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Show Church Edition THE DESERET NEWS, SATURDAY, AUGUST 29; 1942 Radio Digest dan lAJe, 5lines, ! v 3n Dh a YlJtilnlain Standard " or Yoralitij from the informal round-tabl- e discussion, on the question of moral standards, presented on the Church Sunday Evening Hour" over KSL,' August 23, 1942. Participating were Antone K. Romney director of relations of the Utah State Department of Education; T. Edgar Lyon, director of the L. D. S. Institute in conpection with the University of Utah; and Gordon B. Hinckley, secretary of the Church Radio Committee. Jr 1 S out the influences that are needed to create high standards of morality. There is no 'substitute for the teaching on morality that comes from a mother to her fclyld. Too many today are guilty of gross negli- gehce 'in their failure to teach their children the fundamental reasons for maintaining personal purity. They seem to assume that the school and" the Church will do it, but both of these institutions combined cannot be as effective in this teaching as parents who have the' confidence Sf their chil- - Excefpts school-communi- 97 9 I f per-ent- s ty , - dren. of personal purity is as old as humanity itself ,and yet perhaps at no time in ourhisloiy lias there been greater need) for forthright discussion and applied inspiraas at no tion and wisdom. other time wide is the gatee and broad is the vs ay, that leadeth THE problem 1 Beyond the teaching of parents is emphasis which the Church gives. The question of jjnoral standards goes over and beyond those things which we' as individuals may think or determine within our own mind- - Prophets and teachers under divine inspuation have set up and in terpreted those standards which are The spirit of our time is one of $ vjtal for thn preservation of personal vntue and mhievement. People who questioning old methods of doing standards of and accepted know all the theory of moral probthings long conduct. The warning voice of scnp-turlems aie soni'tujies themselves lax is largely unknown and goes unin moral tmdards because they have heeded, and too often the experience not received the conviction or had of generations is held in contempt. th' in piijtn.n stress made in their lives to accept the fact that' there Many thoughtful people, observant men of broad vision in all walks of nui't lie practical application of the life. vievV with alarm the apparent theory. Knowledge of ideals must be tendency in our times to fling aside intensified by personal conviction of their worth. personal virtue the spintual s tole-.struetio- e - , The tendency towaid immorality has been greatly accelerated by the present maladjustment in our social conditions. The bov in the Army and the defense worker who has left home and Iveen brought into a larg city fil'd themselves free from the con-- , trols or influence of the homeTie Church and the communitv Liken is the yojjng people left at home find themselves in an unbalanced social atmosphere. In both situations lie teriiptation to lower standa'icK is m Our young peonle today face situations similar to that faced liv After he had been in Egypt honored and richly rew aided, there came thtUgreatest test of his life the temptation to immorality. It was h,s intelligence, and more particularly, his faith, which enabled hint to hold to his .standards. h In broad measure the will to he clean in the face- of temptation must be grounded on something deeper than textbook vvhvs and wherefores. It is a thing of the heart and the spirit that grove's out of the atmosphere of the home the example and precept of parents and the instruction of teachers impfifflng divine law, leading to an unquestioning conviction that the only sure path to happiness, to health, and to the respect of self and others is the path Ojf personal virtue The problem il serious and the task is heavy; but rich is the reward thereof, .for to quote a modern writ- ing. How glorious and near to the angels is youth that is clean. . . . Sexual purity is youths most precious 'possession: it is the foundation of all to parapinjise an righteousness, nd ancient prophet, I, the Lord, uelight in chastitv: and impurity is an abomination before me, saith the Lord of t c - reased. Commander Gene Tunney of the United States Naval Reserve makes a strong plea for morality in the number of the Readers Digest. He pointed out the fact that there has been an enormous increase in venereal diseases among the service men since tlm rapid expansion of our armed fore's Ho states that at present venclcal dis mso is responsible for more bout's lo.t from Army duty than He then goes on ' s any other to com lu Continence is the only m undefiled spint . guarant ' ' Onlv bv si i continence . . . can of the United soldiers ami h os wholly fit for States kv- - i h Au-.gu- a their "j-a- d.utw Fortunptelv ,nur educators and ptrblic rno-'- i 'd lenders are awake The Utah neeij for qi tion State Denari m mt of Education has appointed a "ire or 'of School com one of whose re munitv Relation encourage a sponsibilit ies of. all seiiool practices in The line with best moral principles superintendents nnd teafliers in the State of. Utah have accepted their in this matter and are work. This year commendable dedng the new certification requirement for teaching incliuIeTThe law on charac---fr- f ter education, 'and each teacher as he prepares hitrfself for his work in Utah will now see that he must be a teach-- . cr of good character. ' II' Is" do-th- 1 Can You Answer These? GO 1 In all too many cases the prime difficulty in this problem lies in the home. Children are often left with- t I I GRANT-ADAMSON- '. should like to get information ahqpt the ancestry of Thomas F.irns Grant, born IS June 1838. in Lanrioshire, Scotland. The Grant fatn liv were among the early settlers of Utah and Thomas Grant served in the Black On Oct. 19, 1861 hawk War in 1S57-S8- . he married Margret Adamson and settled in WellsviUe. Cache County, where 'they both (are buried His parents were Rob ert Grant an'd Susan Hamilton V. W. . ' GOT I should like to know who the other two wives Tta,,t'a!-R',H''-as bom 'vere- He 23 Dec. 1810;' in Leek. Staffordshire. England. His father was Thomas Bullock, and his mother was Mary Hall.He married on 23 Jan. IS 16, Nauvoo, Hancock Co.. Illinois, Lucv Caroline Clayton, horn 21 Mar 1S20, at Farrington, Lane , England. She wa the daughter of Thomas Clayton and Ann Crtiehley (or Chriti-low- . Their children werg. Mary Ann -- BULLOCK-CIiAYTON- . k - Joseph IJvrum, Sarah Jane, Flora Eve, Lucv Caroline, and 'Hebrjohn. R. C. . The new bishopric of the Sandy First Ward, named at a reorganization meeting last Sunday under the direction of Pres. Stanley A. Rasmussen of the New Mt. Jordan Stake are, left to right, first row, Isaac L. Sorenson, Bishop, and Ncphi M. Larson, first counselor; second row, William Heibert Bartlett, second gounsclor and Everett A. Kunz, ward clerk. YOUR NAME IS NEWS which arc recorded in the Endowment House records on 19 Jan. 18G1, and in I am desirous of oty pining any the Patriarchal Blessings on file in information" about Stephen Weeks the Church Historians office, Vol. 13, Ross, born, I Mar. 1812, at Newark, page 38, number tiO, Jane Stevenson X.' J.; md. to Jane Stevenson on 2 Mar. stated that she was born 3 Dec. 1820, 1837; died 9 Dec. 1819, Sewaik,N. J. Canada, daughter of Samuel Upper He and his family moved to Nauvoo, Stevenson and Saiah; baptized into Illinois, and'then returned to,Newark, the L D S. Church in 1810. X. J. Jane Stevenson came to Utah in 1851. I shall appreciate any data about '578 MCCALL Stephen Wyeks Ross and his wife, BROTHER CHACE: Jane Stevenson. M. C. (June 7, 1941) QEAR Some of my friends in Edin-hurg- li ANSWER: From I.ehi, Utah Mrs. for whom I have been making J C D. writes: Jane Stevenson was the second wdfe of my grandfather, some genealogical inquiries ask mo William Clark. She was born 5 Dec. to place tliis query in your depart1820, in Upper Canada, and. died 21 ment. Can soiiieoiie'suppIy the genealSept. 1893, I.ehi, Utah. ogical data about Robert McCall (or Grandfather Clark was horn 20 McKail, M Kell). AmongAheir father's July 1823, in England Within three days he lost his father, wife, and papers they had found an old letter from this Robert McCall stating that baby in St. Joseph, Missmui, while enroute to Utah in September, 1830. lie intended going to Salt Lake City. Later he met and .vein i sKlnne StevThis letter was dated 1851, and was enson Ross, .who .b the mother of written from Kanesville, Pottawattafive children, two of whom died in inmie Co., Iowa. The writer mentions fancy. She, with grandfather and her that he has brothers, John and James, t jjxee children came to Utah and made hut it is not clear whether thry were ' their home" in Lehi in 1832. in the United States or Scotland at the Seven children vv ere horn to them' time. K.C.K. (July 18, 1942) AN'SW Elk From II. J M , of SpanTheir eldest daughter-- , Emily Jane ish Fork. Ufah, the following letter Clark, was born 18 June 1853, and is was received: still living in Provo, Utah. Ollier children were William Wheeler Clark, Grandfather Me Kell changed his born 23 Apr. 1855; Martha Geneva name frm McKail to McKell. Robert Clark, born 24 Apr. 1857: Mary Ann McKell waS born 23 Feb. 1823, Ayer-shir- e, Clark, born 8 Mar 1859: Hanna Maria Scotland, of a famClark, born 3 June 1801; Juliaette ily of eleven Hevlis the son of John Clark, born 14 May 1803; Rosilla, burn McKail and Rabena Wilson. He had 3 Mar 1805. brothers and sisters Johnf James, Jane, My fathers sister, who is now 71 Mary, etc He had uncles by the naitie of David-- , James Hugh. etc. About 184? years old, said that she distinctly remembers that Jane Stevenson Ross he married a vv iduvv by the name of came from Newaik, N that at Moucur," whose maiden naipe was one time Grandfather and Jane StevHelen Shytock. He came to America enson Ross Clark paid a visit hack in in Jan. 1850 on the ship Argo;" setNew Jersey. tled in Pottawattamie Co., Iowa; farm"The three children -- of Stephen ed for about two years;-cam- e to Salt Weeks Ross ahd Jane Stevenson' were Lake City, Utah in 1852; moved to as follows: Edgar John Ross, born 13 Spanish Forjc, Utah in 1852. In 1856 Jan. IS 40, Newark, N. J; married to his wife Helen died. The same year, he Amanda' Malissa- - Norton. Shephen married Elizabeth Boyak. By trade he Weeks Ross, born 12 April 1813, Newwras a blacksmith; he was a veteran ark, N- J- Elizabeth JRoss who married of the Walker and Blackhawk Indian ' a Mr. Lamb." M ars. He died 8 June 1903, in Spanto her own statements ish Fork, Utah." According d - - ' |