,
read of, prophesied about, and anti
cipated.
we are living in a peculiar day
and age of the world, pregnant with
great events, affecting not only the
nation with which we are associated,
but all other nations politically, so
cially, religioUsly and nationally.
In fact, the Lord, in his wisdom, has
been preparing the way for the ac-
complishment of certain events that
should tend to develop these
blessings that we now enjoy,
and others yet in anticipa-
ton. When i'll looking upon
the people and listening to the ex-
preston of their feelings and desires,
| my mind goes back 10 other ages
and looks forward also to times that
are yet to come.
! There have been in human events
certain changes, and in some IN
stances cycles of changes, religious,
social, political and national. The
Jewish polity and nation was the
result of one of these. The Baby
lonian, the Assyrian, the Medo-
rersian, the Greek and the Ro
man empires have each had their
dav. to say nothing of the Tartar,
the Chinese and other great eastern
empires wherein have fiourished
myriads of the human race.
Africa and Europe have also
each contributed their quotas
of governments TO the human
family. Without entering into fur
ther details, mention may be made
, lastly of that of the United States.
, 1t is not so very long ago since
this whole continent was possessed
by the red man. Descendants it is
true of noble race; but low, fallen
and degraded. There were other
scenes to enact here than was posi-
r bIe for them unaided to bring about,
, and the Lord inspired Christopher
Columbus to come over in search
of a new continent, which after in
2 defatigable labor he was successful
in finding. Once the white man
having set his foot upon this CONT
nent other circumstances seemed to
? operate upon the mipSs of the men
OF that period-a narrow, contracted,
religious bigotry, an unfortunate in
S heritance of man that never will al
low others, when in their power to
r prevent it, 10 think or worship diff
| ferently to themselves, and seek to
confine others minds within their
f narrow limits, and desire to control
{ their cOnsciences and have them
: governed by their theories, princi-
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