A Slighted Opportunity

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TALKS TO THE YOUNG MEN. 59

Look at your education, and see the vast field for your industry, in reading good books, in attending school. The question will be, once you learn to be industrious, how you can ever find time for all the good things that clamor to be done. Idleness, the mother of vice; the feeder of reform schools, prisons, saloons; the instiga- tor of crime and debauchery, will flee frightened from your pres- ence, and leave you free with industry to build your character.

A SLIGHTED OPPORTUNITY.

While in Berlin last week, President Francis M. Lyman, to- gether with Presidents Hugh J. Cannon and Levi E. Young, had an interview with United States Ambassador Andrew D. White. Af- ter the business was concluded, Mr. Whita entered into friendly conversation with them. * * * After describing his visit to Salt Lake City, in 1892, with Mr. Andrew Carnegie, he said he wished to tell them a little story that had never been told to any "Mormon" before. When a boy, he lived in Syracuse, New York, where his father was cashier of a bank. The clerks of the establishment belonged to a club, organized for mutual entertainment and development, and here they used to meet together and discuss topics of the day. One evening, they had prepared themselves for the discussion of "Mormonism." Some took one side of the question, and spoke in favor of the new] religion, and others opposed it. While the de- bate was in progress, a stranger entered. He was dressed in gray clothes, and had a traveling bag in his hand. Sitting down in the back of the room, he listened attentively. At a convenient time, he arose and asked the chairman if he might speak on the subject. Finding that the by-laws gave only members of the club the right to speak, this pridlege was refused. The man in gray resumed his seat, and listened quietly until the discussion was over, and then departed. Next day the club men found that their visitor was no less a personage than Joseph Smith, the "Mormon" prophet, and then they were sorry indeed that they had not suspended the rules and allowed him to speak, but the opportunity was gone. Millennial Star, Aug. 28, 1902.