Gems of Reminiscence: Seventeenth Book of the Faith Promoting Series, Designed for the Instruction and Encouragement of Young Latter-day Saints
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Gems of Reminiscence: Seventeenth Book of the Faith Promoting Series, Designed for the Instruction and Encouragement of Young Latter-day Saints
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints -- Missions
dodged backward to escape from him, and others seized his belligerent
assailant to prevent a collision; at the same time a chorus of voices
cried out in surprise, "Brother Lambert has recovered the use of his
arm!" The meeting ended by Gallup bein deprived of office and also
fellowship in the Church by vote of the assembly, and Charles Lambert
returned home rejoicing in the use of his arm, which was now free from
pain; and Mother Lambert wept for joy when she met him at the door and
saw him swinging his arm high above his head and heard him declare it
was as good as ever.
Though a fiery-tempered man, and hasty to act in the defense of his
friends or his principles, he was essentially a man of peace, and his
life was an object lesson before his family of patient endurance of
bodily ills, perseverance in the midst of obstacles and unwavering
fidelity to his religion. Courage is not always best displayed in
fighting; generosity not always in ostentations giving; zeal not always
in outward show of piety. He had all of these and many other good
qualities, but not for public parade. He never shrank from duty however
great the danger or exacting the bodily exertion involved. The cry of
distress never appealed to him in vain; the needy never had to ask
him for aid, for he sought them out and quickly and quietly gave them
freely of the best he had.
A Timely Warning
VISIT TO A VOLCANO--MADAM PELE'S HAIR--NARROW ESCAPE FROM FALLING INTO
A VOLCANO.
Two "Mormon" Elders--missionaries on the Sandwich Islands--once had
occasion to visit that great natural wonder, the Kilauea volcano on the
island of Hawaii, which is the largest island of the group. The Kilauea
is 4,000 feet above sea-level and is on the side of a mountain, which
rises 10,000 feet higher. On the top of this mountain is the master
volcano of the Pacific.
At the time of the visit mentioned the Kilauea activity was confined
to an immense cavity in the center of the crater valley, which is
three miles in diameter and sunken two hundred feet below the surface,
with black walls surrounding it which could only be descended with
the utmost caution. While traversing this black surface, to reach the
living lake of molten lava the visitor is liable to break through a
blister and imagine he is about to make an involuntary descent into
the fiery liquid below until he grasps the surface with his hands and
obtains a firmer footing. On reaching the "lake" he looks downward
two hundred feet upon a restless moving mass of red hot lava, surging
against the rocky sides with such force as to throw masses of lava
into the air, there to be caught by heavy gusts of wind and spun out
into threads that bear some resemblance to a woman's hair. Indeed it
is called "Madam Pele's hair," that is, the hair of "Pele," the fabled
goddess of the volcano.
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