Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1901-08-17


take great pleasure In saying a
few words this afternoon nv wav of
tastlr,onv ~ Tho, n,hioh taa 49,, sa,s
-, W '''''' "i'e' mas ueop saiu'
we hiio" that II is the work OF God,
| and the time has come when we may
polnt 10 what has hean accommodated
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NV u'' VI '"e people uhu the great
| latter-day work that Is springing up
| throughout the length and breadth of
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tract attention. was looking yester-
| day at the Old Fort block where we
camnad In 1S47 our nup,hars ,,ara
| =, - -.
Wv, anu w "eie pehii'esS' "itnout
FOOD ana clothing, and without q
friend, except Coda poor despised
people. The little fort which we erect
| ed on that ten acres OF ground held
| all that there was OF the Latter-day
| Saints In this country. We were sur
| rounded by deserts so broad that 1t
seemed as II we would never come into
communication with white people
again. II looked as though we were
| cut or from our fellow men, with
nothing but wild Indians and sterilty
| around us. We felt as If we had been
| driven to another hemisphere, or anoth-
| er globe, that we had emerged into
something that was unreal, for II did
not seem possible TO sustain life In this
country, where no vegetation existed.
| Looking over the city yesterday | re-
membered the time when dozen cot"
| tonwoods growing upon this stream
called city Creek represented all the
green vegetation that could be seen
| throughout the length and breadth OF
| TINS valley. People could not get
shade, for there We're no trees. There
were no houses, no food, no clothing
and II was three months journey to find
any subsistence for the wives and
| children OF the Latter-day Saints. In
those days we had no means Of getting
| food from the east. Today, II a famine
were to occur here they could trans
port food Of all kinds into our midst
by the trainload. But then we depend
ed upon that God of whom you have
heard this afternoon more thorough
| ~, | think, than we do today. He
made the food that we did haye-the
thistle roots. the biscuit root, and the
few segos that were here--sweet unto
us, Food which people today would
scorn to eat We found to be sweet ana
7 IooI. ahroad d. mo, . ereat neon,e
few years ago | determined to find the
extent TO which the Latter-day Saints
had emigrated south. | got into my
carriage and rode directly south for
l5oO miles before | reached the last
settlement Of the Latter-dav Saints.
! | Travelled In like manner 10 the north.
| this hafpra
| reached the last Of or settlements In
| Canada. | was thinking of these things
while looking at the Old Fort block,
which Is now a public square, being
handsomely improved, and hope II will
remain forever as a monument or as
| something TO remind us OF the times
or MIS-, when we We're gathered to-
! gether IN that little fort and surround
Ell by the red men, who were preying
| uron us most or the time.
what has brought this condition OF
| thlngsy Reliance UPON God and His
Son Jesus, concerning whom Brother
Penrose has discoursed this afternoon.
| Following the counsels and dictates of
| that Shirt which Is in all things, and
being controlled and guided by the in
| splraton Of God through the man and
the men who were appointed to lead the
people
TFFECTs or TINTED rNntrcrpv
~ '-'A ~
Reading the papers, | see that there
Is great conflict impending between
capital and labor Now, such con-
! net as that could not come to this peo-
! pie. While we are Latter-day Saints II
| cncld not hnd Judgment In our midst.
WhyY because the Gospel Of the Son
/ al sbaga Y
remember the capital we had when we
came here; II is the capital that we
nave today The strong arm Of a united
people can accomplish that which no
amount OF money can. When we wanted
a canal made or bridge built, or any
puoiit work done we united together
ana Ola 1t; and In that way we accom-
pushed everything that was necessary.
lhele was no money TO hire men. |
remember When we wanted food for our
Journey 10 TINS country, we had no
money 10 purchase IT, and our leader
chheu the nechaillcs together and sent
Nheih into 'ne PAGES roundabout, where
ueF laoofeu ior the means necessary
10 sustain tne people, IL was not mon
eV 'hat we bought food with; 1t was the
union OF the people. That union as
sisted IN getting wagons and teams and
gathering IN supplies for twenty thou
SAND people who emigrated from Illi-
nols IN the winter OF 1886. In Febru-
airy we crossed the Mississippi river In"
10 iowa. All that we had was provld-
co IN the way l have Indicated. We
mace our own wagons, we traded our
houses ana lands Tor teams, and started
Out towards the west. One man did not
90 II II was the whole people, combined
tokether that dld II. When we were
upon the plains II we were assailed by
the sioux or the Ute Indians, we united
together to resist. We united together
TO resist the mob that drove us out OF
NauVoo, to preserve our rights. when
the whole state OF Illinois was against
US why were they opposed to us?
Because we asserted that we believed
IN God the Eternal Faher, and In His
son Jesus Christ. and that Joseph
smith was Prophet OF God. The re-
ms that thew coniJ po, s ner5I, as ns ~
lhdulge IN such 'sacrilege,' and they
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