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THE LATTER-DAY SAINTS'
MILLENNIAL STAR.

"To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word
it is because there is no light in them."—ISAIAH viii, 20.

No. 36, Vol. L. Monday, September 3, 1888. Price One Penny.

A PIONEER ADDRESS.

THE following address from President
Wilford Woodruff was read before
the assembled Sabbath schools of
Salt Lake City at their celebration
of Pioneer Day:

To the Pioneers and Citizens, and to
the Officers and Members of the
Sabbath Schools.

MY DEAR FRIENDS, Forty-one
years ago this day I passed through
Immigration Canyon with President
Brigham Young. He was taken sick
on East Canyon Creek, and I made a
bed for him in my carriage. When we
came upon the bench, where we had
a fair view of the valley before us, I
turned the side of the vehicle to the
west, so that he could obtain a fair
view of the valley. President Young
arose from his bed and took a survey
of the country before him for several
minutes. He then said to me, "Drive
on down into the valley; this is our
abiding place. I have seen it before
in vision. In this valley will be built
the City of the Saints and the Temple
of our God." I drove down to the
encampment already formed by a por-
tion of our company, who had cut a
road through the quaking-asp groves
of timber which were in the bed of
the canyon and come in ahead of us.
We arrived in the encampment at
11:30 on the morning of the 24th of
July, 1847. The brethren had already
turned out City Creek and irrigated
the dry and barren soil, being the first
irrigation ever performed by any one
in these mountains in this age. They
had also commenced to plough some
ground, and that noble pioneer, Wil-
liam Carter, whose circumstances pre-
vent him meeting with the pioneers
to-day, broke the first ground and
laid the first furrow. The ploughshare
that performed the work is on the
stand to-day. On my arrival in camp,
before I ate my dinner, I planted two
bushels of potatoes in the ground
broken up. President Young com-
menced to recover from his sickness
the hour he entered the valley. On a
day or two following our arrival a
remarkable incident occurred. While
President Young was walking with
several of the apostles on the higher
ground north-west of the encamp-
ment, he suddenly stepped out, struck
his cane into the barren ground and
sagebrush, and exclaimed, "Right
here will stand the Temple of our