Treasures in Heaven: Fifteenth Book of the Faith Promoting Series, Designed for the Instruction and Encouragement of Young Latter-day Saints
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Treasures in Heaven: Fifteenth Book of the Faith Promoting Series, Designed for the Instruction and Encouragement of Young Latter-day Saints
Eskildz, Niels P. L., 1836-; Lambert, Mary Alice Cannon, 1828-; Service (Theology)
She takes a great interest in all of her progeny, remembers their names
and quite generally their birthdays, and frequently visits among them.
Her children appreciate her wise counsel and motherly interest, and
feel, one and all, 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 father.
To him not less than to her do they feel indebted, and forever shall
be though they become the best and most dutiful of sons and daughters,
for he was a model father, as loving, kind, self-sacrificing, honest,
industrious and faithful as mortal father ever was. He alone of all his
father's family embraced the Gospel as revealed anew, but from him and
Mother Lambert, through the blessing of the Lord, a direct progeny has
resulted (including three generations) to the number of 201, all of
whom are living except 29, and all in the faith for which he sacrificed
so much, and which was his guiding star through life.
Scarcely less remarkable has been the increase from the Cannon family
generally, although the posterity of Mother Lambert outnumbers those of
any one of her brothers or sisters. The direct descendants of George
Cannon (including the six children already mentioned as having been
left orphans, and their sister Elizabeth, born as a product of the
second marriage six months after her father's death) who are living
number almost 700, to say nothing of those who have died. 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 hands, we may well exclaim, "What
hath God wrought!"
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 BLIND.
Among those who are in daily attendance at the Salt Lake Temple,
officiating for the dead, are quite a number of men who are deserving
of special credit, because of the personal sacrifice the service
involves. Allusion is made to those who earn their living by working at
night, and then deny themselves the sleep and rest their tired natures
crave, by devoting a good half day's service to Temple work, either
for their own kindred dead or others. Indeed, it occasionally amounts
to considerably more than half a day. They usually form part of the
morning company, all the members of which are supposed to be present
and seated before 9 a. m., when the introductory service commences.
Under ordinary conditions, they may expect to emerge from the Temple
about two o'clock; but if the company be unusually large, (as it is
quite frequently,) it may be nearer 4 p. m. before they get out.
Most men object strongly to being deprived of ample and regular hours
of rest and sleep, and many persons would rather make a financial
sacrifice than forego the sleep and rest they feel that they require.
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