The New Presidency of Box Elder Stake

722 IMPROVEMENT ERA "As my mother was dying she smiled at me and said — 'You haven't found your burden so heavy after all, my girl. I scarcely think you've found me a burden this last while!' "My father died within a few days. He was quite unable to live without my mother; and then my hands were empty. The duties which I had thought so irksome a short time before were taken from me, and I felt lost." "Poor child, poor child!" Penelope put in, wiping a tear from her eyes. "And then — and then," the girl went on, in a low voice, "came the reward I scarcely deserved, and which I would have lost for ever if I had gone my own selfish way. The doctor who bad been attending my father and mother had given me his heart. He said he could not help loving me, seeing me so loving and devoted. So — I have new duties now. They have come to my hand, Penelope, and I felt that I must come back and tell you that the message which God sent to you, you have handed on to me. And I, in my turn, will hand it on to others — so that the good that you have done will never die." "Oh, ma'am!" old Penelope said tremulously. "I never dreamt — " "No, of course not," the girl said, with a sweet smile. "We often sow a seed without knowing what will spring from it. I dare say you have sown many seeds here, Penelope." And she stooped hurriedly and kissed the old woman's wrinkled cheek — just before the door of the waiting-room opened, and a stream of chilly travelers came in. The New Presidency of Box Elder Stake. These brethren were sustained and set apart as the Presidency of the Box Elder Stake of Zion, on March 18, 1917, at the regular quarterly con- ference: S. Norman Lee, president; Victor E. Madsen, first, and Joseph N. Stohl, second counselor, all of Brigham City, Utah.