Show The Mormons Answer to the Hippies A group of oC delegates at a national stood on the steps of Salt Salt Lake City's Hotel utah waiting for the aIr air- airport port limousine As they loiter eU en there a group of DO O or more Mormon mIssionary train ees cut clean look jog ing and metIculOusly groomed in nark suits and ties WIth their lIttle blacK books of sCrIpture in their hands filed by on onUte Ute tae way to their nearby quart ers NOW THERE is a sight Ill I'll Venture you never saw before belore sata one bystander to hIS corn com What Is this a college glee club or somethIng I 1 do not know replied the theother theother other observer but it lOOKS to tome tome me like the Mormons answer to the and hipPIes Could very well be W nue the and hIppies by theIr un appearance recal recal- recalcitrant and annoYing dIsturbances protest the world society seeking to snap the theban bands ban of intellectual and socIal convention these Mormon youth more than annual ly between theIr first year of college ollege and the military servIce devote two years at their own expense to I gating the gospel of peace vI tue faith and lIve as by Jesus Christ THE MORMON missionary system is a spiritual peace corps of unequalled influence change the lives of oC thousands of people throughout the world each year from cold worldly indIfference even bitter op posItion to humble awn SIOn and deep devotion to the I principles of truth and salva Uon these young men and woo wo- women men operate on the thesis he who loseth his life for my sake shall find it iL Matthew 1089 They live the gospel they breathe it they think it they live it Their reward It It comes comes from seeing what the gospel does for people They can argue against a passage oi of scripture but not against a life A Ayoung Ayoung young family recently was about to break Up because e the I wIfe was a slovenly housekeep er spent her time reading trashy literature smoking an and television g her husband a and d children TWO YOUNG lady les ies called one day aroused her interest and taught her her to keep a neat house cook and sew and gave gospel the stU study y lessons Now as a devoted and enthusiastic member of the Church joy and happiness abound in her orderly house house- household hold as she serves her family and the Church Through an interpreter a mis asked an aged gentle man in Holland what the gospel meant to hIm and he replied Sir its it's my life and has been for 5 58 years It is everything 1 cherish cherish A YOUNG man of ten years membership said I 1 bless the day when a lovely young women men told me she would not marry me except for time and eternity in a Mormon temple And he added I thank her for fora fora a whole new life A business executive in Ger many called upon in a meeting to tell what the gospel meant to him said I think I can say it best if I tell you I 1 am actual ly only five years yeal's old It does not seem that I lived at all un til I received the gospel from two very devoted and alive asive youn young missionaries AND A Samoan lad of only three months membership said Nobody ever could have told me that anything could do for forme forme me what this gospel has done already While the gospel is doing all this for people it is blessing the missionaries as well They would are arc a devoted lot who would rather teach the gospel than do anything else in the world because they an see as the late Apostle Adam S Bennion observed how it humbles a aman aman man motivates sus sustains redeems redeems and exalts him THE MORMON missionary as the convention delegate sug is the answer to the and hippie He joins in protest against the worlds world's ills but offers by precept the example positive workable plans for action |