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

| tlltlO All WHO dEe ue-lTOilS may ODeN.
and we fulfil the mission given us. .
The nationalities then resumed
their seats, and the Choir rendered
the grand and beautiful anthem,
"Glory to God in the highest" Col.
David Mckenzie then took the
stand and read, in a very effective
manner, the following poem, COM
posed for the occasion by .. F.
Whitney:
THE JUBILEE OF ZION.
iFTitteH IN commsm0rIti9H q the Fft1h
-AUirers1Ty Of The Church Il Jesass
Christ Of LGttsr-iGy Saints.
/ Hail TO the Year OF Jubilee,
| Let pealing anthems rise,
And bursts Of echoing melody
Loud mingle with the s,1ies,
| Let earth reSOund with muses. TOyv'r,
| Glad welcoming the year,
| When Zion sees her natal hour
The fiftieth time appear,
An hour when, thro' the ling ring night.
In beauty broke the morn,
When Faith, exultant, hailed the Light
That told her Truth was born.
| The fulnesS Of an omened birth
In verse prophetic given
When Truth, new sDringing fsOm the earth,
Saw Mercy smile in Heaven
1t is a day for Israel,
! His highest hopes to raise,
While voice ard harp, uniting, swell
The sounding notes OF praise.
For Truth and Virtue, breathing love,
Have made the world more fair,
Since Righteousness, from realms above,
Unfurld her standard there.
Can friendly eye this radiant scene behold,
Nor feel whit flirtest words could not unfold:
Or stranger gaze upon its glory rest,
Nor deem, OF all, this day diyinely blest?
| Could Time retrace the wilderness OF years
The stubbleheld OF human hopes and feIrs-
Recall from silent regions OF decay
The buried greatness OF a former day,
Would not the righteous dead their voices
raise,
~ swell tll- fV-tAal4I u Il EIOii-S lAtt--N1
And bursting from the thralldom OF the sod,
Declare the wOndrOus workmanship Of God?
But Time, alas, no retrOgressiOn knows,
It's ever hurrying stream still onward flows;
The moments coming crowd the moments
past,
And each day sing. the requiem OF the List.
Fair Memory, Thine the task this boon to
give
Bid thou the Icst within the present i've.
On the bright altar let the embers glow
To Eft the shadows Of the Long Ago,
Far down the mystic river Of the Mind.
\ tiect OF rcc0licct:O.ls slowly wind
A chain Of gonls OIL Fancy's pinions brought,
Historic views Oh Mem'ry's canvas wrought
The foremost Is = scene where forests grow,
Where flowers bloom and spring-time brcezes
blow,
Where sweet-tonad birds send up their uatin !
lay,
And lave in tn golden fountain OF the day
Deep in the busom ola woodland shade,
Where Solitude her secret home hath made,
4 simple lld, his sunbarned Temples bare,
Pours forth i guiIeiess soul to God in prayer
a sudden cloud Of midnight depth pro-
found,
Nov, hurls him treithless to the trembling
ground,
Speeches. he's stric,,en, but with voice Of
viii,
Calls on his God and supplcltes him still.
His prayers are heard. 10, Shining DER his
head.
\ dazzling light Where hath the darkness
fed?
4 pillar brighter than the MONDAY sun,
When on the Durest SKY his race IS run,
Falls, gently as the earth-reyiving dew,
And opens to his gaze heavenly view.
Two Beings, Of glory to defy,
The pow = OF wOrCis, stand 'twixt HIN ami ia
sky.
And is't 4 voice, or music low and clear,
Whose haIlOwed sweetness charms the list
'ner's ear,
Like murm'ring waters from messy rim:
Joseph, lis my Beloved son, Hear him!'' {
The sccres roll Oh Within rustic cot ;
An honest farmers home.of humble lot
The boy that was, in pride OF strength ap- 5
pears
Erect meath nianhood's crown OF rip'ning
years
Tor now as when, in trusting ehildhood's
care, ,
Alone, he sought and found the God OF
prayer,
Tor when, as singly, s;emmed the tide OF
hate,
Which spurned the truth he dared to inno-
yate; :
friends are his followers. Tho NUMBERING ,
few, G
disciples dduntless, OF doctrine new, .
'onven'd to verify the written word
I him who bose the burden OF the Lord, :
: hen learned proud BabeTs king thro' wis ,
doms ways, ,
hat God had destined in the Latter days.
he hour Is nigh when monarchs' necks shall O
bow, 5
he Stone yet fingers on the Mountains r
brow,
ut soon with force resistless shall it fall, Y
nd onward roll, victorious over all :
is done-the deed Creations morn devised /
he Church Of Jesus Christ is organized. T
>
nc fifty years, ike pillows on the sand,
ave left their mark on LIES unrufied I
strand, :
nee dawned the morning OF that chosen day Z
hen Israers.fbld rebound the Narrow Way, p
nd planted, firm, the Gospels glorious tree, r
u Joseph's land, the land Of Liberty. Il
ho' rudely torn from out the parent soil \
5 budding glOries fierce Expressions spoil 4
nd flung far out upon the burning plain I
D meet the doom its murd'rous foes ordain; a
Ike Aaron's rod, the Bough Of Joseph blooms, Ii
rings forth, in gladness, mid the desert n
gleoms, I,
18th fragrance rare, the sterile valley fills, 3
nd blossoms on the Everlasting Hills Il
eep rooted in the chambers Of tho rock,
NEEDING war, and storm, and earthquake Y
shock,
stands where Ilatred's fiery shafts arc [
hurrd, h
aving welcome to the wond' ring world. g,
tlr, its shadows Ger the nations fall, II
gain its branches climb the ocean wall, II
I'd seeds Of Life, sown with Almighty hand, b
re springing from the soils Of every land ri
nd these shall bear, upon the worlds broad v
Naoa /