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Show , I I I . . THE DESERET NEWS, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 7, 8 ...-- - church Deportment . Upholding A Sttti'idd:td:By Qtit.,Adtib7.t18 to pre. I said, have $50Q c4pital,.That would have gone out to my office and said. "lave you any(Continued from rage seven) Zi On a finished Stake of nave I have I over all le have.. I the side man? Tope!. sale, for young thing long for the Lord ta . soften hilteart. been told by a very influential man, nice little home for my mother. That just before I was twentrfour years of I called him on the phone and asked. whd I am informed is worth more Is my total remaining capital, I bur!. age? I feel sure the lure of money 'Shall I come to Lehi or will you corns than half a million dollars, to come rowed $2,000 and put up the $25,000 would have prevented my doing so. to my office at 9.30 In the morning? to this little bank and that you are of stock as security. I am in the My school teacher came to me and Ile came into the office. Did I have dealing In stocks, and he recommend- brokerage business. Don't you think plead with me not to be "buried alive am doing pretty well if I make 40 out In Tooele. I made $0,800 the year to work to get him to consent to a ed that I purchase anything you I cent on my WO by selling you before I went out there. I made $2, recommend. per might dividend? No. Ile said; lleber, you of this stock today? thousand VOWS Bank 800 the next year. Four thousand dolTrust it was It twenty Savings low much of 40 on cent not Is I was the are', called to Japan. aagistant per capital cashier, my.$500 lan loss. I had to throw my broker", Company., a stock dividend do you went? I will the Janitor, the receiving and paying In twO days pretty good? And I will age business over my shoulder, parvote tor IL" teller, the bookkeeper and note clerk. enter Into a Written agreement with tially neglect my insurance business,. wasn't any other clerk In the you right now that I will not sell one and devote myself to my Church work, There I said, "You have 33 per cent redollar of my $5,000 of stock for five and I did it to the best of my ability. so I was the entire office force. bank is alt. serve. I want thirty-fivI opened the bank promptly at 10 In long years from today if I do not get I bad mapped out my life. I wanted o He said "That is the cheekiest the be go to Congress.-- I wanted-tmorning and cloned it promptly - $75 a share for of his, the mayor of Salt Lake City. I want- thing I have ever heard of, but you at 3, and I was writing Insurance polII pulled his checkbook-ou- t are entitled to It. You ruined yourself Ides half the time oi was dealing In pocket and wrote me a check 'for ed to be wealthy, but all my financial stocks and bonds. I would put a notice $2,200.. I told him another thing, and political ambitions disappeared Fat.- financially to establish the Sugar on the door Wednesday night, "Gone 'During the fourth and fifth years when I received the Iznpression to sell 'tory, and I am for IL" to Fast Meeting. This Bank will open you will get a 6 per cent dividend. $20,000 of railroad stock. The Lord It went through unanimously and at 1230 tomorrow." We formerly had. You will get $12 a share back."accepted my prayer and directed me. t In hours my interests, di: Fast Day Meeting on Thursday. can say that I know that from the I made $4,200 profit in four years I have I was made the president of the "What said; The and time 816,000. gentleman indirectly, jumped redly and two dividends on my stock. Tooele Stake of Zion until the presI thought the stock was too high. I you got for sale? I told the Lord, "I want to do in ent. the Lord has inspired me in many I said, '120,000 of Utah Southern did not think It was worth thatenuch. the battle-- of life what you want me of the things that I have done, and Railroad Stock at $11 a share." So I got down on my knees and prayto do and you know whether making where I have made mistakes they What is the p ospect?" ed,- and the impression came, "Buy money on this $25,000 of stock will have been mistakes of Heber J. Grant In sell a will share $75 ftve for It cause me to do what I think wealthy and not mistakes made after praying some more stock and have Heber years." nThati You will sell It for $11 and men in this town are doing, namely, to the Lord for the guidance of Ills Grant & Company do the same." It setting their hearts upon the things spirit.' I know as I know that I live It will go to $75!" I did it and nearly paralyzed'me. of this world and forgetting the CosSir." that this Gospel is In very deed the "Yes, Heber J. Grant & Company bought pet of Jesus Christ" "I do not believe a wordi of it" plan of life and salvation. I know heavily and paid a 100 per cent speI said, "Co back to that wealthy I had an ambition to make money, that Cod lives and hears and answers cial cash dividend on the company's man who told you you could believe but when this deal came along and prayers. I know that Jesus Christ Is Redeemcapital, before I went to Japan. I got anything I said to you, and tell him I saw what was being done, my am. the Son of the living Cod, the I world. of know er I the look to him that and in I the told Joseph bition was dead and buried. defy you eye $25,000 of that myself as I had $25,- the Lord that I wanted to do what he Smith was a Prophet of God, the inis not I 000 of the stock. To cut a long story tell you that what say to you true." wanted me to do in the battle of life, strument in His hands of establishing short, I paid S4,600 tithing in four He said, "This is getting interestand that is why I sold that stock- - Do again on the earth the Gospel of life and salvation. May Cod help rue and months; I bought a home for each ing." d made $16,800 you suppose if I said, "I have $25,000 of it" I on that other. $20,000 and then had you and every other soul that has of my wives costing $3,500 apiece; I bought one from my mother and I did not want to tell him that I had got made $4,200 on my, stock, and my in., this knowledge to live the Gospel, that down on my knees before the Lord surance business was making me three our lives may proclaim it to others, her home-anpaid the mortgage-o- n and had been impressed to sell $20,- - thousand a yeardo you think that is my humble prayer, and I ask it in gave her $3,500, and I handed each 000 of it. if I had made $24,00Q in,t(;ne year I the name of our Redeemer, Amen. of my wives .$5.000 of stock in Heber : J. Grant & Company, after the dividend was paid; it paid 20 per cent a o'plo'hSi..ib:-H7111-,1QPoti.listio- t year to each of them while I was away, and when I came home it paid (Continued from Page Four) another 40 per cent. So they got 80 iL) AsWr.":.4,,4g,:t ;L(e.Z44.ive;fte 4".. Ao6.4 4.1,',,,!0MIWalet.. AA '04".X1.""..;) per cent dividends in two years. I thy heart, and with all thy might, 401 , went to Japan with a nice little credit mind and lov41 E.:4 Artik4 ,g strength; and in the name In my favor. -- 1of Jesus Christ thou shalt serve Him." ......, . , ; i I did not Intend to tell this story Before leaving Missouri several ap'7":, '.4. ,..,,,t, ' but it is one of the mist remarkable pointments .were made by revelation . 1! tt ',..., ' ' - .,..,, x and wonderful things that have oc- to take care of the business of the -l -1 :, t' 11 ' " (:,,... I 41 , II :I ,4 curred in my life. Instead of being Saints "in the Land of Zhon.r,JISidneY:. :.,,.... i -.-...- .4,1,1 f 1 r., ,' a ruined man, expecting to labor-ea, Gilbert- was appointed an agent of the '4 1' r..'" 't k, ly and late, (and sometimes we:oper Church to purchase lands for the s., ,rt--N ,k, I ,.. 7 ::::,..--ated the typewriters until midnight) Saints. Bishop Partridge was appoint: , i ,,, I . ...;: ... !; .., - ' ' . " for ten long years of my life, in four ed to divine unto the Saints their in"-' .. - 1, i t C...r---1: 'Zk,: 1141, months all of my troubles had disap,ti. heritance. William W. Phelps was ap': I -- -- .4-- 3 I , - )4. 1, reI to one '11 was able , ,..Y;.11 get ' peared and pointed to be a printer to the Church, t 1 ''.. I 3 ,....L....1,,...1,,, ceipt of $4,000 for tithing and some ' and Oliver Cowdery was to assist ' 4,.:.., ....k 1 him." smaller ones for $600. , Ig nt .4 0,1 ,:,1 Now may the Lord- help you and I On Tuesday the 9th of August, Jos' " eve i"", 1 , 1 '. 3 ' me, and every soul that has a knowl- eph, ....1 ' '' 9)'''' company with ten Elders" ....'" ' 'Z' ...11 "; ; 17774' .. .."'"'"'"i ' :,'""."' t ., - i ,. edge of this Gospel, to realize that the left Independence on his return journ' t t ' 'at i H. 4,A 4. I t ", t , . i , 2 t first and foremost thing of our lives ey to Kirtland. "We started down --' -,.......' ,.. ' Is to serve God and keep;His comthe river in canoes and went the first r:1 t t !I il ' , ' t: 1.: t. mandments, and that we do not pro- day as far as Fort Osage, where we' At ... i,! ' ; : !$.:..1 1 ''.".'r 1 ,,... !I :11 to do let ; it any better had an excellent wild turkey for sup, pose anybody ,J.240........z1.-.-:,tr, ,:, . ,,,i ,,,,' ....12,,1 .1, than we will. That is the ambition per. Nothing very important occur- ..,1. - we-- should have. iFf ' ll ,t; il:t-- i. red until the third day, when many. At ILI I purchased $25,000 Of stock in the of the dangers so common upon the a.. Railroad at- le cents 7western watersmanifested themon the dollar and I felt that as soon selves." At McIlwaine's Bend, part of t I. asthe Utah Southern Extension, the brethren abandoned their boats, - - - zi ""7 . 'which was golng to be built by the Joseph, Sidney Rigdon and Oliver. L.. '1'. ts. "; ""n t, ' I 1 ," t t:: el': asHorn Silver Mining company and Cowdery going overland to St. Louis. :: sociates, from Juab to Frisco, Beaver Here they took stage to Kirtland and 4 a174.4,. ....r.....747 00..4- -,, ..., ,;44,....,..h..- County, was completed, the traffic arrived safely on August 27th. "Many ,,.. . ,,:. e...,....4.:-.....12 vt.9,:e4,Arf14,-,4.4...g" '- ......'.'' over the road would make that stock things transpired on this journey, to " ...t......: ... ..1..e...,-- ,.... A167-24 k.....a, ' ' 1...sded:t. Att.. relates to a $75 I share would our and make faith," go Joseph, strengthen Z. IL. 1.41'z; lot of money. I knew otsome "which displayed the goodness of God we manner who a that had put up what in such marvelous wealthy people I thought was a scheme to knock could not help beholding the exertions . the city ofZion of Satan to blind the eyes of the peothe value of this Will give unto My, servant' Joseph ed to the Lord saying that I wanted ple." llth there is the "For be A 'few days alter Joseph's return Smith, Jun., power that he shall be ,hold, I say unto you that Zion shall to know from Him if it would be better for me to sell the stock and not to Kirtland he received a revelation enabled to discern by the Spirit those - flourish, and the glory of the Lord make thiq money. I did not get an which gave him more information re who shall go up into the land of Zion, shall be upon her, and she shall be answer. Finally I thought, "Oh, it garding th6 establishment of Zion. and those of My disciples who shall an ensign unto the people, and there He that sendeth up treas.-- - shall come unto her out of every na wouldn't hurt me or get my heart set "And now behold, this is the will of tarry on money if I kept $5,000 of it." I the Lord your God concerning His ures unto the land of Zion, shall re: tion under Heaven; and the asked the Lord, "Shall I sell the $20,- - Saints,' that they should assemble celvt an inheritance in this world, come when the nations of the earth him, and shall tremble because of hen" poor I got the impression perfectly' themselves together unto the land of and his works shall follow to , a world come' in also the reward should in there lest not "Sell baste, Zion, the $20,000!" straight, ITo Be- - Continued Later) In-a - The next received the confusion revelation be In ; Behold, came Lord, I, September a man . morning ' . -- -to -- :- - - - forty-eigh- -- , -- ') I.-ha- - d , F. s sy.";r4,or- r t i t 51 1 - i - L--- 'Li 1 , - - ,K- ! ! 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