Show the old settler my imy dear san Jua ners heber C kimball kin shall the counselor counsel or and close assistant of pre president aident Br brigham ighani young was noted for his extraordinary prophecies and their unusual fulfillment once when he was urging urging a nia man n to fill a foreign mission mission a man whose earthly possessions consisted in the main of a horse he fie had acquired brother kimball predicted that if the man would sell his horse and fill the mission lie he would not be home long till lie he would have another horse the man sold his horse and filled the mission and when lie he returned having no horse with which to go to work lie he went ve nt and reminded brother kimball about that prediction of another horse well brother said heber C kimball its our duty as saints to help bring about the f fulfillment til fill ment of every prophecy cv made by the servants of the lord now you come with me down dow to my stable and ill give you a horse the prophecy was fulfilled last winter there arose two kinds of prophets in san juan county one of them predicted that a hospital could be and should be maintained in the county the others prophesied that it be done the prophets of success went to work to fulfill their prophecy and already they report that their effort has got enough contracts and raised elou enough b ii revenue to tun run the hospital and its plan of heal health thins th ins insurance u rance t through its initial year but the end is not yet neither of these contradictory prophecies can be fulfilled with finality in one year it may take many years the prophets who prophesied failure look hopefully forward to next year or some other year to prove themselves true prophets and to that end come some of them are withholding their support and their influence from the struggling hospital now with all these aspiring prophets fishing for the fame of foretelling the coming event I 1 must hazard my own bid as a forecaster of what is to be I 1 predict that if the people of san juan can evaluate a hospital in their midst for the tremendous bene benefits fit s it can bring and if they will give its deserved support in expanding to reach them in all the ways in which it can do them good it will become established with the permanence of the school system tem ushering in a new and better era ra and leaving us wondering how we ever got along without it or whether we could really call it getting along my second prediction is to the effect that if the prophets of failure are sufficiently determined to prove themselves true prophets and if they are numerous enough in their opposition they will have the satisfaction 0 of i exulting 1 I continued on page eight THE OLD SETTLER I 1 continued from pane 1 told you so I 1 told you a hospital cant make a go of it in san juan I 1 bul who will he be the better or I 1 the more happy because of the I 1 failure of the struggling hospital hospi all the exultation and all the i imaginary ends achieved will fail utterly to compensate for what I 1 the hospital would have given our prophets of failure are ever a doubtful asset but very often a di distinct liability especially so if they are able to make their prophecies come true our prophets of success are the men to whom we will look back with gratitude particularly ticul arly so if they are the positive kind ready to give a horse to make their predictions conic come true it is claimed that a hospital in san juan is not ethical not according to the conventional distribution trib ution of things let me make bold to say that the accepted distribution trib ution of things is not consistent with the needs and the worth of health so ion long as we lack the stamina to make necessary provi p r evl sion for our health it will avill con dinue to be an uncertain quantity degenerating as a garden or any r kind of business degenerates when I 1 it I 1 is s the victim of chronic neglect ALBERT R LYMAN |