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)
John N. Swift is employed as a janitor by one of the railway companies
every night in the week, being on duty from 5 p. m. until 8 a. m. In
addition to this, he has served regularly in the Temple during the past
six years on Thursday and Friday. Some indication of the sacrifice this
service involves is conveyed in the statement that, although his home
is in Sugar House Ward, not a great distance away, he is necessarily
absent therefrom continuously from Wednesday at 4:30 p. m. until
Saturday at 9 a. m. His service in the Temple has been entirely in the
interest of his own relatives.
John S. Muir has been employed by the Church for twenty years past as
nightwatchman, formerly at the tithing office and yards, but since its
erection at the Bishop's Building, every night in the week. During
the past twelve years he has spent from one to two days a week in the
Temple, having done the work for rather more than 600 persons.
Jedediah M. Brown, of South Bountiful, has been janitor at the large
public school building in that region for the past twenty years, and
during six years of that time was also nightwatchman at the Deseret
Live Stock Co. Store. Yet during all that period, with the exception of
fourteen months while he was absent on a mission, he has spent on an
average two days a week in the Temple. For a number of years past his
health has been quite poor, having contracted chills and fever while
on his mission, which later developed into chronic rheumatism, from
which he has suffered ever since. Whatever the condition of his health,
however, he has never yet felt willing to give up his service in behalf
of the dead. In addition to the service mentioned, he is under the
necessity of traveling about twenty miles by train or otherwise every
day he serves in the Temple.
Ernest R. S. Schnelle is also employed as a nightwatchman, in an
outlying business district, and is responsible for a great deal of
valuable property, some of which tramps are specially liable to prey
upon, so that he has to be constantly wide awake and alert for twelve
hours at a stretch every night, but he is among the most regular and
devoted of the Temple workers.
Robert Hunter, who is nightwatchman at Z. C. M. I., is a frequent
attendant at the Temple, mostly laboring for others, because of lacking
names of his own kindred dead, and is in the habit of voluntarily
contributing to the Temple expense fund all that he receives for his
service.
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