Excerpt from The Latter-Day Saints' Millennial Star, Vol. 92: May 8, 1930 My boy, if you wish to go out into the world about which you hear so much, you must provide yourself with another pair of eyes, the eyes of reading and writing. There is so much wonder ful knowledge and learning in the world which you cannot get unless you can read and write. Knowledge is the golden ladder over which we climb to heaven; knowledge is the light which illuminates our path through this life and leads to a future life of everlasting glory. Think of a woman with a spirit like that having no opportunity to learn to read or write! Piada Pupin further influenced her son by telling him tales about the great Saint Sava, who had Opened up the new way for the boys and girls of Serbia to have schools and learn to read and write. She influenced him to the point where he ceased to be One of the unruly boys himself, gave the school address on the next St. Sava's day (they had been in the habit of laughing at the goody-goody who would do that), roused the other boys of the school to enthusiasm, and made it suddenly popular to be a good student. He soon outgrew this village school and teacher, and his mother then persuaded his father to send him to the high school of Panchevo, a larger town, fifteen miles distant. 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.