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Show 401 Appendix A Memorial [By Mary * I dedicate this to one whose hands it may fall. can Jane Mount * * of my female Tanner] * decendents, not knowing into it to the female line, for they better appreciate and understand the feelings of womanhood. Should I fail of female decendents, which, with my large family is I prefer directing probable, then let it go in the same ratio to the male line. Should fail, I would have it go to my sister Cornelia Taylor's decendents in the same ratio. The legatee to be over ten years of age, and a mem ber of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Under the age of ten the childish mind would scarcely appreciate the legacy. The present year, beginning April 6, 1880 and ending April 6, 1881, being fifty years from the organization of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, is called the year of Jubilee. During this year some of the sisters have decided to write a sketch of their lives as a "memorial" to be opened on the next year of Jubilee which will commence on April 6, 1930. In writing this, my "Jubilee Memorial," I am addressing myself to There have been many changes and vicissitudes a generation yet unborn. in the last fifty years, and, in the course of nature, there will be many The present generation will have passed away, more in the next fifty. and many of the rising generation will have gone to the bowne from whence there is no returning. Another generation will have sprung up: society will have changed; manners and customs will have somewhat varied, and many changes will have taken place, both in Church and State. Even if the wrath of the Lord be not poured out upon the nations For there are famine and pestilence, as the signs of the times indicate. wars and rumors of wars. Earthquakes and floods are devastating the the hiding of His wrath. The ocean over is volcano in the and earth, flows its bounds, and there are calamities by land and sea. "For all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet." The Latterday work is begun, and the Lord has sent forth His servants to prune His vineyard. He has sent His prophets, and they have sealed their testimony with their blood. The kingdom is being rolled forth, and the gospel is being preached to all nations of the earth. The Lords House is being established in the tops of the mountains, and many of the ancient prophe not both cies are being fulfilled. to transpire in the next fifty years we are not permitted and will children of course marry common the in nature, my know, but, raise families; and this little memorial will come to them as a voice from the tomb. It will be opened and read perhaps by those who have it will be preserved and handed down to yet never seen and I What will me, another generation. hope |
