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Death of James Condor

Improvement Era, vol. 14, no. 12, October 1911, p. 1107

Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations

OUR REFUGE AND STRENGTH. 1105 As I paused for a few moments after reading the chapter con. taining this event, I thought how like little Andy the Latter-day Saints are. We are a mere handful of people, and the world, like the big bully in the story, is continually abusing and beating us. But, like Andy, we have an Elder Brother to whom we can go in time of trouble, who has fought and who will continue to fight our battle for us. He is greater than all the world, and with him on our side, whom need we fear? Though earth and hell combine against us we cannot be moved, for we are Orist's, and Christ is God's. With God as "our refuge and strength" we can meet the future as we have met the past. He who has delivered us in every time of trouble will continue to deliver us, and "none shall find his promise vain." Forest Dale, Utah. New President, Netherlands-Belgium Mission. Bishop R. W. Eardley, of the Third ward, Salt Lake City, has been called to succeed Pres. B. G. Thatcher of tha Netherlands-Belgium Mission in which Elder Eardley served as a trav- eling elder some twelve years ago. With his wife and two children, he will leave for his new field of labor on October 19. In a little adobe and plaster house on Main street, in the Third ward, Roscoe W. Eardley was born February 13, 1880. His father, James W., was descended from good old English and Massa- chusetts, Yankee stock, and his mother, Catherine Adella,who was a Woolley, roscoe w. eardley. being a daughter of Bish-