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Show Girl with a Heritage 11 Once in the valley, the emigrants began to build their City of God: DESTINATION Mountains and cooling valleys gird the way, With distance cut by beauty's healing glow; The sight of wider valleys bleak and gray, A gleam of whitened lake-bed lying low. The breaking of clean sod, a fling of seed, A fitting of hewn logs from wooded hills, A planning for a future city's need, A verdure born of new-diverted rills Come slowly rising spires, widening field, The quickened throb of power through the land; Enduring strength of hope-fed labor yields Fulfillment to the weary pilgrim band. So time flows on; a city stands serene, A home for clear-eyed faith and beauty's sheen. Once when she was an adult Sunday School teacher, Madelyn taught a lesson on the Articles of Faith of the LDS Church. She told the class that her favorite Article of Faith was the thir teenth: We believe in being honest, true, chaste, benevolent, virtu ous, and in doing good to all men; indeed, we may say that follow the admonition of Paul: We Believe all things, we hope all things, we have endured many things, and hope to be able to endure all things we .... Madelyn then told them of her pioneer ancestors, particular ly her two grandmothers, to whom she had been very close. Her grandmother Cannon (Sarah Maria Mousley Cannon) had left the lush Delaware country where she lived on what is now the Dupont estate, came to the Salt Lake Valley, married and bore her first child, then moved on to the St. George wilderness, where she bore George M., her first son and the first white child |
