The Tree of the Pioneers

Which tree is considered to be the tree of the pioneers?

     A)                 Box Elder

     B)                 Olive

     C)                 Ponderosa Pine

     D)                 Poplar

Yesterday’s answer:

     a.      39

One modern think tank has estimated that prior to the birth of Jesus Christ, new ideas, including scientific inventions and improved ways of doing things, were produced annually at the rate of 39 a year. During Joseph Smith’s lifetime, that number exploded to 3, 840 a year—a nearly 1, 000% increase. Today an estimated 110,000 changes occur each year—a 280% increase over the nineteenth century.

Orton, Chad M. and William W. Slaughter, Joseph Smith’s America (Salt Lake City: Deseret Books, 2005), 1.