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
She acknowledged their visit as providential, cried for joy at
receiving the blessing and was able to attend the meeting the second
Sunday following.
While at Hamburg on a subsequent trip he was urged by a widow, Sister
Kratz, whom he met at meeting, to call at her home. On doing so he
inquired if she paid her tithes and offerings, and was told that she
did, although she was extremely poor. He said, before the visit ended,
that he felt like leaving his blessing with her. She was delighted
at the proposition, and when he placed his hands upon her head he
felt prompted to promise her that while she remained faithful and was
careful not to waste even a crust, that her table should never lack
bread--that she should even have enough to feed her poor neighbors.
He heard nothing more from sister Kratz until he visited Hamburg
sixteen months later, when she met him with tears of joy and related
how wonderfully his promise had been fulfilled. She had been in the
habit of buying stale bread because of its cheapness, and when she
called at the baker's for that purpose the same evening he had made the
promise, the baker's wife voluntarily filled her apron with bread and
cakes, and told her to come every evening for more. The widow and her
one child could only eat a fraction of what she got, so she supplied
the rest to her poor neighbors, who highly appreciated the same.
After a while the baker's wife informed Sister Kratz that she did
not know who she was or why she should give her the bread and cakes
that became stale, but she had felt prompted to do so, and that her
husband's business had never so prospered as since she had begun the
practice, and she consequently felt that she had been blessed for doing
so. Sister Kratz told her frankly about sharing what she got with her
poor neighbors, and of her conviction that the baker's prosperity was
due to the prayers offered in his behalf by the recipients of her
generosity.
On the 11th of December, 1907, Ernest was on the ship "Annandale,"
bound from London to Shields. While coming down the Swin the ship
collided with the steamer "Kingscote," which knocked a hole in her
side about sixteen feet long. The engine and boiler room were soon
filled with water, and the ship was gradually sinking inch by inch. The
collision occurred at midnight, and at half past seven the following
morning the ship settled down upon the sand. After much effort she was
finally floated and repaired sufficiently to get her into the dry dock.
This was the last wreck in which Ernest figured. He migrated to Utah
in the year 1908, has since devoted three years to work in the Temple
and has recently started upon a mission to Great Britain, to labor
specially among sea-faring people and emulate the example of Peter in
casting his net upon the waters and becoming a "fisher of men."
Obtaining Genealogies
By B. F. Cummings.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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