The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-07-21
The Executive Staff of the Jubilee.

tacle can be presented than the process
sons of the pioneers.
As through the ages with unahatine
energy. the glacier flows. by its erosion
making the soil out OF which. in latel
periods. men raise taetr bread so through
! the centuries the conquest Of the wilder
ness by tne irresistible advance of th'
( pioneer has gone on and on.
No trumpet nor martial music sounds
the'r advance; no thrill of battle ecstacy
makes felstr pulses leap; 10 moving stan
dards lead the way; no applaading worie
cheers them no guidon marks heir halt
me holy record telis US that when the
spirit CT the Infinite contemplated tht
framing of the world: his first command
was Let there be Eight Thai when ap-
peare1 the greater light 10 glorify th5
day. and the lesser light 10 Ill with
spiendor the night, the watching Deity
saw TIE l1sht, taat it was good.
MISSION OF THE PIONEERS.
One thinks OF that when he contem-
plates the MISSION OF the pioneers.
They disappear from the visions Of their
fellow men, as the outgoing ship dlSap-
pears in the haze that wells the ocean
DUt after a season new sheen ike the
wake of ship in DhOSDhOreScent seas,
shines back along the path that they
trod and the world knows mat the
frOwns from another wilderness have been
driven away; that another signal station
has been erected. that a new path has
been smoothed over which the delicate
feet of civilization, in unso-led sandals.
may advance.
az old. the fathers, in little, uncouth
ship, braved the lkllows and the sweeping
gales OF the Atlantic to plant a new en-
sign on the oceans further shore Only
a rocky strand. beneath the frown of the
forest and wrapped Ia the white. Winning
sheet of the winter. received them But
they prayerfully and thankfully accepted
their new inheritance, and they awakened
such triumph anthem of praise as Mi
riam sang when the path through the sui
len sea had been trcd.
They lighted home fires amid the snow
and began their toll.
No one knows what they endured, what
lonsinss they suppressed, what hopes.
without ever finding expression. died
voiceless in their self-contained souls.
PROGRESS OF THE NATION.
But the lights never grew dim; rather
with purer, brighter rays they biazed; the
wilderness receded before them, until at
last nation, consecrated TO freedom.
rounded into form, and the poor and the
oppressed of the earth turned 10 that new
Eight in the west. as turned at dawn the
devout fire worshipper TO the rising sun.
Al last. after seven generations of the
race had lived and died, after all the space
between the ocean and the prairies had
been redeemed, another little band started
across another waste, half as broad and
quite as desolate as the Atlantic, to find
home
HARDSHIPS ENDURED.
At first over un6ulating waves of green
they pursued their way. Later, as they
advanced, the waves became mighty bill
lows, only they were not like Neptune's
pillows that rise and fall at the advance
and retreat of the winds, but rather they
were upheaved by Pluto in an angry mood
and when piled mountains high they were
transfixed, and there, while unknown CEN
turtles ebbed and flowed, they waited in
their silence and savagery for the coming
of this band.
What that band endured VINO shall tell?
The average American man cares little
for hardship. When weary he can make
the earth bed and the sky canopy and
sweetly sleep.