I’m sure
most realized that one of the pre-requisites to being a pioneer was innovation.
True, scientific inventions or new ideas or improved ways of doing things
happened at a snail’s pace back then as compared to today. However, the
pioneers had a way of re-purposing items for prolonged use once the item was
completely worn out for its original intended use. For instance, what did the
young boys on the trail use for a trampoline?
a. Dead bloated oxen
b. Blankets held tight on all sides by
men
c. Jumping on top of the wagon covers
d. Digging a hole and stretching a
buffalo hide over the hole
Yesterday’s answers:
1. B.
An old wagon box
Almost all
baptisms in early Utah took place outdoors in streams or lakes. LDS records
identify but few baptismal fonts anywhere in Utah. In October 1856, the First
Presidency dedicated a baptismal font located near the Endowment House in Salt
Lake City. A year later, two Apostles helped dedicate a baptismal font in the
city’s fourteenth ward. In 1861, Brigham Young had a large wagon boarded up to
make a font a few rods east of his schoolhouse. About 10’ x 12’, it had two
dressing rooms attached. The President dedicated it September 4, 1861, then
told the ward bishops “they were quite welcome to use it for Baptizing, instead
of the creek.”
Nearly Everything Imaginable, Walker, Ronald W., Doris R. Dant ed., (Provo,
Utah: BYU Press, 1999), 270.
2.
B. Plumbed in to allow for running water
In 1875 the
Presiding Bishop asked Frederick Kesler, a millwright, to build a new baptismal
font for a group baptism of Native Americans then visiting Salt Lake City. With
boards and pipes, be built the font to run east to west so the officiator would
stand facing south, letting the candidate rise facing east, as in the
Resurrection. Kesler installed his font to have running, not standing, water,
for he believed that baptism should be, like Jesus’ was, in running water.
Nearly Everything Imaginable, Walker, Ronald W., Doris R. Dant ed., (Provo,
Utah: BYU Press, 1999), 270.
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