Too Busy
With Church Duties To Respond To The Spirit Harold B. Lee
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few weeks ago, President McKay related to the Twelve an interesting
experience, and I asked him yesterday if I might repeat it to you this
morning. He said it is a great thing to be responsive to the whisperings
of the spirit, and we know that when we are relaxed and not under pressure
of appointments. (I want you to mark that.) The President then took
occasion to relate an experience in the life of Bishop John Wells, former
member of the Presiding Bishopric. A son of bishop Wells was killed
in Emigration Canyon on a railroad track. Brother John Wells was a great
detail man and prepared many of the reports we are following up now.
His boy was run over by a freight train. Sister Wells was inconsolable.
She mourned during the three days prior to the funural, recieved no
comfort at the funeral, and was in a rather serious state of mind. One
day soon after the funeral services, while she was lying on her bed
relaxed, still mourning, she says that her son appeared to her and said,
"Mother, do not mourn, do not cry. I am all right." He told
her that she did not understand how the accident happened and explained
that he had given the signal to the engineer to move on, and then made
the usual effort to catch the railing on the freight train, but as he
attempted to do so his foot caught on a root and he failed to catch
the hand rail, and his body fell under the train. It was clearly an
accident. Now listen. He said that as soon as he realized that he was
in another enviroment he tried to see his father, but he realized that
he couldn't reach him. His father was too busy with his duties, and
he couldn't reach him. His father was so busy with the duties in his
office he could not respond to his call. Therefore, he had come to his
mother. He said to her, "You tell father that all is well with
me, and I want you not to mourn anymore."(An exerpt from an adress by Harold B. Lee to the Seminary and Institute faculty, July 6, 1956) |
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