Show the old settler my lear dear san Jua ners I 1 was working on top of a building and I 1 noticed an old man coming om up the ladder when he reached the top he stepped ve very ry carefully on to the sloping roof onci and came over to where I 1 was after a few preliminary remarks by way of introduction to what he had in mind he ha told me he was the bishop of that ward but he was in mourning lie ile said said he just had to pour out his heart to so somebody me and lie thought from what lie he had heard of me that I 1 would give sympathetic consideration to W what hat he hid had t say its my own son he admitted with rising emotion as he got seated on a roof jack ive prayed for him and loved him and followed him up with stretched outstretched oat arms arins since he began to be an outlaw here about two years ago and it just seems that I 1 have lost all my powers of appeal the eld man wiped his eyes and listened for the word of comfort which somehow I 1 was strangely unable to offer 1 I 1 have told him about his dead mother and how much she did for him and how hov with her last breath she was praying that he would become the kind of man she had always hoped would be her son I 1 offered such poor consolation as I 1 could and watched the old man go carefully down that ladder and I 1 felt his sorrow about as keenly as he felt it for h his i a story served servell but to intensify the feelings which I 1 wanted to pour out to somebody if really there was anybody in the world who could tell i ne me what to do seventeen years later my busi continued on page four the old settler continued irom pac i 1 ness called me into that town a again ain and in the course of my contacts there I 1 met with the bishop not the old man whom 1 I had met belore before bat a young man who happened to be oi 01 the same name it came oui ou in our con velsa tion that he was a son of the eld ld bishop and then ihen yielding eding yi to the spur of my I 1 ascertained certa ined iaea that he was the th v son about whom the old bi bi had been in mourning when I 1 there before I 1 soon discovered that this new dishop bishop was also aiso in dr distress stress about matters which weighed so heavily on his mind that he could not nol talk very ang l ng without telling me about them he fie had told me about nis fathers death which occurred after my other visit and now when he foura himself on his own resources to become something or nothing he had gone into the elie repenting business with all his heart and how he had been saddled up with this bisha job en cailing a burden of responsibility beyond anything of which he had dreamed its the young people of t tha ward he told me espee D some of the young men the then tine fine fellows but somehow I 1 seem to LO be appealing to them in vain they tear around and raise nedd till I 1 wonder what is ever going to become of them dont worry too much about them I 1 said ivea u st had a revelation on the subject and I 1 want to tell you that if you love them and pray for them and follow them up thaes all you can ho cio and if they have in them the stuff from which manhood can be built come out cut of it and when you die be ready t to take your you r place ALBERT R LYMAN |