Life and Labors of Elder John Kline, the Martyr Missionary

This book is the biography of Elder John Kline. In the following pages you may see what one man may do by "patient continuance in well doing". Brother Kline was a man "subject to like passions as we are". He was once an infant just as you were, and lay at his mother's breast. He very well remembered, when an old man, how he felt when she made for him his first pair of "pants". When that kind mother put them on him, pleased and smiling in the tenderness of her nature, "the first use that I made of my hands", said he to me shortly before his death, "was to feel for the pockets". "We incline", continued he, "to carry this feature of our boyhood into youth and age. The pocket never ceases to be a very important appendage to our dress, and the hand inclines to put into it every valuable thing it can".