Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-10-10

Charles Lambert. who married our ais
ter, Mary Alice, and who cared for us
younger children with thu Kindness and
devotion Of father.
You know the after story and
the mothers and fathers do not
fall 10 tell Il to our little ones
at their knees around the family
hearth. The hard struggle for exlstance
ana supplies In Missouri before taking
UP the long and tiresome Journey across
the plains. How Brother George O.
came ahead OF the hunger which grow
Ing boys and girls felt I'M those first
years OF want and famine--a hunger
which he described as leaving his
stomach IN such u condition OF cray
ing that when plenty later came, the
hungry stomach ye, complained. Aunt
Ann Ia to tell you Of Cannons us pio-
neers as 30 | shall not encroaeh upon
her subject to tell you Of the many
places We have helped TO build. or
towns laid out and distant places colon
lied. or roads we have helped 10 open,
and bridges 10 build. 1t may be sufii-
Client to say that wherever the Latter
day Saints have gone TO prepare a
dwelling place for His people there have
been found descendants OF our father
George Cannon.
THEY ARE EVERYWHERE
III we look to southern Utah--they
are there. IL we visit Canada on the
north they are there before us; II we go
to Mexico on the south, they have been
there also; and they stand there as else
where for God and His people.
THE Cannons and their kindred have
for generation after generation had an
mr. nrfa M ri In hair III Ial af n
We love It's wave-washed shores-its
delightful climate; the politeness, the
rnanliness and the rugged frankness OF
Its inhabitants. our hearts turn to our
kindred there, and as we move among
them we feel that all Manxmen arc
kindred 10 us. But the destiny that lies
before our fathers posterity could new
or have been worked out there. Ours Is
world mission and wherever the Cos
pei is to be sent, wherever the people
of God are to reside there win you find
the sons and daughters OF George
Cannon SO long as time shall last and
mortality endure 1t Is the gospel that
has developed us We have by its in
fluence and through its Spirit. been
made to put forth our best energy. And
through 1t all | trust we have worked
not to eXalt ourselves alone, but to
oNi W oNi ai4h " OShNll Jus iNlApNN
men. Among us can be found men
and women experienced in every line.
No honorable occupation but has
it's representative In our family. All
are and have been skllful as mechanics,
as sailors, AZ artizans, rs tillers of the
soil, as producers and as those who can
wiring from the elements an abundant
subsistence for the ever Increasing
number claiming kindred with us. All
professions are represented, and all
knowledge has come in proportion 10
our diligence and wisdom in seeking to
obtain and apply it.
GRATEFUL. TO GOD.
Let us not forget the Giver OF all
We enjoy Great promises have been
made TO us; but every blessing is pred.
icated upon faithfulness, Let us not
become proud, naughty, or self-willed
The promises made US and our poster
ity are sure and cannot iail unless we
turn from God and from the truth He
has established Let US be kind and
considerable and helpful to each other
and just and true to all other men.
Then VIII our heavenly father enable
us to work out our high destiny and
become the family OF God-fearing and
humanity-loving men and women our
earthly father hoped and foresaw we
might become"