Biography and Family Record of Lorenzo Snow: One of the Twelve Apostles of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day SaintsSnow, Eliza R. (Eliza Roxey)
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Biography and Family Record of Lorenzo Snow: One of the Twelve Apostles of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Snow, Eliza R. (Eliza Roxey)
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints; Snow family; Snow, Lorenzo, 1814-1901
In this peaceful country many thousand Saints have already assembled.
They have laid out a city called "Great Salt Lake City." In addition
to their private dwellings, they have raised several elegant and
magnificent public buildings. Many mills are in operation, and
factories are also in course of erection. Public institutions for
education have been established; one of these the State Legislature
has endowed with an annual sum of five thousand dollars for the term
of twenty years. Having come "up through great tribulation," they are
not forgetful in their prosperity of their brethren who are still
in adversity, scattered among the nations. Accordingly they have
established a "Perpetual Emigrating Fund," for the emigration of the
poor. Many thousand dollars have already been donated for this purpose.
As the gathering of Israel from every nation has been decreed by the
Lord, this fund has been so arranged as to be increased to millions, by
which the poor and virtuous among men can be assisted, and with perfect
assurance lift up their heads and rejoice, for the hour of their
deliverance is nigh!
In the same valley, and others adjacent, they are establishing other
cities; while the country around is appropriated to farming purposes.
And thus "the wilderness, and the solitary place shall be glad for
them; and the desert shall rejoice and blossom as the rose." Every
thing necessary to their comfort and refinement will continue to
flow with the tide of emigration. The wisdom and ingenuity of the
industrious will soon enable the sons and daughters of God to be
arrayed with the workmanship of their own hands.
Four hundred miles south of the Great Salt Lake City an extensive
settlement is being made. Likewise one on the borders of the Pacific
Ocean, near to the port of San Diego. They have also organized a State
government, called the "State of Deseret," and have now their claims
for admission into the Federal union before the Congress of the United
States.
That the reader may understand how this people are viewed by the public
at large, we subjoin the following extract from an American newspaper:
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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