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tradesman was put to his trade and the artisan to his
calling. In the town streets and squares sprang up, as if by

magic. In the country there was draining and hedging,
planting and clearing, until the next summer saw the whole
country golden with the wheat crop. Everything prospered in
the strange settlement. Above all, the great temple which
they had erected in the centre of the city grew ever taller

and larger. From the first blush of dawn until the closing of
the twilight, the clatter of the hammer and the rasp of the
saw was never absent from the monument which the

immigrants erected to Him who had led them safe through
many dangers.

扬很快证明，他不仅是一个坚决果敢的领袖，还是一个干练的行

政官。很多地图和规划图都制定下来，未来城市也就有了一个轮廓。
周围的农田都根据每个教徒的身份高低按比例来分配。商人经营他的

买卖，工匠从事他的手艺活儿。城市中出现了街道和广场，就像变魔
术一般。乡村中开沟造篱、栽培垦殖，到了第二年的夏天，整个乡村

便满是黄澄澄的麦穗。这块新的定居地上的一切事物都欣欣向荣。特
别是这个城市中心那座宏伟的大教堂也一天天高耸起来。每天，从晨

光熹微一直到暮色四合，教堂里传来的斧锯之声总是不绝于耳，移民
们竖立了这座教堂，纪念那位引导他们度过无数艰险，到达平安境地

的上帝。

The two castaways, John Ferrier and the little girl who

had shared his fortunes and had been adopted as his
daughter, accompanied the Mormons to the end of their
great pilgrimage. Little Lucy Ferrier was borne along
pleasantly enough in Elder Stangerson's waggon, a retreat
which she shared with the Mormon's three wives and with

his son, a headstrong forward boy of twelve. Having rallied,
with the elasticity of childhood, from the shock caused by
her mother's death, she soon became a pet with the

women, and reconciled herself to this new life in her moving
canvas-covered home. In the meantime Ferrier having