,,treasures ,,in ,,heaven ,,fifteenth ,,book ,,of ,,the ,,faith ,,promoting ,,series ,,designed ,,for ,,the ,,instruction ,,and ,,encouragement ,,of ,,young ,,latter-,,day ,,saints ,,compiled ,,and ,,published ,,by ,,geo4 ,c4 ,,lambert ,,salt ,,lake ,,city1 ,,utah #aiad ,,official ,,sanction ,april #h1 #aiad ,to the ,first ,presidency1 ,city4 ,dear ,brethren3 ,i have had a desire for a long time past to resume the publication of the ,faith ,promoting ,series that ,i originated and published something like thirty-five years ago1 but which has been suspended for almost thirty years4 ,i received the sanction of the ,church authorities when the publication of this series was commenced1 and had ample evidence afterwards of the popularity of the volumes issued1 and of the general benefit resulting therefrom4 ,i now desire your sanction in what ,i may do in publishing additional volumes2 and hope to subserve the interests of the ,church and promote true faith only in what ,i publish4 ,if you deem it necessary to appoint a committee to whom ,i may refer any matter concerning which there may be a question as to propriety1 etc41 ,i shall be glad to have you do so4 ,i am prepared to assume all financial responsibility1 and believe1 with the experience ,i have had1 ,i shall be able to do effective work in the selection and preparation of the matter4 ,i intend to make the volumes about one hundred pages each1 and hope to be able to sell them at twenty-five cents per volume4 ,i have the matter partially prepared for two volumes1 the first to relate to ,temple work1 and to be called ,treasures in ,heaven1 the second to contain a variety of incidents and experiences1 and to be called ,choice ,memories4 ,a waiting your kind consideration and reply1 and with kindest regards1 ,i remain ,your ,brother1 ,,geo4 ,c4 ,,lambert4 ,april #cj1 #aiad ,elder ,george ,c4 ,lambert1 ,city4 ,dear ,brother3 ,we learn by yours of the #bhth inst4 that you desire to resume the publication of the ,faith ,promoting ,series1 discontinued some thirty years ago1 and we take pleasure in informing you that you have our sanction to do this1 and that we have appointed ,elders ,george ,f4 ,richards1 ,a4 ,w4 ,ivins and ,joseph ,f4 ,smith1 ,jr4 as a committee to read the manuscript4 ,with kind regards1 ,your ,brethren1 ,,joseph ,f4 ,,smith1 ,,anthon ,h4 ,,lund1 ,,charles ,w4 ,,penrose1 ,first ,presidency4 ,,preface ,no lesson taught by the ,savior during his ministry in mortality was more frequently and thoroughly impressed than that of unselfish service4 ,of those who labored solely for the things of this world1 or for praise or the honors that men can bestow1 ,he had a habit of saying3 ,they have their reward4 ,if they obtained that which they strove for they were already repaid3 they were entitled to nothing more4 ,of the rich ,he said1 ,ye have received your consolation4 ,it was not sufficient that man should seek to benefit or bring happiness alone to those they loved4 ,even that ,he evidently regarded as a species of selfishness1 as implied by the saying3 ,for if ye love them which love you1 what reward have ye8 ,for sinners do even the same4 ,his exhortation was3 ,lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth1 where moth and rust doth corrupt1 and where thieves break through and steal2 but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven1 where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt1 and where thieves do not break through nor steal4 ,all this was not intended to imply that wealth itself was intrinsically bad1 or that poverty had any essential virtue1 except as a means to an end4 ,the rule was1 as expressed by the great ,teacher1 that where the treasure is1 there will the heart be also4 ,a sublime test upon this point was that made of the young man who applied to the ,savior upon one occasion to know what good thing he could do to gain eternal life4 ,though he was able to say that he had kept all the commandments from his youth up1 it was apparent to the ,master that his heart was set upon the wealth he possessed1 as evidence of which he turned away sorrowfully when required by the ,savior to surrender his possessions1 for the benefit of the poor1 and follow ,him4 ,the ,gospel as revealed anew in our day has shed a flood of light upon the subject of salvation1 and the conditions upon which it is predicated4 ,the glorious principle of salvation for the dead1 as revealed through the ,prophet ,joseph ,smith1 has awakened a desire in the hearts of thousands of earnest seekers after truth to do a vicarious work for the benefit of their dead relatives and friends1 that they may share in all the blessings and privileges of the ,gospel4 ,in this work1 as well as in the preaching of the ,gospel to the living1 have avenues been opened up for unselfish work1 which1 as it involves no earthly reward1 is clearly in the line of laying up treasures in heaven1 as distinguished from the work of amassing treasures upon earth which absorbs the attention of so many of the earth's inhabitants4 ,that the recital of some typical examples of sacrifices unselfishly made in the interest of others1 and the joy experienced therein1 may tend to promote faith in those who read the same and incite them also to lay up treasures in heaven1 this volume is published in continuation of the ,faith ,promoting ,series1 originated and published by the present author about thirty-five years ago4 ,,contents ,a ,,modern ,,stoic ,,chapter ,i4 ,birth of ,niels--,obscure ,childhood--,crippled1 ,helpless ,condition--,gospel ,preached--,taught ,needlework--,training in ,bible and ,lutheran ,creed--,a ,prophetic ,priest--,remarkable ,prediction ,concerning ,niels4 ,page #g4 ,,chapter ,,ii4 ,death of his ,mother--,life in ,aalborg--,conversion to ,mormonism--,heavenly ,message to ,elder ,kempe--,his ,obedience thereto--,baptism of ,niels--,his ,relatives ,ashamed of ,him--,proposition to ,make ,him a ,lutheran ,preacher4 ,page #ab4 ,,chapter ,,iii4 ,desire to ,migrate--,discouraging ,prospects--,help ,from an ,unexpected ,source--,religious ,discrimination--,contends for ,his ,rights--,effects a ,compromise--,characteristics of ,niels--,spiritual ,impressions and ,premonitions4 ,page #ag4 ,,chapter ,,iv4 ,a ,vision and its ,pre-,mortal ,counterpart--,beset by ,evil ,spirits--,deliverance ,therefrom--,preparations to ,migrate--,long ,voyage--,toilsome ,journey--,lost on the ,plains--,help from the ,lord4 ,page #ba4 ,,chapter ,v4 ,feat as a ,pedestrian--,lessons ,learned and ,ambition ,developed ,while ,traveling--,arrival in ,salt ,lake ,city--,employment ,diligently ,sought--,precarious ,success--,miraculously ,fed4 ,page #bg4 ,,chapter ,,vi ,invests in ,real ,estate--,acquires a ,home--,vicarious ,work in ,logan ,temple--,consequent ,elation--,promise to a ,dying ,friend--,gratuitous ,fulfillment in ,manti ,temple4 ,page #cc4 ,,chapter ,,vii4 ,completion of ,salt ,lake ,temple--,his ,work ,therein--,sister ,corradi ,inspired to ,apply to ,him--,devoted ,work for her ,kindred--,his ,severe ,afflictions--,saving ,work for #bbjj--;,graceful ,old ,age4 ,page #cg4 ,,chapter ,,viii4 ,modern ,stoic--,his ,modest ,obscurity--,what ,religion ,has ,done for ,niels--,philosophic ,way in ,which ,he ,views ,death4 ,page #dj4 ,a ,,woman ,,with ,a ,,purpose ,purpose ,essential to ,success--,birth and ,parentage of ,carolina ,corradi--,her ,mother's ,prescience--,preparation for ,future ,career--,devoted ,work in ,behalf of ,dead ,kindred4 ,page #dg4 ,,an ,,exception ,a ,rich ,man's ,handicap--,wealth ,not ,essentially ,bad--,but ,qualities its ,possession ,develops a ,bar to ,salvation--,typical ,case of a ,man ,reared in ,affluence--,unpromising ,start in ,married ,life--,how ,he ,became ,interested in ,temple ,work--,worthy ,example in ,recent ,years4 ,page #ee4 ,,my ,,mother ,,chapter ,i4 ,prediction from ,malachi ,fulfilled--,birth and ,childhood of ,mary ,alice ,cannon--,cannon ,family ,embrace the ,gospel--,migrate--,mother's ,death at ,sea--,arrival at ,nauvoo--,father's ,death--,her ,marriage4 ,page #fe4 ,,chapter ,,ii4 ,strenuous ,life in ,nauvoo--,city ,besieged--,thrilling ,experience--,miracle of ,quails--,run ,over by ,wagon--,wagon ,sinks to ,bottom of ,river--,life in ,utah--,mission ,abroad--,her ,posterity4 ,page #gd4 ,,examples ,,of ,,righteous ,,zeal ,night ,workers ,who ,serve in the ,temple ,during the ,day--,many ,women ,serve at ,great ,personal ,sacrifice--,temple ,work a ,boon to the ,blind4 ,page #hi4 ,a ,,modern ,,stoic ,,chapter ,i4 ,,birth ,,of ,,niels--,,obscure ,,childhood--,,crippled1 ,,helpless ,,condition--,,gospel ,,preached--,,taught ,,needlework--,,training ,,in ,,bible ,,and ,,lutheran ,,creed--,a ,,prophetic ,,priest--,,remarkable ,,prediction ,,concerning ,,niels4 ,perhaps no better example of unselfish service in the interest of others1 of patience and forbearance under the burden of a serious physical handicap and courage and persistence in a labor of love and sacrifice can be found than is afforded in the life of the hero whose portrait is herewith presented4 ,niels ,p4 ,l4 ,eskildz was born ,may #ca1 #ahcf1 at ,lindholm1 ,county of ,aalborg1 ,denmark1 only a few miles from the city of ,aalborg1 which is celebrated as being the birthplace of ,president ,anthon ,h4 ,lund4 ,the parents of ,niels were unassuming1 country folks1 with nothing to distinguish them from their industrious and respectable neighbors except their rather unusual size and a certain pride of bearing and correctness of speech1 due to their superior education1 and the fact that they were both descendants in a direct line from noble1 titled families4 ,they had a small farm1 the cultivation of which furnished them little more than a modest living1 and the father combined the occupation of butcher with that of farmer1 by slaughtering animals and selling meat in the village market place every ,wednesday and ,saturday4 ,image3 ,niels ,p4,l4 ,eskildz ,niels was the youngest of the family1 having two brothers of almost gigantic stature and a sister who1 when grown1 was the largest woman in that part of ,denmark4 ,niels also1 would doubtless have grown to be an unusually large man had he not met with an awful accident when ten years of age4 ,denmark is a country almost without fences1 the farms being separated one from another by imaginary lines4 ,instead of the cows and sheep owned by the farmers being allowed to range at will in pastures1 the custom was and still is to stake them out individually1 and lead them in at night4 ,as a rule the cows are models of decorum1 and one of the prettiest as well as commonest sights of the country is to see a boy or girl marching a number of cows1 like so many soldiers1 in double file and close rank from the pasture to the barn4 ,niels1 having been sent by his parents to thus bring a cow in from the field1 the creature1 though usually docile1 suddenly became fractious and1 running around the boy1 tangled him up in the rope1 and then frantically dragged him through a grain field and against numerous obstructions before she could be stopped4 ,when released the poor boy was found to have a broken thigh and other serious injuries1 from the effects of which he was bedfast for more than three years4 ,it was feared he never would recover1 but his patient mother gave him the most devoted attention and relieved the tedium of his helplessness by teaching him needlework1 at which she was an adept1 and by reading to him4 ,in course on time he grew strong enough to be propped up in a chair and thus carried into the open air1 but the exertion was probably too much for him1 as he soon had a relapse1 and during the ensuing two years spent most of his time in bed4 ,his spine by degrees became so curved and deformed that1 while his legs were nearly of normal length1 his body had the appearance of having been crumpled down thereon1 and his large1 well-shaped head crowded down between his shoulders4 ,in the year #ahej ,apostle ,erastus ,snow arrived in ,denmark as a missionary4 ,he had not been there long when the ,gospel influence began to be felt and converts to flock to his standard4 ,one family among the residents of ,lindholm embraced the ,gospel1 and soon found themselves somewhat notorious because of the attention they received from the local ,lutheran priest1 near whose chapel the family lived1 and his frequent public comments on their abandonment of the ,lutheran faith and acceptance of the unpopular doctrines of ,mormonism4 ,in those days the ,lutheran church held almost undisputed sway throughout ,denmark1 and the invariable rule was for children to be diligently taught the ,bible and drilled in a knowledge of the ,lutheran creed from their infancy4 ,when the children attain the age of about thirteen years they are required to appear before the priest for a series of examinations1 as to their knowledge of these subjects before being confirmed as members of the ,lutheran church4 ,when ,niels was fourteen years old1 and was barely able to hobble about a little on crutches1 he was cited to appear with a class of dozen or more children before the priest1 to be catechised4 ,this they did many times until they were able to answer satisfactorily all the questions propounded to them4 ,at about the first of these meetings a young girl asked to be excused from the examinations1 because her parents had joined the ,mormons1 and she expected to4 ,she cited in support of her plea1 that the ,king of ,denmark had granted religious liberty4 ,her request was complied with by the priest1 who proceeded to comment on ,mormonism then and at every subsequent meeting in a way that indicated that he must have been studying ,mormon literature1 and ,niels very strongly suspected that the priest was really converted to ,mormonism1 although he either lacked the courage to embrace it1 or considered it impolitic to do so4 ,whether this surmise was correct or not1 the priest seemed to have ,mormonism constantly in his mind1 and his frequent allusions to its doctrines and the scripture supporting the same had the effect of converting ,niels to ,mormonism4 ,though he did not then declare his belief in the ,gospel1 he had not from that time a doubt of its truth4 ,that priest1 whose name was ,holger ,christopher ,kongslev ,thryde1 was a very peculiar man1 a thorough scriptorian1 a keen reasoner and withal quite inspirational4 ,when the class of which ,niels was a member had received sufficient training by him to appear for public examination and confirmation as members of the ,lutheran church1 they were all notified to be present at the regular ,sunday service in the chapel4 ,there they were separately catechised by the priest in presence of the congregation4 ,their answers being satisfactory1 he asked each in turn as to his willingness to enter into covenant to serve ,god4 ,on being told that he was1 the priest said then give your heart to ,god and your hand to me4 ,holding the child by the right hand1 he then placed his left hand upon the youthful head1 confirmed him as a member of the ,lutheran church and exhorted him to faithfulness or indulged in predictions concerning his future1 apparently as the spirit prompted him4 ,of one boy he expressed regret that he had been confirmed a ,lutheran1 for he would soon abandon the faith4 ,the sequel proved this prediction to be true1 for the boy soon left his birthplace to live among relatives who were ,baptists1 and accordingly became a ,baptist4 ,when ,niels was confirmed1 the priest proceeded to say3 ,the ,lord has laid a heavy hand upon you in your youth1 which will be a hard cross for you to bear through life2 but it was for a wise purpose--to prepare you for a great work that you do not understand now4 ,after you have traveled thousands of miles to a strange land you know not1 you will there eventually have a chance to go into the sanctuary of the ,lord to do a work for your father's family and your ancestors that they did not understand or know anything about4 ,this prediction made a deep impression upon the mind of ,niels1 who remembered every word of it1 and felt that somehow it would be fulfilled1 though he could not then conceive how or when4 ,that he1 a helpless cripple and confirmed invalid2 without money or influential friends1 should ever travel thousands of miles over land and sea1 seemed very improbable2 indeed1 it seemed very unlikely that he would live long enough to make such a journey if he were financially able4 ,,chapter ,,ii4 ,,death ,,of ,,his ,,mother--,,life ,,in ,,aalborg--,,conversion ,,to ,,mormonism--,,heavenly ,,message ,,to ,,elder ,,kempe--,,his ,,obedience ,,thereto--,,baptism ,,of ,,niels--,,his ,,relatives ,,ashamed ,,of ,,him--,,proposition ,,to ,,make ,,him ,a ,,lutheran ,,preacher4 ,if the details of the life of ,niels for the next six years were written it would be a record of helpless dependence and privation4 ,to the surprise of all who knew him1 he continued to live1 and even gain a little strength4 ,life at home had become unbearable since the death of his mother1 which occurred ,december #f1 #ahed4 ,in the fall of #ahef1 when he was twenty years of age1 ,niels left home and went to live among relatives in ,aalborg1 where he had a checkered experience1 often being made to feel that he was in the way and that his welcome was worn out1 but occasionally encouraged by real kindness and genuine charity4 ,one lady in particular took a great interest in him1 and1 finding that he had some skill in needle work1 encouraged him to practice a kind that was much in vogue among ladies1 and through her kindly efforts he obtained considerable profitable work from many aristocratic women4 ,soon after removing to ,aalborg he met and became somewhat acquainted with some ,mormons1 a family of ,saints being close neighbors to his aunt4 ,his partial investigation of the ,gospel then confirmed his early conviction that it was the truth1 but his dependent condition1 and the opposition of his relatives to such an unpopular religion1 led him to defer embracing it4 ,it was not until ,november #a1 #ahfb1 six years after he first attended a ,mormon meeting1 that he embraced the ,gospel1 and then under peculiar circumstances4 ,christoffer ,jensen ,kempe1 who afterwards became well known in ,utah and ,arizona1 was laboring as a ,mormon missionary in that part of ,denmark4 ,one very stormy night he had found lodgings in a barn1 about forty-two miles from ,aalborg4 ,some time after retiring to rest he was aroused by feeling a hand laid upon his shoulder and hearing a voice tell him to get up and go to ,aalborg and baptize the cripple1 ,larsen1 whom he had seen at the ,saints' meetings--that if he ever joined the church he would have to be baptized the next evening4 ,obedient to the voice of the spirit1 he arose and set out afoot in the storm4 ,he walked the entire distance1 and on his arrival in ,aalborg he called upon ,niels at his lodgings and informed him that he had come to baptize him4 ,niels immediately asked what prompted him to come1 as he had not even announced his intention of joining the church4 ,elder ,kempe related the visitation he had received forty-two miles distant1 and told of his journey for the special purpose1 and added that he would like while he was at it to baptize ,niels' brother and sister-in-law who were then living in ,aalborg1 and whom he had met and talked with on the subject of religion4 ,niels ventured the opinion that neither of the relatives mentioned had any serious intention of embracing ,mormonism1 and that he was sure they would not if they learned their crippled brother intended to do so4 ,however1 he said1 you may try them1 and if you succeed in getting their consent you may call back for me1 and ,i will be ready4 ,the ,elder promptly repaired to the brother's house and broached the subject of baptism to the couple1 saying he was going to do some baptizing that night1 and if they wished he would baptize them4 ,they at first favored the proposition1 but when he1 hoping to hasten and make certain their decision1 mentioned that ,niels was going to be baptized they lost all interest in the subject and refused to be baptized4 ,returning to ,niels1 the ,elder informed him of his failure and disappointment4 ,niels was not at all surprised1 and told the ,elder he should not be disappointed in him1 as he was ready4 ,they accordingly made their way that very night a considerable distance out of town1 to find a suitable place for the performance of the ordinance1 and ,niels was initiated into the ,church by baptism ,november #a1 #ahfb4 ,some circumstances of which ,niels was in ignorance at the time of his baptism1 but which he afterwards learned of1 may furnish the sequel to what was meant by the heavenly warning to ,elder ,kempe that ,niels would have to be baptized that very evening if he ever joined the church at all4 ,something like consternation had prevailed among the aristocratic members of the ,lutheran church in and around ,aalborg about that time1 in consequence of so many of the members being converted to ,mormonism4 ,as a rule they were not the wealthy members who accepted of the ,gospel1 as taught by the ,mormon missionaries1 but they included those who had been regarded as among the very best and most faithful members of the church1 and they were joining the ,mormon ranks in such numbers that they seemed for awhile to threaten the very existence of some of the ,lutheran congregations4 ,the priests and their influential1 loyal supporters held numerous meetings1 to discuss measures for checking this defection and restoring the waning fealty of their flocks4 ,among other schemes resorted to was that of organizing a society or club among the wealthy women of the ,church1 and the collecting by them of a large sum of money1 to effect a kind of revival in the church4 ,the lady mentioned as having taken such an interest in procuring work for ,niels was one of the leaders in this movement4 ,she had discovered that ,niels was a very observant individual1 was a logical reasoner1 had a most retentive memory and a very thorough knowledge of the scriptures4 ,it had been her habit while ,niels was employed at her home to test him upon these points4 ,occasionally she would ask him what the preacher had talked about at the service on the previous ,sabbath1 or to relate some particular thing that he had heard or read4 ,he would not only be able to repeat1 almost verbatim what he had heard or read1 but to mimic the gestures of the speakers as well4 ,possibly she and her aristocratic associates had been impressed with his mental vigor and been led to think that he might be utilized in some way in arousing an interest in church affairs4 ,possibly it may have been sympathy for him and the kindness of their hearts that prompted them to think of him in connection with their revival project4 ,what they did was to get up a numerously signed petition to the bishop of the diocese1 to appoint ,niels to act as a lay preacher or exhorter--a kind of home missionary--to visit the members at their homes1 hold semi-private services1 etc41 and to be paid a regular stipend therefor out of the funds they had collected4 ,it could not have been anything attractive about his personality that suggested him for such a position1 for in appearance he was repellant rather than attractive4 ,even the very dogs on the street shunned him or snarled at him and refused to be friendly or sociable with him4 ,it could not have been any zeal that he manifested in the ,lutheran church that caused him to be thought of1 for although he frequently attended the ,lutheran service 7more as a matter of policy than otherwise1 for he obtained his employment chiefly from the ,lutheran ladies7 he even more commonly attended the ,latter-day ,saint services1 and had several times been chided by his ,lutheran acquaintances for doing so4 ,of course ,niels was not consulted in regard to the plans of the ,lutheran ladies concerning him4 ,his projected appointment was intended to be a surprise to him4 ,the bishop announced to the ladies' society that he had complied with their petition and appointed ,niels to act as lay preacher on the very day of the latter's baptism1 as already mentioned1 and that evening a meeting was held in the local ,lutheran church1 and the announcement was made public4 ,the inquiry was then made of the congregation as to where ,niels lived1 so that the news might be sent to him1 but no person present seemed to know4 ,one man1 however1 arose in the congregation and volunteered the information that he was acquainted with the brother of ,niels 7the same one whom ,elder ,kempe had hoped to baptize17 and that he could carry the news to him of the honor that had come to ,niels4 ,he was accordingly commissioned to do so1 but when he went to the brother the following day he learned to his surprise that he was just one day too late2 ,niels had embraced ,mormonism the night before4 ,he knew it1 for he had witnessed the baptism4 ,niels learned1 soon after he was confirmed a ,latter-day ,saint1 of the proposition to make him a preacher of the ,lutheran religion1 and of course was surprised thereat4 ,he didn't regret having missed the opportunity4 ,being sure 7as he had been ever since he was a child7 that ,mormonism was true1 he would have had to stultify himself to advocate any other creed4 ,he was glad1 however1 that the temptation never was squarely presented to him1 lest in his weakness and poverty he might have yielded to it4 ,,chapter ,,iii4 ,,desire ,,to ,,migrate--,,discouraging ,,prospects--,,help ,,from ,,an ,,unexpected ,,source--,,religious ,,discrimination--,,contends ,,for ,,his ,,rights--,,effects ,a ,,compromise--,,characteristics ,,of ,,niels--,,spiritual ,,impressions ,,and ,,premonitions4 ,in common with all the ,saints in ,scandinavia at that period1 ,niels had a strong desire to migrate to ,zion1 and was as ready as any of his countrymen to accomplish that end by rigid economy and self denial2 but how he was ever going to obtain the price of his fare was a problem for which he could see no solution4 ,his income from charity and his own earnings had been so meagre and precarious for years that it had been his habit from necessity to test how little it required to sustain life4 ,to accumulate anything honestly had practically been out of the question4 ,how then could he ever hope to save so large an amount as his fare to ,utah would cost8 ,in the face of this discouraging prospect help came to him from a most unexpected source1 which ,niels has ever since regarded as providential4 ,he had become acquainted with a kind hearted ,lutheran priest1 whose sympathy was doubtless excited by his helpless1 dependent condition4 ,one day when they chanced to meet1 the priest mentioned the fact that a person had recently died who for several years previous had been enjoying a legacy bequeathed to the parish many years before by a charitable person1 when about to die4 ,one of the conditions of this bequest was that it should be held for the support of some worthy person who was physically helpless and dependent4 ,niels was reminded that he was physically and morally qualified to benefit by that legacy1 and encouraged by the suggestion that he might possibly succeed as its beneficiary if he made application to the parish officers4 ,he did so without delay1 and to his great gratification he was granted the benefit of the legacy4 ,it was not very much--it only amounted to about ten dollars per quarter1 or #dj4jj per year--but by maintaining the same system of economy he had previously practiced1 he managed to save the greater part of it1 and began to look forward to the time when his savings would be sufficient to pay for his emigration4 ,niels had not enjoyed this legacy very long1 however1 when the parish officers learned that he was a ,mormon1 and stopped payment of the stipend4 ,they soon found1 though1 that ,niels was not to be disposed of so easily4 ,friendless and helpless and cripple though he was1 he was not lacking in courage and a sense of the justice of his cause4 ,boldly he went before the parish officers and demanded the payment of the stipend that had been withheld1 and its continuance while he lived4 ,assuming that the person who made the bequest had not stipulated that it should be held exclusively for ,lutherans1 he charged that they had no right to apply any religious test to him1 and defended his cause so well that his hearers were forced to admit that he was right4 ,after a very lengthly parley they reluctantly offered to compromise by allowing him the benefit of the legacy for a limited time4 ,he refused the offer and contended for his life interest1 and reminded them that notwithstanding his weakly condition he was liable to live a long time1 as his ancestors had been noted for their longevity4 ,when they were thoroughly impressed with this possibility1 he offered a compromise--proposing that the amount of twelve quarterly payments be advanced to him from the funds of the legacy1 on condition that he surrender his right to any more1 and migrate to ,utah4 ,this they finally agreed to1 and thus ,niels was enabled to come to ,utah with a company of ,saints which left ,copenhagen ,may #ag1 #ahff4 ,before mentioning the details of the journey or his life in ,utah it may be appropriate to revert to some things that tend to illustrate the character of ,niels4 ,he is possessed of a strong and independent mind1 fixed convictions and marvelous will power for one whose body is so frail4 ,his spirituality is highly developed2 but one would not know it from his manner4 ,he is never exuberant1 enthusiastic or talkative1 but sedate1 reserved and self-possessed4 ,he is a keen observer1 a good listener1 a logical and discriminating thinker and a thoughtful and discreet talker4 ,he has a high sense of honor1 a respect for others' rights and feelings1 charity for the weaknesses and failings of others1 and for one who has been so helplessly dependent the greater part of his life1 is wonderfully free from servility4 ,he is grateful for kindness and favors shown him1 but never truculent or even obsequious4 ,he has reasons satisfactory to himself for his actions1 but these reasons are not always apparent to others1 and because of this his motives have often been misconstrued1 even by his friends and co-religionists4 ,he has few confidants1 and lives as it were in a world of his own1 being reticent to a marked degree1 but confident and self-reliant as to his course in life4 ,though diffident about admitting it1 his spiritual impressions have largely controlled his actions throughout his life4 ,when only ten years old the premonition of impending disaster was so strong within him1 that just prior to the dreadful accident which left him maimed for life1 he plead with his parents not to send him for the cow1 and when they persisted in doing so1 warned them that they would be sorry for if all their lives4 ,they did not mean to be unkind or heartless2 indeed1 they had great love for their children1 and the father was especially indulgent2 but they had strict ideas in regard to family discipline1 and when once the word of either one was passed as to any requirement on the part of the children1 both were unyielding in demanding compliance4 ,they saw no danger in his bringing the cow in from the pasture4 ,he had done so many times before1 without any harm resulting therefrom1 and they saw no reason why he should not do so again1 with impunity4 ,the sequel1 however1 proved that his premonition was correct4 ,,chapter ,,iv4 ,a ,,vision ,,and ,,its ,,pre-,,mortal ,,counterpart--,,beset ,,by ,,evil ,,spirits--,,deliverance ,,therefrom--,,preparations ,,to ,,migrate--,,long ,,voyage--,,toilsome ,,journey--,,lost ,,on ,,the ,,plains--,,help ,,from ,,the ,,lord4 ,his crippled1 helpless condition was a great source of sorrow to ,niels1 and instead of his becoming gradually reconciled thereto1 as it might be supposed that he would1 he seemed to brood over it more the older he grew4 ,he belonged to a proud and rather dignified family1 and was naturally very proud himself1 but realized that he did not present a dignified appearance4 ,he was constantly reminded that people were repelled rather than attracted by him1 and this of course wounded his pride and made him miserable4 ,during the summer preceding his baptism1 after a day of extreme melancholy1 an incident occurred that produced an entire change in his feelings4 ,while engaged preparing his evening meal a glorious vision burst upon his view4 ,it was not a single scene that he beheld1 but a series of them4 ,he compares them to the modern moving pictures1 for want of a better illustration4 ,he beheld as with his natural sight1 but he realized afterwards that it was with the eye of the spirit that he saw what he did4 ,his understanding was appealed to as well as his sight4 ,what was shown him related to his existence in the spirit world1 mortal experience and future rewards4 ,he comprehended1 as if by intuition1 that he had witnessed a somewhat similar scene in his pre-mortal state1 and been given the opportunity of choosing the class of reward he would like to attain to4 ,he knew that he had deliberately made his choice4 ,he realized which of the rewards he had selected1 and understood that such a reward was only to be gained by mortal suffering--that1 in fact1 he must be a cripple and endure severe physical pain1 privation and ignominy4 ,he was conscious too that he still insisted upon having that reward1 and accepted and agreed to the conditions4 ,he emerged from the vision with a settled conviction that to rebel against or even to repine at his fate1 was not only a reproach to an ,alwise ,father whose care had been over him notwithstanding his seeming abandonment1 but a base violation of the deliberate promise and agreement he had entered into1 and upon the observance of which his future reward depended4 ,whatever opinion others may entertain concerning the philosophy involved in this theory1 is a matter of absolute indifference to ,niels4 ,he does not advocate it2 he does not seek to apply it to any other case2 but he has unshaken faith in it so far as his own case is concerned4 ,whether true or not1 the fact remains that he has derived comfort1 satisfaction1 resolution and fortitude from it4 ,he has ever since been resigned to his affliction1 and1 though never mirthful1 is serene and composed and uncomplaining4 ,he has always felt that the vision was granted to him by the ,lord for a wise and merciful purpose--that he might1 through a better understanding of his duty1 be able to remain steadfast thereto4 ,in striking contrast to this experience was that which occurred during the night following his baptism4 ,evil spirits seemed to fill the room in which he had retired to sleep4 ,they were not only terribly visible1 but he heard voices also1 taunting him with having acted foolishly in submitting to baptism and joining the ,latter-day ,saints4 ,he was told that he had deserted the only friends he ever had1 and would find no more among the ,mormons1 who would allow him to die of starvation rather than assist him4 ,that he had no means of earning a livlihood in the far western land to which the ,saints all hoped to migrate1 and he would never cease to regret it if he ever went there4 ,this torment was kept up incessantly until he sought relief in prayer1 and three times he got out of bed and tried to pray before he succeeded in doing so4 ,then his fervent pleading unto the ,lord for power to withstand the temptation of the evil one1 and to hold fast to the truth1 brought relief to him4 ,the evil spirits gradually1 and with apparent reluctance1 withdrew1 and peace came to his soul1 with the assurance that the ,lord approved of his embracing the ,gospel1 and that he could safely rely upon the ,lord for future guidance4 ,preparations were soon made to migrate to ,utah1 although ,niels was seriously ill4 ,in addition to his other troubles1 he had for years been afflicted with asthma1 and he had such difficulty in breathing that for a long time he had not been able to recline1 having to sleep1 if at all1 in a sitting posture4 ,he was also so frail and weak at the time that many of his acquaintances expressed a fear that he would not live to make the journey1 and some even predicted that he would die while crossing the ocean4 ,not at all daunted1 however1 by these pessimists1 he determined to start with the very first company of migrating ,saints1 and soon arranged with a newly-married couple and a young single man who were ambitious to migrate1 to care for him on the journey1 carry and look after his luggage1 etc41 in return for certain financial aid which he was able and willing to afford them4 ,he realized that it would be a long and tiresome trip1 and his natural independence was exhibited in thus arranging beforehand for the help he might require1 lest he might be regarded as a public burden4 ,the journey1 as planned1 was not as direct as those commonly pursued in more recent years1 nor nearly so expeditious4 ,the company assembled at ,copenhagen1 whence they proceeded by steamer to ,kiel1 in ,germany1 and from there took train for ,altonia4 ,at ,hamburg1 on the river ,elbe1 they boarded an ocean sailing vessel1 the ,kenilworth1 bound for ,new ,york4 ,the voyage lasted eight weeks1 long enough for the passengers to get well acquainted with one another4 ,they had expected to proceed westward from ,new ,york1 7or rather from the ,new ,jersey side of the ,hudson river7 by rail1 but ,thomas ,taylor1 who was the ,church ,immigration ,agent in ,new ,york at that time1 had learned before their arrival that all the lines of railway extending westward from that point had entered into a combine to demand a higher rate for transporting companies of ,latter-day ,saints than those previously prevailing4 ,determined not to submit to their extortion1 he discovered before the company arrived that one line of railway extending westward from ,new ,haven1 ,connecticut1 was not in the combine1 and would transport the company at the old rate1 and he decided to patronize it4 ,the road was either poorly equipped with cars or lacked time before the arrival of the company to make the necessary arrangements for convenient transportation4 ,the accommodations on the train as it was made up were rather meager2 in fact1 it was a cattle car that ,niels rode in1 and the passengers had to sit or he on the floor4 ,the road bed appeared to lack ballast1 and the ride was a jolty1 tiresome one--particularly hard on ,niels1 who was so painfully affected by the jolting that he sought relief by bracing his hands against the floor on either side of him1 thereby partially sustaining the weight of his body and easing the jar4 ,the shaking was so great that both doors fell off the car1 and1 to cap the climax1 some of the cars ran off the track1 the one in which ,niels rode standing crosswise of the track1 and with two of the wheels broken off it1 when the train came to a halt4 ,this occurred on the bank of a river in ,southern ,canada1 and the passengers breathed a sigh of relief when they discovered what a narrow escape they had from being plunged into the river4 ,from ,new ,york the company therefore proceeded by coast steamer to ,new ,haven1 and from there by train to ,st4 ,joseph ,missouri1 where they were transferred to a river boat that during the next two days took them up the ,missouri to ,wyoming ,hills1 a few miles from ,nebraska ,city1 from which point they were to be conveyed by ox train to ,salt ,lake ,city1 more than a thousand miles distant4 ,before leaving ,denmark1 he had not been able to walk as much as two hundred yards without stopping to rest1 but he gradually improved while crossing the sea1 and1 though temporarily prostrated with the heat while on the river steamer1 he rallied before the overland journey was undertaken4 ,before starting from the ,missouri river the able-bodied passengers were requested to walk as much as possible on the journey1 as the wagons were heavily loaded and the strength of the oxen had to be conserved1 as they had an eight weeks trip before them4 ,though far from being able-bodied1 ,niels determined to do his best at walking4 ,he accordingly set out bravely with the other pedestrians1 with whom1 however1 he was unable to keep up1 as his gait was like that of a snail4 ,his habit was to walk until overtaken by the train1 or until he was so fatigued that he could not proceed further1 when he would get into a wagon and ride4 ,occasionally he succeeded by perseverance in walking all day long1 and was necessarily most of the time alone4 ,by starting early1 as soon as breakfast was over1 and before the teams had been hitched up1 he would be able to keep ahead of the train1 and yet soon be outdistanced by his more able companions4 ,upon one occasion he got lost as a result of being alone4 ,he arrived at a point where the road which he was following diverged into two4 ,not knowing which of the two he should take1 he happened to choose the wrong one1 and traveled for a long distance without being able to see those who had preceded him or the wagons in the rear4 ,without apprehension1 he trudged along until he arrived at a river which was too deep and swift for him to wade1 and which was spanned by a rude foot bridge1 consisting of two or three lengths of a single round pole1 supported where the ends joined amid-stream by two poles set up in the form of a cross1 with the lower ends firmly imbedded in the stream1 and securely lashed with rawhide at the intersection4 ,the swiftness of the current and the distance from the foot bridge down to the stream made him dizzy when he looked down1 so that he despaired of being able to cross the bridge1 and yet felt that he must do so to overtake the train that he supposed must have forded at a point much lower down stream4 ,in his emergency he knelt in prayer on the river bank1 reminding the ,lord of his dependence upon ,him and appealing unto ,him for help4 ,he arose with a feeling of confidence1 and without any trepidation or dizziness set out and walked along the pole as steadily as if he had been a tight-rope performer4 ,then1 following his impression as to the course he ought to take1 he walked on until he overtook the train1 encamped1 some time after nightfall1 and when men were about to be dispatched to search for him4 ,,chapter ,v4 ,,feat ,,as ,a ,,pedestrian--,,lessons ,,learned ,,and ,,ambition ,,developed ,,while ,,traveling--,,arrival ,,in ,,salt ,,lake ,,city--,,employment ,,diligently ,,sought--,,precarious ,,success--,,miraculously ,,fed4 ,the journey on the whole1 though tiresome1 was not otherwise unpleasant4 ,he enjoyed the society of his fellow emigrants1 and felt that he had been blessed of the ,lord beyond his most sanguine hopes2 for notwithstanding his feeble condition when starting1 he succeeded in walking more than three fourths of the way across the plains4 ,he had also been cured of the asthma with which he had been so long afflicted--not suddenly1 but so gradually that he hardly realized that he was outgrowing it4 ,he had also been benefited otherwise by the experience gained on the journey4 ,his views of life had become broadened by travel1 and by the evidences of thrift and enterprise which he witnessed on his journey through the states1 as well as by the possibilities of development he could forsee in the great and boundless west4 ,he felt like a bird released from a cage after a lengthy confinement therein4 ,he enjoyed his freedom and learned to commune with ,nature as he never had done before4 ,his knowledge of human nature had also been very materially added to since leaving his native land4 ,there are few conditions under which human nature can be studied to better advantage than while making such a journey over sea and land as that which he had passed through4 ,the crowding together of a large company in the hold of a ship for eight long weeks1 with meagre accommodations and food generally insufficient and frequently bad1 is certain to develop selfishness1 impatience and irritability where these qualities exist even in latent form4 ,his fellow passengers were actuated by the noblest motives in migrating4 ,they had accepted the ,gospel of the ,lord ,jesus ,christ1 some of them at the sacrifice of material comforts1 and most of them at the cost of friends and prestige4 ,some of them had been sneered at and persecuted in their native land1 and had their former friends and relatives turn to be their bitter enemies1 solely because of their accepting of and adhering to such an unpopular creed4 ,they had withstood all that1 and1 with faith still unshaken1 were willing to brave other trials and face the hardships of this long voyage and journey1 and the problems incident to life in a new and wild country1 to gain religious freedom1 and because they regarded it as a divine requirement4 ,but human nature1 even though tempered by religious convictions1 is apt to assert itself sometimes1 and the helpless1 dependent condition of ,niels placed him in the position of a spectator1 with ample opportunity to observe all that passed1 and to study human nature during the voyage as he never had done before4 ,disputes occasionally arose among the passengers1 which sometimes waxed warm and developed into angry quarrels1 all of which ,niels noticed but never took part in4 ,possibly because he was always an observer of but never a participant in these affairs1 he was several times appealed to as an arbitrator1 to decide between the disputants and effect a reconciliation4 ,without making any pretentions to judicial wisdom1 he was1 through strict impartiality1 and tact in offering reproof without giving offense1 and especially by appealing to the religious obligations of the parties to the strife1 enabled to do effective work as a peace-maker1 and to gain respect therefor4 ,he couldn't refrain from indulging in a little mental philosophy on such occasions1 and making note of the fact that the tongue is a dangerous member if allowed to wag too freely4 ,three times during the voyage the ship had taken fire1 always at night1 as a result of the cook's carelessness1 and a general panic among the passengers1 if nothing worse1 was narrowly averted4 ,upon the first of these occasions the fire had gained sufficient headway before it was discovered for a rather large bole to be burned through the floor almost directly above where ,niels had his bunk1 and when the first alarm was sounded ,niels looked upward and saw the fire and noticed the presence of smoke in the hold4 ,he was able to keep his head and helped in some measure in quelling the excitement of his fellows1 many of whom became almost frantic when they learned that the ship was on fire1 and that the hatches were fastened down1 so that the passengers were shut up in the hold like rats in a trap4 ,it occurred to ,niels that the hatches had been closed by order of the ship's officers to prevent a panic4 ,he saw the futility of rebelling against the measure1 and counseled calmness and patience2 and was so calm and self-possessed himself that some of the more excited ones listened to him1 made a strong effort to control themselves1 and seemed ashamed at having been overcome by alarm4 ,the overland journey on the cars and the eight weeks' trip by ox train in crossing the plains were not less fruitful in opportunities to study character under trying conditions1 and for the personal display of those amenities that distinguish gentility from boorishness and ,christian charity from heartless selfishness4 ,it was alike creditable to the restraining influence of the ,gospel upon the company in general1 and to the fine discernment and keen discrimination of ,niels1 that he did not lose faith in his fellows because of the weakness they exhibited under trying conditions--that he arrived in ,utah with a keener appreciation of the ,gospel's power to mold human character to conform to the divine pattern4 ,he too had been tried as never before in his life1 and the consciousness of his own failings made him charitable for those of others4 ,some of his experiences on the plains had a peculiarly western flavor4 ,although the company of which he was a member never actually came in conflict with the ,indians1 they had a number of thrills due to rumors of ,indian hostilities before or behind them4 ,one night the ox train emigrant company camped on one side of a river which they expected to cross early the next morning1 while a mule train loaded with merchandise camped on the opposite bank of the same stream4 ,during the night a marauding band of ,indians stole and ran off about ninety head of mules from the train last mentioned1 driving them all right past the camp of the passenger train1 and so close to it that ,niels heard them galloping by1 and wondered at first whether the noise was caused by the oxen stampeding4 ,another experience that was new and strange to him was seeing a rattle snake dart into a hole over which he was about to make his bed4 ,it didn't produce a very comfortable feeling1 but the bed was made right over the hole and the snake created no disturbance during the night4 ,before the journey ended ,niels began to feel almost as if he were a western man himself1 so thoroughly had he entered into the spirit of all that pertained to it4 ,he had engaged in a struggle with a large number of fellows for a common goal1 and had developed ability that he had never before known himself to be possessed of1 and now1 on reaching it1 he was ambitious to be a factor in the further unfolding of ,god's purposes4 ,on his arrival in ,salt ,lake ,city ,niels sought employment by which to earn a subsistence1 for he could not bear the thought of being always dependent upon others4 ,he found1 however1 that such work as he was capable of doing was neither remunerative nor easily obtained4 ,his first job was at glove-making4 ,he found two of his fellow country women engaged in the business of making and selling buckskin gloves1 their customers in the main being overland travelers4 ,he persuaded them to let him learn the business from them1 and then furnish him employment when they had more work than they could do themselves4 ,the work was precarious at best1 and not at all lucrative1 but he appreciated having anything to do1 and being able to earn ever so little4 ,after attaining to some skill in that line1 the demand for buckskin gloves fell off until there was no longer any encouragement to make them4 ,then he learned to sew uppers for ladies' shoes1 and obtained a limited amount of work in that line1 but machines soon displaced hand sewing of shoes4 ,his means of earning a livelihood seemed to be diminishing rather than increasing1 but with independence unabated1 he sought work at whatever he could do 7which was almost exclusively limited to sewing7 and went without what he could not earn1 or which did not come to him voluntarily1 without making his wants known4 ,in a land of plenty1 surrounded by people who were amply able to help him1 and who would willingly have shared with him their last meal1 he lived almost like a recluse1 and sometimes actually suffered for want of food4 ,two or three instances of uncharitableness and lack of sympathy sealed his lips against any admission of his real condition or complaint1 and nerved him up to go without what he could not earn1 or die trying4 ,how little he subsisted upon for certain extended periods is almost beyond belief1 and he probably would not have lived to tell it had not the ,lord mercifully and miraculously replenished his larder as ,he did in the case of the widow of old who fed the prophet ,elijah4 ,many times he scraped up the last saucerful of flour to make a cake1 only to find as much more in the sack when hunger again impelled him to search for it4 ,and so it happened that while his faith in mankind sometimes wavered1 his faith in the ,almighty grew stronger4 ,it must not be supposed from this that he was wholly without friends1 or that his existence was a cheerless one2 but he had an aversion to testing the friendship of his fellows by making known his wants1 and a feeling that his friends would last longer if not used too much4 ,he had entirely too much independence for a pauper1 and too little bodily strength to competently make his way in the world without help4 ,his circumstances varied4 ,sometimes for a considerable period fortune would favor him to a limited extent1 his health being such that he could search for and obtain work and accumulate a little4 ,he had the thrifty disposition that characterized the ,scandinavian race1 and his natural bent was to save some portion of it1 however little he might earn4 ,he had the home-making instinct as it would be termed if he were a bird--the disposition to build or acquire a nest of his own1 however humble it might be1 and so he labored to that end4 ,in this1 however1 he met with many reverses4 ,illness would occasionally befall him1 and his petty hoard would be exhausted before he could again resume his earning and saving4 ,at quite an early stage of his ,utah existence he invested five dollars1 the savings of a long period1 in a city lot in what is now the ,twenty-seventh ,ward of ,salt ,lake ,city1 at a time when lots on the north bench1 away above the inhabited district1 could be had for the price of surveying4 ,he could not afford to build upon it2 in fact1 it was only by heroic effort that he succeeded in paying the small tax upon it from year to year2 but at the inception of the boom in real estate in #ahhh he succeeded in selling that lot for #ejj4jj4 ,the possibility of owning a home loomed up before him as it never had done before1 and from that time he began looking for a bargain in real estate4 ,,chapter ,,vi4 ,,invests ,,in ,,real ,,estate--,,acquires ,a ,,home--,,vicarious ,,work ,,in ,,logan ,,temple--,,consequent ,,elation--,,promise ,,to ,a ,,dying ,,friend--,,gratuitous ,,fulfillment ,,in ,,manti ,,temple4 ,in the course of a few years he found an opportunity of buying a small city lot north west of the capital grounds1 with a rather old house upon it1 for the modest sum which his capital represented1 and he actually became a landlord4 ,he rented part of it to the former owner1 who had lost the property through mortgaging it and being unable to meet the payments when his notes fell due4 ,his income from the rental was only #e4jj per month1 and it required half of that to pay the taxes upon the property2 but he had a shelter for himself as well--not very comfortable it was true1 but much more so than some of the houses he had occupied--and it was his own4 ,it was all the more appreciated when he thought of the improbability of his ever owning a home of any kind had he remained in his native land4 ,he could now look forward with more hope to his declining years1 when age would naturally add to his decrepitude4 ,when ,niels accepted of the ,gospel in his native land1 no feature of it was more attractive to him than the promise of salvation for the dead contained therein4 ,he found comfort in the assurance he obtained of personal salvation through compliance with the ,gospel principles1 and he was anxious to do something if possible that his ancestors and friends who had died without a knowledge of the ,gospel should share in the ,gospel privileges4 ,when the ,temple in ,logan was completed and opened for ordinance work1 he joyfully journeyed thither and spent eight weeks in receiving ordinances for the benefit of dead relatives4 ,he felt that he was coming into his own1 that he was accomplishing something that made life desirable4 ,there was something exalting about the thought that he1 deformed and weak and frail though he was1 could do all for the salvation of his dead kindred and friends that the most able-bodied man in the community could do4 ,he had long admired the missionaries who left their homes in ,utah and the surrounding states1 and1 at infinite sacrifice1 went forth into the various nations of the earth to proclaim the ,gospel message1 without hope of earthly reward4 ,the sole reason for their doing so was that they had been called by those whom they regarded as the ,lord's earthly representatives to so labor1 and because they regarded the ,gospel as so priceless that they were anxious to have its benefits extended to all humanity4 ,he1 too1 appreciated the ,gospel1 and his love for his fellows would have enabled him to find joy in laboring as a missionary1 but1 alas6 he could never hope to engage in that labor because of his physical disabilities4 ,but here was a labor which had for its object the same purpose1 in which in point of ability he measured up to the full stature of the best of his fellows2 and who should say that the work done in behalf of the dead is not just as important as that done for the living8 ,he had never engaged in anything that so increased his self respect and made him feel that he was of some consequence in the world as this work in the ,temple1 and he regretted when necessity compelled him to abandon this labor which had such a savor of heaven about it and come down to earth1 figuratively speaking1 by seeking such employment as he could engage in to earn the meagre necessaries of his subsistence4 ,image3 ,niels and his home ,a considerable period passed afterward with little to relieve the monotony of his existence1 during which1 however1 he again succeeded in accumulating something4 ,in the meantime the ,temple at ,manti had been completed and ordinance work was being performed therein4 ,it happened that an old gentleman named ,nielsen with whom ,niels had years before1 7while he was a resident of ,salt ,lake ,city17 been somewhat acquainted1 had located at ,manti while the ,temple was in course of construction1 and indulged in the hope of spending his declining years in laboring therein for the benefit of his dead kindred4 ,before being able or ready so to do1 however1 he had been stricken with sickness1 and1 at the solicitation of a daughter who was living in ,salt ,lake ,city1 and who was the wife of a ,catholic1 had come up to reside with her and be nursed back to health4 ,instead of recovering1 however1 he continued to grow worse until his life was despaired of4 ,during his illness he worried constantly over the fact that the work in the ,temple which his heart had been so set upon performing for his dead kindred had never been done1 and there now seemed no hope of his doing it1 for he felt that he must soon die4 ,in his emergency he thought about ,niels as a friend whose services he might enlist1 and induced his daughter to send for him to come and listen to her father's dying request4 ,niels came1 and found his old friend almost in the throes of death4 ,being asked if he would do the work in the ,temple which his friend had neglected1 he consented without hesitancy1 to pacify the dying man1 and wrote down at his dictation the names of about seventy of his dead relatives1 in whose behalf he wished the work performed4 ,he was told that a certain sister living in ,manti had promised to perform the work for the females1 and could be relied upon to do so1 and that it would only be necessary for him to see that she did it1 and to do himself the work for the males4 ,after receiving the promise from ,niels that he would attend to the matter1 the old gentleman seemed satisfied1 and soon died in peace4 ,niels then realized1 as he had not done before1 the responsibility that rested upon him1 in consequence of his promise4 ,he had never made a promise even to a person who was well without faithfully fulfilling it1 and his promise made to a dying man seemed doubly binding4 ,he must fulfill that if he never lived to do anything else4 ,with this impressed upon his mind he soon journeyed to ,manti and called upon the sister who had promised his dead friend to serve in the ,temple for the female relatives4 ,he found her so ill that there was little hope of her ever being able to keep her promise1 and so he conscientiously applied himself to the task of fulfilling completely the commission assigned him4 ,he hired sisters to do the work for the female dead1 and he spent ten weeks in the ,manti ,temple1 in constant labor for the male dead kindred of his friend ,nielsen1 and felt satisfaction in having done all that duty and honor could require of him in the matter4 ,,chapter ,,vii4 ,,completion ,,of ,,salt ,,lake ,,temple--,,his ,,work ,,therein--,,sister ,,corradi ,,inspired ,,to ,,apply ,,to ,,him--,,devoted ,,work ,,for ,,her ,,kindred--,,his ,,severe ,,afflictions--,,saving ,,work ,,for #bbjj--;,,graceful ,,old ,,age4 ,niels looked forward with fond anticipation to the completion of the ,salt ,lake ,temple4 ,he felt that now1 that he had found his true vocation1 he would like to devote all the time to ,temple work that his health and means would permit1 and he could do this to much better advantage in his home city than if he had to travel a long distance to reach a ,temple1 and then make special arrangements for his board and lodging4 ,he commenced his labors three weeks after the ,temple opened for ordinance work4 ,he not only found great comfort and satisfaction in the work1 7which he scrupulously devoted his time to whenever able to do so17 but1 through the acquaintances he formed there1 he obtained a considerable amount of employment in the sewing line1 especially in the making of temple clothing1 at which he became quite an expert4 ,he was not able to work continuously2 indeed1 he had many spells of illness that confined him to the house and occasionally to his bed for days and weeks at a time1 but he has long been known as one of the most earnest and devoted workers in the ,temple4 ,when he had officiated for all his dead kindred and friends concerning whom he had sufficiently definite information1 he found others who were anxious to have him officiate for their dead kindred on the usual terms when men are so employed1 7seventy-five cents per day17 and he so labored whenever able to do so4 ,he has1 however1 officiated gratuitously for hundreds of people at the instance of friends or relatives who were unable to pay therefor4 ,a case in point was that of a poor ,scandinavian sister who died a few years since in this city4 ,she left a list of fifty dead relatives for whom she had been unable to officiate1 and he took up the work for the males and hunted up women acquaintances who were willing to officiate for the females4 ,a few years since he was called upon by a ,sister ,corradi1 whom he only knew by sight1 who desired to employ him to officiate for her male kindred dead1 saying the ,spirit had manifested to her that he was the person to whom she should apply4 ,he consented1 and has worked almost exclusively for her list since1 and has enough names left to keep him occupied for about another year4 ,having a spell of illness some time since1 he told ,sister ,corradi she had better find some one else to finish her work1 as he feared he might not be able to do so4 ,she1 however1 refused to believe that he was going to die soon1 or fail to finish her work1 and said she knew he was going to live to do it4 ,she may be right4 ,now that he has lived so long 7he was seventy-eight years old in ,may7 there is reason to hope that he has several years yet to remain in mortality4 ,it will soon be forty-eight years since he arrived in ,utah1 notwithstanding the predictions that he would not live to make the journey4 ,it is nearly sixty-eight years since he met with the accident that left him deformed and crippled for life1 and during that time he has never been free from pain1 though it has varied in degree1 being much more intense at some times than others4 ,for many years hernia was added to his other afflictions1 but he was healed of that in answer to prayer4 ,about four years ago he lost the use of his voice1 and has not since been able to speak above a whisper4 ,in spite1 however1 of all these handicaps he has accomplished a work of self-sacrifice for the salvation of others that any able-bodied man of his age1 desiring the welfare of his fellows1 might well be proud of4 ,he has officiated for fully twenty-two hundred persons in all the temple ordinances necessary to place them on a par with the living who have received these ordinances in their own behalf4 ,all this in addition to the work he has had done in behalf of numerous female dead4 ,truly he has earned for himself the distinction of being a ,savior upon ,mount ,zion4 ,the crucible of suffering to which he has been so long subjected has had a sanctifying and exalting effect upon him1 and eliminated from his character all semblance of sordidness4 ,his struggle for existence has developed the strong traits of his character that otherwise might have remained dormant1 and his beneficent concern for others has helped him to bear with equanimity1 if not to forget his own troubles4 ,even age seems to sit lightly upon him4 ,few who see him ever suspect his advanced age4 ,the peevish1 crabbed disposition that so frequently characterizes old age is never manifested by him4 ,instead1 he wears the patient1 serene expression of one who lives for a noble purpose1 and indulges only in clean and wholesome thoughts4 ,,chapter ,,viii4 ,a ,,modern ,,stoic--,,his ,,modest ,,obscurity--,,what ,,religion ,,has ,,done ,,for ,,niels--,,philosophic ,,way ,,in ,,which ,,he ,,views ,,death4 ,of the many who have witnessed ,niels pursuing his toilsome way between his home and the ,temple--a distance of about a mile--leaning upon his crutch and moving along at a slow but steady gait1 perhaps not one has had a definite idea of what a heroic effort it has required for him to walk at all1 and how his constant pain has been increased thereby4 ,perhaps none of his fellow workers in the temple1 who are in the daily habit of gazing upon his sphinx-like countenance as he silently passes among them1 ever even dream that he is the best modern example of the stoic that this region has ever known1 the physical agony that he suffers being never betrayed by word or facial expression4 ,though casually known to many1 he has scarcely been intimate with any4 ,even the facts pertaining to his life that are herein divulged1 had to be fairly pried out of him by degrees1 and they will doubtless be a revelation to many of his acquaintances when they read this recital4 ,if his real condition had been generally known in the past1 his every want would have been anticipated and supplied by his kind-hearted neighbors or the relief society4 ,the chivalrous boy scouts might have adopted him as their protege1 and done what they could to make his home cheerful1 or otherwise lighten his burdens1 and dyspeptics and other victims of luxurious living might have been making pilgrimages to his house to learn the secret of his long and useful life under such unfavorable conditions4 ,possibly it is as well that he has been allowed to make his own way in the world4 ,if he had been petted and pampered1 and not had the incentive of want to spur him to exertion1 he probably would never have accomplished anything worth mentioning1 or that would have distinguished him from the great number of unfortunates that only excite our pity4 ,niels acknowledges his indebtedness to the ,gospel for all the comfort he has experienced in life4 ,indeed1 without its sustaining power1 it is doubtful whether he could have lived as long as he has1 or retained his reason1 if he had so lived4 ,without it1 he could have had no desire to live2 and1 failing to find relief in death1 his bodily suffering would probably have made of him a raving maniac or a driveling imbecile4 ,as already mentioned1 he was converted to the ,gospel some time before he was baptized4 ,he has never since entertained a doubt as to its truth4 ,one might as well try to convince him that the sun does not shine1 as that the ,gospel is not true4 ,since his baptism he has been unwavering in his devotion to his religion4 ,he has doubtless got more out of his religion than most adherents do4 ,it has been the controlling inspiration of his life4 ,he has been zealous1 without being fanatical2 devout1 without outward expression4 ,he has been a regular attendant at meetings 7until he became in recent years too deaf to hear the preaching17 but never ambitious to take part therein4 ,he feels amply repaid in the joy and satisfaction that have come to him for all the labors he has performed1 and all the sufferings he has endured4 ,he has no fear of death1 but does not court it4 ,he is content to live as long as the ,lord is willing to have him do so #a4 ,he seeks no notoriety4 ,he is the very personification of modesty4 ,he is willing to be regarded as a grain of dust1 an insignificant atom1 and plod on in obscurity during the remainder of his mortal existence1 as he has done in the past1 without attracting any attention4 ,the author of this sketch has known ,niels casually for years1 but never discovered his real character until quite recently4 ,for aught he knows1 he may be the original discoverer4 ,he regards as a very great compliment from ,niels1 the statement that he understood his character and motives as no one else had done before4 ,he sought the acquaintance and confidence of ,niels--was not sought by him4 ,he it was1 and not ,niels1 who conceived the idea of reducing to writing some of the incidents of his eventful life1 and who surprised him later with a proposition to publish the same4 ,the author is responsible for all deductions expressed herein1 the facts alone having been somewhat reluctantly mentioned by ,niels1 but he has perused the story and endorsed it as correct1 with some evident misgiving as to the possible resultant notoriety4 ,image3 ,his ,tombstone ,if benefits to the many constitute the true standard by which success should be gauged1 the life of ,niels has certainly been a successful one2 and the record herein set forth of the adverse conditions which have surrounded him1 and his wonderful accomplishments in view thereof1 should be an inspiration to every person who feels that his life's burden is heavy1 and who is privileged to read this simple recital4 ,if the unselfish work to which ,niels has devoted such a large part of his life had no other beneficial effect than to sweeten the lives and render lovable the characters of those who engage therein2 to develop in them genuine love for their fellows and true charity--a willingness to benefit others without hope of reward therefor--and to make them cheerful1 and hopeful and buoyant when otherwise they might be despondent and gloomy1 surely that work is not in vain4 ,indeed it would even then compare favorably with almost any other that claims the attention of mankind4 ,if the ,mormon theory be correct1 the ,gospel ordinances absolutely essential to the salvation and exaltation of mankind may be received by the living vicariously for the benefit of the dead4 ,the dead1 too1 through an intelligent acceptance in the spirit world of the conditions of salvation1 including the vicarious work voluntarily undertaken in their behalf on earth1 may enjoy all the ,gospel privileges4 ,assuming that this theory is correct1 what more important labor could a person engage in than that performed in the ,temples8 ,is there any work on earth more free from the taint of selfishness8 ,is there anything a person could engage in that savors more of true ,christian charity8 ,is not the satisfaction experienced by such earnest1 sincere1 conscientious people as ,niels a strong evidence of the truth and efficacy of the work8 ,is not the assurance that ,niels and thousands of others have received through the testimony of the ,spirit1 as to the work being acceptable to the dead in whose behalf it is done1 and agreeable to the will of the ,almighty1 worthy of consideration8 ,the work done in the temple in behalf of the dead differs in this respect from other forms of charity--there is no danger of it making the one who performs it vainglorious4 ,he is not open to the suspicion that the ,pharisees of old were1 in their giving of alms--a desire for applause1 or to be seen of men4 ,niels has not become puffed up because of what he has accomplished4 ,he does not pose as anybody's benefactor4 ,he assumes no heroic airs4 ,there is no halo surrounding him such as limners give to be the beloved disciple4 ,he is just a modest1 humble1 obscure cripple1 known to his neighbors1 who are sufficiently acquainted with him to call him by name as ,niels ,larsen #b2 who is content to live and die without attaining to any distinction1 who is advertised for the first time in this recital1 and this without any desire or request on his part4 ,he was the most insignificant and unpromising 7not to say despised7 of all his kindred1 the tag end1 as it were1 of the aristocratic and once powerful families from which he had descended4 ,he is the only one of a numerous kindred 7so far as known7 who has accepted of the ,gospel4 ,possibly others of them1 as well as the brother and sister-in-law already mentioned1 have rejected the ,gospel because of their shame of him4 ,is it not possible that this stone which these builders of the family's reputation rejected may yet become the chief corner8 ,that this despised of all his race may yet become the head of it8 ,in view of the vast work that he has accomplished in behalf of his progenitors1 may we not anticipate the grateful homage that he will receive from them in the next world1 when he1 as a resurrected being1 will stand in their midst--not as a cripple1 deformed1 and dwarfed1 and weak1 and racked with pain1 as he has been during most of his mortal career1 but resplendent in all the glory of a perfected manhood1 his physical body conforming in stature and appearance to his spiritual body1 a very king among his fellows6 ,imagine1 too1 the joyful acclaim with which he will then be greeted by the numerous host who are not of his immediate kindred1 for whose salvation he has unselfishly labored in mortality4 ,then will the pain and suffering and fatigue and humiliation which he endured in this life seem as nothing compared with the treasures in heaven which he will receive1 and the limits and besetments of mortality be forgotten and swallowed up in its fruition--the joys and glories of an endless immortality4 ,footnotes3 #a4 ,niels has a very confident feeling that he will live to be #hb years of age1 but whether the call comes to quit this mortal life sooner or later he intends to be prepared for it1 and the completeness of his arrangements for his burial and for perpetuating a knowledge of his burial place indicates the complacency with which he regards death4 ,some time since he purchased a quarter of a lot in the cemetery1 and had a very substantial granite monument made to his order and erected thereon4 ,an inscription upon it gives his name1 date and place of his birth1 his parentage1 and ,salt ,lake ,city as the place of his death1 with blank space below upon which to chisel in the date of his passing away4 ,he also keeps his burial clothes1 made by himself1 all nicely laundried1 in readiness to place upon his body when death shall overtake him4 ,this too is another illustration of his independence1 and disposition to do things himself rather than trust to others4 ,since the erection of his tombstone1 a lady who was somewhat acquainted with him happened to be in the cemetery and saw it4 ,she read the inscription with surprise and sorrow4 ,she failed to notice that the date of his death was lacking1 and very naturally concluded that he had died and been buried1 and was surprised that it could have happened without the news of it having reached her4 ,she mourned to think she would never see him again1 and that she had not even attended his funeral and manifested the respect she had for one whose suffering and inoffensiveness had so strongly appealed to her4 ,in a pensive mood she returned home and told her friends how shocked and sorrow stricken she was at learning for the first time on seeing his monument of the death of her friend4 ,a few days later she was tripping across ,main ,street without any thought of death in her mind1 when she suddenly beheld his familiar figure slowly moving down the side walk4 ,she was so startled at sight of what she thought must be an apparition that she stood transfixed until she was aroused by the hoot of an approaching automobile1 and narrowly escaped being knocked down and run over4 #b4 ,a custom prevails very generally among the peasantry throughout ,scandinavia of changing the surname from generation to generation1 while among the aristocracy the rule is to maintain the same surname in a family as one generation succeeds another4 ,an exception to this latter rule sometimes occurs when a branch of an aristocratic family does not inherit wealth1 or through some misfortune becomes financially reduced1 and has to take rank per force with the peasantry4 ,then1 notwithstanding the aristocratic lineage1 the peasant method of changing the surname of the progeny from father to son is followed4 ,as already mentioned in this narrative1 ,niels was of aristocratic lineage on both his father's and mother's side4 ,they were1 however1 of minor branches that did not inherit much wealth4 ,the father1 though given in infancy the family surname of ,eskildz1 was known more generally throughout his lifetime by his given name of ,lars ,nielsen1 and called ,eskildz more as a nickname than otherwise1 or as a means of distinguishing him from others having the name of ,lars ,nielsen4 ,when ,niels was born he was named ,niels ,larsen1 in accordance with the peasant custom1 and it was not until he commenced his work in the house of the ,lord that he assumed his rightful ancestral name1 and is even now scarcely known outside of the ,temple by the name of ,eskildz4 ,niels' father and mother were second cousins4 ,his mother's maiden name was ,marie ,olesen ,myre4 ,as may be inferred from the relationship existing between them before marriage1 theirs was not the first marriage between the ,eskildz and ,myre families4 ,some branches of these two families were very wealthy and influential when ,niels was a boy1 which fact1 however1 was of no advantage to their poorer relatives1 among whom were ,niels and his parents4 ,a ,,woman ,,with ,a ,,purpose4 ,,purpose ,,essential ,,to ,,success--,,birth ,,and ,,parentage ,,of ,,carolina ,,corradi--,,her ,,mother',s ,,prescience--,,preparation ,,for ,,future ,,career--,,devoted ,,work ,,in ,,behalf ,,of ,,dead ,,kindred4 ,few people have accomplished anything in this life worth mentioning who have not had a definite purpose in view1 to which every faculty of their mind and body is made to bend4 ,people without a purpose abound on every hand1 with nothing in appearance to distinguish them from their fellows except a kind of mental or physical inertia or a fickleness of disposition1 causing them to flit about from one pursuit to another1 as a butterfly does from flower to flower4 ,their personal lack of purpose may not be apparent to the casual observer1 especially if they be sufficiently under the influence of strong-minded1 decisive friends1 who furnish the purpose for them1 and manipulate them as if they were human automatons4 ,some people seem to be born with a purpose1 or--more properly speaking--with a disposition to form a purpose1 and adhere to it4 ,they are not only possessed of energy1 but of the power of concentration1 the ability to apply themselves to the one particular purpose before them until they succeed4 ,lacking a purpose--either innate or acquired--people are apt to drift aimlessly through life1 like an abandoned boat upon the ocean1 subject to every wind that blows and every current that flows4 ,with conditions favorable1 they may float on indefinitely1 even as derelicts at sea have been known to do for years without meeting with any serious obstruction4 ,their course may be so serene1 and so attended with good fortune1 that observers may be almost forced to the conclusion that they have a charmed existence4 ,the real test of their constancy and endurance comes to the mechanical derelicts when storms beset them and breakers loom up before them1 and to their human prototypes when obstacles are encountered that only a strong mind can cope with1 and when no friendly support is at hand1 to lean upon4 ,the weak and vacillating then flounder in uncertainty1 so lacking in self-confidence as to be absolutely unable to formulate and execute any purposeful plan1 while the strong-minded1 resolute1 self-reliant people carefully lay their plans1 and then proceed to fulfill them4 ,of course the majority of human derelicts are unwilling to admit that their failure to succeed is due to any fault of theirs4 ,they prefer to believe that they are the victims of chance1 or ill-luck1 or lack of opportunity4 ,many of them have no desire to work1 and others1 if not really lazy1 have no pride or interest in the work they do1 and are therefore very indifferent workmen1 and seldom retain a job long after getting it4 ,occasionally a person is found who has sufficient mental grasp to devise1 and executive ability to carry out a number of purposes simultaneously1 and those who are specially successful in material affairs are sometimes called ,napoleons of finance4 ,more frequently1 however1 the diffusion of energy due to following too many purposes results in failure4 ,many of the more conspicuous financial failures are made by persons who fairly bristle with purposes4 ,they are like the ambitious but unwise blacksmith who had so many irons in the fire at once that he either had to slight his work on all or allow some to become overheated and spoiled4 ,it is infinitely more creditable to have one purpose1 and accomplish it successfully1 than a number and succeed only indifferently4 ,the story of which the foregoing is a prelude is not that of a ,napoleon of finance or even of a ,hetty ,green in success in material matters1 but of that of a very humble1 but altogether worthy woman1 whose aspirations are spiritual rather than material4 ,examples from the ranks of the humble are more apt to be helpful to the great mass of the people than those taken from other classes1 as what the wealthy and highly educated classes accomplish is apt to be attributed to their more favored station in life1 and therefore not to be emulated by the poor1 illiterate and obscure4 ,it will be observed that the example which follows is one that may be profitably emulated by any1 regardless of rank in life4 ,carolina ,corradi was born ,september #a1 #ahef1 in ,mastetlen1 ,canton ,thurgau1 ,switzerland4 ,she was the youngest but one of eleven children1 born of parents who were only in moderate circumstances1 and therefore the help of all the children able to work was required to maintain the reputation for thrift which the family had always enjoyed4 ,the parents were honest1 industrious1 intelligent1 but not specially pious people4 ,her father1 ,johannes ,corradi1 was a rather ingenious man1 able to turn his hand to almost any kind of work1 and as kind-hearted and self-sacrificing a man as could be found anywhere1 and generous almost to a fault4 ,he was greatly beloved by all who knew him1 and especially by his children4 ,the mother was an exceptionally good housekeeper1 and possessed rare tact as a manager1 and developed into quite a business woman1 especially after her husband's death1 when it became her duty to manage the material affairs of the family4 ,she was also known by her intimates to possess a gift of prescience1 or the ability to see things before they actually transpired4 ,by this gift she evidently foresaw something of the future of her daughter ,carolina while she was yet a young child1 and insisted that she learn the ,french laundry business1 as the time would come when she would find it an advantage to work at it4 ,carolina was the only child concerning whom the mother had this impression1 although the other daughters were apparently as well adapted for that kind of work as she was1 and there was nothing about her to indicate that she1 any more than the others1 would ever need to work at it4 ,like many other branches of knowledge or craft1 the secrets of ,french laundry work were only to be obtained by sacrifice1 and so the parents of ,carolina paid a considerable sum of money for the privilege1 and bound her to serve without pay for a certain period to have her learn from those who were skilled in that line4 ,she was apt at learning1 became a very proficient hand1 and followed that line of employment for about three years while her mother still lived1 7her father having died when she was fourteen years of age47 ,the mother died in #ahhc1 leaving the children1 who1 however1 were all grown to maturity by that time1 to shift for themselves4 ,her last words to ,carolina were that she must not mourn or despair because of her death1 as there was something great prepared for her1 of which she was then in ignorance1 but of which she would learn in due time4 ,she said nothing of the kind about the other children1 and the family talked about the fact after the mother's death and decided among themselves that it meant that ,carolina was somehow going to become possessed of wealth4 ,they had faith in their mother's ability to see things that were coming to pass1 and they couldn't think of anything quite so desirable in their estimation as wealth4 ,carolina went out to service1 and was mostly engaged in general housework4 ,while the parents lived the family never learned of the ,gospel as taught by the ,latter-day ,saints1 but some years later it was brought directly to the attention of some of the surviving members of the family1 and ,carolina alone of all of them was attracted by it4 ,she joined the ,church in the year #ahhi1 and was so impressed with the doctrine of salvation for the dead1 that she soon afterwards wrote a letter to the clerk of the parish in which her parents were born1 to obtain information in regard to their ancestors4 ,this was done in the hope that she might1 at some time in the future1 be able to have a vicarious work done in their behalf4 ,to her gratification1 the parish officer proved to be a distant relative1 by the name of ,corradi1 and he supplied her with the names of her ancestors for a few generations--thirty-five or thirty-six names in all4 ,they were all she was able to obtain1 or knew where to obtain1 before she migrated to ,utah 7which she did in the year #ahia17 and she came here with a strong desire that they should have all the privileges of the ,gospel that they might have enjoyed had they accepted of it in mortality4 ,she inherited enough from her parents' estate to pay for her emigration to ,utah and leave #ce4jj in her pocket when she landed here4 ,that was the amount of her capital at the inception of her career here in ,utah1 less than twenty-three years ago4 ,she had no relatives1 and few acquaintances1 in this land1 and was unfamiliar with the language of the country4 ,she obtained work in a laundry at the lowest price paid to inexperienced hands1 and was glad to get it4 ,she was devoted to her religion1 was faithful in attending meetings1 paying her tithes and fast offerings1 and never lost sight of the duty that she so early felt to be resting upon her1 to do all that was in her power for the salvation of her dead kindred4 ,in the meantime she had been acquiring a knowledge of the ,english language1 but it was six years after she arrived in ,utah before she began her vicarious work in the ,temple4 ,she was not able to follow this work up continuously--only to spend a day at a time1 but the spirit of the work grew upon her4 ,she was able to officiate for the females of her kindred1 but she was in doubt as to how to proceed to get the work done for her male kindred4 ,while in this state of anxiety the ,spirit prompted her to apply to ,niels ,p4,l4 ,eskildz1 with the assurance that he would faithfully serve1 and be of great assistance to her4 ,she accordingly applied to him1 and1 as already related1 obtained his consent4 ,when all those whose names she had were officiated for1 she was favored with an open vision1 in which a person appeared to her and told her that she had a great work yet to perform in behalf of her dead kindred--that she would do the work for more than a thousand4 ,at that time she did not know where she could get another name1 and earned so little by her work 7she never was paid more than #a4aj per day at the laundry1 and much of the time only received #a4jj per day7 that she couldn't foresee how she could ever afford to pay for having her genealogy traced up and obtain more names4 ,she had recently been trying to obtain laundry work 7ironing7 in private families1 with a view to earning more than she had been able to at the laundries1 but had not yet succeeded to any great extent4 ,she felt1 however1 that the ,lord had inspired the promise made to her1 and that ,he could and would provide a way for its fulfillment1 but how she could not forsee4 ,soon afterwards she obtained work in her line in a private wealthy family1 where she was able to earn #b4jj per day1 and also learned of a man who was engaged in the business of tracing up genealogies1 whom she employed to obtain the names of her ancestors4 ,she has since obtained several extensive lists of names1 including several lines of her ancestors1 and has now had ,brother ,eskildz regularly employed for several years1 whenever he has been able to do so1 officiating for her dead male kindred1 while she has employed women1 and occasionally spends a day in the ,temple herself1 laboring for her female kindred4 ,she has thus done herself1 or hired others to do the work1 for almost #ahjj1 and by the time she completes the work for all the names she has1 the number will be increased to fully #aijj4 ,she has done this as a labor of love1 and found great joy and satisfaction in so doing--in fact1 feeling repaid as she has proceeded by the enjoyment the work has afforded her1 for all the labor and sacrifice it has involved4 ,while her earnings have never been munificent1 she has maintained a decent1 respectable appearance1 keeping house in from one to three rented rooms1 and honestly paid her way and done her duty as a church member--all from her own earnings4 ,she feels that the ,lord has been specially kind to her1 in providing a way for the gratification of her earnest desire in behalf of her dead kindred4 ,she expresses also her gratitude to ,brother ,eskildz1 to whom great credit is due for classifying the names and providing for the orderly and complete performance of the work1 so that no names have been duplicated1 and none omitted4 ,she says she doesn't know how she could have accomplished what she has without his help4 ,her genealogical records are in fine shape1 and are a credit to her4 ,when asked how much money she had spent for genealogical research1 for books in which to keep a record of the work done and for the payment of people she had hired to officiate for her kindred1 she replied she did not know1 and she did not care to know4 ,she was content to know that it had been spent in a worthy cause1 gave the ,lord the credit for it and did not even seek any personal recognition4 ,she has felt sure since embracing the ,gospel that her mother must have had a foreknowledge that she would labor in this cause1 and she has had many assurances since she first engaged in the ,temple work that her parents are aware of the vicarious work she has done or caused to be done in behalf of the dead1 and heartily approve of the same4 ,she has sought no notoriety in what she has done2 in fact1 was rather reluctant about admitting it or giving any information concerning it1 but the consciousness of it affords her a great deal of satisfaction--infinitely more1 she says that the possession of a million dollars could4 ,some women have doubtless done more than she in laboring for the salvation of the dead1 numbers considered1 but her record offers a specially fine example of a holy purpose faithfully pursued1 and ,carolina ,corradi will doubtless stand throughout eternity as the personification of self-sacrifice and filial devotion4 ,,an ,,exception4 ,a ,,rich ,,man',s ,,handicap--,,wealth ,,not ,,essentially ,,bad--,,but ,,qualities ,,its ,,possession ,,develops ,a ,,bar ,,to ,,salvation--,,typical ,,case ,,of ,a ,,man ,,reared ,,in ,,affluence--,,unpromising ,,start ,,in ,,married ,,life--,,how ,,he ,,became ,,interested ,,in ,,temple ,,work--,,worthy ,,example ,,in ,,recent ,,years4 ,it is not an uncommon thing for a poor person to look with envy upon the possessions of the wealthy1 and remark how easy it would be for him to be generous1 and make sacrifices for a righteous cause1 if he were only wealthy4 ,it is hard--perhaps impossible--for such a person to realize it 7never having been possessed of wealth17 but wealth is more frequently a bar to the service of the ,lord than a help therein4 ,we are informed in the gospel according to ,matthew that the ,savior said a rich man shall hardly enter the kingdom of heaven2 and again1 it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of heaven4 ,whether we understand from this that the ,savior was indulging in hyperbole--the grossest kind of exaggeration1 or that the eye of the needle referred to was a specially low gateway in the wall of ,jerusalem1 through which camels could only pass by crouching down1 we must conclude that the rich are less susceptible to the saving influence of the ,gospel than the poor4 ,this is confirmed by the declaration that ,blessed are the poor in spirit1 for theirs is the kingdom of heaven1 and numerous passages about the deceitfulness of riches1 and of the love of money1 being the root of all evil4 ,when we come to analyze the question1 it is not the wealth itself that is evil1 but the avarice and arrogance that its possession is apt to develop1 for the more one has the more he is apt to want4 ,the person who in his youth is eager to acquire wealth is apt to grow intensely avaricious if not miserly in his old age4 ,the person who manifests pride and slight regard for others' rights in youth is apt to become unbearably arrogant as he grows older4 ,humility is a pre-requisite to the acceptance and practice of those principles upon which salvation depends1 and humility is the very opposite of arrogance4 ,treasures in heaven are apt to look most attractive to the person whose view thereof is not obstructed by treasures upon earth2 for where the treasure is1 there will the heart be also4 ,a poor person1 seeking salvation1 is not so apt to have his attention distracted therefrom1 as is one who is full of care concerning his earthly possessions4 ,inasmuch as the work done in the ,temple is clearly in the nature of seeking treasures in heaven1 it is really refreshing to find a wealthy person1 and especially one who has been reared in affluence1 manifesting much devotion in that line4 ,one of the most striking examples of this kind noticeable in the ,salt ,lake ,temple in recent years is that of ,brother ,p 4 4 4 ,his parents were descended from aristocratic families of ,old ,virginia4 ,his father was the owner of two large mercantile establishments and other valuable property in his native town before the war1 but the war broke him up1 and left him comparatively poor4 ,however1 he was of that class who cannot be kept down4 ,he was ambitious and enterprising1 and soon began to accumulate4 ,coming to ,utah in the year #ahfd1 he engaged in school teaching1 farming1 ran a threshing machine1 clerked in1 managed and then owned a store1 engaged in banking1 etc41 wringing success out of everything he turned his hand to4 ,by the time the subject if this sketch 7who was born in ,utah17 was old enough to receive impressions1 his was regarded as among the most wealthy1 influential and aggressive families in the state4 ,none of the sons 7of whom there were several in the family7 ever served as a missionary1 until recently1 when one of the younger sons filled a creditable mission to ,germany4 ,this fact is mentioned because the calling of one son from a household to fill a mission frequently arouses more or less zeal in the whole family4 ,nor were they conspicuous workers in the quorum and auxiliary organizations in the church4 ,this fact is mentioned for the same reason4 ,when young people take an active part in these organizations they frequently develop into enthusiastic church members1 and occasionally arouse an interest in spiritual matters throughout the whole family4 ,the eldest son was a successful mining broker1 and prominent in political and business affairs1 and the second1 7the subject of this sketch7 studied law1 with the intention of becoming a practicing attorney4 ,these facts are mentioned also for the reason that they are generally understood to tend from rather than towards religious devotion4 ,another circumstance that would rather indicate backsliding than a growing zeal1 was his disregard for the scriptural injunction3 ,be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers4 ,he married a girl who was not a member of the ,church4 ,in extenuation1 it may be said that he indulged in the hope of converting her2 in fact1 during the days of their courtship they read and discussed ,mormon literature together1 and she manifested an interest therein2 but she hadn't faith enough to join the ,church before her marriage2 nor1 indeed1 for four years afterwards1 the fact of her parents and most of her relatives being non-,mormons possibly accounting for her hesitancy4 ,with this introduction the story may now be given as told by ,brother ,p4441 of how he became interested in ,temple work3 ,on ,july #bj1 #aijh1 ,miss ,h 4 4 4 and ,i were married by an ,elder of the ,church4 ,four years later my wife was stricken with hemorrhage of the brain1 and her life was despaired of4 ,she was healed in answer to prayer1 and the faith exercised by herself and others1 and gladly joined the ,church soon afterwards4 ,later on1 she was dying of organic ,brights disease1 and the physician in attendance said there was no possibility of her living4 ,however1 after an administration of the ,elders1 she improved immediately1 and lived in peace for four years longer4 ,on ,april #bg1 #aijh1 she died4 ,we had not been to the ,temple to receive our endowments1 and to have the important ceremony performed whereby we could be united for time and all eternity4 ,about one month after my wife's death ,i was impressed to go to the #bjth ,ward sacrament service2 although ,i did not live in that ward1 and it was my first attendance at a meeting there4 ,brother ,samuel ,w4 ,jenkinson1 a blind man1 who was a ,temple worker1 was the speaker4 ,twelve years prior to that time ,brother ,jenkinson had done endowment work in the ,temple for some of my wife's relatives1 but he and ,i were not acquainted4 ,i was so much impressed with his remarks1 that ,i inquired and learned his name1 and the following morning wrote a letter to this blind brother1 telling him how pleased ,i was with his testimony4 ,on receiving the letter1 ,brother ,jenkinson telephoned to me a request to come up and see him4 ,my telephone number was #ebgi4 ,a month passed4 ,one afternoon1 on the very day the ,temple closed for the summer vacation1 as ,i was sitting at my desk1 the telephone rang4 ,taking down the receiver1 ,i heard the voice of ,samuel ,w4 ,jenkinson1 saying ,your telephone number has been coming to me for a week1 especially while ,i was in the ,temple4 ,i did not call you up1 as ,i did not wish to disturb you2 but today the number '#ebgi1 #ebgi' came to me so many times that1 on leaving the ,temple1 ,i have come to a phone4 ,now ,i do not know what to say to you4' ,that evening ,i called at the home of the blind brother1 and talked to him awhile1 mainly in regard to my departed wife4 ,six weeks passed4 ,three days before the ,temple opened1 after the vacation1 ,brother ,jenkinson telephoned to me1 saying3 ',i am impressed that your wife wants her ,temple work done4' ',all right1' ,i replied1 ',i will see to it4' ,i called upon ,president ,winder1 the presiding officer of the ,temple1 and told him what had occurred4 ,he advised that ,i wait until a year had passed after the death of my wife4 ,this agreed with my feelings exactly1 and ,i remarked1 ,i think so too1 ,president ,winder4 ,besides1 ,i would rather take the rest of the year to prepare to enter the ,temple4' ,three days later ,president ,winder sent for me1 and1 when ,i responded to the call1 said3 ,i have taken that matter up with ,president ,smith1 and we have made an exception in your case2 and you can now do the work for your wife any time4' ,i thanked ,president ,winder1 but added that ,i thought there was no hurry1 and preferred to wait for awhile4 ,however1 my wife knew the great importance of attending to this most sacred work without delay4 ,in her life her rule was1 not to procrastinate4 ,she used to say1 ',tomorrow has enough duties of its own to attend to4 ,so don't crowd the duties of today on tomorrow4' ,besides1 being in the spirit world1 she had a livelier appreciation of ,temple work than ,i had1 with my earthly environment4 ,she knew there was great danger in delaying to do the vicarious work--a fact that all ,latter-day ,saints should understand who are familiar with the teachings of the ,prophet ,joseph ,smith upon the subject4 ,he impressed upon the ,saints in the strongest terms that there was none too much time left in which to do the work for the dead2 and one of the strongest desires that he manifested during the last few weeks of his life was1 that the ,saints should proceed to get their genealogies and perform the sacred ordinances in behalf of their dead kindred without delay4 ,delays are dangerous1 and the adversary will always give us abundant reasons for procrastination if we are willing to listen to such counsel4 ,ten days more passed4 ,i was sitting at my desk when the telephone rang4 ,samuel ,w4 ,jenkinson's voice sounded in my ear2 ,you have let ten days go by1 and haven't done that work for your wife yet4' ,my answer was3 ,no1 ,i thought ,i would wait awhile2 but ,i have permission from the ,first ,presidency to do the work any time now4' ,then came a short and vigorous sermon from the blind ,temple worker1 that has since proven to be the moving cause in my life in the matter of ,temple work4 ,brother ,jenkinson in plainness and earnestness said3 ',i am impressed with the feeling that your wife wants her ,temple work done1 and ,i always act on my impressions4 ,if her ,temple work is done she will have more happiness and greater freedom1 can progress faster and further1 and can accomplish much more for herself and for others1 and for you right here on earth4 ,but you can do what you want4 ,i hereby clear myself from all responsibility1 and leave it wholly to you4' ',i am convinced1 ,brother ,jenkinson1 and will see to it at once4' ,i answered1 and took the next train for ,ogden1 where ,i saw my sister and asked her to be proxy for my wife4 ,on seeing me1 she exclaimed3 ',i have been wanting to see you1 and was going to write to you4 ,i had a wonderful dream about your wife this morning4' ,she then proceeded to relate the dream1 which was in line with my wife's wish1 as expressed by ,brother ,jenkinson1 that her ,temple work should be done4 ,two days thereafter the ,temple work was done1 and it was the most glorious day of my life4 ,no joy that ,i had previously felt could compare with the heavenly happiness that ,i experienced4 ,tears came to my eyes1 and ,i rejoiced in a spirit of thanksgiving to my ,heavenly ,father for being permitted to enter ,his holy house and partake of the blessings therein bestowed4 ,since then ,i have felt that my main mission on earth is to have ,temple work done for as many spirits as possible2 thereby aiding in the release of those departed spirits from their prison houses4 ,i have also taken the opportunity to encourage others to search out their genealogies and do ,temple work for their kindred dead4 ,that is his story1 briefly told4 ,others can testify to the fidelity with which he has fulfilled what he conceived to be his mission4 ,he frequently goes to the ,temple himself and receives ordinances in behalf of his dead kindred1 and he is constantly employing others to do likewise1 so that the work for his kindred dead goes on apace4 ,being asked how many he had now had the work done for1 he replied that he did not know--he had not taken time to count--but some thousands4 ,in addition to all this1 he has for the past five years been a worker on the ,temple ,block in connection with the ,bureau of ,information1 spending much of his time there1 and with good effect if the volunteered opinion of hundreds who have listened to him are a fair criterion by which to judge4 ,though he never filled a foreign mission1 he has enjoyed privileges that seldom come to foreign missionaries4 ,he has explained ,mormon history and doctrine and borne his testimony to thousands who1 as strangers thereto1 were seeking the information he had to offer 7and many of them willing listeners17 and who could never afterwards deny having heard the truth4 ,it may be inferred from this that he is working under high pressure1 to spare so much time from his own absorbing affairs to devote to this charitable work1 as well as to be under the financial tribute that he is in this connection1 and indeed he is4 ,he probably inherits from his father 7who was a man of unusual energy1 mental and physical17 his capacity for work4 ,there is no doubt about his feeling better for the strenuous life that he is leading1 and especially for his gratuitous work4 ,he has been heard to remark that he has found no good and safe place to stop at1 as any lessening of his efforts in the voluntary work for the good of others that he has undertaken1 results in a perceptible diminution in the good spirit that he has enjoyed in recent years1 and in his growing worldly-minded in a corresponding degree4 ,his is a nature that is not satisfied with anything mediocre4 ,he craves the best1 and is naturally thorough and whole-hearted in that which he does1 and has a keen sense of both enjoyment and suffering4 ,he has learned what many others fail to learn3 that happiness depends less upon what we receive than what we give1 less upon what we have than upon what we do2 less upon what others do for us than upon what we do for them2 and that we can adopt no more certain means of securing happiness for ourselves than that of seeking to make others happy4 ,life never was so full and rich and satisfying to him before as it has been in recent years1 for he never did so much for others1 and never before exhibited so much unselfishness4 ,he objects to being classed as a rich man1 because1 notwithstanding his interests are rather extensive1 he has invested a large amount of borrowed money in an industry which involves a good deal of risk1 and yet1 with good fortune in his favor1 may yield a handsome profit4 ,well1 if he is not rich he is certainly enterprising1 and deserves to be rich1 and never was in less danger from being rich4 ,wealth is a comparative term1 anyhow4 ,if he is not rich compared with some who are very wealthy1 he is compared with those who have little or none of this world's goods4 ,if1 with the risk he is taking1 he still finds time to devote so much unselfish attention to others1 dead and living1 how much more creditable than if he labored for selfish ends6 ,and how much more of a sacrifice he is making than if he had converted all his surplus property into government bonds1 the income from which would insure him a living without care on his part1 and then only gave his time to the cause of humanity4 ,he has again married--this time in ,god's own appointed way1 to one who is full of faith--and two lovely children have come to grace his home--the first living children he has had4 ,he takes an optimistic view of life1 and never felt that he had so much to live for4 ,it may be appropriately mentioned here that six years before his former wife died 7a4 already related17 she wrote a letter to her husband1 with a request that it be opened and read after her death4 ,his present wife chanced to read that letter some time after her marriage1 and learned from it that the expressed desire of the deceased wife was that her husband should marry again1 and that some time there would be a little ,luacine 7that being the first wife's name47 ,the first child was a boy4 ,the second was a girl1 and the mother1 on her own volition1 chose for her the name of ,luacine4 ,consider this case from whatever angle we may1 ,brother ,p 4 4 4 is an exception in his class1 and a most praiseworthy exception1 whose example in recent years is well worthy of emulation4 ,,my ,,mother4 ,,chapter ,i4 ,,prediction ,,from ,,malachi ,,fulfilled--,,birth ,,and ,,childhood ,,of ,,mary ,,alice ,,cannon--,,cannon ,,family ,,embrace ,,the ,,gospel--,,migrate--,,mother',s ,,death ,,at ,,sea--,,arrival ,,at ,,nauvoo--,,father',s ,,death--,,her ,,marriage4 ,behold1 ,i will send you ,elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the ,lord1 and he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children1 and the heart of the children to their fathers1 lest ,i come and smite the earth with a curse4 ,thus spake the ,lord through ,malachi1 the prophet2 but just what was meant by turning the heart of the fathers to the children and the heart of the children to the fathers1 has been a matter of speculation among bible students since time was young4 ,of course1 many have supposed that this prediction was fulfilled in the coming of ,john the ,baptist2 but wherein ,john the ,baptist accomplished any such work as that indicated is not clear4 ,whatever the work was that ,elijah was to do1 there must be something potential about it1 to have the effect of appeasing the wrath of the ,almighty and averting the curse with which the earth 7or possibly the inhabitants of the earth7 would otherwise be smitten4 ,not until the doctrine of salvation for the dead had been revealed was the full import of the declaration quoted from ,malachi understood even by the ,latter-day ,saints4 ,the anxiety they immediately experienced for the salvation of their kindred who had died without conforming to the ,gospel requirements1 when they learned that the living might do a vicarious work in behalf of the dead1 that would place the latter upon an equal footing with the most favored of the living1 was an illustration of its effects upon the children4 ,the interest that was awakened about that same time in the matter of genealogical research1 without any apparent cause for it1 more than had existed for ages1 may reasonably be considered an evidence that the heart of the fathers was being turned to the children4 ,nor was this interest in the tracing of genealogies1 and the connecting of one generation or age to another by kindred links1 limited to ,latter-day ,saints1 or those familiar with the doctrine of salvation for the dead1 as newly revealed4 ,it seemed to be a spontaneous feeling1 specially noticeable in the more enlightened countries of that age and since4 ,the disposition to engage in this research was not limited to any class or creed4 ,it was manifested alike by people of various religious beliefs and by those also of infidel tendencies4 ,sometimes pride of ancestry furnished the excuse1 and at other times the hope of inheritance was the incentive4 ,whatever the causes that led to the compiling and publishing of genealogical works1 it is easy for ,latter-day ,saints to believe that men so actuated were inspired of the ,lord1 whether they realized it or not1 and that the grand and ultimate purpose of the ,lord was that the living believers in that doctrine might do a vicarious work for the salvation of individual dead1 and thus connect the present generation with those of the past4 ,image3 ,mrs4 ,mary ,alice ,c4 ,lambert ,a desire to learn as much as possible about one's ancestors1 and then go into the ,temple and labor for their salvation1 may be really accepted as the normal feeling among faithful1 sincere ,latter-day ,saints4 ,so generally is it understood to be their duty to labor for their dead kindred1 that it seems quite the natural thing that they should do so4 ,their obligation in this respect is comparable to that of providing for dependent members of their households4 ,one must have a broader feeling of philanthropy or a higher sense of duty1 to labor as a general worker or officiator in the ,temple for extended periods1 without hope of earthly reward4 ,among the more conspicuous examples of this kind in the ,salt ,lake ,temple is ,mrs4 ,mary ,alice ,c4 ,lambert1 the dean of the women workers1 if such a term may be applied to a woman4 ,she was one of those called to so labor when the ,salt ,lake ,temple was completed1 and has so served faithfully and gratuitously ever since1 being still active and efficient1 although in her eighty-sixth year4 ,hers is as fine an example of a busy1 well-spent life1 as could readily be found1 and a perusal of the following sketch can hardly fail to be faith promoting3 ,on the #ith day of ,december1 #ahbh1 a young married couple1 ,george and ,ann ,cannon1 then living in the city of ,liverpool1 ,england1 rejoiced in the birth of their second child--a daughter--whom they named ,mary ,alice4 ,there was nothing about the child or her brother1 ,george ,q41 who was two years her senior1 or their parents1 to distinguish them from the many thousands of other families who lived in that great city4 ,the father was an intelligent and industrious tradesman--an expert carpenter1 or joiner--and the mother a thoroughly domestic woman1 whose love for her husband and children was only equalled by the strength of her religious fervor4 ,though ,england had been the adopted home of this branch of the ,cannon family since many years before their marriage1 the most of their relatives lived in the ,isle of ,man1 and thither the family went on occasional visits4 ,on one of these visits1 at the earnest solicitation of her maternal grandmother1 little ,mary ,alice was left to bear her company1 and spent five years of her childhood in the quaint old town of ,peel1 for this purpose4 ,in course of time the ,cannon family was enlarged by the successive births of other children--,ann1 ,angus1 ,john1 ,david and ,leonora4 ,john1 however1 died when three and a half years of age4 ,prosperity had attended the father's labors1 the family had a comfortable and happy home1 the older children were acquiring an education1 and gave promise of being like other children among the better class in ,england--no worse than the majority1 and not much if any better4 ,when ,mary ,alice was about #aa years of age1 an event occurred that was destined to change the whole current of the family life4 ,if there is any truth in the theory of heredity1 it was well for the ,cannon family that their ancestors1 for generations1 had been hardy sea-faring men--some of them captains1 conspicuous for their courage and adventurous disposition4 ,it was well that their ancestral home was in the ,isle of ,man1 where the inhabitants1 largely fishermen1 are inured to hardship and used to battling with the waves and braving the tempest4 ,if any of the traits possessed by their ancestors had been inherited by the present generation1 and especially strength of will and endurance1 two of the most prominent characteristics of the ,manx people--they must certainly be called into action in the strenuous life that lay before the ,cannon family1 thenceforward4 ,some years previously ,leonora ,cannon1 a sister of ,george ,cannon1 had migrated to ,canada1 and there met and married a young ,englishman named ,john ,taylor4 ,parley ,p4 ,pratt1 as a ,latter-day ,saint missionary1 soon afterwards visited the part of ,canada where the ,taylors lived1 and they were converted and joined their fortunes with the ,saints in ,ohio4 ,from ,nauvoo ,john ,taylor was sent on a mission to ,great ,britain1 and immediately upon landing called upon his wife's brother and family4 ,a profound impression was made by this visit4 ,the visitor had scarcely left the house1 after a brief call1 when the mother expressed the firm conviction she felt that he was a servant of ,god1 although he had not then made known the fact that he was a missionary or explained the ,gospel4 ,after a very short time spent investigating the ,gospel1 the parents were baptized4 ,little ,mary ,alice1 though so young1 greatly desired baptism at the same time1 but was too timid to ask for it4 ,from the time she listened to the first conversation on the ,gospel she had felt greatly exercised in regard to it1 and earnestly prayed to the ,lord for a testimony as to its truth4 ,as a result1 she obtained a strong assurance from the ,lord of its truth1 that has never since admitted of a doubt4 ,the parents had been members of the ,church four months when1 in ,june #ahdj1 ,elder ,parley ,p4 ,pratt visited them in company with ,elder ,taylor4 ,they had just finished eating breakfast1 with the whole family present1 when ,elder ,pratt1 as if moved by a sudden inspiration1 said3 ,elder ,taylor1 have you preached the ,gospel to these children8 ,some of them want to be baptized now4 ,don't you8 he asked looking straight at ,mary ,alice4 ,yes1 sir1 she promptly replied1 her heart so full of gratitude to the ,lord for the opportunity she had prayed for of having her desire made known1 that she could hardly speak4 ,further questioning resulted in immediate arrangements being made for the baptism of ,george ,q41 ,mary ,alice and ,ann--all the children of the family then old enough for the ordinance4 ,it didn't take the family long to discover that there was no fellowship or tolerance for them among their relatives1 or indeed among their former friends4 ,though formerly popular1 they were now pitied or denounced1 if not thoroughly hated4 ,whether this fact tended to create a desire to migrate to ,america or not1 true it was that they soon obtained the spirit of gathering4 ,the only social enjoyment the family found was in mingling with members of the church1 and the desire soon grew strong to go where the majority of the members could be found4 ,the mother especially revolted at the thought of her children growing up in an atmosphere of unbelief1 and1 although she was in delicate health1 and had a premonition that amounted almost if not quite to an absolute fore-knowledge that she would not live to reach ,america1 she insisted upon going1 and was impatient to start4 ,the father1 too1 after having a dream of his wife dying at sea1 feared that it might prove true1 and would have hesitated about going had the ,lord not made known to him1 in answer to prayer1 that it was his duty to do so4 ,the family embarked on a sailing vessel bound for ,new ,orleans in ,september1 #ahdb1 and the mother died and was buried at sea six weeks later1 after suffering from sea sickness almost if not quite every day of the voyage up to that time4 ,the forlorn condition of the family can more easily be imagined than described4 ,the promises held out by the ,gospel seemed to be their only comfort and support4 ,for ,mary ,alice1 mere child that she was1 there was too much to do in caring for the younger brothers and sisters to admit of her yielding to grief4 ,the new responsibility suddenly thrust upon her had the effect of merging her childhood into womanhood without any interim for youth4 ,the sea voyage ended at ,new ,orleans1 eight weeks after it commenced1 the intention being to proceed immediately by river steamboat to ,nauvoo2 but obstacles were soon encountered1 the first being the grounding of the boat on a sandbar1 resulting in such a tedious delay that severe frost set in and the boat was unable to proceed farther north than ,st4 ,louis because of the river being frozen over4 ,the ,cannon family accordingly spent the winter in ,st4 ,louis1 the father providing homes and support for two other families1 whom he had charitably immigrated from ,england1 besides his own4 ,nauvoo was finally reached in ,april1 #ahdc1 seven months after the departure from ,england4 ,a cordial greeting by the ,prophet ,joseph ,smith and a hearty welcome from ,aunt ,leonora ,taylor and family helped to reconcile them1 and the peaceful home obtained in ,nauvoo was all the more appreciated because of the difficulties experienced on the way4 ,in ,february1 #ahdd1 the father married a second time1 the motherless condition of his children and a desire on his part for their welfare doubtless hastening the event4 ,this was a crucial period in the ,church's history4 ,disaffection was rife1 and the allegiance of many who had formerly been considered stalwarts in the faith had become very uncertain4 ,apostates1 secret and outspoken1 were conspiring with former enemies of the church to overthrow the work of the ,lord and encompass the death of the ,prophet4 ,the martyrdom of the ,prophet and ,patriarch and the very serious wounding of ,apostle ,john ,taylor occurred1 as a result of these diabolical plots1 in ,june4 ,during all these trying times the ,church had no more loyal supporters than the ,cannon family4 ,the father was among those who cared for the bodies of the martyrs when returned to ,nauvoo1 and he it was who 7with the assistance of his friend1 ,ariar ,brower17 made the plaster casts of the faces and heads of the ,prophet and ,patriarch when the bodies were washed and prepared for burial4 ,in the ,august following1 having gone to ,st4 ,louis to obtain employment1 ,george ,cannon suddenly died there4 ,if the children's condition was forlorn when their mother died1 it was doubly so now4 ,the one fact1 that they were located with the body of the ,church1 rendered their condition more tolerable4 ,what might have been the result1 so far as the children were concerned1 of their being thus early left orphans if they had remained in ,england1 can only be conjectured4 ,the one supreme desire of the mother1 to hasten the departure from ,england that the children might be with the body of the ,church before being left without their natural protectors1 was now justified4 ,george ,q4 and ,ann found a home with their ,aunt ,leonora1 the former1 being already in the employ of ,elder ,taylor as a printer1 and ,mary ,alice1 though lacking two weeks of being sixteen years old at the time1 married in ,november following1 and provided a home for ,angus1 ,david and ,leonora4 ,charles ,lambert1 the husband1 was a thoroughly congenial companion1 though twelve years the senior of his wife1 and was willing as well as qualified to provide for the three orphans of whom he became the lawful guardian4 ,he was an expert mechanic who1 for the ,gospel's sake1 had given up a lucrative position and sacrificed worldly advantages in ,england to migrate to ,nauvoo1 where he landed in the early part of #ahdd4 ,he had offered his services to help build the ,temple without hope of payment therefor1 and remained so employed up to the time the ,temple was dedicated and he and his wife received their blessings therein1 though his devotion thereto involved many hardships and severe privations1 and almost superhuman self denial4 ,in all these trials ,mother ,lambert1 as we now call her1 and as she then was too1 though not so called1 7for her first child1 ,charles ,j41 was born in ,nauvoo in ,november1 #ahde1 when she lacked one month of being #ag years old7 was a true partner1 patient1 cheerful1 industrious and self-sacrificing1 and as loyal to the cause of ,god as the needle to the pole4 ,,chapter ,,ii4 ,,strenuous ,,life ,,in ,,nauvoo--,,city ,,besieged--,,thrilling ,,experience--,,miracle ,,of ,,quails--,,run ,,over ,,by ,,wagon--,,wagon ,,sinks ,,to ,,bottom ,,of ,,river--,,life ,,in ,,utah--,,mission ,,abroad--,,her ,,posterity4 ,they succeeded in acquiring a fairly comfortable home in ,nauvoo1 and a farm a short distance outside of the city1 but they were not destined to long enjoy their possessions4 ,the enemies of the ,church were not content with having killed the ,prophet and ,patriarch2 they were determined to drive the ,saints from the state of ,illinois1 as they had previously been driven from ,missouri4 ,the ,saints1 especially in the outlying settlements1 were continually being harassed by the lawless mob4 ,farms were frequently pillaged or their crops burned4 ,domestic animals were driven off1 and the inhabitants in some instances severely beaten and compelled to flee from their homes to save their lives4 ,many of their houses were also set fire to before the owners' sight4 ,not only were the ,saints the victims of these ruthless depredations1 but they were actually accused of being the perpetrators of the same1 and this made the pretext by the mob for demanding that the ,saints remove from the state or abandon their religion4 ,is it any wonder that some of the more weak and faithless of the members chose the latter alternative8 ,an agreement was finally entered into1 between the ,saints on one side1 and state officials and leaders of the mob on the other1 that the ,saints should leave the state as soon as they could sell their possessions4 ,it soon became apparent1 however1 that they would have to abandon their homes instead of selling them1 as their enemies1 though anxious to secure them1 showed little disposition to pay for them4 ,the majority of the ,saints living in ,nauvoo left there to journey westward in the early part of the year #ahdf1 leaving those whose services to work upon the ,temple were required1 or who lacked the necessary equipment for the journey1 to follow on afterwards4 ,when the ,apostles returned later to ,nauvoo to dedicate the ,temple they exacted a promise from those yet remaining there1 and who possessed the necessary outfits to undertake the journey1 that they would not abandon any of the less fortunate ,saints who might desire to accompany them1 but help them out of the state4 ,before they were ready to depart1 however1 the mobocrats1 in far superior numbers1 surrounded and besieged the city4 ,charles ,lambert took a prominent part in the city's defense1 helping to manipulate one of the cannons1 which1 in the emergency1 he and others had improvised from an old steamboat shaft1 and which had been mounted upon a part of the running gear of a wagon4 ,mother ,lambert was an interested and anxious spectator of the battle4 ,in addition to having her own small family to care for1 a ,mrs4 ,haines1 a neighbor1 who was very ill1 had been brought to her home to be nursed1 her husband being absent from the city4 ,during the bombardment1 which continued for several days1 some of the cannon balls fired by the mob passed close by1 but none of them actually struck the house4 ,in one instance an old gentleman1 who felt too feeble to be among the city's defenders1 but whose anxiety to see how the battle waged led him to ascend to the top of the roof of the ,lambert house to get a good view1 was so alarmed by a cannon ball passing close by his head1 that he rolled from the roof to the ground4 ,a flag of truce was finally raised by the mob and a treaty effected1 one of the provisions of which was that the ,saints would vacate the city within three days4 ,such of the household goods possessed by the ,lambert family as could be1 were loaded into a wagon box and an attempt made to remove across the river4 ,as they approached the ,mississippi1 however1 in the lower part of the town1 so many other wagons were found to be ahead of theirs1 waiting to be ferried over1 that a temporary camp was made near an abandoned home4 ,while on the way from their home to this point the family had been surrounded by a large posse of the mob and compelled to give up to them such fire arms as they possessed4 ,soon after reaching the temporary camp1 and while ,father ,lambert was absent with his team for the purpose of hauling ,john ,haines' wagon1 with his household goods and his sick wife in it1 down to the same point1 a second mob appeared and demanded that ,mother ,lambert give up to them whatever fire arms were in the wagon4 ,in vain she told them the weapons had already been surrendered1 and that she did not have the keys to unlock the boxes in the wagon4 ,they used a hammer to forcibly break open the boxes1 and proceeded to ransack all that the wagon contained1 with the result that they obtained possession of a sword and bowie knife4 ,these they brandished before the frightened mother and panic-stricken children1 accusing her of lying to them when she said she had no fire arms1 and threatening to cut her head off4 ,a sister of the ,prophet ,joseph ,smith was a witness of this scene1 she having proffered to remain with ,mother ,lambert for company while her husband was absent1 and expressed regret that she didn't have some weapon to shoot the men with while threatening her friend4 ,in course of time they succeeded in getting ferried over the river and formed a camp on the ,iowa side until ,father ,lambert could fulfill his pledge to help the poor ,saints who had no means of conveyance1 across the river1 where they would be free from the power of the mob4 ,while engaged in this mission of charity1 a party of mobocrats recognized him as one who had been conspicuous in the fight1 and1 with guns aimed at him1 ordered his surrender4 ,then1 while the two largest men of the party took him down into the the river and held him under the water three times in succession until his breath was gone1 fourteen others1 with their guns cocked and ready for action1 threatened to shoot him if he attempted to resist4 ,of course1 he did not resist1 neither did two brethren who were with him at the time--,thomas ,harrington and ,daniel ,hill--for they were unarmed and knew it would be folly to do so4 ,they were silent witnesses of the scene1 and neither they nor ,father ,lambert made any response to the oaths of their persecutors1 nor to the threat that if they ventured upon that side of the river again they would be shot on sight4 ,notwithstanding the threat1 however1 ,father ,lambert was in ,nauvoo the following day1 and continued to go over there until all the poor ,saints who cared to be helped across the river had abandoned the city4 ,on one of these occasions he was detained in ,nauvoo1 because of the pressing nature of what he had in hand1 and ,mother ,lambert1 fearing the mob had caught him and executed their threat1 walked the bank of the river all night in the greatest agony of suspense1 and inquired anxiously about her husband of every passenger that crossed on the ferry boat1 but all in vain4 ,however1 he showed up the next morning1 with an additional yoke of cattle which he had secured on an account due him4 ,while encamped on the bank of the river on the ,iowa side1 a rain storm occurred1 which continued without cessation for three days and nights1 until the wagons and their contents1 as well as the clothing worn1 were thoroughly soaked4 ,the sick woman1 ,mrs4 ,haines1 was placed on a bed under the wagon1 that being the most sheltered place available1 and there ,mother ,lambert and others waited upon her as best they could1 even holding milk pans over her bed to catch the water as it dripped through the wagon box1 until she died--a martyr to the persecution to which the ,saints were subjected4 ,it was while encamped on the bank of this river that the ,saints1 many of them suffering for want of food as well as otherwise ailing1 were visited by a flock of quails1 miraculously rendered so tame that some of them alighted on the beds occupied by the sick and were caught by their hands1 and others allowed themselves to be killed with sticks4 ,those persecuted and suffering ,saints1 the ,lambert family among the rest1 accepted the birds as sent of the ,lord1 considering themselves as much the objects of divine favor as were the ,israelites of old when fed with manna1 and cooked the quail and ate them with the greatest possible relish4 ,the journey through ,iowa was a very difficult one1 and not entirely devoid of danger4 ,the country was very sparsely settled1 there were no really good roads except occasional stretches of natural prairie1 and the numerous streams encountered generally had to be forded because of the absence of bridges4 ,however1 they did not travel continuously1 a stop of some weeks being made at ,bonaparte1 and employment obtained by which supplies were earned4 ,it was while traveling westward from that point that a very serious accident occurred4 ,mother ,lambert was very nervous about riding over bad places1 preferring to walk when allowed to do so4 ,the fact that the team animals1 which consisted of two yoke of steers and one yoke of cows1 were not well broken--in fact1 quite wild when they left ,nauvoo--rendered her more chary about riding4 ,when approaching ,soap ,creek1 which she had learned was a difficult stream to cross1 she alighted from the wagon1 and soon afterwards1 by some accident1 fell in front of the wagon wheel1 and1 before the team could be stopped1 two wheels had passed over the small of her back4 ,in addition to the weight of the wagon itself1 its load amounted to fully #cejj pounds1 making a combined weight sufficient to crush the life out of a person under ordinary circumstances4 ,indeed1 it was supposed when she was picked up that she was dead4 ,father ,lambert1 however1 was not willing to admit such a possibility1 and called upon as many of his fellow travelers as had any faith to join with him in administering to her4 ,his wife was miraculously spared1 and the journey resumed the following day1 but she has suffered more or less ever since from the effects of the accident4 ,winter ,quarters1 on the west bank of the ,missouri river1 where the main body of the ,saints had encamped1 was reached late in ,november1 and1 as soon as ,father ,lambert had constructed a log house to shelter his family during the winter1 he made his way to ,missouri and found employment by which he earned supplies1 and sent to his wife and children4 ,he and his family were ambitious to journey westward with the pioneers in the spring4 ,they were prevented1 however1 from doing so by the ,indians killing their team animals after they had been brought through the winter in good condition1 and shortly before the journey was to be undertaken4 ,it was a sad disappointment1 but only a temporary set back4 ,with courage unabated1 the family removed to ,st4 ,joseph1 ,mo41 where living was cheap and work abundant1 and in ,february of the following year1 with a new team and supplies earned in ,missouri1 ,mother ,lambert and the children were sent forward to ,winter ,quarters1 to be ready to undertake the journey westward1 while ,father ,lambert remained in ,missouri to work as long as possible before rejoining them4 ,that journey of #aej miles in that inclement season was a terrible one1 but it was bravely accomplished4 ,in crossing the river from ,ferry ,point to ,winter ,quarters1 however1 a new misfortune occurred4 ,the river had been frozen over for a considerable period1 and teams had passed over it on the ice with impunity4 ,even that very morning two heavily loaded wagons had gone over4 ,yet1 when the ,lambert wagon was being taken across1 although the precaution had been resorted to of taking the team over first and drawing the wagon over from a distance with a rope1 the ice gave way4 ,there1 in that bleak ,march weather1 six weeks before her son ,george was born1 ,mother ,lambert stood upon the bank of the ,missouri river1 with her child in her arms and her two young brothers and younger sister clinging to her skirts1 and saw the wagon containing all the family's earthly substance sink through the ice to the bottom of the stream4 ,sister ,jane ,dutson1 7afterwards ,mrs4 ,alexander ,melville1 of ,fillmore7 who had accompanied ,mother ,lambert from ,missouri1 stood beside her when the wagon disappeared1 and the catastrophe almost made their hearts cease beating4 ,they never expected to see the wagon or its contents again4 ,the accident1 however1 didn't prove so serious as that4 ,the occasion served to illustrate how spontaneously kind1 sympathetic and resourceful ,latter-day ,saints are4 ,though ,mother ,lambert had few acquaintances in ,winter ,quarters1 the news of her misfortune soon spread1 and proffers of help and expressions of sympathy came from all quarters4 ,volunteers soon plunged into the ice-cold water and readily reappeared bearing in their hands articles recovered from the wagon1 which in turn were seized by others standing near the edge of the ice and then loaded upon hand sleds and conveyed to the shore4 ,before night set in most of the contents of the wagon had been recovered--damaged1 of course1 but not completely spoiled1 and all done without any intimation of a favor being conferred thereby1 much less any kind of remuneration being expected4 ,depend upon it1 though1 ,mother ,lambert was not lacking in gratitude1 and in her prayers that night as she enjoyed the shelter of ,brother ,harrington's hospitable roof1 she thanked ,god with all the fervency of which she was capable that she was a ,latter-day ,saint1 and for the fraternal spirit that abounded among her fellow members4 ,the next day1 by some method not now remembered1 the wagon also was recovered4 ,very soon afterwards ,president ,young1 who was then at ,winter ,quarters1 preparing to start on his second trip to the ,salt ,lake ,valley1 accompanied by his family1 wrote to ,father ,lambert in ,missouri1 advising that he remain there another year1 promising1 as a condition of his doing so1 that he should lose nothing1 but be able to go with a much better outfit than he otherwise could4 ,mother ,lambert and the children accordingly returned thither1 and awaited the arrival of the spring of #ahdi4 ,the journey to the valley1 which occupied six months1 was full of vicissitudes and rich in the experience that tends most to develop character4 ,the goal for which the family had longed and prayed1 though a wild region1 forbidding in appearance1 was hailed with joy1 as promising exemption from contact with a sinful world1 and freedom from persecution4 ,one thing that was specially disappointing to ,mother ,lambert and her three proteges was1 that their brother ,george ,q41 who1 with his sister ,ann had reached the valley in #ahdg1 soon after the pioneers landed1 had only the day before started on a mission to ,california1 thence to proceed to the ,sandwich ,islands4 ,this involved a separation1 as it afterwards proved 7counting from the time they parted in ,winter ,quarters17 of almost eight years4 ,he had1 in anticipation of the family's arrival1 arranged for the purchase of a lot--the same lot which was the family's home for so many years1 and still in their possession1 and made some adobes from which they might construct a house4 ,as illustrative of ,father ,lambert's disposition to follow the counsel of the church leaders1 it may here be mentioned that ,president ,willard ,richards1 one of the pioneers1 and second counselor to ,president ,young1 who entertained a very strong friendship for ,father ,lambert1 had saved a corner lot on ,main ,street--that which ,walker ,bros4 bank occupied for so many years--for his friend1 and so informed him on his arrival4 ,father ,lambert expressed his gratitude for the kindness1 but said1 as ,president ,young's counsel was that no family should have more than one city lot1 and his brother-in-law1 ,george ,q41 had bargained for a lot for him a couple of blocks distant from ,main ,street 7the price of which must be paid7 and made some adobes with which to build thereon1 he felt that he ought to decline ,brother ,richards' kind offer4 ,one has only to recall the almost fabulous value of that ,main ,street lot at the present time to realize what he lost by that declination1 and yet1 if its possession would have made the family become worldly-minded and think less of their religion1 ,father ,lambert must even now1 if permitted to know anything of mundane affairs1 thank ,god that he did not accept it4 ,those early years in ,salt ,lake ,valley were years of desperate toil1 hardship and privation1 of which the ,lambert family had their full share--perhaps more than their share2 not however1 from want of effort on their part1 for none were more industrious or frugal1 but largely because of their willingness to help others4 ,a more generous man than ,charles ,lambert probably never lived4 ,he found more pleasure in relieving the wants of others who were in need than self gratification ever could have afforded him1 and his wife was a worthy partner in that same respect4 ,the needy did not have to apply to them to obtain assistance2 they were sought for and their wants relieved without ostentation4 ,no family ever bore privation with less complaining4 ,when the crops failed through the ravages of grasshoppers1 weeks passed without even the children of the household and served first the were they and bread1 tasting the last to go without4 ,no woman in ,utah probably had the faculty of preparing for her family a more palatable meal from herbs and roots than ,mother ,lambert1 nor more wholesome and enjoyable fare when food was more plentiful and varied4 ,how she accomplished the herculean tasks which came to her1 and which she performed uncomplainingly1 is incomprehensible to the present generation4 ,her first three children being boys1 and their services being otherwise required1 she had very little help in the household the greater part of the time she was bearing children1 and she was the mother of fourteen4 7,she didn't shirk the duties of motherhood47 ,she was the dressmaker and tailoress for the family1 even to the carding and spinning of the wool some of the time4 ,hers also was the task of cooking for the family1 and not with the present facilities either4 ,the open fireplace with its bake kettle and skillet and frying pan1 and the adobe oven1 were her early culinary conveniences in ,utah4 ,these were succeeded by the sheet iron stove1 and that by the cast iron stove1 and so on up to the range4 ,she did the butter making and washing and ironing and mending for the family too1 and it was always a big family1 frequently including hired male help4 ,she was the housekeeper also1 and a good housekeeper too1 the house being seldom out of order4 ,it presented a cheery welcome to friends and acquaintances from far and near1 and many availed themselves of it4 ,hers was no stinted hospitality4 ,the best she had was at the disposal of all who called1 and frequently even the floors were taxed to their capacity to find room for the beds of those she entertained4 ,she was a good disciplinarian too4 ,all her children as they grew up were taught to work1 and in turn bore their share of the burden4 ,she was also a famous nurse1 and possessed of considerable skill in the use of the simple remedies that served so well to maintain a standard of health that has not been equaled in more recent years1 notwithstanding our numerous and high-priced doctors4 ,in these latter respects her services were not limited to members of her own household by any means4 ,her own health was never especially robust1 though she must have inherited a strong constitution and possessed naturally an indomitable will4 ,she was seldom free from pain in her back1 as a result of the accident before mentioned4 ,her powers were taxed too1 upon numerous occasions1 and for extended periods1 in caring for an ailing husband1 although he was a man who would bear any amount of pain without complaint4 ,he was a great sufferer from inflammatory rheumatism1 which caused a partial loss or his eyesight several times1 and for more than six months at one time he was without the use of one arm1 through having his shoulder dislocated4 ,the death of her husband1 which occurred more than twenty-two years since1 added an additional burden to her1 but it also called forth her self-reliance1 and proved that she possessed considerable executive ability4 ,in addition to all the labors and cares and duties mentioned1 ,mother ,lambert found time throughout a very large part of her career for a great deal of charity work4 ,for fifteen and a half years she was secretary of the relief society of the #gth ward1 and for the succeeding twenty-two years was its president4 ,she filled the last named office up to the time she removed from the ward1 and her removal was for the purpose of being near the ,temple1 having been called to be one of its regular workers at the time that edifice was completed in #ahic4 ,she filled a mission to ,england with her husband in #ahhb-c and spent several months visiting different countries in ,europe in #aijf1 mainly for the purpose of obtaining genealogical data4 ,she has performed ordinances in the ,temple for hundreds of her relatives and friends who died without the privilege of accepting the ,gospel4 ,she has also labored to a considerable extent as a missionary from the general board of the ,relief ,society1 her travels in this capacity extending from ,idaho in the north to ,mexico in the south4 ,as an indication of the devotion of ,mother ,lambert and her family to the cause of truth1 it may be said that the missionary work performed by herself and direct progeny 7including the general work in the ,temple1 by direct call of the ,church authorities7 amounts in the aggregate to more than fifty-eight years4 ,hers has been an unusually busy and useful life1 and1 according to her opinion1 a rather happy one4 ,she feels that she has had more real joy during her eighty-five and a half years upon earth than usually falls to the lot of mortals4 ,and why not8 ,a faithful adherence to duty throughout her life has left her comparatively little to regret1 and unhappiness is largely the result of regret and remorse for sins committed and opportunities lost4 ,happiness depends less upon worldly possessions and a life of ease than upon a pure heart and a clear conscience4 ,her present joy is all the more complete for the sorrow she has felt2 the peace of her recent years all the more enjoyable for the trials and turmoil of the past1 and the comfortable competence she now enjoys is all the more appreciated because of her early privations4 ,if happiness is at all dependent upon the love of kindred1 she ought to be supremely happy2 for she has a numerous posterity1 who almost idolize her4 ,she is not able to wholly gratify the wishes of her several sons and daughters1 because of her inability to spend her remaining days in mortality as a member of the household of each2 so until recently she maintained her own modest but comfortable home and enjoyed a hearty welcome at the home of any of them as often and as long as she chose to visit4 ,during recent years the infirmity of age has led her to give up housekeeping and take up her residence with her eldest daughter4 ,she receives every attention that love and duty can suggest1 and is happy and contented4 ,she is still a model of industry1 seldom being seated for many minutes without having some kind of needlework1 writing or reading to give her attention to4 ,in this connection it may be mentioned that for a great many years past it has been her habit to exhibit specimens of her needle work produced during the previous year at the annual ,state ,fair1 and has always received recognition1 and sometimes the highest prizes1 for the excellence of her productions4 ,as an indication of her methodical habits1 it may be mentioned that she keeps a diary1 or journal1 in which she daily records1 with her own hand1 passing events of local or general interest1 and especially happenings among her own family or progeny1 and her financial transactions1 as well as how she spends her time and the condition of her health4 ,this has been her daily practice ever since shortly after her husband's death1 and is a continuation of the journal which he kept during the greater part of his life4 ,it may be mentioned that ,mother ,lambert's personal accidents during her later years have been somewhat numerous1 mainly because of her independence and disposition to do things herself rather than ask anyone else to do them for her4 ,she has suffered from broken ribs no less than six different times1 but she has always rallied wonderfully quick from any injury or ailment4 ,she takes a great interest in all of her progeny1 remembers their names and quite generally their birthdays1 and frequently visits among them4 ,her children appreciate her wise counsel and motherly interest1 and feel1 one and all1 that whatever of merit they have accomplished in life has been due to the inspiring example and wholesome precepts set before them by her and their revered father4 ,to him not less than to her do they feel indebted1 and forever shall be though they become the best and most dutiful of sons and daughters1 for he was a model father1 as loving1 kind1 self-sacrificing1 honest1 industrious and faithful as mortal father ever was4 ,he alone of all his father's family embraced the ,gospel as revealed anew1 but from him and ,mother ,lambert1 through the blessing of the ,lord1 a direct progeny has resulted 7including three generations7 to the number of #bja1 all of whom are living except #bi1 and all in the faith for which he sacrificed so much1 and which was his guiding star through life4 ,scarcely less remarkable has been the increase from the ,cannon family generally1 although the posterity of ,mother ,lambert outnumbers those of any one of her brothers or sisters4 ,the direct descendants of ,george ,cannon 7including the six children already mentioned as having been left orphans1 and their sister ,elizabeth1 born as a product of the second marriage six months after her father's death7 who are living number almost #gjj1 to say nothing of those who have died4 ,in view of the fact that their numerous relatives left in ,england and the ,isle of ,man have actually decreased until their known descendents scarcely outnumber the fingers on one's two hands1 we may well exclaim1 ,what hath ,god wrought6 ,,examples ,,of ,,righteous ,,zeal4 ,,night ,,workers ,,who ,,serve ,,in ,,the ,,temple ,,during ,,the ,,day--,,many ,,women ,,serve ,,at ,,great ,,personal ,,sacrifice--,,temple ,,work ,a ,,boon ,,to ,,the ,,blind4 ,among those who are in daily attendance at the ,salt ,lake ,temple1 officiating for the dead1 are quite a number of men who are deserving of special credit1 because of the personal sacrifice the service involves4 ,allusion is made to those who earn their living by working at night1 and then deny themselves the sleep and rest their tired natures crave1 by devoting a good half day's service to ,temple work1 either for their own kindred dead or others4 ,indeed1 it occasionally amounts to considerably more than half a day4 ,they usually form part of the morning company1 all the members of which are supposed to be present and seated before #i a4 m41 when the introductory service commences4 ,under ordinary conditions1 they may expect to emerge from the ,temple about two o'clock2 but if the company be unusually large1 7as it is quite frequently17 it may be nearer #d p4 m4 before they get out4 ,most men object strongly to being deprived of ample and regular hours of rest and sleep1 and many persons would rather make a financial sacrifice than forego the sleep and rest they feel that they require4 ,if they had to work all night they would feel that any kind of service during the day1 to which they would have to give strict attention for several successive hours1 would be absolutely out of the question4 ,the examples in mind are men in humble or moderate circumstances1 who possibly couldn't very well afford to hire others to officiate for them2 so if they failed to do it themselves1 by sheer self denial1 it would probably not be done4 ,august ,roth is employed at the car barn in this city1 cleaning out cars 7which is very tiresome work17 from #f p4 m4 to #f4 a4 m41 every night in the week1 yet is almost invariably at the ,temple two days a week1 and sometimes three4 ,he and his wife 7and a lady friend who occasionally comes with them7 have1 during the past six years1 done the work for about #hjj persons1 mostly his or his wife's relatives4 ,for a poor man1 he has also been very generous in his free will offerings to the ,temple4 ,it has been his habit to contribute fifty cents every time he comes to the ,temple4 ,karl ,niemelka has also been employed at the car barn at night for several years past1 and done a good deal of work in the ,temple 7though not as much as ,brother ,roth7 for his dead kindred1 and has just left to fill a mission to his native land4 ,while absent he hopes to engage in genealogical research1 and be the better prepared for ,temple work on his return4 ,john ,c4 ,hoggan is employed as a nightwatchman1 having the care of a large amount of business property1 and is required to be on duty and generally moving about from #h p4 m4 until #f3ae a4 m4 every night in the week4 ,notwithstanding this1 he has averaged fully two days a week at the ,temple for the past eight years1 working mostly for his own and his wife's kindred1 but occasionally for others1 and all that he has received for his service in behalf of others he has contributed to the missionary fund1 in the ward in which he resides4 ,albert ,a4 ,quellmalz is janitor in a large office building and a number of stores1 to which he has to devote eight hours work between the time business closes at night and opens in the morning4 ,yet he never fails to serve in the ,temple on ,tuesday1 the day devoted to baptisms1 as well as the three succeeding days of the week4 ,he has during the past eight years officiated for about #fej dead relatives and friends4 ,brother ,quellmalz is a very studious1 methodical man1 and enjoys quite a reputation for efficient service in other capacities in the ,church4 ,john ,n4 ,swift is employed as a janitor by one of the railway companies every night in the week1 being on duty from #e p4 m4 until #h a4 m4 ,in addition to this1 he has served regularly in the ,temple during the past six years on ,thursday and ,friday4 ,some indication of the sacrifice this service involves is conveyed in the statement that1 although his home is in ,sugar ,house ,ward1 not a great distance away1 he is necessarily absent therefrom continuously from ,wednesday at #d3cj p4 m4 until ,saturday at #i a4 m4 ,his service in the ,temple has been entirely in the interest of his own relatives4 ,john ,s4 ,muir has been employed by the ,church for twenty years past as nightwatchman1 formerly at the tithing office and yards1 but since its erection at the ,bishop's ,building1 every night in the week4 ,during the past twelve years he has spent from one to two days a week in the ,temple1 having done the work for rather more than #fjj persons4 ,jedediah ,m4 ,brown1 of ,south ,bountiful1 has been janitor at the large public school building in that region for the past twenty years1 and during six years of that time was also nightwatchman at the ,deseret ,live ,stock ,co4 ,store4 ,yet during all that period1 with the exception of fourteen months while he was absent on a mission1 he has spent on an average two days a week in the ,temple4 ,for a number of years past his health has been quite poor1 having contracted chills and fever while on his mission1 which later developed into chronic rheumatism1 from which he has suffered ever since4 ,whatever the condition of his health1 however1 he has never yet felt willing to give up his service in behalf of the dead4 ,in addition to the service mentioned1 he is under the necessity of traveling about twenty miles by train or otherwise every day he serves in the ,temple4 ,ernest ,r4 ,s4 ,schnelle is also employed as a nightwatchman1 in an outlying business district1 and is responsible for a great deal of valuable property1 some of which tramps are specially liable to prey upon1 so that he has to be constantly wide awake and alert for twelve hours at a stretch every night1 but he is among the most regular and devoted of the ,temple workers4 ,robert ,hunter1 who is nightwatchman at ,z4 ,c4 ,m4 ,i41 is a frequent attendant at the ,temple1 mostly laboring for others1 because of lacking names of his own kindred dead1 and is in the habit of voluntarily contributing to the ,temple expense fund all that he receives for his service4 ,doubtless many of the women who are in daily attendance at the ,temple1 so serve at very great personal sacrifice4 ,self denying women seldom expect or receive full credit in this life for what they do in the way of service4 ,perhaps only the ,all-seeing ,father or recording angels know all of the heroism involved in the nightly toil and rigid self-denial with which many1 possibly most1 of the sisters patiently and uncomplainingly serve in the ,temple for the benefit of those who are powerless to repay them in this life4 ,it would be difficult to find a more devoted and truly charitable class of women than those laboring in the ,salt ,lake ,temple4 ,the women in attendance at the ,temple almost invariably far outnumber the men--sometimes two to one4 ,another characteristic of the regular attendants is that there is a preponderance of foreigners4 ,a very large proportion of the regular workers are ,scandinavians4 ,the ,swiss and ,germans are also quite largely represented4 ,one of the most self-denying and devoted women who ever served in the ,salt ,lake ,temple was ,sister ,berger1 or 7as she was known in the ,temple1 by the name of her first husband7 ,catherina ,b4 ,moosheer4 ,she was a native of ,zurich1 ,switzerland1 being born ,january #be1 #ahbc4 ,from the time she embraced the ,gospel she was very much concerned about the salvation of her dead kindred1 and took care to obtain all the information possible about her ancestors4 ,she arrived in ,utah ,july #d1 #ahgb1 accompanied by her son and daughter4 ,she purchased a home and exerted herself to the utmost to make her own way in the world by engaging as a nurse1 by which she accumulated considerable property4 ,she had the work done for her immediate ancestors as early as #ahgf1 in the ,endowment ,house4 ,after that she found an opportunity of having her genealogy traced up by a party who was engaged in that line1 and spent money very freely for that purpose4 ,she worked in the ,temple almost from the time it opened4 ,in #ahie she was partially paralyzed1 and never fully recovered therefrom4 ,this made her if possible more anxious than ever to hasten the work for her dead kindred4 ,she sold her home to obtain the means necessary to secure as many names as possible of her dead kindred1 and to employ men and women to help her in doing the work for them4 ,her records show that in all sixty-five different people were employed to assist her4 ,for a period of two and a half years she had twelve persons--six men and six women--constantly employed in helping her in the ,temple4 ,she had the work fully done for #a1gdh of her dead kindred1 and sacrificed all that she possessed in order to accomplish it4 ,it may be of interest to note that ,sister ,moosheer was the first ,temple worker to complete a record of #a1jjj names4 ,she died in ,salt ,lake ,city ,june #i1 #ahii1 shortly after completing the work for the last name she had of her dead kindred4 ,her son and daughter and their families gave her every possible encouragement in the ,temple work while she lived1 and are now more proud of what she accomplished therein than they would be if she had left them fortunes4 ,another very devoted woman in the ,temple work is ,sister ,catherina ,z4 ,schuler4 ,she is also a native of ,switzerland1 having been born in ,glarus1 ,may #bb1 #ahcd4 ,she not only sacrificed her home there for the ,gospel's sake1 but left her husband also because of his determined opposition to her religion4 ,bringing her son with her1 she came to ,utah and located first at ,logan1 where she remained for several years1 and where her son subsequently died4 ,she was present at the dedication of the ,logan ,temple1 and did a good deal of work there for her dead kindred1 of whom she had or subsequently obtained a very extensive list4 ,she removed to ,salt ,lake ,city in #ahib1 and witnessed also the dedication of the ,temple in this city4 ,she was dependent entirely upon her own earnings1 and went out sewing as she found opportunity1 and did ,temple work occasionally4 ,since #ahih she has devoted herself exclusively to her ,temple work1 in which she has been assisted by many friends1 and devoted every cent she could save to hiring men to work for her male kindred4 ,in all1 she has done1 or had done1 the work for fully #b1djj of her kindred dead4 ,a look at ,sister ,schuler's face is sufficient to convince any person that hers is a joyful work4 ,though she is now past eighty years of age1 and has always been used to hard work1 she is well preserved and active1 and1 though not mirthful1 she is ever good natured1 patient and contented4 ,as in the case of many others who are active in ,temple work1 that labor has doubtless added years to her life1 and rendered her declining days in mortality about the happiest she has ever spent4 ,the consciousness of being a savior of others has brought her more joy than the possession of wealth or worldly honors ever could4 ,sister ,annie ,davis ,watson1 widow of the late ,joseph ,m4 ,watson1 was a worker in the ,temple for seventeen years1 and only gave up the work because of her hearing growing so bad that she could not continue4 ,her husband died in the year #ahie4 ,she never had any children1 and her life would have been extremely lonely if she had not interested herself in the work for the dead4 ,she had a desire to devote herself to working for her husband's dead kindred1 and mentioned the matter to ,president ,snow1 telling him if she could not so labor she had no desire to live2 also that she had no genealogy of her husband's kindred farther back than his parents1 for whom the work had already been done4 ,he told her she would be able to obtain the genealogical information necessary1 advised her to take up the work and promised there should be no end to it4 ,he also told her that her husband in the spirit world would be familiar with every circumstance connected with the work as it progressed4 ,she has since devoted her life and her income to the work1 and either officiated herself1 or employed others to officiate1 for #ae1bdg dead persons1 most of whom are her husband's kindred4 ,she says it is the most glorious work she ever engaged in1 and she has felt the presence of her husband's spirit upon many occasions4 ,there is one special class to whom the vicarious work in the ,salt ,lake ,temple must be a very great boon4 ,the blind1 of whom there are quite a number of both sexes1 in daily attendance1 seem to find special comfort in the work4 ,the opportunities people have of making themselves useful to their fellows1 after being deprived of the priceless gift of sight1 are extremely limited4 ,people of independent minds dislike to be always treated as objects of charity4 ,they like to feel that they are of some use in the world1 and it is doubtful if there is any other work in which the average blind person can engage with so much satisfaction as that in the ,temple4 ,it is usually conceded that the loss of sight by a normal person has the effect of quickening and strengthening his remaining senses1 and it is quite possible that the most of the sightless workers in the ,temple get more enjoyment out of the work than the average person who retains his sight4 ,he is perhaps able to think more profoundly1 and is more susceptible to the impressions of the ,spirit than if he had the use of his eyes4 ,perhaps no man that ever labored in the ,temple enjoyed the ,spirit of the work more and shed a better influence among his associates than did ,samuel ,w4 ,jenkinson1 a blind brother of rather unusual intelligence and devotion1 who died about three years since1 and of whose experiences more may be said hereafter4