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Show T .'2 Church Department THE DESERET NEWS, SATURDAY, AUGUST 23, 1941 Antl JJuman le(igion arc,k brethren to good works in looking Achievement A High Form Of Service after the needy. Tonight may be the time for you to make a new resoive.You have not adequately prepared for - a defense against depression until'you have eninto the protered gram of production and distribution under the Welfare Plan. AGAINST SOCIAL ENMITY We have been making a war . against social enmity.- - Just because a - ward may not need its fast offering has been no excuse for cessation of a drive'for more Fast Offerings. The need or production of commodities for your surplus may be found in a neigh- boring stake or region and you have ;been asked to contribute, to. the limit - of a given" assignment Someof the wards ranking highest in the Church are those who have no need of this r assistance in their own community. I am wondering if you have the full meaning of that to break down the enmity between rich and poor, and unemployed. I question whether a man who sits down to a meal composed of commodities that have been sent in by the various sections of the Church can think very much wrong of the men and women who have made such foods possible-anthe men of wealth who have aided materially In producing these' things. If men and women think of ' the foods and other .commodities they are helping to produce and consider where they are going and the good they will do, I question whether these Church members can look very long with disfavor upon those who are thus supplied. In this plan, both the giver and the receiver are brought closer together in a common bond. Quoting from the official statement of the First Presidency, given at April Conference, 1936, "No pains must be spared to wipe out all feeling of diffidence, embarrassment .or shame on the part of those receiving relief. The ward must be one great family of equals. Do you have a feeling that those who are being assisted are a drag upon youf ward or your stake? Have you made them feel that if they are willing to work they are still as good as the man who has a large mansion to live in? Or do you say: I thank God I am not like those people. If you have not entered fully into the program designated to bring war against social enmity then you are pot fully doing your duty.fe In this way only may we be one, and the Lord has said, If ye are not one ye are not mine.- (Section 38:27) This is an ideal toward which the Welfare Plan strives. You have found many men and women of means' working side by side with the man in need. There a growing spirit of fraternalism between these two groups. When the man who is down and out, who has whole-heartedl- . . repareA By Elder Bryant S. spect, inspire confidence in ourselves and in mankind; souls that can lead us to strong and noble endeavor, and hold us steadfastly at our best this is one of the basic ' needs of the world. In some degree each of us can give this help. . All people in whose hearts the spirit of the Gospel bhrns can give it To give people things, may leave them much as they were before, but to have personality to bestow, radiant, triumphant personal-,-; ity hot only changes circumstances, ' but it changes people. ' Victorious -- spirits have about them a stimulating, inspiring atmosphere that we need. They can help us," and help others to do better, to feel better, toad better. There are many examples of this service, but the Savior of mankind was the supreme example in all the wrorld. To cite one" case, Luke 24:32: , And they said one to another, Did not our hearts burn within us while he talked with us by the way, while he opened to us the Hinckley HE final tragedy in human life is not In .financial poverty or physical discomfort, but rather In discouragement loss of hope, lack of People become crippled in the very center of their lives and lose their interest in things and In mankind.. 'They become discouraged, disheartened, hopeless, beaten In spirit and soul. This may come about through failure, disappoint--" ment, trouble, and sin.- - What these people need i the restoration of of hope.of the vitalizing power of a settled faith in God, the assurance that they are 61 value and worth in the world. To supply this need is the richest gift that one can bestow. It is a broad and bold statement to make, but it is nevertheless trug, that what they need, and what each of us needs more than., we need almost anything else, is contact with souls who great souls, can recreate faith, restore self-r. 7 self-respe- iie Continued From Page One . ; released to find their way back into normal pursuits. There are, and have been thinking men who are pointing to a day when near chaotic conditions may come unless God in His mercy shall turn them aside from us. The seeds of these near chaotic conditions and bitterness are in our midst, resultss ing in a loss of material goods and ignorance rather than in a production of those things that will result in good. to our own "com' ' munity. 7" If I have overstated will you supply the conservatism you think nec- essary. If I have understated the problem will you supply the pluses that will complete the picture? are -- to Tonight-w- e Plan in view Welfare The of these conditions that now exist A PROGRAM OF PRESERV ATION A few weeks ago, with a companion I was traveling toward Price, Utah. We saw a number of men with equipment.engaged in work along the through-selfishne- - - t, high-powere- d - , . e over the top and I trust you have in new places of beauty are being estab- your hearts and your hands the am- lished by those who volunteer their munition necessary to wage a success- labor or by those who are in need of ful battle. Some of you may not like assistance. ' my comparing the Welfare Plan to a 7 The Deseret Industries, the Deseret war but we are in a war against idle Clothing, the Liberty Soap Products ness, against depression, a war against and the manufacturing of cement and social enmity and to establish brothercinder blocks are all work projects of hood and fraternalism among the a nature. Then, D. & R. G My companof the Church.? been developed Region, Stake membership ion explained to me that the D. & R In that statement I have come to and Ward and quorum projects to pro- G. had been designated by the gov- - find that President McKay gpoke as a duce commodities required to meet the ernment as a transportation line that prophet in a definition the like of annual Welfare Budget Assignments. was necessary to theDefense Program. which we had not had before. This Quorum.fund projects have been enIt was pointed out that in order to has truly been a program from the couraged where quorums have been pull heavier loads at greater speeds to outset against idleness and depression asked to produce over their assignmeet the requirements of a national and social enmity and to promote fra- ment to add to their quorum funds. crisis, the railroad company had found ternalism in the Church. There are quorum personalized proj, It necessary to widen the ects to help some individuaL There AGAINST IDLENESS put in new rails, new ties and more been rehabilitation projects to ashave What have we done in the Welfare ballast and thus be prepared for any members. -- An educational sist worthy Plan to make war against idleness? emergency. There has been required a survey of program has. been carried forward in Will you think of what the Church all families in of. the which every person in the Church has every is doing and has done, as the "widen- Church, Green cards have been pro- been urged to refrain from trying to , the supplying of vided on which it is for nothing and the ing of our expected to tab- get something new rails and ties and ballast so that ulate the essential information so that teaching stressed that the idler shall when a crisis may come we, too, may the Ward Welfare Committee in every not eat the. bread or wear the clothes pull heavier loads with increased could be acquainted with every of the laborer." All these activities - speed to meet the needs of emergen- ward have been directed against the enemy, family In the ward and also know cy, and a crisis, if it may come, to soihething of the economic status of idleness. If, in your stakes, you have not followed that program during the the membershipYof this Church. . each family. Let me all your attention, to a last five years, you have not yet proThere have been some misunderto the point where you are passage qf scripture which should be with regard to this survey, gressedto take the standings of theme to next step. the tonights ready appropriate but there will come out to you within .. AGAINST DEPRESSION meeting. I refer to the 4th, 5th, and the next week or Iso, or perhaps in the Let us see what we have done to 6th verses of Section 115 of the Doc-- ' --which. next new month, pamphlets strike against the enemy of depression. trine and Covenants ' We have "beenThiriklng Inthis'Wel-far- e For thus shall my Church of Instructions and will Plan of the' needs of the entire ed in the last days, even "the Church Handbook Saints. make it clear that before the Ward Church 'that each stake would dcr all of Jesus Christ of Latter-daWelfare Committee can proceed intelit could to meet its own problem and Verily I say unto you all, Arise and must make, a complete sur- shine forth, that thy light may be a ligently it exchange surpluses with the Test of vey of all families on the cards pro- the Church and there would come' to ' standard for the nations. ' vided for this purpose. " "And that the each " storehouse, the commodities gathering together ter the function In order properly, 7 needed that have been raised and pro upon the land of Zion, and upon her know ducedelsewhere. If we have ' done slakes, may be for a defense and for Ward Welfare Committee mustmateri-wrath these things, if all else shall fail, we the storm, andfrom what Its problems are and the a efuge-from solve to has with which the probshall not starve but we shall have a when it shall be poured out aJJ.t without. mixture upon the whole lems. This Ward Welfare Commlttee- measure of .. security despite the " . and the Stake Welfare'Committee are earth. tempests that may rage in that day. the only committees called to We have also established a system DEFENSE PROGRAM" of storehouse operation. Over sevenWhat is the Defense Program so nate the wojrk of the Priesthood Quorumthat of the Relief Society ty of these storehouses have been esfar as the Lord is concerned? It is the s-with and the fo meet this issue: tablished, of which this Is the largest, Bishop gathering together of the Saints into on the front and all- are designed to make war workers are These the remind I need not Zion. stakes of of battle. ..line and is a stake what against that thing called depression. organization you A stake is comIn this program against idleness Now, in our storehouses we have of its posed of Priesthood Quorums, .the Re- ydu were told to promote work activit- found it far more difficult to distributelief Society organization, and the aux- ies." A labor clause was inserted in than it is to produce. We have redisappoint iliary organizations a group of. work- all building contracts for the erection lied on, and have not ers prepared for whatever might be of Church buildings in which it was ed In the help of the Relief Society , necessary to advance the Interests of required that all labor should be pro- organization in this matter. "Sister Lyvided through the work directors from man and her Relief Society Workers, the Church temporally or spiritually. About five years ago the first meet- the; unemployed of the community as they go out this year over all the where the work was to be done. This Church in their Relief Society Convening of this kind was held in the Granwere There Tabernacle labor, with the exception of some men tions, will carry some definite and ite Stake about 500 people assembled in that for the supervision, should be from carefully worked out Instructions the ranks of those needing assistance. something a little more tangible and meeting. President David me" recall Beautification plans have gone for- a little more effective towards the acLet the addressed meeting his words. As he 6tood up he said: ward as referred to before, under the complishment of their responsibility Brothers and sisters, you are 1 the direction of the Presiding Bishops Of- in assisting Ward Bishops in the care front trenches 'qglghi ready to go fice. AH up' and dpwn this Church, , of the needy: They are to provoke the' consider-the-proble- m: . there-'hav- right-of-wa- road-beds- d -- road-beds- j naihiAhe . y ' -- -r- ... co-or- . - sub-divisio- len y e has-bee- beenmadetQfeelthekindnesa.0f the man who has and the other has found that beneath a rough shirt there is a Rian with a Jheart,ofpuregoldLwe. have found true fraternalism. And so has grown the spirit of true brother-.-hoocIn these welfare activities the profit motive the chief reason for between the employer and the employed, the rich and the poor has L. -- ss -- been wiped out. The time will come when we may all find it necessary to work on projects and when an order : on the Bishops Storehouse will be more prized than a hundred dollar bilL To break down social enmity is one ' of the objectives toward which this program Is striving. If you have not been willing to divide of your surplus fast offerings and other things to break" down that barrier then today FRATERNALISM J WhatIMOTE is fraternalism? A brother- . ly relationship characterized by sympathy and affection. That is what this program was designed to foster. You have said to your ward committee and priesthood quorum members: "This man whom we are now assisting through the Welfare Plan is a ' brother, and it becomes your task from this point to aid that brother to event- - Continued On Page Three . I |