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DESERET NEWS
Salt Lake City
This writer recently received a communication from Elders Amasa Lyman, and Chas C. Rich. They may be familiar to our readers as the leaders of our 150 wagon train migration who have led the way in forming our gateway settlement of the Pacific at San Bernardino in what is now known as California, but that which we hope will soon become part and parcel of the great State of Deseret.
Although not as dramatic a trek as the one many of us experienced while pushing a hand cart from Naveroo in search of our promised land, there have been many moments of trial. Apparently this party found a fortitude in our inspirational and beloved and familiar handcart song Some Must Push and Some Must Pull which quite accurately describes the suffering others, and myself, personally endured that God's will be done.
I, for one, find it rather repugnant that Elders Lyman and Rich felt compelled to change some of the revered words of our song, but I have been instructed to publish the following (the melody remains the same):
Ye Saints who dwell on Salt Lake's shore,
remember others and many more,
who left behind a chosen land,
for sure God's judgments were at hand.
For some must stay and some must go,
We for Deseret, others for their valley-o
God's will it must be done,
no matter the wind, and sand, and sun.
Our symbol has become a tree,
that to others remains a mystery,
Joshua, we call it as it lifts its hand,
as if to point to Deserets promised land.
Salt Lake City
This writer recently received a communication from Elders Amasa Lyman, and Chas C. Rich. They may be familiar to our readers as the leaders of our 150 wagon train migration who have led the way in forming our gateway settlement of the Pacific at San Bernardino in what is now known as California, but that which we hope will soon become part and parcel of the great State of Deseret.
Although not as dramatic a trek as the one many of us experienced while pushing a hand cart from Naveroo in search of our promised land, there have been many moments of trial. Apparently this party found a fortitude in our inspirational and beloved and familiar handcart song Some Must Push and Some Must Pull which quite accurately describes the suffering others, and myself, personally endured that God's will be done.
I, for one, find it rather repugnant that Elders Lyman and Rich felt compelled to change some of the revered words of our song, but I have been instructed to publish the following (the melody remains the same):
Ye Saints who dwell on Salt Lake's shore,
remember others and many more,
who left behind a chosen land,
for sure God's judgments were at hand.
For some must stay and some must go,
We for Deseret, others for their valley-o
God's will it must be done,
no matter the wind, and sand, and sun.
Our symbol has become a tree,
that to others remains a mystery,
Joshua, we call it as it lifts its hand,
as if to point to Deserets promised land.
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