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Show ... z .... It Cleveland Depression" was now at its height; fortunes had been lost; and hopes ha.d been blasted. John Morgan, a church man, untrained in matters of finance , was eaught as were 1nany rno.re of much greater experience. ,. ' ' B~:£ore lea~ning of my father's death, my mother had realized that our home, all her property, and all her sources of revenue had been lost., and that soon we would be forced to vacate the old homestead and tnove to - she knew not where . Although deeply concerned, she had never given a thought to his death. He had just turned fifty ... two years of age; had never been seriously ill or con ... fined in a hospital. He was too young to die; under the cir<:umatancea, he must not die ,. \Vhen P resident Young had given his message and the full realization of it had come to her, she was seized \'\dth an uncont1"o1able g rief. She worshiped F'atber ... an.d now he was gone, Six children .. five of them under ten years of age 1 No horne; no means ol support - and she wholly untrain.ed to cope with such a situation. For days she wept. s time went on, the pieture grew darket and more complicated ; it a.ppe a..-.. ed as if the1"e were no avenue o£ escape nor solution of her problem.s . Then, one evening, about two month~ later, as we children were playing about in the large dining room and mother was sitting in her accustomed rock-ing chaht; mending stockings , a very singular yet beautiful event occurred which changed the entire situation in our home and made possible a. future of |
