Latter Day Saints

Treasures in Heaven Fifteenth Book of the Faith Promoting Series, Designed for the Instruction and Encouragement of Young Latter-day Saints

A Rich Man's Handicap--Wealth Not Essentially Bad--But Qualities its Possession Develops a Bar to Salvation--Typical Case of a Man Reared in Affluence--Unpromising Start in Married Life--How He Became Interested in Temple Work--Worthy Example in Recent Years. Page 55.

Chapters

18. CHAPTER VIII.

Of the many who have witnessed Niels pursuing his toilsome way between his home and the Temple--a distance of about a mile--leaning upon his crutch and moving along at a slow bu...

20. CHAPTER II.

They succeeded in acquiring a fairly comfortable home in Nauvoo, and a farm a short distance outside of the city, but they were not destined to long enjoy their possessions. The...

19. CHAPTER I.

"Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord, and he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the hear...

15. CHAPTER V.

The journey on the whole, though tiresome, was not otherwise unpleasant. He enjoyed the society of his fellow emigrants, and felt that he had been blessed of the Lord beyond his...

14. CHAPTER IV.

His crippled, helpless condition was a great source of sorrow to Niels, and instead of his becoming gradually reconciled thereto, as it might be supposed that he would, he seeme...

12. CHAPTER II.

If the details of the life of Niels for the next six years were written it would be a record of helpless dependence and privation. To the surprise of all who knew him, he contin...

11. CHAPTER I.

Perhaps no better example of unselfish service in the interest of others, of patience and forbearance under the burden of a serious physical handicap and courage and persistence...

16. CHAPTER VI.

In the course of a few years he found an opportunity of buying a small city lot north west of the capital grounds, with a rather old house upon it, for the modest sum which his...

13. CHAPTER III.

In common with all the Saints in Scandinavia at that period, Niels had a strong desire to migrate to Zion, and was as ready as any of his countrymen to accomplish that end by ri...

17. CHAPTER VII.

Niels looked forward with fond anticipation to the completion of the Salt Lake Temple. He felt that now, that he had found his true vocation, he would like to devote all the tim...

8. CHAPTER VIII. Modern Stoic--His Modest Obscurity--What Religion Has

A Rich Man's Handicap--Wealth Not Essentially Bad--But Qualities its Possession Develops a Bar to Salvation--Typical Case of a Man Reared in Affluence--Unpromising Start in Marr...

10. CHAPTER II.

2. CHAPTER II.

7. CHAPTER VII.

9. CHAPTER I.

4. CHAPTER IV.

3. CHAPTER III.

6. CHAPTER VI

1. CHAPTER I.

5. CHAPTER V.