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Show Biography, of Sylvester Low Jr. CONTINUE)) FROM LAST W EEK CHAPTER FOUR wonderful experiences, among chem one that I recall. A sister Kizzie Jenerett was very sick with a stomack ailment, being unable to retain a thing, not even a spoonful of water, for three days her condition was serious we Elders where called to administer ad-minister to her, no sooner than our hands where removed., from her head, she exclaimed, I am healed and soon arose from her bed and took nourishment, we baptized five people while laboring labor-ing in Brunswick and Columbus Counties. During this time I had as a companion beside Elder Norton, Elder David Hughes of Samaria, Idalio. I was sent to Darlintou County South Carolina July 25, 1899. On October S th at a confer- once held at Hartsville, Soul hi Carolina, I was called to preside j over the South Carolina Confer-! once, amoung the Eiders from! Arizona was Elder IT- A. Stewart, j who wrote a poem that was ded-; icated to a missionary's wife and family as it breathes a prayer of; love, hone and faith. : As President of the South Carolina conference my duties! changed from a travelling Elder, lo the directing of the work of 40 Elders who were laboring at that time in the State of South Carolina also keeping the Record, forwarding newspapers, circulars and letters, holding district conferences, con-ferences, assigning new Elders, in keeping tithing records, advising advis-ing and counseling with the Elder in group meetings, attending to all correspondence of the conference, confer-ence, making reports weekly to the Mission President. The first three months of my presidency there was many changes made due to releases, and new Elders coming in. . By the first of the year 1900 everything was going smoothly a conference of all the Elders was called Feb. 3rd at Columbia, South Carolina. Forty elders were sent to the Southern countios to labor ior the balance of the winter months. Feb. 17 aud 18, 1900, I was called to Chatanooga, Tenn., for a meeting meet-ing of conference presidents of the Southern Slates Mission. Associating As-sociating with a group of the finest fin-est ivon of the m!ss on. it was a wonderful meeting. An exchange of experiences ar.d idoas that brought much uni'y and zeal to the work. March 1, 1900 I started out to visit each pair of Elders in their respective counties, with me was Elder Willis Call. I exchanged companions with each pair I met thus giving them a change and I would have a constant change, giving me a story of the work as I went along. This work was completed May 1, 1900, with instructions in-structions and assignments to Elders El-ders to move to northern counties coun-ties by July 1, 1900. I moved headquatrers from Charleston to Bennetsville where I was established estab-lished with the intention of again visiting them in their new fields, ; when through conditions at home ! Pres. Rich sent my release and ticket to hurry home, arriving i there August 20, 1900. I quote from the "Paton Fam-! Fam-! ily History". "It is not healthful to look at ourselves, nor to con-i con-i sider the past, sa.'e for inspiration inspira-tion and encouragement for the ' future, for this purpose we will now give a look backward, and while doing so we will keep in ; inii.d ti-at it is what we do for men, and not what we get from them, that constitutes true success suc-cess true greu'.nsss." j Sbo.'Uy -f.er returning from Continued on page four (HERE'S WORE ABOUT) Sylvester Low Jr. (Continued from Page One) my miss-on I was set apart as one of the presidents of the 17th Quorum of .Seventy continuing in this calling for 25 years. Serving Serv-ing as senior president for 12 years. Ordained a high priest on Nov. 28, 192G, by Herman H. Danielson he being ordained Sept. 14, 1905, by Alma Merrill, he was ordained April 30, 1905 by Abraham D. Woodurff, he Oct. 7, 1896, by Wilford Woodruff, he April 26, 1839 by Brigharn Young, life Feb. 14, 1835 by David Da-vid Whitmer, he Oct. 25, 1S'31 by Oliver Cowdery, he June 1829 by Peter, James ana John. Called to labor as second assis-I assis-I tant superintendent of Smtihfield Ward Sunday School. When Benson Ben-son Stake' Tvas organized, I was vester CharlesTeTTl vor of ,ife, ! sustained second assistant to John M. Anderson, Supt. of Sunday Sun-day School of the Benson Stake. All my life I have been a member of the Sunday school, and since my mission as officer in various capacities, most of all I have enjoyed en-joyed my work as a teacher. Our family has increased in numbers, in all eleven children were born to us, three died in infancy, and one of which I have mentioned while on my mission Robert Leslie and our eldest Syl- came reconciled iQ tin! ' thought that there It'; "ther side amo?! as much Temple work accomplished for ou. f dead on boh sides ot t .ly during the past decad? To be continUed ne j ri. |