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Show COMMUNITY LEADERS FROM SEVERAL STATES THRONG LEADERSHIP CLASS ROOMS Long before the initial hour of 9:30 a. m. on Monday morning-,. . students of Leadership Week began to arrive at the Brigham Young university, and with each hour the number num-ber grew until the halls were filled and then crowded. They came from all walks and stations in life, and all ages were represented. rep-resented. Their interests were varid, each lecturer having his group of intrested listeners. The little kiddies came with their parents, and Miss Alma MacElrath and her corps of assistants had their hands full in entertaining them. But the children soon adjusted ad-justed themselves to their surroundings sur-roundings and busied themselves at the sandtable or with dolls, blocks, and kiddie kars, while the babies reposed snugly in their baby carriages car-riages or in the arms of their temporary tem-porary mammas. At the five sections conducted during the first hour of the Leadership Leader-ship course there were 43G persons present. The largest number in attendance at-tendance was in the recreational section where there were 125. In the social section 98 attended, community com-munity planning 63, vocational guidance SO, and scout leaders 70. The attendance increased during the second period from 436 to 13G9, or an increase of about 933. ethical systems without this consideration, con-sideration, but not religion; second, sec-ond, religion concerns man's relationship rela-tionship to his fellowman; and third, religion involves man in his ewn personal achievement, or in other words, a man's rise to his own divinity. To Latter-day Saints the Bible is not only a book that deals with ; man's relationship to his Maker, but it is a source book. The finest springs of character development are those that go back to God's dealings with man. The great prophets of the Old Testament lead you back to the presence of God. The New Testament in the life of the Savior does likewise. "I do not know whether you are a modernist, or a fundamentalist," said Superintendent Bennion, "but the issue seems to narrow itself down to this : Is the record given in the New Testament a record of events or is it a myth? 1 "The second great consideration is the relationship of man to his fellowman. The first issue between man and his fellowman was the unfortunate un-fortunate event of Cain and Abel. There is a little of Cain and a little of Abel in all of us." |