Friday, July 24, 2009

Happy Pioneer Day

"My last act in that precious spot was to tidy the rooms, sweep up the floor and set the broom in its accustomed place behind the door. Then with emotions in my heart I gently closed the door and faced an unknown future, faced it with faith in God and with no less assurance of the ultimate establishment of the Gospel in the West and of its true enduring principles, than I had felt in those trying scenes in Missouri."

-Bathsheba Smith (on the evacuation of the Latter-Day Saints from Nauvoo)


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