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Show THE DESERET NEWS. SATURDAY. A fLCL We NOVEMBER Church Edition 28. 1942 Ml Si "LEAD. KINDLY LIGHT" "S , Song suggested by the Church Music Committee to be sung during January, 1943 WORDS BY is full of gentleness, doubt, courage, and faith. He was born in London, February 21, 1801. His father Light, JOHN HENRY NEWMAN changes in stake and were reported by authorities ward Church officials who attended quarterly conferences last Saturday and rHE following Sunday: SNOWFLAKE STAKE Elder Leon Hall was set apart as second counselor in the bishopric of the Winslow Ward. Elder Melvin Gardner was set apart as second counselor in the bishopric of the Woodruff Ward. Elder Horace Hansen 'was set apart as a member of the stake high council and as chairman of the stake genealogical committee. Elder William H. Lewis was set as second counselor in the bish--- . apart , pric of the Showlow Ward. set was Elder Charles E. Johnson apart as first counselor and Ross Wells as second counselor in the bishopric of the Lakeside Ward. Elder Earl Bushman was ordained bishop of the Joseph City Ward with Ezra Jardine Shumway as second counselor. ' Elder Joseph F. Merrill of the Council of the Twelve officiated. MUSIC BY DR. JOHN B. DYKES NOTES BY GEORGE D. PYPER Lead, kindly Light, amid th encirc-lin- g gloom, ' Lead Thou me on! The night is dark, and I am far from Twelve, .officiated. ' - -- home Lead Thou me on! Keep Thou my feet; I do not ask to see The distant scene one step enough for me.' o 4 not ever thus, nor prayed that Thou Shouldst lead me on; I loved to choose and see my path; but now Lead .Thou me on! I loved the garish day, and, spite of fears, ... Pride-ruled my will; remember not past years! I was y - -- -- long thy power hath blest me, sure it still will lead me on, -Oer moor and fen, oer crag and torrent, till The night is gone, t And with the' moon those angel faces smile. Which I have loved long since, and lost awhile. So THE AUTHOR of John Henry- Newman, life THE Lead, Kindly the author of - FRANKLIN STAKE Elder Warren Maurice Tingey was ordained bishop of the Weston Ward with Elder Clive Edgar Beal as first counselor and Merlin Surin Bastian Elder Joseph as 'second counselor. Fielding' Smith of the Council of the was a banker and his mother a descendant of the Huguenots. A s a child he was timid and like many other boys had a superstitious fear of being left alone in the dark. At the early age of seven he entered a private school; at eight he read Scotts stories in bed at early, dawn; at eleven he wrote a drama. and at fourteen a burlesque opera. Music was a part of the Newman family life. He played the violin-celland could follow the melody of a complicated symphony. At an early age the spirit of disputation was displayed in his publication of papers called 'The Spy and the Anti-Speach written against the other. He was converted to the English Church at fifteen, and later wrote, I am still more certain of it than that I have hands and feet He entered Trinity College, at Oxford, December 14, 1816, and is said to have been shy, quiet unattractive,' with a timid face in which two eyes blinked behind silver rimmed spectacles Newman became At twenty-eigh- t vicar of St Marys, the University Church at Oxford, and preached for fifteen years. Students flocked to hear him, among whom were Gladstone and Froude. Gladstone afterwards said: .His sermons were always read and his eyes were always bent on the book. But take the man as a whole there was a stamp and seal upon him; there was a solemn sweetness and music in his tone; there was a completeness in figure, taken together with the Building From Within', IRAl. that are transpiring in the world. In MARKHAM THESE are the times that previous wars evil deeds were done. Atrocities were committed. But the average person did not hear of them try mens souls. These famous words uttered by Thomas Paine during the Revolutionary War are significant & Elder H. Theron Jacobs was ordained bishop of the Declo Ward with Elder Burdell Taylor Curtis as first counselor and Elder Clarence Leroy Banner as second counselor. Elder Charles Le Roy Gamer was ordained bishop of the Pella Ward with Elder Clayne Young Adams as second counselor. Elder Sidney Alme Larsen waff ordained bishop of the Burley Third Ward with Elder Jesse Roy Nelson 4 ' '. as second counselor. Elder- Cyrus Nathaniel .Yeaman was set apart as first counselor and Elder Lyman Lenor Martindale as second counselor in the bishopric of the Burley Second Ward. .Bishop Marvin O. Ashton of the - Presiding Bishopric officiated. ONEIDA STAKE Elder Ernest W. Carter was ordained bishop of the Winder Ward wrth Carl A.Eennett'as first lor, John N. Follett was second counselor and J. Leo Palmer as ward clerk. Elders Orson Kafood and Edwin A. Crockett were set apart as members of the stake high council. Elder Joseph Fielding Smith of the Council of the Twelve officiated. Aug.. 11, 1890. THE HYMN It is extremely interesting to read of the unrest, spiritually, among the people of- England and America during the first half of the nineteenth century. In England, the Oxford movement stirred the souls of men. In America the cry of lo here and lo - there caused must excitement and disquiet among tlje people. And in the midst of the great unrest a - new prophet appeared on the religious horizon. The true Gospel was restored, and in 1830 the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-daSaints was organized. The unrest, doubt, uncertainty of the religious world were the birth pains of the old religion born again. It was during this befuddled period that John Henry Newman, on June 16, 1833, wrote his immortal hymn while the orange boat in which he took passage was becalmed on the open sea. The hymn was the outcome of a mind tortured with doubt The first stanza is a longing for home a cry in the night a prayer for light That last line, One step enough for me recalls an incident in the life of the father of the Prophet Joseph Smith. He was in serious trouble in Kirtland and could not see his way out of his difficulties. One night he dreamed that his path was obstructed by a huge wall. In despair, he was about to give up when he heard a voice' saying. Take one step He took the step and the wall moved aJittle. He took another and the wall receded ..another step. One step at a time he advanced until he. was in 'the open and the way made clear. That dream was experienced about the time, Lead, Kindly Light was written. ' The second stanza is a plea fpr forgiveness, a confession of a life. and pride-ruly BY now. BURLEY STAKE tone and manner, which made even his delivery singularly attractive. Froude likened him to. Julius Caesar, ' and Disraeli classed him the most re-markable religious teacher to have appeared in England for several centuries. In 1828 began what was termed4 the Oxford movement into which John Henry Newman was plunged and soon became its central figure. He finally insisted upon a recognition of 4 an unbroken connection between the primitive church and the church of England It was during this controversy that he, in December, 1832, took a vacation to Southern Europe. Along the beautiful Mediterranean coast he became spiritually disquieted The Liberal movement fretted him. He longed to get back to England to battle against religious indifference. He fell ill of a fever and when partly recovered took passage from Palermo, Sicily, for Marseilles. The ship was becalmed a whole week, in the straits of Bonifacio between Sardinia and Corsica and there ht sea, on June 16, 1833, he wrote Lead, Kindly Light. Upon his return to England, Newman, resuming his activity in the Liberal fight, gradually argued himself out of the Church of England and became a Catholic. He left Oxford in 1845, and journeyed to Rome, where he was ordained a priest with the degree of Doctor of Divinity. In 1854 he was appointed Rector of the Catholic University at Dublin, Ireland. In 1879, at the age of 78, he was created a Cardinal by Pope Leo XIII. He died in Birmingham, England, Mens souls are being tried. During the present national emergency our mode of living is being changed. Discomforts are being encountered. Inconveniences will have- - to be endured. Our sufferings and trials may shake us to the very foundations. But it is not the first time that mens souls have been tried. It probably will not be the last time. No matter what the hardships and tribulations of the present or immediate future may be, I defy anyone to prove that they are ora will be even as hard to endure as the hardships and trials that were faced and endured .by our grandfathers and grandmothers who were the early pioneers of the intermountain west Since Pearl Harbor there has been Even timid a change in attitude. souls who formerly shrank from the thought of war and death, now listen to war reports over the radio and read the headlines of destruction and disaster and inwardly rejoice when thousands of the enemy have been re; ported slain. It is the hardening process of war. Perhaps we need to become more eal- in time of war- - American peo- pie come from fightlng stock.- It is natural that they should soon revert to the state Of mini that their had when they fought for freedom. I sometimes wish we did not have the screeching radio and the screaming headlines, of newspapers to remind us every few minutes out of every waking hour of the tragedies xouhsu5ed one-.ha- lf - s often. Now as never before we need an inner defense. Although we may become calloused and hard from contact with the war we need a softening influence that will keep us soft and pliable. When an oyster encounters a foreign object or element that is disturbing, it immediately starts to protect itself by building from within. A substance is developed that completely surrounds the foreign object and what is known as a pearl is formed. The pearl that is formed within the oyster is a defense so perfect that the foreign object is completely excluded. We can well take a lesson from the oyster to protect us from outside .disturbing Influences- Our faith in the gospel of Jesus Christ is a pearl that can protect and save the soul.- -" In going about the daily tasks required of a member of the Church, it helps to take our minds from outside disturbing factors that cannot be helped much by worry anyway. It concentrates attention on the good, the beautiful a'nd the worth while. Our homes can be made a haven I loved fhe garish day, and, spite' for refuge against the storm expressof fears, ed so beautifully by Edna A. Pride ruled my will: remember not in her poem The Cloister. ' I past years Her house, so clean, so fragrant and .. so small; . This- - is "'anadmission of past Her garden bright with blossoms stir- but a confidence that God wrongs, red by wings. will forgive the penitent and blot out Made all the tragedies the newsboys ' their remembrance a verse that has call and comforted many a strugSeem meaningless, remote, Indiffer- - helped . Christian. gling ent things; . The third stanza is a note of Murders, shipwrecks, wars could not that the power that has guid- prevail Against her cloistered peace. (Continued on Page Eight) I d e Calla-mor'- e . - |