Excerpt from The Latter-Day Saints' Millennial Star, Vol. 65: November 26, 1903 Many of our devoted missionaries are valiantly striving to do their best, and to make their best better day by day; great is and greater yet shall be their reward. Others are lacking in energy and effort; their work is done, if at all, in a half-spirited way, and their thoughts are ever running ahead to the time of their release and return. To those of the first class the days are all too short and the months too few for the exalted labors in which they find such genuine satisfaction and happi ness. To the others the days drag and the weeks are burdensome. Saddening as it is to make the declaration, it is nevertheless true that there are idlers in the vineyard, who, under the spell of indolence and negligence, let the vines in their care go unpruned and untended. For such there is little satisfaction and less true happiness in the work that means so much for them and for others. It is a matter of righteous pride and pure ambition among our young people - young men particularly - to hold a missionary's certificate of appoint ment, with its appended honorable release. To have won such honestly the holder must have been valiant while in the service. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.