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Show David Keith Bldg, ignsof Times Meaning' of All ftriBii Aaj JiM TJS tiial b, fCIHfTli IGE WHAT HE IS LIKELY SAYING They spoke million of fine words about Me last Sunday. But I was readihg tbeir hearts and taking note of their daily actions while they wen speaking and I find that much of their talk is but sounding brass, and that their hearts are far from me. How gladly would I reach out and save my people, but they will not let me. How gladly would I to my world and call the nations to peace, but their faith is insufficient and I cannot come until the world's faith is strong enough and mankinds need is great enough 1 have listened to their all me down. prayers words for over nineteen id their multitude of meaningless gsdred years, but there's little efficacy in them, because they Nio deeply rooted in iny elder brothers gospel of Mammon. What goodness and glory t have in store for people when prove by faith and works that they are brothers who Ean brotherhood, and truth and justice and mercy and and love unfeigned; when they can evaluate the ridow'i mite and the orpsns appeal above the rich mans ribs and boast. They shall havS the peace universal, the joy diluted, the security unshakeable, and the abundance with- itEmit as soon as enough of them desire it in their hearts p n: s 110. re-tu- rn Ml V. ATE nsonI ES m half-heart- i BE -- HE I I WERE TO R- - ed A Letter We Are V CL To Publish Salt Lake City, Utah, 1941. Mr. C. N. Lund, EditorIS, Progressive Opinion. 248 South Mam St, City. Dear Brother Lund: Progressive Opinion reached me Friday afternoon and already Signs of the Times", Meaning of it AU, Things to Ponder" and "SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT" have been given the once over and will be read and reread in the near future. Now I want to make a confession. Confession, they say, is good for the soul I didn't turn in those subscriptions just because I am a Good Samaritan, or because I have the soul of a Christian. I did that lecause I wanted to have a dear conscience and pay my debt I had a selfish motive self interest was uppermost in my mind. Of course I thought of the struggle you and Mrs. Lund were having, and the sacrifices you have made in order to preach the Gospel of the Prince of Peace, but that was incidental I am indebted to C. N. Lund for many very fine thoughts some of this finest that I have ever read in my life. In the Editorial column and in fK1NS.ll U Of ler the ill HEADERS OPINIONS Christ It? I3M r ea . Sum-mu- m ht and cast it from Aihcrwani gmiio aiov wi profitable for thee saying, Lord, Lord, open thy membera should virgins, Ve and one A i and not that thy whole body ns. But he answered and said, not Now But Memory, dvil-izatib cast into ily I asy unto you, I know youknow about hell." a heading without therefore, for yon Watch, which Gd. over or Mammon? in Denmark l neither the day nor the hour where".aerv two maatera: in the Son of man eometh. (But by I placed my own heading: r iM"'!. W1 hat tho one and his works ye shall know him.) And This Is The Reason Hitkflothw.d or else ha will hold Actions Speak AnWords then Louder 5 Destroyed Denmark . despiae the other. Y call ye me Lord, Lorn, ler whv And of God Srv and mammon." and do aot the July 19 under date t? tiling which I say? other and the Prophets without vitalheading, which alone 1940, all things whatsoever (Practical application RETRIBUmust I have headed They Christs teachings. ises wujdthat men should do to you, be to work, and in an environ- TION. put ? to them: for this ia ment that does not stifle and desw bodthe prophets." President McKay said: Hutroy them.) Paine Prophets man nature MUST be changed, Be Ye Therefore Ready" US'?" false phopheta, which Bo ye therefore ready also: for on an enormous Beale, unless shoepa clothing, but the Son of man eometh at an hour world is to be drowned j7 tney an ravening when ye think not . . Suppose ye the own blood. its in 1 a Ho That Docth tho Wiil Outside of the General that aaith unto . . . uiorities of the Churchwju) rJaSe Jrv "hall enter into the discern the face of tho sky and of a. 0f their heaven: but he that the do earth; tot how ia it that ye and teaching of the which Father my wsvw!" ;P not discern tniitlnie? of I I -Gospel, KJ Prom Me, Ye Depart wno mf phwork Methods Then atoll he sap also unto them man in this Churcn L " a piece of new hff"an the left hand, Depart from me, done more To old garment, for that ye cursed into everlastinghiafire, pc' way for the Kingdom of God . A put in to fill it angels up taketh pared for the devil and said more to develop . garment, and the rent la For I waa an hungered, and ye gave who has Chnst-lik- e (It ia useleaa to try me no meat: I waa thirsty, and ye m men's lives the P our done more has who ; a was I drink: no stranger, attributes gave me ay and . nnk'd. in: not me took and jre ran8form society MldmaKe flan a Sword clothed me not: aick and in pri LWORLD A BETTER ye - , THIS 8m 00,118 to send on, ana ye visited me not . . . Verl y TO LIVE S,frth! cme not to send I say unto you, inasmuch ts ye did PI ACE IN WHICH Editor of word." (Then ia ho it not to the least of one ?f these, tjjan (J. N. Lund, Christ a word and ye did it not to me." (Chnat could progressive Opinion, in sear . exploitation.) not abide in a nation of billionaire season, like the Jation for th Worker andnaupen.) the wilderness in one crying The Stoiu Builders Rejected" Jaiui uld unto tliem. Did yc il ? on ivi un I ilL? CM puth JW prepare8 r profit-motivat- ed ' SSffi because thou Hid Therefore I aay revealed Kingdom of God n heat ,8n l h?." (None are eo from you, and given . Ulnae who will not , . . bringing forth the fruits ..... hear.) 2 Ijyy Should be Converted And whosoever shall fall on tm h bte.w ,I'B peoples heart is waxed 8tore unJ-- ff thing from the wise and should understand . . . j (Continued or page four) 18, 1941 Published by & N. Lund PIIOGIIESSIVE OPINION EDITORIALS Most Too ModeSt SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT hundreds of real thought-provokin- g articles have appeared in the last few years which have been of far greater value to me than the pittance I have paid in subSIGNS NOT TO MEN'S LIKING from Destiny we take the following: The following are a scriptions. The best column in Progresof the as events that must take place is clearly shown in the sive Opinion, in my judgevitinga of the prophets: ment, is "SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT, and the Dictators must meet overwhelming defeat. reason it is the best is because Democracies must be forever destroyed. of THE CREATIVE A complete collapse in world economy must take place. THOUGHT the Editor has put Present religious donoepts must into it. He has given us the pais away. To this end the dictators are the wrecking crews. very best, that ia in him. .. Yes. Progressive Opinion is full of inspiration to me. use material from it in my and in my letters to (H apialoa inw ia tkU tithing thoM of tlw writer,, im atw and to my family missionaries awawi la lr Cm odter aaS thte popar.) and friends. My one regret is the means, with their heart, and should be con- that I have neither liat Does to put the or the ability 1 time, verted, and should haul them." that message over to the of tho Mad Blind Leaden who y About "But he answered and said, every thousands in our Church and my heavenly Father are literally hungering Suitnotwhich Progressive Opinion: planted, shall be rooted up. thirsting for righteousness; ti Abt many of your readers Let them alone: they be blind lea- thoumnda who do not know Rattled of the Mini And if the Mind are in by tho diadoaurai den lead the blind, both ahull fall into that these fine things 7. signed article last even not do who print and arrest many shout--I the ditch. N. Lund. C. know I nrpofterou Not many would The Obvious Impassibility ' 7 credence to the state-- I And again I say unto you, It u I thumbed thru one of my particularly until they have easier for a camel to go through S. S. Class files today and or themselves Rev. Hewlett tho eye of a needle, than for a rich random a bunch of UBI book, "The Soviet man to enter the kingdom of God. picked at i, used in my . work editorials there an many Pint and Last Reversed in of ocripture which tend to "But many that an first shall be during the past two years. atiata the deductions arrived last: and the last shall ha lint. You will be interested in a was for ever defending the (Christ list Here it ia: How I liat partial a few of thon whldi under dog .1 jdow m Government Eventually Will Pertinent: All an from w0 False Christs Deceive Maay Testament, and taken shall come in my Be, A Fable About Creation, "For many the teaching of Quin: name, saying, I am Christ: and The Glow of Glory, The Good Works ahull deceive many . . . Then if any ... Bonum of life, The your light so shim before man ahull say Unto you, Lo, hen Makes Things Go, That Force W may aeo your good Is Christ, or then, believe it not . . . y?4 added another have out I of which eometh the to A.s a as For lightning glorify your Father The i in heaven." FAITH". the eaot, and shineth even unto the heading, of the also the shall so west, coming Rathleaaneaa church Security Program, Mid Lr!Ltfi.th?-righand offend "M2inbthe Foolish one of the v Virgins Hsr-- i SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, FRIDAY, APRIL Some Thnigs to Think About I. LORD THE SUN WILL COME OUT. It is aU too true that the great regal sun of human happiness, lecurity and prosperity !, hiding behind the dark clouds of But remember that behind those ewful clouds 0fk end truth is still shining, and aooner or Utcr itii royal light will break through and dispell all tbs darkness and gloom. The tragic conditions in the world today are aa nothing compered to the good things thst are coming. True, the wreck, ere are bringing down the o!d house which has outlived its Against Wait Yes I But not against tha Govern mantl usefulness tho old house of decadent the old house Nat, llkafomo, Massing dictators and cursing America! polities, of robber finance, the old house of war and exploitation, the We believe it is a reflection on the state to tell and broadold house of religions that are not sufficient for the times. (But on the ruins of these old and outworn changed cast the truth that in 1910 the mortgage indebtedness of Utah things a amounted to only 910,000,000, while today it amounts to NEW ORDER OF THE AGES is being built. All things are 945,000,000. They are crying, Get out of debt, while their being made new. No matter how despairing the situation ma, institutionne are existing largely because of the debts which remember, readers, that God is standing in the shadows keepcreate. Let there be foreclosure on the and they encourage ing wat eh above the advent of Hia New Truthnd that while He is trampling out e new and properties represented by that 945,000,000 and there would vintage from all the be a large army of dispossessed, homeless, despairing men, grapes of wrath that men have sown, His herald angels are women and children.) Should the Almighty Himself come into beginning to sing anew their song of peace and good will office and say that this is a wise, practical and Christian our Very shortly all the war mongers and mass murderers, ell system, we would look him level in eye and tell nim we do not the cruel despots, all the wicked exploiters, and all they that believe it. oppress and torture the poor and the weak, shall pass ignobly to the forgotten dust that holds all the secrets of the. We hate and condemn war in all its hideous phases, except ages, where their scepters of unholy an unrighteous power shall rust when necessary for actual defense. Can it be that there are and rot and be forgotten. 0 what a game these monsters shapes called men who are forcing a war for their oVrn profit? have played with humanity! But not mueh longer ehell If there are they should be hung right now. A director whose they be permitted to exercise dominion in the earth. The viaion eompany baa 9500,000,000 in war, or defense, contracts is ad, of the Apocalypse, which men have regarded as a glimpse of vocating entry in the war. A director of the Boston Herald heaven, is but a picture of life on this earth as it shall be when whieh is urging war, is also a director in a corporation which the now hidden sun shines forth in all the morning aplendor of s receiving millions in contracts. Just two of many instances the New Day I We dislike very mueh to say anything that reflects on the THE SHAME OF IT. fair name of Utah, our native state. But we are forced to tell , The liquor commission and the press htwe informed the some truth in order that there may be laid a foundation for publie that the net profits to the state from the aele of liqour something better. We have it on official authority given out for the year 1941 will amount to 91,000,0001 This great sum two years ago that Utah is second lowest in the record of tourof money is to be wrung from the people of Utah for theirsup-pl- y ist business. There is only one state, Nevada which has less of the brew of hell. This news was given out with a boast income from the tourists. What a shame when the state has and some bngadocia which should sat the Word of Wisdom so many seenio attractions. The Chamber of Commerce so it is mid, exists for the purpose of boosting Utah. But tome enthusiasts to thinking. Wonder if officials and leading men and woman have taken of the officialdom of that organisation are far more anxious to thought of what comes to the people in exchange for these rake in the shekels for themselves than they are anxious to enormous profits. That million dollars will leave in its trail rake in business for the state, No man is worth anything to a horde of habitual drunkards hastening to dishonored graves, a community if he is more eager to get money out of the state and another host of youth in training for their places. It will than he is to find ways and means to get money into the state leave countless ruined homes, thousands of broken hearts and especially so when he is doubly and trebly paid to do the Utter many dire tragedies. It will leave to many struggling wives thing. There an intereete whieh are draining Utah dry. e despair that men know not of and memories that will haunt The poet Cowper wrote as follows about plans. Life withtheir future. It will leave to hosts of children erueltiea and out a plan As useless aa the moment it began. Serves merely abuses, want and lack of decent clothing. The trail will lead as a soil for diaeontent to thrive in." People plan their lives, right through', the flood of a million tears. It will mean their homes, their estates. The publie plans its great build lost manhood, lost virtue, lost deeeney and loss of the aeantity and projects. Corporations plsn their campaigns. Bu of hundreds of homes. It will keep back progress and hamper ings for the government to plan the economy that affects the lives honest business. li will cover the fair state with a blanket of would be too bed and intolerable according shame. But alas, because it ia big money, profits, increase, of 180,000100, From now on no nation investment, it is endured and embraced end tolerated. Just to the sticklers for the status quo. does unless it wisely plan its economy. how long will the good Christian people of Utah consent to wiO sueeeed such a means of bartering away the bodies and immortal souls Father Flanagan, of Boy's Town, Nebraska, in our opinion, of their son and daughters? one of the best and greatest men in the nation, has been in HIGHE8T California this week carrying on an investigation of the Stats THE NOTE L. D. S. conference School for Boys at Whittier, and makiag recommendations One of the highest notes at the reOent he Human when said: nature can for its welfare. When they were showing him the spaeioua was struck by Pres.MoKay world will be grounds and the buildings erected st a cost of 92,500,000, he be must or the Human nature changed change. Yes, brother, human nature can remarked, lam interested in boys, not in buildings or officialdrowned in its own blood be changed, it ean even be changed to divine nature. True, dom." What a noble sentiment. For years Californians have it bae not changed in thousands of years, but thst ia because was done in providing ail these fine exterthe system which denies its right to change has not been changed felt that their duty iors and let it go at that. Little attention was paid to the boys one iota. within until there came to light some of the worst cruelties and barbarities imaginable, resulting in at least two death. ScarWILL GREECE PERISH? was paid to the immortal souls of the many It looks like little Greece will be conquered end possibly an. cely anyNoattention as that of Father Flanagan ever influence such boys uihilated after making the gallant stand that she has. The entered Instead of this great man having now. until the halls ruthless enemies may crush her to the dust but they can nevto beg for funds his country should take him over and make er blot out her illustrious history nor dim her past glory and an institution of him for the benefit of its youth. the memory of the immortal souls she produced. In a period Poor little girls the romantic slickers tried to fool. Simple of about two hundred years she attained to more intellectual maidens used to have a monopoly on getting taken and artistic culture than has been attained by her present countrysmooth line of talk, but six recent court cases show a in by enemies in all their history. In that period she produced they're now getting stiff competition from their sophisticated has lines various in and see tnir their whose men genius about two doien (and sorry) city sisters. Read about their plight historiorators, or in before statesmen, since, never been equaled pictures And next ans, sculptors, dramatists, architects and philosophers. Homer TheAmerican Weekly the maaiine distributed with two she this before poets, produced period week's LOS ANGELES EXAMINER. long years the man and Sappho the woman, who stand as perfection in But what does all poetry, unsurpassed and unaproachable. the Glory that was Greece mean to the conquerors? Nothing. world-chao- s. life-givi- SOME FINE THOUGHTS Editor Progressive Opinion. adThe great educator, Horace Man was once making an which dress with reference to some institution just erected, of his in course of the and the boys, saving had for its purpose remarks hesaid, that if only one boy was saved b the means it would be worth all the outlay. not color that A gentleman asked him afterwards if he did Wouldnot that be a great he. Ssid rather hlgl ly. statement answer in made Man Horace one save boy?" to do deal to just BOY! MY Not if it was his own grave forcible style. the school, the ehurch the be home, it whether No agency, in the saving of or the parent, ban do any too much to assist the boy, or the girl either, to some father or mother. Every ruined lad is MY BOY" there is no sadder sight than to And in all human experiences down the line to reformsent homes from good mere boys see and eome in contact offences committed, for atories or prisons, so often with hardened criminals, and endure the brutslitiee dundark d solitary an tortures, starvings, imposed. Beatings and redeemed s single soul, geons, have never DeQer,ganeI PLEA SEN. WHEELER MAKE8 POWERFUL a made addrees Lake Salt his in Sen. Wheeler, U. S. nice for peace and a strong csss against the forceful. But was It very confliet. the in present involved were Nye he if president, may we inform him that were the cabinet and eon-I- PrUj encivilization of ours is to magaand then papers dure, zines that print the TRUTH must also survive, ft N. Lund has demonstrated that mu asu o p,,b3 91.50 PER YEAR vice-pre- s., M th They conot thwt Sotke.im.rto. oat. wll but Destiny dieposefj the pluof Destiny. They propom Doorways to the Dawn Above the Horizons of Hate Looms the Promise If thou wouldst right the world, ' And banish all its evils and its woes, Make its wild places bloom And its drear deserts blossom as the rose, THEN RIGHT THYSELF. If thou wouldst cure the world Of its long sickness, of its war and pain, Bring in all-heali- ng joy, And give to all its people peace again, THEN CURE THYSELF. |