Apparently a group of people recently quit the LDS Church. To bring attention to their “mass resignation event” (words of Heather May, Salt Lake Tribune) they chose to hike Ensign Peak. Coincidentally I can see this peak prominently from my office. “The crowd of about 120” would look like ants. If it really was a mass of people leaving a 14 million member Church it would have covered the peak and the entire mountain leading up to it. I wouldn’t be able to see the golden desert grass on the face of the mountain and ridges beyond it.
On July 26, 1847 (two days after the Saints arrived in the Salt Lake Valley) eight men hiked to the peak. The prominence of the peak interested Brigham Young when he entered the valley. “President Young had a vision of Joseph Smith, who showed him the mountain that we now call Ensign Peak, immediately north of Salt Lake City, and there was an ensign that fell upon that peak, and Joseph said, ‘Build under that point where the colors fall and you will prosper and have peace’” (From an address given by George A. Smith, June 20, 1869.). Brigham Young built under that peak and the gospel is going to the four corners of the earth.
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