The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1904-07-27
Sunday Services.
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in its efforts that men who did not
hold those views became prosecutors
of those who did and thus stirred up
hatred and strife. Every great cause
that was ever espoused by people
has been treated in just that manner.
The establishment of truth must al
ways be made under adverse circum-
stances. So the Mormon people were
followed, jeered at and prosecuted,
driven and murdered, stoned and exil-
ed. SO were Christ and his followers
treated.
The speaker made many references
to incidents Of an atrociouS nature
that were perpetrated on the bodies
Of Mormons who fell before the muir
derous hands Of mobs. At Haun's
mill an old soldier who fought under
Washington was shot down and his
body hacked with corn-cutters. The
men who built up city of twenty
thousand people were bounded and
their leader, Joseph Smith, killed
like lamb at a slaughter"
Then,when their first great prophet
was shot down and the hand of the
libertine dripped with the blood of
the innocent, did the people of God
start forth to find new abiding place.
Driven from their homes, unprotected
by their states, unheeded in their
calls for help, by their country, they
faced a waste of wilderness into which
they plunged for the discovery of a
new home. Then came a call for five
hundred of their men to fight for the
government which had spurned them.
And like all martyrs and heroes they
responded, and five hundred and more
marched against Mexico.
Left by so many able-bodied men,
the women and children bent their
backs TO the burdens OF the exodus.
Led by Brigham Young the exiles
plodded across the broad expansive
waste of country while behind them
the Missourians divided the forsaken
one hundred thousand acres of land.
Peace was offered the wanderers If
they would return and forsake their
religion; "A suggestion which made a
surging wave of indignation to rise in
the breast of every exile. Then began
so many marches 10y other companies
of so much fatigue and hartships,
graphically epitomi2ed by the speaker
saying my mother carried her babe
from the Missouri river to the Rocky
mountains. Winter came on TOO soon.
Flour was portioned out; children I'M
derfed, could not be comforted. To
save themselves the wanderers ate
rawf ide. The day before relief came
sixteen died"
When the companies reached the
Salt Lake valley they were gaunt and
weather-beaten, almost skeletons. II
grayestones marked the resting places
OF the remains of these heroes and
heroines, they would be as miestones
from Missouri TO Salt Lake. The
stories of these marches will be an
Had TO the Mormon children to come.
And 50 these marches were accom-.
plished. Religious freedom had been
secured by the sacrifice of hundreds OF
lives, but nothing was ever accom-.
plished by the prophets of God with.
out the yielding up of lives. 1t is the
rule.
AS Brigham Young, sick in a car.
riage, looked down from the noun.
tain tops and viewed the broad Salt
Lake valley for the first time he ex.
claimed, Eyes, yes, that is the place.
In that valley is where Zion will be
built" But though the journey with
its horrors lay behind them yet before
them lay other heart rending hard.
ships.
The sterile soil, destitute of water,
refused TO yield It's precious sub
stances. But in the face of this Brig
ham Young prophesied that the
streams would increase in volume and
dry creek beds would spout forth with
clear water, And through the adver.
stiles OF those bays rose the spirit of
the people, prophecies were fulfilled
and eventually the desert was disem-
boweled OF its precious elements to