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Show Ben Lomond Beacon, March 23, 1978, Page 5 Church welfare program explained SALT LAKE CITY Labor is indispensable. So spoke Brigham Young, world famous colonizer, when he led the first band of Saints to hardy Latter-dathe shores of the Great Salt Lake in 1847 and founded an empire on the Great American desert. connected Everything with building up Zion y requires actual, severe labor, propounded this great leader, the second president of the Mormons and first governor of Utah. We must labor with our hands, plan with our minds, and devise ways and means to accomplish this object. The Mormons chose for their state emblem, the Beehive, and like bees they labored to "make the desert blossom as a rose. The song which they sang, and which lives today, is Come, come ye Saints, no toil nor labor fear - all is well - all is well. Throughout the church, officials are doing away with the curse of idleness and establishing in its stead independence, industry, thrift and which add courage among the i 5 r t t i t. t t t i know the condition of every man, women, and child in his ward. He gets all this information free, and record is made, gratis - none of the officers, ward and stake receiving any compensation for his or her labors. This is in addition to their secular occupations. The income of the Mormon church, from which the money, foods and clothing are derived to care for the needy, is derived principally from the following four sources: Tithing: Each church member is supposed to give to the church a voluntary, contribution wholly free-wih of of his annual increase. The member himself is the sole judge of the amount. The fast offerings: Each member is asked to fast for two meals on the first Sunday in each month, and to give as a wholly voluntary contribution the equivalent of those meals, which is used for the support of the poor. More than 184,000 church ll one-tent- members made con- tributions of this sort during the past year. Ward maintenance: Each needy Mormons today. The churchs security program is member is asked to make a winning for them recognition voluntary contribution of and interest around the something for the mainworld. tenance of the ward meeting The workings of the house, amusement hall, and churchs aid to the needy are like buildings. simple as leaders and lesser Auxiliary organizations: leaders in various wards are Small convoluntary participating. The bishop of tributions to the auxiliary each ward is looked upon as organizations are made by the father of the ward. The their members to cover cost responsibility of the bishop of publications, editorial and set-u- p under the clerical help, and the like is not only to look after the purposes. Some income also spiritual but also the is derived from invested physical welfare of his surpluses of past years of the church. people. To aid him in his work, his The Mormon church ward is divided into districts, welfare plan not only helps to or blocks, and to each provide churchmen with the district is assigned two necessities, but also the teachers who visit at least committees and ward once a month each family in workers assist the bishopric their district, to encourage in finding work for the them in living rightly and to employables who have no report on general welfare of jobs. members. Brigham Young taught: The bishop is also assisted Idleness and wastefulness in looking after the poor of are not according to the rules of heaven. The greatest his ward by the Womens Relief Society, whose wealth we possess is to know primary duty it is to extend how to direct our labors relief to those in need,' to" n'ghtly, spending every hour for the assist in nursing the sick,, advantageously and to see that there is no benefit of our wives and dire want. children and neighbors." The bishop is thus able to Pioneer Young believed: which and waffle flour processed under a stake project. In a great many areas the wards set up canning and preserving units to care for surplus fruits and berries which are raised, and all this material goes into the bishop's storehouse for distribution to the necessitous. The bishops storehouse contains not only foods but clothing as well, gathered by church workers and repaired at sewing shops operated by the church. The church welfare plan stirs deep strings of human action, following the law: Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. The church storehouses are open with feeling for all who have a deficiency, an order from the bishop being all that is necessary for churchmen to call and get their needs filled. Provided the individual is in good standing in the church and is willing to put forth every effort to help himself. There is a coordinating, supplementing, augmenting and a cooperation between members and wards. As in the days of Brigham Young, when there were lean years and fat years, the needs of make that community the Saints must be filled. In addition to helping to fill wealthy. The church plan the needs of the Mormons, materially reduces the total and to provide work, the for Church security program amount necessary self-helit is adequate relief in any given also brings pointed out by one of the community. of the church. He Bishops storehouses, leaders While as indicated where food, clothing and says: of the first task the Church in were the kept supplies days of Brigham Young, Welfare Plan was to supply have been revived, and food, clothing and shelter, it was recognized from the today Bishops storehouses outset that the measures have sprung up in various taken to meet this task would almost communities, not be cures but paliatives, mushrooms. overnight, like For example, in one case, would be treating the the elders quorums of a symptoms and not the disease, and that as rapidly Mormon stake or branch, farmed 950 acres of land as possible treatments must (donated to the Welfare plan be developed to meet the and financial disorders of the by Church leaders), social and economic body. 15,000 raised theron bushels of wheat, which, Many of these disorders so because of its high grade, appeared clearly was sold at a premium for discernible and so urgent seed wheat, and the money that a tendency to broaden the scope of our operations to realized used for the welfare include them all has had to of stake. the program Other wheat is stored and be constantly and conmade info flour. In Salt Lake sciously restrained. -The general principle a' 1 commercial City; behind the church plan is to operated processing plant, build up, develop, and by the church, manufactures breakfast cereals, pancake establish individual securitv Ye saints must learn to sustain yourselves. We must work and get the gold out of the mountains to lay down, if we ever walk in streets paved with gold. "The angels that now walk in their golden streets had to obtain that gold and put it there. When we have streets paved with gold, we will have placed it there ourselves. When we enjoy a Zion in its beauty and glory, it will be when we have built it. If do not as individuals complete that work, we shall lay the foundation for our children and our childrens children as Adam did. If we are to be saved in an ark, as Noah and his family were, it will be because we built it. By work, Pioneer Young proved the tonowing: You count me out fifty, a hundred, five hundred, or a thousand of the poorest men and women you can find in our community and I will take these ten, fifty, hundred, five hundred or a thousand people, and put them to labor; but only enough to benefit their health and to make their food and sleep sweet unto them, and - in ten years - I will promotes religious preserves and free agency and civic freedom and liberty - to bring about non-urba- n Man will serve in New York self-hel- Today committees have been appointed to assist SALT LAKE CITY -Hack" Elder Harold G. Miller, for over 43 years an edi for a Salt Lake newspaper, has boon named church in members achieving better farm and home management and better marketing in the production of new crops, new crop uses, professional statisticians and economists to assist all members of the church in various fields. There are poroject committees, food processing committees, SALT LAKE CITY -Members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-daSaints were advised today not to participate in a housing y committees, supervising committees made up of letter current writing campaign in defense of leaders and experts of the church. As part of the plan there have been established in Salt Lake City, one Central maintaining broadcasts religious Heber G Wolsey, of Church director managing Public Bishops storehouse, 67 regional storehouses and stake storehouses that serve Communications, issued this statement: Word comes to us that Church organizations and individuals across America are being asked to write letters to the Federal approximately 100 of the 127 stakes or branches of the Mormon church, and a small Bishops storehouse in many of the rural wards of the church. For the current year foodstuff production budgets have been put in operation nnd-Apr- Church's located Communications Stake in Center, Manhattans Lincoln Square. A new Mormon Church hosting program for United Nations diplomats will be instituted at the visitors center when the Millers Com- mission. which governs the nation's radio and television stations, opposing a million that would ban religious broadcasts assume leadership there. Elder Miller is a high priest in the Mormon Church and in 11 he w as elected president of the United States We are adv lsed by the FCC that it is not considering a petition to ban religious There is broadcasting absolutely no need to write Basketball Association Writers and also has linen on the board of the Football Writers of America. The Millers have four sons, Michael, Scott, Corey and Clark and three grandchildren letters on this subject There are main good causes lor letter writing This is not one of them. o- - LDS man church. the associate members advised not to write letters committees, clothing throughout director. The Mormon Visitors' Center is situated in a high rise owned by the Mormons which also houses the New York ot the Mormon Church's Visitors' Center in New York City, commencing His wife in Barbara will seme as LDS committees, food processing emergency director named to commission These budgets were based upon surveys (made at the end of 1938) of the estimated number of persons who may be in need of assistance during the winter of 1939-40- . The welfare plan operates a coal mine, a large canning SEWING NOTIONS 427 E. 1908 N. NOBTH OGDEpHLAZA OGDEN, tJTA H44404XPbtdWE-782-475- 0 i sisaii Elder UTAH PROVO, Donald T. Nelson of Provo. Utah, director of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-daSamis, has Ix'en named to the National Commission lor the District Relations lor the Adv ancement and Support of y factory, (besides smaller units scattered all over the church) a clothing factory, a clothing renovating shop and salvage plant, with six stores established to distribute their products and output, two sawmills (to assist in providing building materials for those wno would otherwise be unable to obtain homes). ALL LACES Education (CASE). The commission consists of CASE district trustees who AND TRIMS ffhO W O H 0fF will meet in Williamsburg. Virginia, to discuss a proposed mission statement tor the commission, a model CASE district, district bylaws and IRS negotiations. Elder Nelson w as program chairman for the CASE District Woven conference lie Id m Scottsdale, Arizona, m January, and he is conference chairman for the is Be a good neighbor the keynote of the Church Welfare program, except that in addition, as one official puts it: If we will love our neighbor, as we love ourselves, that Spirit will testify to us that we are And as serving Him . said: Young Brigham Idleness and wastefulness are not according to the rules of heaven. 1979 meeting. Dev el opment office dev JUST ARRIVED IN TIME FOR EASTER POLYESTER The elops for education, health care, and (manual special Mitrmnn WHITE SHAWLS icsources f projects o! the SALE RUNS THURS., FRI., AND SAT. 'hmvh E52E 6 Oz Pkg Salad or Dessert Topping No Jt)3 Cans, Select Western Family DREAM WHIP . . . PITTED OLIVES . . IIPIG . 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