--- title: Improvement Era description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930. authors: - Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations collections: - periodicals tags: - magazine - improvement-era periodical: Improvement Era volume: 20 number: 8 published: 1917-06 publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations publisher_place: Salt Lake City language: en type: magazine reference: 'Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations, "The New Presidency of Box Elder Stake," *Improvement Era* 20, no. 8 (June 1917): 722.' source: url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera2008unse 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: improvementera2008unse start_page: 722 end_page: 722 rights: status: public-domain basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1917-06) source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera2008unse publication_year: 1917 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 1917, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright. --- # 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.