---
title: Improvement Era
description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930.
authors:
  - Hunter, Oscar F.
collections:
  - periodicals
tags:
  - magazine
  - improvement-era
periodical: Improvement Era
volume: 6
number: 1
published: 1902-11
publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations
publisher_place: Salt Lake City
language: en
type: magazine
reference: 'Oscar F. Hunter, "Sayings of Bishop Hunter," *Improvement Era* 6, no. 1 (November 1902): 19.'
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera0601unse
  transcription: Transcribed from the Internet Archive scan of each issue (the item for each issue is named in the issue's own source); unnumbered advertising leaves are omitted, printed page numbers are kept as page markers.
  identifier: improvementera0601unse
start_page: 19
end_page: 19
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1902-11)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera0601unse
  publication_year: 1902
  note: The Internet Archive item metadata carries a blanket "© Copyright by Intellectual Reserve, Inc." notice. The library owner judged it inapplicable because this issue was published in 1902, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright.
---

# Sayings of Bishop Hunter
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A SKETCH OF BISHOP EDWARD HUNTER.                       19

the eye with a twist, and the rip in the broad brim of the sombrero
of the mobocratic chief.
    Bishop Hunter's name was a household word in the com-
munity of Latter-day Saints, by whom he was greatly respected
and beloved. Even now, he is frequently and affectionately re-
ferred to.     The kindly benevolence of his nature was well under-
stood and appreciated.     Even his   oddities tended to endear     him
to the people among whom his lot was cast for so many years.

                         BY OSCAR   F.   HUNTER.

    A poor man once found a cow. He came to the Bishop to
know what he should do, who then said, "Find the owner, if you
can.     If   you can't find the owner, keep her.        Every poor man,
with a large family, should have a cow."
     One of his sons complained to him about grasshoppers and
frost.  The Bishop's reply was, "Pay your tithing and be blessed;
has not the Lord promised to rebuke the destroyer?"      The son
said, "Father, I have paid my tithing." The Bishop then replied:
"Whom the Lord loveth he chastiseth."
     Bishop Hunter was captain of the first emigrant train that
crossed the plains, and to impress the minds of the teamsters by
contraries, would say: "Boys, lockup-hill and double down."
       Mr. B., who was known for his careless way of settling his
debts, came to Bishop Hunter and stated that        if   he could borrow
$20 there was a chance of buying a cow that was for sale by the
emigrants, as she was lame, and could not travel, and by recruit-
ing her, he could make double the amount out of her.  The Bishop
heard his story, and said, "Brother B., I will let you have the
money, but if I am deceived in you, I will not let you have any
more money."      Some time after, Mr. B. came and paid him the
$20, and thanked him.     Soon thereafter, this same Mr. B. came
again to the Bishop, and stated that if he could borrow $80, he
could buy a yoke of oxen that could not travel, and by keeping
them for awhile he then could sell them for $125.     The Bishop
then remarked, "Brother B., did I not tell you that if I was de-
ceived in you, I would not let you have any more money?"      He
was deceived in getting th3 $20 in the first place.