wagon box was set off on the spot now occupied by the old school house built by President Young. A few days passed, and seeing so many children running about with no chance for even the rudiments of an education, she could not content herself until she had called them in from their idle play and started a school, which work, with the care of her children and the housework, closely occupied her time. There was another and most laudable object. The burdens upon the shoulders of President Brigham Young in the care and support of his large and growing family were exceedingly heavy. If this loyal, loving wife could do aught to assist in bearing that financial burden by earning a little herself her heart and her hands were only too anxious to assume that labor. How loyally and how lovingly Aunt Zina refers again and still again in telling these incidents to the noble, generous care extended by Brigham Young to his family, and even to his friends and acquaintances was stretched out the pavilion of his thoughtful

care.

The little room in the fort occupied by Aunt Zina, secured for her by her brother, Dimick Huntington, was not only school room through the day to the children of the fort; it served as a place of night meeting, being used nearly every night for many of the minor priesthood meetings. Here occasionally the young men were called together by Elder Jedediah

M. Grant, and here they listened. to the wise and stirring admonitions of that powerful speaker. Always a "Mary" at heart, with a hungry love for the sweet, spiritual things of the kingdom, Aunt Zina sat in happy silence at all these various meetings convened in her room, proudly content that she could be thus honored. It was no trouble for her to prepare for their coming, nor to clean after they were gone. That work was not work, it was pleasure. She speaks of the

sermons of

Elder Grant to these young men with enthusiasm. "Aim high, young men,' was one of his frequent admonitions. Again, "You all make an atmosphere for yourselves."

When the log row was built by President Young she moved into the part assigned to her. She was always a tender-hearted girl and woman, and no one in sickness or trouble came for her assistance in vain. I asked her when she began to go about nursing the sick. She replied smilingly, she did not know, it was so long ago. Certainly from her early girlhood she never ceased. in that labor: teaching school, going about nights if called on by the sick, taking good care of her own children as well as mothering Indian girls or others placed under her charge for temporary care, washing, ironing, spinning, weaving, cooking and cleaning, this queen among women still found time to attend to all her meetings. She was treasurer of

the

Relief

Eighteenth Ward Society during the years of the Johnston episode, when the sisters wove and spun and clothed the defenders of themselves and

the right. Notwithstanding all her duties, nothing but sickness. kept her from Sabbath and other meetings. Do you say it was

impossible to do all this and give little children proper care? Her children and step-children, except one, are all alive, and will bear testimony in no uncertain tones of the tender, watchful love which provided creature comforts for the body while never neglecting the far more important food and drink for the spiritual needs. Aun Zina was a member of the first board of health ever organized in this Territory.

After moving into the Lion House, in 1856, Aunt Zina began to make caps, besides spinning, weaving and knitting. Here, too, began the afterwards heavy labor which she was given of becoming a practical midwife. And until recent years this labor, with every sort of nursing and watching with the sick and dying, has been most arduously carried out by Aunt Zina. And still she went to meetings. The organization of Relief Societies, Retrenchment Associations, and Primaries has always found her active and will. ing to work in any and all fields.

In 1869 or '70, President Young called upon her to assist in the work in the Endowment House, and to that labor she was most faithful until the house was finally

ing into the baptismal font for her health, she came out perfectly sound and well. She has been thus healed many times, not being physically a strong constitutioned woman. But God and her own indomitable faith has kept her alive and actively engaged in good works until the present day.

She was once called to assist in starting the work in the Logan Temple. While there she received many manifestations of healing and the power of God. She speaks of a Sister Devinish who was a cripple and who threw away her crutches on entering the water, never to need them since, eight years ago. Also of a Sister Moffitt, of Ogden, who was healed of cancer in the breast at the Logan Temple.

She heard the angels sing in the Kirtland Temple, and while working in the Logan Temple her sister, Prescenda Kimball, and four others heard the singing of angels in that beautiful edifice.

She was in Canada on duty at the dedication of the Manti Tem

ple, and on her first visit to that temple she felt a great yearning for some visible manifestation of the power of God. It was given her. As the services were beginning she beheld a most radiant and beautiful light, which shone with surpassing brilliancy even into her own eyes, and then gradually melted away. She was

so happy to know that her own labors were thus accepted and her longing not deemed unworthy of gratification.

It would not be possible to detail all the thousands of cases of marvelous manifestations and healings of which the long experience of Aunt Zina has made her a participant in or of which she has received a knowledge. Like the rest of her sisters, she is striving to prepare herself, body and mind, for the labor and blessing soon to begin in our latest and most glorious Temple at Salt Lake City.

SKETCH OF SISTER BATHSHEBA W. SMITH,

WORKER IN THE ENDOWMENT

HOUSE.

SISTER BATHSHEBA W. SMITH, who was born May 3rd, 1822, was married on July 25th, 1841, to Brother George A. Smith, a cousin of the Prophet Joseph Smith. She came to the valleys in 1849. She was closely associated with the Prophet and his family for some years before the martyrdom, and since that time has had the most intimate friendship with the later prophets and

apostles and their families.

Her memory is very good, and it is highly entertaining to listen to her experiences in this Church. She was one of the very few who had their endowments in the prophet's life-time, and it is

worthy of mention here that her testimony is that the ordinances in our temples today are exactly the same as was that of the first ordinances given under the Prophet's direction. She had her blessings in 1843 in Nauvoo.

The services were held in a large room over the store. Here was given those initial blessings to the Apostles then in Nauvoo, and here began the mighty work which is now of such magnitude. She remembers the names of the first couples who received endowments, and these were: The Prophet and wife, the Patriarch and and wife, Brigham Young and wife, Heber C. Kimball and wife, Dr. Willard Richards and wife, Father Smith and wife and Father Joseph Smith and wife, Bishop Whitney and wife and Amasa Lyman and wife. Sister E. R. Snow acted as a secretary in the Nauvoo Temple for some time.

Sister Smith worked about fourteen years in the Endowment House, which was erected in Salt Lake City for the accommodation of the Saints until a Temple could be built. President Young came over to her house one day and asked Sister Bathsheba if she would go and work in the Endowment House. She said yes, if her husband was willing. He

had already given willing assent to the President, and thus her labors began. As long as work was done in the House Sister Smith was a faithful and constant worker in that House.

Sister Bathsheba speaks of many and marvelous healings wrought by the power of God and the faith of the Latter-day Saints. in this holy House. So many, indeed, that memory will not

retain one-tenth of the number.

One instance of a sister who came a cripple, lifted out of a wagon, and who went out at the close of the day entirely healed. Another case, she says, she was reminded of when listening to some physicians talking the other day, who asserted that faith could not perform surgical operations. She wondered what it was that caused a circumstance of which she knew. A young girl from Payson came to the House with a knot of protruding veins or a swelling on one of her wrists. Sister Smith told her in blessing her that some day she should wake up and the swelling would all be gone. In prophesying this

Sister Smith felt almost frightened at her own words. But it came to pass just as she had predicted. The girl afterwards told her that it was just as she said. If the cure was not a miracle, surely the prophecy was a very singular circumstance.

At another time a sister came who was blind in one eye, had been so since her childhood. She had been struck with a ruler by

her teacher when a child, and the eye had been blind ever since. On coming into the House this sister gazed continually upon Sister Snow, and when asked at last what caused her deep attention, she told Sister Snow that she had seen her in a dream a little time before, and that she was to receive through her a great blessing. Sister Snow anointed the blind eye, and pronounced the healing of the Holy Spirit upon it. A few weeks afterwards the sister returned to show her once blind eye, which was now bright and perfectly sound. These are only a small number of the many and wonderful manifestations given in this place.

Sister Smith had the honor of assisting in starting the work in the Logan Temple, and looks with great hopes and joy towards the completion of another sacred Temple, where the living and the dead can receive blessings for Time and for all Eternity.

JULINA L. SMITH,

WORKER IN THE ENDOWMENT

HOUSE.

Is the daughter of Alfred B. and Melissa J. Lambson, and was born June 18th, 1849, in Salt Lake City. Her parents came to Utah in 1847, and built one of the first houses outside of the "Old Fort," in which they still reside, situated on the corner of what is now North Temple and First West streets, where Julina was born.

Sister Lambson is the seventh and youngest daughter of Mark and Susannah Bigler. She was born March 24th, 1825, in Harrison County, West Virginia, and is the mother of three daughters and one son.

In September, 1852, Julina's father went on a mission to the West Indies, returning home in 1854. In 1856 he went back East, leaving his little family somewhat poorly provided for, as in those early days everything was new, and supplies were scarce in Utah. In 1856, at the age of seven years, Julina commenced living with her aunt, Sister Bathsheba W. Smith, who at that time had two children, named respectively for their parents, George A. and Bathsheba, both of whom were several years her seniors. She continued to live with her aunt Bathsheba until the spring of 1858, when she returned to her mother, who, with her children, was under the necessity of moving South with the rest of the Saints, to seek a refuge from the destruction threatened them by the approaching. army of the United States, which was then hovering upon the eastern borders of the Territory.

They journeyed southward as far as Nephi, Juab County, where they found temporary shelter with her uncle, Jacob G. Bigler, who was then Bishop of Nephi, and is now a Patriarch in the Church in the Juab Stake of Zion. However, she did not remain there long, for she had become exceed