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Show John the Generous anything. and were 77 Nathan reports that he and Amasa M. Lyman went to jail locked up because of their inability to raise "the simple of fifteen dollars." When John Tanner left Kirtland for Missouri time later, they had a "borrowed team and one old broken down stage .horse, and an old tum pike cart, a cag of powder, and $7.50 in cash.'?" sum some The Biographical Encyclopedia in relating the story of the fi brought upon John Tanner, said nancial disaster which the church among other things: He had an excellent farm and home which were [legally] exempt to him from sale by law, and he could have retained these and remained in Kirtland in comfort, but he had signed for the church, and no financial promise of his had ever before gone unfulfilled; nor would he now fail to meet his obligations if it took all he had. This was quite a change for Father Tanner; from a condition of wealth in which he was enabled to assist many people and the Church in general, he was left in a condition without means to assist himself, at the age of 60 years. In a financial way he had staked his all on his faith, the Prophet and the Church, and had lost." some What reward doess a generous compensation in return for his giver expect; generosity? does he look for The author remembers his mother on their ranch in Arizona putting eighteen ounces of butter in the mold she expected to sell for a pound. She maintained that a person who gave generously would receive the same way. There was a New Testament passage which said, "Give and it will be given to you; good measure, pressed for the measure you give down, shaken together, running over will be the measure you get back. "16 ... There is or any of his family as to for in return for the great sacrifices they were they hoped But Nathan tells of a blessing and would continue to make. making no hint from John Tanner what which he highly prized, coming to him. On April 6, 1836, he records the following: "I went with my father and brother Amasa M. Lyman, to brother Joseph Smith's, and there under the hands of Joseph Smith, Amasa M. Lyman and my father I received a father's blessing. It was of great importance to me. "17 What difference did it make to Nathan that he had sold his last team and wagon, his last cow, and the watch out of his pocket |
