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Show BIOGRAPHY OF MYRON TANNER. an 25 unenviable had to act among the reputation and in the midst of it all Myron Tanner He was thrown in his labors, very often Bisho., profane and the drinking classes; he met the scoffer as and the unbeliever. for God and often Bishop in the Church stances that lot. He had to deal with little.respect ever had for their a more men who had fellow men. difficult task, no respect Perhaps more no circum extremely difficult and trying than feJl to his manfully often against odds; he labored assidu were He battled ously to redeem men from obnoxious and vicious habits. He con tended with ridicule and scorn. It was a primitive community; men would unite in the business and social affairs of life. It was difficult to make distinc tions. What, therefore, Myron Tanner accomplished in the many years he had to battle against pernicious influences and vicious habits can perhaps never be known this side His task was certainly a great one. It is certain also the grave. that his influence was very great over all classes. The willful and profane boy was in time made respectful and decent in the presence of his Bishop and the general moral tone of the ward was greatly improved during his administration; and if he never did anything else in life than to create the improved conditions of his ward, he certainly was entitled to the respect and honor of his fellow man. He was in his nature, perhaps, suited to deal with that ele ment; a reckless element, an element when under the influence of liquor was so disposed to trample upon the rights of others. The bully, and the swaggerer often met their Bishop in the street face to face and sometimes sought to overawe him and frighten him by their menaces, but Myron Tanner was a courageous man and it has often been said of him that he never feared the face of a living man. When he took a stand He stood firm in the presence of threats. In time in favor of a given policy it was not easy to move him. min from Provo the rough and reckless element that gathered in ing camps and from California began to decrease. Their influence more uni higher tone of respectability to the more no man contributed versal throughout the ward and never would One imagine today improved condition than he did. from the happy, peaceful arid moral influence of the ward over which he once presided, that it could ever have been in the con was overcome; a dition thst it· was. became |
