Legrand P. Backman
Published: 2017-02-17
Total Pages: 22
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Excerpt from Cumorah's Southern Messenger, Vol. 11: 26th July, 1937 May I ask you not to believe that your fathers never grew weary, that their way never seemed long, that their h0pe did not fade, that fear did not clutch their hearts, that they had no need for courage, nor for willingness to work, nor for the power of will to do no matter what the odds, nor that sometimes their food was not meagre, their bodies not scantily clad, their roofs not so thin that the rain beat through. Do not believe, I beg of you, that your fathers came suddenly into all these things without effort, even as you have done. Jobs were no more plentiful for them than for you; they looked for work just as you do; they were no oftener able than are you to find work at the thing they wished to do most. The world was just as cold to them as it seems to you. Indeed, it was colder, for there is in the World to-day a deal more of kindliness, of helpfulness, of common humanity than when your fathers, now about to leave you, began their work. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.