Treasures in Heaven: Fifteenth Book of the Faith Promoting Series, Designed for the Instruction and Encouragement of Young Latter-day Saints
Religion
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)
Her son and daughter and their families gave her every possible
encouragement in the Temple work while she lived, and are now more
proud of what she accomplished therein than they would be if she had
left them fortunes.
Another very devoted woman in the Temple work is Sister Catherina Z.
Schuler. She is also a native of Switzerland, having been born in
Glarus, May 22, 1834. She not only sacrificed her home there for the
Gospel's sake, but left her husband also because of his determined
opposition to her religion.
Bringing her son with her, she came to Utah and located first at Logan,
where she remained for several years, and where her son subsequently
died. She was present at the dedication of the Logan Temple, and did
a good deal of work there for her dead kindred, of whom she had or
subsequently obtained a very extensive list.
She removed to Salt Lake City in 1892, and witnessed also the
dedication of the Temple in this city. She was dependent entirely
upon her own earnings, and went out sewing as she found opportunity,
and did Temple work occasionally. Since 1898 she has devoted herself
exclusively to her Temple work, in which she has been assisted by many
friends, and devoted every cent she could save to hiring men to work
for her male kindred. In all, she has done, or had done, the work for
fully 2,400 of her kindred dead.
A look at Sister Schuler's face is sufficient to convince any person
that hers is a joyful work. Though she is now past eighty years of
age, and has always been used to hard work, she is well preserved and
active, and, though not mirthful, she is ever good natured, patient
and contented. As in the case of many others who are active in Temple
work, that labor has doubtless added years to her life, and rendered
her declining days in mortality about the happiest she has ever spent.
The consciousness of being a savior of others has brought her more joy
than the possession of wealth or worldly honors ever could.
Sister Annie Davis Watson, widow of the late Joseph M. Watson, was a
worker in the Temple for seventeen years, and only gave up the work
because of her hearing growing so bad that she could not continue. Her
husband died in the year 1895. She never had any children, and her life
would have been extremely lonely if she had not interested herself in
the work for the dead. She had a desire to devote herself to working
for her husband's dead kindred, and mentioned the matter to President
Snow, telling him if she could not so labor she had no desire to live;
also that she had no genealogy of her husband's kindred farther back
than his parents, for whom the work had already been done. He told her
she would be able to obtain the genealogical information necessary,
advised her to take up the work and promised there should be no end
to it. He also told her that her husband in the spirit world would
be familiar with every circumstance connected with the work as it
progressed.
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