Charles H. Hart
Born: 5 July 1866
Called to Presidency of Seventy: 9 April 1906
Died: 29 September 1934
Called to Presidency of Seventy: 9 April 1906
Died: 29 September 1934
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Biographical Articles
Biographical Encyclopedia, Volume 3
Biographical Encyclopedia, Volume 4
Juvenile Instructor, 15 July 1906, President Charles H. Hart
Improvement Era, November 1934, President Charles H. Hart
Improvement Era, November 1934, Tribute to President Charles H. Hart
Relief Society Magazine, November 1934, President Charles H. Hart
Relief Society Magazine, November 1934, Charles H. Hart
Biographical Encyclopedia, Volume 4
Juvenile Instructor, 15 July 1906, President Charles H. Hart
Improvement Era, November 1934, President Charles H. Hart
Improvement Era, November 1934, Tribute to President Charles H. Hart
Relief Society Magazine, November 1934, President Charles H. Hart
Relief Society Magazine, November 1934, Charles H. Hart
Jenson, Andrew. "Hart, Charles Henry." Biographical Encyclopedia. Volume 3. pg. 748-750.
HART, Charles Henry, one of the First Seven Presidents of Seventies, was born July 5, 1866, In Bloomington, Bear Lake county, Idaho, the son of James H. Hart and Sabina Scheib. He is the oldest son of his mother's nine children, six of whom are still (1920) living. His father served with President John Taylor in opening up the French Mission, assisted in Church immigration and newspaper work in St. Louis, Mo., in the early fifties, was for several years Church immigration agent in New York City, and was first counselor to President Wm. Budge, of the Bear Lake Stake, for many years. The mother of Charles H. was born and educated in London and came to Utah with her parents In 1852. She died March 1, 1919, at the age of 80 years. The subject of this sketch moved with his father's family to Provo, Utah, when a boy, and was there baptized by his father. After a few years' residence in Provo and Salt Lake City, the family moved back to Bear Lake valley. There he engaged in the various duties incident to the conditions growing out of the settlement of a new country, being employed in farming, in canyon work, in freighting during the summer season, and in attending the district school during the winter months. At the age of fourteen he entered a printing office and remained there for over two years, learning such branches of the printer's art as are common to a country newspaper office. After attending high school, he became a student in the Normal department of the University of Utah, from which he was graduated with the class of 1887 with valedictorian honors. He then entered the University of Michigan, in which he pursued his law course, winning his LL. B. degree in 1889. Following graduation he returned to the west and entered upon the practice of law at Paris, Idaho, where he remained for a year. He then removed to Logan, Utah, where he continued in the practice of his profession, and his marked ability and devotion to the interests of his clients won him quick recognition in a large practice. He was elected to the office of county attorney and later was chosen a member of the last Territorial council. He was then elected a member of the constitutional convention which framed the organic law of Utah, and he took part in preparing the State constitution, his knowledge of law being of immense benefit in this direction. Afterward he was elected judge of the First Judicial District of the State and served upon the bench for nine years, his record as judge being in harmony with his record as a citizen and a lawyer, characteristic by marked devotion to duty and by a masterful grasp of every problem presented for solution. While officiating upon the district bench he was called upon to serve as a member of the Supreme Court of the State many times. Later he formed a partnership with Hon. Frank K. Nebeker, under the firm name of Hart & Nebeker, at Logan, Utah, and was there successfully engaged in practice until called upon to fill a mission. Brother Hart was ordained a Deacon in early life, and later an Elder. He was ordained a Seventy by John Henry Smith, Aug. 10, 1890. When the Mutual Improvement Associations were organized, he became associated therewith, and took an active part therein for many years. serving as secretary of the local organization where he lived and also as a counselor to the Stake superintendent of the Bear Lake Stake, at a time when the associations of that Stake numbered fifty-seven. In 1898 he was set apart as a president of the sixty-fourth quorum of Seventy, and was acting in that capacity when called to be a member of the First Council of Seventies of the Church, held in April, 1906. Elder Hart has been interested in Sunday School work from his boyhood, teaching classes in various departments, but particularly in the theological department, and was also superintendent and teacher of the parents' class of the Logan Fifth Ward Sunday School at the time he was called to his present position among the Seventies. He succeeded to fill the vacancy caused by the death of the late Christian D. Fjeldsted, and was set apart by President Joseph F. Smith, April 9, 1906. Since then he has been a most earnest and effective worker in advancing the interests of the Church. He is a member of the General Sunday School Board, which has charge of a Sunday School membership of one hundred and ninety thousand, and he is also a member of the General Board of the Young Men's Mutual Improvement Association, an organization comprising about fifty thousand members. He was appointed by Governor Bamberger as a member of the Mormon Battalion Monument Commission, in which office he serves without compensation. In October, 1889, Brother Hart married Adelia Greenhalgh, daughter of Peter and Sarah Greenhalgh, early English converts to the Church, who settled at Willow Creek (now Willard), Box Elder county, Utah, and later in Bear Lake county, Idaho, at the time of the early settlement of those places. Mrs. Hart bore her husband ten children, namely, Lucile (now Mrs. W. D. Pack and a violinist of marked proficiency), Leona (now Mrs. Willard Ashton and an accomplished pianist), Genevieve (now Mrs. Raymond Wilcox and a high school teacher of public expression), Charles J. (who filled a mission to the Northwestern States and afterwards served in the U. S. army), Harold H. (now filling a mission in the Northeastern States), Paul Eugene, Dean Eldon, Melvin G., Raymond G. and Phyllis. The mother died in Salt Lake City in March, 1913, and in June, 1915, President Hart married LaLene Hendricks of Logan, Utah, a daughter of B. A. and Mary Hendricks of Lewiston, Utah.
HART, Charles Henry, one of the First Seven Presidents of Seventies, was born July 5, 1866, In Bloomington, Bear Lake county, Idaho, the son of James H. Hart and Sabina Scheib. He is the oldest son of his mother's nine children, six of whom are still (1920) living. His father served with President John Taylor in opening up the French Mission, assisted in Church immigration and newspaper work in St. Louis, Mo., in the early fifties, was for several years Church immigration agent in New York City, and was first counselor to President Wm. Budge, of the Bear Lake Stake, for many years. The mother of Charles H. was born and educated in London and came to Utah with her parents In 1852. She died March 1, 1919, at the age of 80 years. The subject of this sketch moved with his father's family to Provo, Utah, when a boy, and was there baptized by his father. After a few years' residence in Provo and Salt Lake City, the family moved back to Bear Lake valley. There he engaged in the various duties incident to the conditions growing out of the settlement of a new country, being employed in farming, in canyon work, in freighting during the summer season, and in attending the district school during the winter months. At the age of fourteen he entered a printing office and remained there for over two years, learning such branches of the printer's art as are common to a country newspaper office. After attending high school, he became a student in the Normal department of the University of Utah, from which he was graduated with the class of 1887 with valedictorian honors. He then entered the University of Michigan, in which he pursued his law course, winning his LL. B. degree in 1889. Following graduation he returned to the west and entered upon the practice of law at Paris, Idaho, where he remained for a year. He then removed to Logan, Utah, where he continued in the practice of his profession, and his marked ability and devotion to the interests of his clients won him quick recognition in a large practice. He was elected to the office of county attorney and later was chosen a member of the last Territorial council. He was then elected a member of the constitutional convention which framed the organic law of Utah, and he took part in preparing the State constitution, his knowledge of law being of immense benefit in this direction. Afterward he was elected judge of the First Judicial District of the State and served upon the bench for nine years, his record as judge being in harmony with his record as a citizen and a lawyer, characteristic by marked devotion to duty and by a masterful grasp of every problem presented for solution. While officiating upon the district bench he was called upon to serve as a member of the Supreme Court of the State many times. Later he formed a partnership with Hon. Frank K. Nebeker, under the firm name of Hart & Nebeker, at Logan, Utah, and was there successfully engaged in practice until called upon to fill a mission. Brother Hart was ordained a Deacon in early life, and later an Elder. He was ordained a Seventy by John Henry Smith, Aug. 10, 1890. When the Mutual Improvement Associations were organized, he became associated therewith, and took an active part therein for many years. serving as secretary of the local organization where he lived and also as a counselor to the Stake superintendent of the Bear Lake Stake, at a time when the associations of that Stake numbered fifty-seven. In 1898 he was set apart as a president of the sixty-fourth quorum of Seventy, and was acting in that capacity when called to be a member of the First Council of Seventies of the Church, held in April, 1906. Elder Hart has been interested in Sunday School work from his boyhood, teaching classes in various departments, but particularly in the theological department, and was also superintendent and teacher of the parents' class of the Logan Fifth Ward Sunday School at the time he was called to his present position among the Seventies. He succeeded to fill the vacancy caused by the death of the late Christian D. Fjeldsted, and was set apart by President Joseph F. Smith, April 9, 1906. Since then he has been a most earnest and effective worker in advancing the interests of the Church. He is a member of the General Sunday School Board, which has charge of a Sunday School membership of one hundred and ninety thousand, and he is also a member of the General Board of the Young Men's Mutual Improvement Association, an organization comprising about fifty thousand members. He was appointed by Governor Bamberger as a member of the Mormon Battalion Monument Commission, in which office he serves without compensation. In October, 1889, Brother Hart married Adelia Greenhalgh, daughter of Peter and Sarah Greenhalgh, early English converts to the Church, who settled at Willow Creek (now Willard), Box Elder county, Utah, and later in Bear Lake county, Idaho, at the time of the early settlement of those places. Mrs. Hart bore her husband ten children, namely, Lucile (now Mrs. W. D. Pack and a violinist of marked proficiency), Leona (now Mrs. Willard Ashton and an accomplished pianist), Genevieve (now Mrs. Raymond Wilcox and a high school teacher of public expression), Charles J. (who filled a mission to the Northwestern States and afterwards served in the U. S. army), Harold H. (now filling a mission in the Northeastern States), Paul Eugene, Dean Eldon, Melvin G., Raymond G. and Phyllis. The mother died in Salt Lake City in March, 1913, and in June, 1915, President Hart married LaLene Hendricks of Logan, Utah, a daughter of B. A. and Mary Hendricks of Lewiston, Utah.
Jenson, Andrew. "Hart, Charles H." Biographical Encyclopedia. Volume 4. pg. 240, 325.
HART, Charles H., a member of the General Board of Y. M. M. I. A. from 1926 to 1934, died in Salt Lake City, Sept. 29, 1934. (See Bio. Ency. Vol. 3, p. 748.)
HART, Charles H., president of the Canadian Mission from 1927 to 1930, died Sept. 29, 1934, in Salt Lake City, Utah. (See Bio. Ency., Vol. 3, p. 748.)
HART, Charles H., a member of the General Board of Y. M. M. I. A. from 1926 to 1934, died in Salt Lake City, Sept. 29, 1934. (See Bio. Ency. Vol. 3, p. 748.)
HART, Charles H., president of the Canadian Mission from 1927 to 1930, died Sept. 29, 1934, in Salt Lake City, Utah. (See Bio. Ency., Vol. 3, p. 748.)
"President Charles H. Hart." Juvenile Instructor. 15 July 1906. pg. 417-418.
PRESIDENT CHARLES H. HART. BY the death, last December, of President C. D. Fjeldsted, a vacancy was created in the Council of the First Seven Presidents of the Seventy, which vacancy was filled at the last general conference of the Church in April by the selection of Elder Charles H. Hart, of Logan, who was unanimously sustained when presented to the congregation on April 8th, and was ordained the next day in the Salt Lake Temple, President .Joseph F. Smith being mouth. Brother Charles H. Hart was born in Bloomington, Bear Lake county, Idaho, July 5, 1866. He is the son of James H. Hart and Sabina (Scheib) Hart, and is the oldest son of his mother's seven living children. His parents are still living. His father served with President John Taylor in opening up the French mission. He assisted in Church immigration and newspaper work in St. Louis in the early fifties; was for several years Church Immigration Agent in New York City, and recently was honorably released, being now in his eighty-second year, from the position of first counselor to President Wm. Budge, of Bear Lake stake, in which last named capacity he had served for many years. Brother Charles' mother is of German descent, but was born and educated in London. She came to Utah with her parents in 1852. The subject of this sketch moved with his father's family to Provo when a boy, and was there baptized by his father. After a few years' residence in Provo and Salt Lake City, the family moved back to Bear Lake county. There he engaged in the various duties incident to the conditions growing out of the settlement of a new country, being employed in farming, in canyon work, in freighting during the summer season, and in attending the district school during the winter months. At the age of fourteen he entered a printing office and remained there for over two years, learning such branches of the printer's art as are common to a country newspaper office. At the age of twenty-one he graduated as the valedictorian of his class at the University of Utah, having completed the studies prescribed for a three years' normal course, though he only attended the University for two years. He then entered the law department of the University of Michigan, and attained the degree of LL. B. from that institution in the year 1889. In October, 1889, Brother Hart married Miss Adelia Greenhalgh, daughter of Peter and Sarah Greenhalgh, early English converts to the Church, who settled at Willow Creek (now Willard) and later in Bear Lake county, at the time of the early settlement of those places. Brother Hart was ordained a deacon in early life, and later an Elder. On the 10th of August, 1890, he was ordained a Seventy by Apostle John Henry Smith. When the Mutual Improvement Associations were organized, he became associated therewith, and took an active part therein for many years, serving as secretary of the local organization where he lived, and also as counselor to the stake superintendent of Bear Lake stake, at a time when the associations of that stake numbered fifty- seven. He was ordained a president of Seventy and set apart as one of the counselors of the sixty-fourth quorum in 1898, and was acting as senior president of that quorum when called to be a member of the First Council of Seventy at the last general conference. He has been interested in Sunday School work from his boyhood, teaching classes in various departments, but particularly in the theological department, and was also superintendent and a teacher of the parents' class of the Fifth Ward, Logan, Sunday School at the time he was called to the First Council. Brother Hart was admitted to the bar of the supreme court of Michigan in 1889, and shortly afterwards to the courts of Idaho and Utah. He practiced law in Idaho one year, and went to Logan in September, 1890, where he has since resided. He was formerly active in political and civil life, holding several important positions connected with the Democratic party. In 1892 he was elected county attorney of Cache stake, and served two years. In 1893 he was elected to the Territorial Legislative Convention, and served one term; was a member of the State Constitutional Convention, and was particularly recognized as one of the parliamentarians of that body. In the fall of 1895 he was elected Judge of the First Judicial Court, embracing Cache, Rich and Box Elder counties. In that capacity he served nine years, during which time he was often requested to preside in the courts of other districts of the state, and was called to sit with the judges of the supreme court in many cases. Since leaving the bench he has resumed his professional work at Logan. He has seven living children, three daughters and four sons. Their names are, Lucille, Leone, Genevieve, Charles J., Harold, Paul, and Dean. |
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Young, Levi Edgar. "President Charles H. Hart." Improvement Era. November 1934. pg. 649, 667.
PRESIDENT CHARLES H. HART By LEVI EDGAR YOUNG A Member of the First Council of Seventy From this life has gone forth to new achievements a fine counselor a righteous judge a faithful friend. This expression by his colleague for many years is representative of what others have said and could say about this leader of the people. WITH the death of President Charles H. Hart, there passes a noble spirit to the beyond. A member of the First Council of Seventy and a distinguished lawyer, he was a man of high honor, and best of all, a most lovable man. For twenty-eight years in the councils of the Church, President Hart has been a faithful worker, and his gentle ways will long be remembered by the people in the different stakes of Zion. President Hart was born of pioneer stock sixty-eight years ago. His parents had their humble home at Bloomington in Bear Lake County, Idaho; but they moved to Provo while Charles was a small boy. It was some years before the family returned to Bear Lake Valley, where young Charles attended the district school, and did chores incident to the work of the farm. When seventeen years of age, he entered the University of Deseret, now the University of Utah, and was graduated from the Normal school in 1887. Dr. John R. Park was the President of that institution, and from him. President Hart received instruction in Political Science, Physiology, and English literature, the influence of which remained with him throughout his life. Deciding to take up the law as a profession, he entered the University of Michigan and took his degree of LLD. in 1889. Returning to his home, and later taking up his residence in Logan, Utah, President Hart became a successful practitioner and for nine years, served as judge of the First District court of Utah. Known far and wide for his keen sense of justice and fine understanding of the law, he was chosen to write many decisions on technical questions and cases for the supreme court of the territory. Upon the death of President Charles J. Fjeldsted in 1906, Elder Hart was chosen to fill the vacancy in the Council of Seventy. He was a member of the Deseret Sunday School board and the Young Men's Mutual Improvement board until the time of his death. As president of the Canadian Mission for three years, Elder Hart traveled widely and was desirous of extending the Canadian mission to the settlements as far north as Hudson Bay. President Hart was a quiet, unostentatious man. From his boyhood, he was compelled to face life with courage, for his father was unable to give to his family of nine children the advantages of education. Yet from his parents. President Hart and his brothers and sisters inherited sterling characteristics. The father and mother were known for their upright lives and honest purposes. He often recalled the humble home in Bear Lake as a place of richness of the spirit, and all through his life, the memory of the old homestead animated him to higher purposes. A member of the Convention that drafted the Constitution for the State of Utah, President Hart won many friends because of his fine sense of justice. While he was not an orator in the common acceptance of that term, he was a fine debater and his delivery was not wanting in skill. As a rule his words were spoken quietly, and were often full of feeling. Always interested in politics, he never complicated political opposition with private hatreds. It is said by one of his friends in the legal profession that he could state facts and argue and dissect an opponent's argument with quiet dignity and impressiveness. In President Hart's career as a minister of the Gospel, he was always kind, and had a gentility which was admirable. This was his chief quality by which he won men to truth. It made him loved by the people. The lovableness of the man is shown in his family circle. His first wife was the mother of eleven children, five daughters and six sons. His great desire was to educate them all, and this he did. Every one of his sons is a graduate of some famed American university. His daughters were all educated at the University of Utah, his own Alma Mater. After the death of his first wife, Adelia Greenhalgh, a most estimable and beautiful woman, President Hart some two years later, married Lalene Hendricks, who through the long months of his illness, nursed him day and night, and during his last sad days, she was his ever devoted attendant. ELDER HART was by nature shy, almost timid at times. Yet he never was afraid to take a stand for the right. In fact this was one of the Impressive things of his character. In difficult places or in sorrow, his courage was equal to every occasion. His natural cheerfulness was always expressed in kind words to neighbors and friends. When his two eldest daughters were taken in their young womanhood, it was a great sorrow to him, yet his sadness ended in understanding. His death was peaceful. To the last, his faithful wife and little Mary Lalene cheered him by their presence. In all his life, he did his duty. His death was serene. He died beloved by all the people and friends who knew him. In Him he reached out into a truer and fuller life. |
Grant, Heber J. "Tribute to President Charles H. Hart." Improvement Era. November 1934. pg. 672.
Tribute to President Charles H. Hart
(From sermon delivered at his funeral by President Heber J. Grant)
FROM my personal association during all the years that Brother Hart was one of the general authorities of the Church I am able to bear witness to all of the splendid things that have been said here today regarding his character. There was no one of the general authorities with whom I traveled from stake to stake, in fulfilling the duties devolving upon us of attending quarterly conferences, that I enjoyed traveling with more than I did Brother Hart.
The sincerity and honesty, the integrity and devotion of the man always impressed me. He was a man whom to know was to love. Love begets love. He was a man who loved the people, loved to mingle with them, loved to gather evidences, as has been said here, of the divinity of the work in which you and I are engaged, and to be in a position to defend it.
It is a wonderful thing to be a judge and to have the reputation among all those who knew him that his decisions were absolutely true and straight, and what they ought to be according to the evidence presented. To my mind the greatest tribute that could be paid to a man is that those who know him best love him most, and I am sure that this tribute can be paid to Brother Hart and that he is worthy of it. If Brother Hart had an enemy I have never heard of it. I have always heard people speak of him in the highest terms. To have a perfect and abiding knowledge that God lives, that Jesus is the Christ, the Redeemer of the world, and that Joseph Smith was a prophet of God, and to devote the best that is in us to carry that knowledge to others and to inspire others to try to obtain it, is the highest labor I believe in which any of us can be engaged, and this was the labor of Brother Hart during the latter part of his life as one of the general authorities of the Church, and it was a labor that he took pleasure in performing.
I rejoice in all the splendid things that have been said here today. I recommend to his wife and his children that they read the seventy-sixth section of the Doctrine and Covenants, telling of the marvelous and wonderful blessings that shall come to those who embrace the gospel and live it, and of the promises that are made to them concerning the life to come.
I have no hesitancy whatever in assuring the beloved wife and splendid family that all of those marvelous blessings promised to those who shall endure to the end and keep the commandments of the Lord, that they shall inherit celestial glory, shall come to Brother Hart. There is nothing I can urge upon the family more than to follow in his footsteps and walk in the narrow and straight path that he walked in during his entire life.
Tribute to President Charles H. Hart
(From sermon delivered at his funeral by President Heber J. Grant)
FROM my personal association during all the years that Brother Hart was one of the general authorities of the Church I am able to bear witness to all of the splendid things that have been said here today regarding his character. There was no one of the general authorities with whom I traveled from stake to stake, in fulfilling the duties devolving upon us of attending quarterly conferences, that I enjoyed traveling with more than I did Brother Hart.
The sincerity and honesty, the integrity and devotion of the man always impressed me. He was a man whom to know was to love. Love begets love. He was a man who loved the people, loved to mingle with them, loved to gather evidences, as has been said here, of the divinity of the work in which you and I are engaged, and to be in a position to defend it.
It is a wonderful thing to be a judge and to have the reputation among all those who knew him that his decisions were absolutely true and straight, and what they ought to be according to the evidence presented. To my mind the greatest tribute that could be paid to a man is that those who know him best love him most, and I am sure that this tribute can be paid to Brother Hart and that he is worthy of it. If Brother Hart had an enemy I have never heard of it. I have always heard people speak of him in the highest terms. To have a perfect and abiding knowledge that God lives, that Jesus is the Christ, the Redeemer of the world, and that Joseph Smith was a prophet of God, and to devote the best that is in us to carry that knowledge to others and to inspire others to try to obtain it, is the highest labor I believe in which any of us can be engaged, and this was the labor of Brother Hart during the latter part of his life as one of the general authorities of the Church, and it was a labor that he took pleasure in performing.
I rejoice in all the splendid things that have been said here today. I recommend to his wife and his children that they read the seventy-sixth section of the Doctrine and Covenants, telling of the marvelous and wonderful blessings that shall come to those who embrace the gospel and live it, and of the promises that are made to them concerning the life to come.
I have no hesitancy whatever in assuring the beloved wife and splendid family that all of those marvelous blessings promised to those who shall endure to the end and keep the commandments of the Lord, that they shall inherit celestial glory, shall come to Brother Hart. There is nothing I can urge upon the family more than to follow in his footsteps and walk in the narrow and straight path that he walked in during his entire life.
Ballard, Melvin J. "President Charles H. Hart." Relief Society Magazine. November 1934. pg. 652-654.
President Charles H. Hart By Elder Melvin J. Ballard of the Council of the Twelve IT is a real pleasure for me to pay this tribute to my life long friend and associate, President Charles H. Hart, who passed away recently after several years of illness which physically incapacitated him from carrying forward his usual work as a member of the First Council of Seventy. My earliest recollection of him was when he came to Logan as a young lawyer and I was but a boy. I recall what an outstanding, alert man he seemed to be. He formed a partnership with another fine and efficient Bear Lake boy—Frank K. Nebeker—who had made his residence in Logan. Under the firm name of Hart and Nebeker they became the leading lawyers in Cache County. It became a common expression that if Hart and Nebeker took the case they would win it. Personally I have known of many cases which they absolutely refused to take because they did not believe the case had merit or was not on the side of right and justice. LATER when Charles H. Hart was elevated to the bench as Judge his absolute honesty and fearlessness brought terror to criminals who came before him but brought peace and absolute satisfaction to those whose cause was just for I recall no instance when his decisions did not seem to give universal satisfaction. Had he continued in the law rather than accepting the call to serve the Church there is no office in that department within the gift of the people of his state that he could not have received. Indeed, I regarded him as being absolutely qualified to sit and do credit to himself and his state in that highest legal tribunal of our country—the Supreme Court of the United States. When, however, at the very height of his success the call came to him to serve his Church as a member of the First Council of Seventy, he did not hesitate a moment to abandon all these bright prospects and accept this new responsibility. I am sure he did this at a great personal loss financially to himself but many times he said to me, "money isn't everything," and during all the time that he was so actively engaged in the practice of law and administration of justice he was equally devoted to his Church, giving some part of his time in Church service. Frequently he said to me, "A man who tears himself absolutely away from all Church connection will likely come to have an unbalanced judgment, and the man whether he is in the profession of law or other business who can keep his Church contact keeps his judgment well balanced and finds a relaxation from the diversion that comes in Church service. PRESIDENT HART has an outstanding and unusual family of talented boys and girls. I have known every one of them since the time they were little children and there is not a black sheep among them. The mother of these boys and girls gave her life in her effort to honor this noble man with children and to serve them. I have never known a more charming, ideal mother than the first Sister Hart. It has also been my good fortune to know the present Sister Hart, who survives him, from the time of her girlhood. In my judgment Brother Hart could not have selected anywhere in all the Church a more ideal woman to become the mother of his children. She has performed that very difficult task of taking the place of their mother in as ideal a way as any woman I have ever known and I know that every one of the children love her as they do their own mother. That is the finest evidence that she has been successful. IT has been my good fortune many times to travel with President Hart to various of the Stakes of Zion and to know the worth of his ministry. I have never known a more faithful, conscientious, devoted servant of the people than President Charles H. Hart. He never talked without giving some message that was faith building and full of thought. He had a logical mind and his messages were always listened to and they made good impressions. There was no sacrifice he was called upon to make to serve the Church that he did not make cheerfully— never with a complaining spirit. He entered into the living of Gospel standards so perfectly that they became a very part of his life. He was a perfect gentleman here and he will be a perfect gentleman in the Court of the King where he now goes to labor in the same great cause that he made so many sacrifices to serve here. By reason of his having subscribed to these Gospel standards of living he shall find himself happy and prepared to carry on the great missionary labor that is the outstanding ministry which the life that follows this offers to every faithful man or woman — to bring light and knowledge and understanding to those souls who have died without that knowledge and prepare them for their place of salvation, glory or exaltation in the kingdom God has provided for his sons and daughters. President Charles H. Hart is well trained and equipped for that great ministry in the future. |
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"Editorial: Charles H. Hart." Relief Society Magazine. November 1934. pg. 699.
President Charles H. Hart
ANOTHER beloved Churchman, Charles H. Hart, passed to the Great Beyond September 29, 1934. He was noted for his integrity, dependability, honesty and his steadfast allegiance to the Church. Kindly, gentle, interested in people and in movements, he, in his speaking, ever showed his sympathetic understanding. He was an indefatigable worker, a loyal friend, ever interested in the welfare of others.
His wife, our Board Member, Lalene H. Hart, has been a wonderful companion. Mentally keen, she appreciated and shared in her husband's intellectual interests. She is an outstanding home-maker, and when sickness made it impossible for him to carry on his usual work, she was a ministering angel to him.
He leaves a large family who are a credit to their father and mother. May they emulate the example set by their worthy head. May peace be their portion.
President Charles H. Hart
ANOTHER beloved Churchman, Charles H. Hart, passed to the Great Beyond September 29, 1934. He was noted for his integrity, dependability, honesty and his steadfast allegiance to the Church. Kindly, gentle, interested in people and in movements, he, in his speaking, ever showed his sympathetic understanding. He was an indefatigable worker, a loyal friend, ever interested in the welfare of others.
His wife, our Board Member, Lalene H. Hart, has been a wonderful companion. Mentally keen, she appreciated and shared in her husband's intellectual interests. She is an outstanding home-maker, and when sickness made it impossible for him to carry on his usual work, she was a ministering angel to him.
He leaves a large family who are a credit to their father and mother. May they emulate the example set by their worthy head. May peace be their portion.