| Show Jesse Knlpht The readers of the Faith I Promoting Pro-moting series have long been impressed im-pressed with the beautiful life of Lydia I Knight and the lesson it teaches ill faith humility and unswerving un-swerving fidelity to the Gospel The subject of this sketch was the fifth and youngest child of this noblewoman noble-woman His father was Newel Knight who will be remembered in i Church i history as the nnnint i C L ntction with whom the 11 t raw ra-w is wrought in tin dis 1Jllon Jesse Knight was bon II iIlinCj count III September f 114 aJ lias only five yeirs oh wicni I family set out for the ilhs 7 fuller died and bur el was on l plains leaving the care ol the ones under most dmre lng ai stances upon the Mother sl I proved equal to the o sm ta t ever and reached Salt LJke city 2 the fill of 1850 > For a few years the unilv I eon e-on the Church farm th ntimd seltltd in Provo When thk rt years ol age Jesse J Inl to t s Clara and worktd for hs ri mj I several months After this un twenty fourth year he rough > l in I almost every occupiton I as herding farming Ire mining in which a boy coud work Since settling down he bv > his I a attention to farming mJ t raising and during the fast I 1 ten Itc I to mining All are familiar I I i i J lemarkible success in thc Ian ness but if any ire disposed tot t j I his good fortune the result of J I rather than management they J to be told tint Jesse J Knight ill I practical miner of uiiu uil juJa I and sagacity j Although born and raised a Nlx mon Jesse did not do much at for a great man years His s sim pathy for the weiker bide In a th a strong charaetcristic hiaij I champion Gentiles when iraoni Iic mons and Mormons when m1 j Gentiles But a few years jpi miraculous intervention ol the hj of God in behalf of hmisell and H fly which space will not IHrmll a to nai rate fixed his faith onei lor Three mental traits are prominent 1 the character ofj Jbse J knight The sy nipalhy abov t relti red to it Ian I-an unusual hatred ol slam 4 hypoinsy 3 an Ion st tv ar f 2 ewn his enemies do not 11 stmn w l which may be added a lourtti modesty w Inch prosperity lus 23 been able to spoil I |
