A man was in possession of a great farm. The abundant crops
finally failed, and other calamities came, and at last the wife
of the great landowner lost her reason. Nearly all had been
lost, and the farmer was left with only a few feet of ground
as his possession. I had not the courage to visit this man in
his destitution. After a lapse of time, however, I went to his
humble abode, and was amazed to see the little garden in the
highest state of cultivation. And I exclaimed: “Why, how is
this? How did you have the heart to do this, after you had lost
all?”
“Why, what would you have had me do?” was the reply. “This is
all I had, and I tried to make the best of it.”
So it is for us to strengthen that which is left in the Church and in
ourselves as individuals.--OLIN A. CURTIS.
(555)