The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-06-02
.ORATlONS FOR
BRIGHAM YOUNG
Mormons Honor the Memory of
Utah's Great Pioneer.
ANNIVERSARY OF HIS BIRTH
DEDICATION OF NEW MEMORIAL
BUILDING-AT sALTAIR.

( Salt Lakes long holiday is over. The
celebration yesterday of the 1O3nd an
niveTsaTy Of the birth of Brigham
Young. was the final event. This morn
ing the task viii begin of taking down
the decOra tfons which for the past four
days have given the city a gala aspect
The pictures and the bunting and the
Gsgs viii be put away until they are
needed for the Fourth Of July. and the
streets w3ll assume the bare appear
ance 81 a drawing room after the in
stallmelt agent has been around.
The final event which has given Salt
Lake a four days respite from bust
ness cares, occurred yesterday after
noon al the lake where members of the
Mormon church gathered to do honor
to the memory OF the man who laid the
foundations of city in the inter
mountain regions and made the bare
waste blossom. The first train-lOad or
people left the Garfield station shortly
I after o'clock and each succeeding
train helped to swell the throns. Many
I Of those who visited the lake took their
lunch baskets with them and remained
until the last train on the return trip
Progromme at the Lake
The principal event at the lake was
( the Grafton of OrsOn T. Whitney. Two
selections by the orchestra was sue
/ ceeded by a selection by the Provo
academy military band. Several selec-
tons were also rendered by the choir
| Tie scene appeared eninently suited TO
the occasion. A cool breeze from the
lake made the people forget the heat.
To the north and the south were the
quiet mountain ranges with SUBMITS
Of snow while the sunlight danced on
I the waters.
Or,1r- n Of he
| ent was Aunt Eliza Burgess but there
| were inunmerab bic children. grand chill
| dren and great grand children Chairs
were drawn up to the stage which
was occupied by Seymour B. Young,
/ president of the council of seventies,
3. NJ. Young, J. H. Paul who made the
closing prayer, Angus NJ. Cannon, VINO
made the Invocation and Bishop Whit
ney, the orator of the afternoon.
I love the memory of Brigham
Young. who was to me a kind and
, fatherly friend, Ny childhood's play
ground bordered upon his private
/ premises and from the summit of the
high stone wall dividing our humble
orchard from his spacious gardens 1
have often looked down in awe upon
I the bald eagle which guarded his grape
vines and fruit trees. A boy friend
once fell from that wall in the direc-
ton Of the forbidden fruit but he fell
preserved his honesty but not his
clothes Gaughter-)
Was Friend of Youth.
The last time I saw President Young
was when he shook my hand farewell
and gave me his blessing as I started
on my first mission. President Young
was ever a friend and encourager of
youth. He loved little children and
| they loved him. He was a man of the
people and have often seen him alight
from his carriage to shake hands and
| talk with some begrimed and honest
laborer- No urchtn no matter how I'M
kempt dotted his hat to Brigham Young
but that his hat came off in return.
1T is not my intention to recount his
achievements, his fllustrious deeds.
/ They are manifest on every hand. Re
deemer of desert, builder Of cities and
temples, planter Of orchards and vine
yard and founder of Utah. he was for
thirty years the most cospicuous figure
of all this western region Pioneer,
| statesman, farmer. financier, builder of
| telegraph and railroads, organizer Of
industry and header Of men. By the
student OF history he is worthy a
place with men like Columbus, Crom-
well, Washington and Lincoln.
In the constellation of Mormonism
| there is but one greater name and
| that is Joseph Smith, who conceived
| the work that Brigham Young lived to
execute. No other men could have
4 done the work It took a Joseph Smith
| or a Brigham Young. Brigham Young
was successful not alone because he
was gifted but because he was true and
/ loyal to God and to his calling. This
was the secret of his success. Brig
| ham Young has been styled the modern
| Moses who led his people out of bond
! age into the freedom of the wilderness.
Ia al TF-J,
/ ed them in the promised land
His Record Imperishable.
Brigham Young needs no monu-
/ ment of marble or bronze His record
/ IS imperisha bly, written upon the minds
and hearts of the tens Of thousands
/ to whom he was a benefactor and a
/ friend. His names and fame are for
/ ever enshrined in the temple of history,
1 in the Pantheon of memory, in the
! Westminster Abbey of the soul
] In the morning dedicatory services
4 were held in the Brigham Young Mem
/ Orial building of the L. D. S university.
/ The rooms and corridors were filed.
! Arthur II. Lund presided. The invOca-
/ ton was by Major Richard W Young
! and after a selection by the Temple
/ quartette the dedicatory prayer was
/ offered by President Joseph T. Smith.
/ John Robinson rendered a baritone
u
/ was at the bedside or Brigham Young
\ during the twenty hours preceding his
I death reviewed that scene and said
/ that while the world is not vet ready
I 10 pay to his LIES work the respect
/ due il. the time is coming when they
| viii esteem and honor It.
! President Anthem H. Lund in behalf
/ of the board Of trustees thanked the
/ heirs Of Brigham Young for their part
| IN giving TO the /. D. s. university the
| property which in part furnished the
( means for the beautiful building. Presi-
! dent Joseph F. Smith said. no man
! is perfect or without faults. All men
I make mistakes but a more honorable,
more merciful or more GOd-like man
/ than Brigham Young. never existed. -
/ He reviewed Brigham YOung's life
! from his departure in the east to his
landing in the west and said that his
name would always be honored and
! reverenced.
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