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75 years ago
The Church was established and grew on the frontier, said Elder Levi Edgar Young of the Presidency of the Seventy on July 27, 1930, according to the July 28, 1930, edition of the Deseret News.
Speaking during Sunday afternoon services in the Salt Lake Tabernacle, Elder Young said that Joseph Smith established the Church on the frontier. Then, speaking of years later, said, "A deep religious life stimulated the pioneers who settled Utah. 'Mormonism' was born on the frontier, and has remained on the frontier almost until the present time."
Continuing about the pioneers, he said, "They suffered affliction; they were men and women who knew toil and sorrow, but they met the calamities of life with ever-increasing love and faith. The idealism they manifested in spite of the disasters that overtook them was always intensified.
"This was conducive of a very normal social growth, and a high type of democratic society, for all had a common regard for the same ideals and actions. It was this that brought about a concurrent sympathy and intelligence; and a concerted volition of all the people. With a people of high moral fiber and religious convictions, Utah began its history."
