Juvenile Instructor, Vol. 35 (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from Juvenile Instructor, Vol. 35 To get the best results from such characters is to postpone achievement, delay the final purpose, cover the path with enlarged obstacles, and add fresh heights to the summit. Many incidents might be related to illustrate this trait in his character, which are inspirational to others who lack energy to try. He was a miserable penman, and his schoolmates made him a laughing-stock, and guyed him over it, until he resolved to excel them all, and vowed he would set copies for the best of them. Then he began to write, and, head-ache or not, he never quit practice until his vow was fulfilled to the letter; and he is to this day one of the best penmen in the State. He could not play ball. His throw) and catch)i were as awkward as his figure was lean and long. Fire it on, Sissy,) with a host of such ironical remarks from his playfellows, made him resolve that he would beat them at their own game. He went home and nearly pounded in the gable of his mothers barn, working with his ball day and night until he conquered; he became a leader in the game, the captain of his nine. Then seeing no profit further, he quit the business. It was the same with marbles and other games. When he was a mere youth, his mother, who was very poor, needed greatly to have her house repaired, and Bishop Edwin D. Woolley and some friends in the Thirteenth Ward, recognizing the necessity of it, asked to do the work for her. He begged his mother not to allow them to do it, and at the same time promised her that when he became a man he would build her a new home. The Bishop heard of this, and remarked that if Sister Grant waited for her boy to build her house, she would never have one. Owing to Heber´s ball and marble practices which the Bishop had observed, he had christened him the laziest boy in the Thirteenth Ward, a regular good-for-nothing. But the Bishop changed his mind later, and became one of Heber´s warmest and dearest friends and one of his greatest admirers. The young man never forgot his promise, and one of the reasons, doubtless, was the incentive created by the Bishops doubting remarks. He determined to show the Bishop! When twentyone years of age, he built his mother a nice home, and invited Bishop Woolley and others to its dedication. The Bishop was reminded of his utterance of years ago, and was asked to dedicate the house, but this, however, was done by President Daniel H.Wells. Apostle Grant is pre-eminently a business man, and would doubtless have devoted his days to financial affairs exclusively, if the call to the Apostleship had not changed the trend of his life from its natural course, and awakened in him that less prominent but nevertheless strongly rooted religious feeling that possesses his soul. He entered the business world as a messenger boy in an insurance office. From thence he arose step by step in the business world by determined effort and close attention to duty. He was always in love with his work, and therefore devoted to it. As a boy, he dreamed in that insurance office of himself becoming an agent, and to that end he bent all his energies towards the mastery of the details of the business, with the result that he succeeded, and is today the leader in that line in the whole region about. His aspirations did not cease with becoming an agent; he dreamed of being a president of a company, and in this he also succeeded. While working in that insurance office, he also became desirous of learning the banking business because of what he saw in the bank of A. W.White Co., located in the same building. To this end he devoted his spare time in assisting the book-keepers and others; subsequently the insurance office was removed to Wells Fargos bank where he followed the same course, and in this way gained considerable knowledge of banking.
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