The following morning, Tuesday, October 7th, “sixteen good four-mule teams and twenty-seven hardy young men headed eastward with the first installment of provisions. The next morning anvils were ringing in the blacksmith shops as horses were shod and wagons were repaired and loaded. Go and bring in those people now on the plains.” (In Handcarts to Zion, Glendale, Calif.: Arthur H. “I will tell you all that your faith, religion, and profession of religion, will never save one soul of you in the Celestial Kingdom of our God, unless you carry out just such principles as I am now teaching you. Also 12 tons of flour and 40 good teamsters, besides those that drive the teams. … They are in this Territory, and we must have them. I shall not wait until tomorrow, nor until the next day, for 60 good mule teams and 12 or 15 wagons. “That is my religion that is the dictation of the Holy Ghost that I possess. On the 5th day of October, 1856, many of our brethren and sisters are on the plains with handcarts, and probably many are now seven hundred miles from this place, and they must be brought here, we must send assistance to them. “I will now give this people the subject and the text for the Elders who may speak. The next morning, the Sabbath, he stood before the people in the Tabernacle and said: There was, of course, at that time no rapid means of communication-no radio, no telegraph, no fast mail. It was October, and they would be trapped in the snows of winter and perish unless help was sent.īrigham Young had known nothing of this. The first group was probably at this time in the area of Scotts Bluff, more than four hundred miles from their destination, with the others behind them. Most of them were pulling handcarts, two companies of these, with two smaller companies following behind with ox teams and wagons. They told him that hundreds of men, women, and children were scattered along the trail that led from the Missouri River to the Salt Lake Valley. ![]() They immediately sought out President Brigham Young. ![]() They had been able to make relatively good time because their teams were strong and their wagons light. On Saturday, the day before, a small group of missionaries returning from England arrived in the valley. Our people then met in the Old Tabernacle, which stood just to the south of us. We did not have this great Tabernacle at that time. As I have thought of this October general conference and of the inspired talks we have heard and will hear, my mind has gone back to the events of this same first Sunday of October 135 years ago when a similar meeting was convened here on Temple Square. ![]() My beloved brethren and sisters, how blessed we are to meet together in peace in these comfortable and happy circumstances.
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