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Show 115 a Mr. McIntosh. When W. C. Dunbar got into the act Brigham Young as one of the witches. 1 met with Federal army officers at the time of the Utah War in 1858 he c a l le entertain the assembled group. David Dunbar did d upon Scottish a so immigrant to by singing" Zion, " the words of which say in part Here our voices wel l raise And wel l sing to thy praise prophets Thy deliverance is nigh Thy oppressors shall die Sacred home of the And the wicked shall bow No doubt the intention Mormons had toward the songs of Zion, a r rn but John M. the Christmas carol "Far, was active in every choirs in southern Edinburgh ' y s l ea th thy guests" presence! 2 Not rod. of the attitude the did only they sing MacFarlane added to the Mormon Far of Away on musicology Thomas .Iu d e a and ' s Plains. organized I' a the Hymnology MacFarlane number of former director of the McIntyre, wrote the music for Eliza R. Snow's "How Lake Theatre handbills in William Gibson's Journal, Book ISlA. 2See neer Utah.3 Branch choir, ISalt No. phase remind the" to was n of God Dunb a r ' s song book in the C. Memorial Museum, Salt Lake Pioneer Heritage, II, 3Biographical City; R. Savage collection, also Pio Carter, editor, Our 4. Sketch of John Menzies MacFarlane (Works Progress Administration Project, typescript in Utah State Historical Society); George D. Pyper, The Stories of Latter-Day Saint Hymns, Their Authors and Composers (Salt Lake City, 1939), pp. 81-3. |
