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Show ... - , . , i ,.. .1 , .., , . .. Churchof,tthe Air - , ' ., -- 0 ''Choose Ye This. Day Whom .Ve,Will Serve' , - ' - , Addreu delivered by EiderAeGrimd giebards, RI Me Conseil of Tweiveover the ClitS2-C- h' tirskot the Air' program, Sesday, Ociober,,..5.495Z - --- i , - , t , V It ). I 1 A,, ' . N, 1 t - kl 1 ; ' k , i ''',. , I greet you this morning as one who for many years has been --- -come have face in 4 of t interested youth.-s, i - particularly thousands I of with to face land. the this young people great pf f,', 4 :,. have looked into their promising countenances, have grasped their - -' - iland! have shared their &can and ebvis idiom I love them and I feel concern' e , ''. come 10: feel et-thfor them. clergy t 1 that, more , than anything else, The 1Lord has never rescinded .....- i ' ,, they need to be taught faith- - in f 1 the commandment He to gave, 7 I t God and In His eternal princi- Israel of old through His great lc '.,.., , ; ' . a world In of live i f 1 ples; They Prophet Moses: '', . , t ' fr,..thanging standards and attiThou shalt not take the name tudes; but God has not changed, ( the Lord thy God in vain; - for Ile is the same yesterday, to-- of for the Lord will not hold him and foyer, and Ills princk ' that taketh Hit MIDI ' are hi-i- n guiltiest pies and commandments 44, vain. . -- -mutable. .i. (Exodus 20:7) ., And so today I should like to direct my remarks to the youth Have we as parents taught our ..... I of the land, and to all who lead children this great coinmandt , ....., o, at -the are crossroads, ment in that II sincerityoo I - thentThey - they . am:VT-speawith may have reason to feel- that , mind. in , their parents. believe that the happiness 4 , Jesus, the Great Teacher; In Lord meant 'what He said. It is , 't order to help men td choose the difficult to understand how a proper course of life, the road person may trulyapproach God , which would bring them eternal' in prayer, seeking a blessing at happiness, said: His hand, and at the same time , so disrespectful as to take His Enter ye in at the strait be name in vain. During the dark is for wide and the gate, gate; t of the Civil War, Lincoln tanionnawaseago.intammatiWilielimeorlsAIMINA I ASOlareabalh., broad is the way, that leadeth - days Issued and an to the Army ordsr to destruction, and many there fol- - N ARIZONA BROTHERS VISIT CONFERENCEAmong the unusual family groups to visit ' be Which go in, thereat: be, Navy which contained the ' conference are these four brothers from the Maricopa Stake, Mesa, Ariz., which include I, I cause strait is the gate and nar- lowing statement: "The discipline a stake president, two bishops and an elders quorum president Left to right they are, Bishop and of character the' National row is the way, which leadeth - WiMam G. Wright, Mesa Sixth Ward; Pres. L. Harold - Wright, Maricopa - State;- - LaVon Forces should not nor the suffer, unto life, and few there be cause be defend Wright, president Fourth Quorum of Elders and Bishop Bassett T. Wright of the Mesa imperiled they that find it - Eighth Ward. They are four of the six sons of former President Lorenzo Wright of the Sab-of the the bf profanation 7:1344): (Matthew bath Day or the name of the Maricopa Stake. The other two sons stayed at home to look after the lamily's extensive business interests. To every Individual comes the Most High? told-th- at We-- IJ his le went "so responsiblityofchoosing--far as to admonish a certain gen-- touched with great sympathy for odus 20:14): And the Savior put and thousands Of way; the wide and broad way, that leadeth to destruction or eral, who was addicted to the them and their families. , You His stamp of approval upon this the land like her I compare habit--o- fprolanityr-te-ebandothink of factors which - eommandmentand added: Ye 'them with Joseph who was sold -- -of the should like to the habit himself and to use his brought them to this status. YOu have beard that irwas said by into-- Egypt by hit brothers and unto life-,a- nd, . and authority to discourage it among think of bughted-13ope- s and os- -' them of old time, Thou shalt not who-latbecame the- savior of add.'" ' b the soldiers." wonder unto commit You if but I father's , his Orations. say perhaps family. Potiphar's happinesLi adultery 1 Profanity is incompatible with their parents set them along this you, Ithat vmosover looketh on a wife tried repeatedly to seduce Three Problems I With this in mind, I call at-- reverence. Surely at this critical path by reason of a bad example. woman to. lust after her bath him, but as he resisted her and 7 t of many prob- time In our nation's history, As you look at a man helpless, committed adultery .with her al- fled from her he said: "How can I tention when we need the sustaining no longer master of himself, you ready in hit bead. do and this sin wickedness great . our are with which , lems youth of God, we should see that think of the man who induced against God?" (Genisis 39:9). ; (Matthew 5:22-28)- . faced. The first I mention is the help we offend Him not by reason of him to take his first drink. 4 In the light ofsuch a statei 'How glorious is he who lives growing practice , of profanity. our language. I appeal to our : The Lord has made it clear ment, surely. no Christian can the :haste life. He walks unfear- t Our young people are particu' larly susceptible to it, During the young people everywhere to hold that our bodies are the taber- - feel that chastity is otitmoded. l' i 4 ful In the full glare of noonday of nacle of our spirits. We cannot An American prophet, Alma, sun, for he is without moral in- , war many communications were In reverence the sacred name acabuse and offend the body with taught his son Corianton that firmity. He can be reached by received from men in the Armed Deity, that they may walk ', before the Lord and out offending our Creator. To adultery was "most abominable no shafts of base calumny for Forces containing alarming state- ceptably should that there come a time our young people I should like to above all asin s save it be the his armour is Witti011talaW. His ments such as this: their-liv- es when they need say that we live in a time when shedding of innocent blood or virtue cannot be challenged by , I have been amazed, astonished In Ills sustaining they may go competition, Whether in war or denying the Holy Ghost.' That any,,just accuser, for he lives help at some of the and disgusted I and in peace,- demands olear mind wickedness never was happiness above, reproach. His cheek is g tollim with have seen 4'7-thintI t call Him with faith that upon hearts.--Ibecomes and that no unclean thing can never blotched with shame, for the six- weeks' that I' have been He will -- and steady their hear plea.each Of us to refrain from those inherit the kingdom of God. he Is with)3ut hidden sin. He is with- Uncle Sam. I never ex- 7' Ilse of Alcohol , substances which In any ,way Ia pecte to hear the swearing and happy to represent a peo- honored and respected by all manvile Italk that I have heard, not I now pass to a second problem might- - Impair our abilities or ple who have taught such from kind, for he is beyond their cep ' I Christian country. confronting our youth, and that which might place us in a posi-l the beginning of our history. We sot. He is loved by the Lord, for in a Where have the parents been to is the indiscriminate and intem- tion where we no longer would are striving to teach our chil- he stands without blemish. The let a generation grow up --so perate use of alcoholic beverages. feel that we were on the Lord's dren, as our parents have taught exaltations of eternities ' A short time ago I was asked to morally wrong?. us, that there is no double stand- his coming." (Message 'et 1 And to this question might be speak Ito the Inmates of a state ard of morality and virtue in the First Presidency, October, and Virtue . Chastity. , added: Where have the teachers penitentiary. At the close of the of so And He I with that the God; sight youth,. expects mention to plead have time I tonly ' been, and have we meeting quite a number re-- one other matter and-'1 of our youth do so every man to protect his virtue, keep yourselves clean.-Virtue- .' s I1 .' ,.., todiscuss their matped problems with concern in my heart for and that of every woman, even may, be old fashioned,- - but it is with me, I was invited to re-- our young people. I speak of though it might cost him his life the foundation onywhich great turn to the Alcoholics virtue and chastity. It is encour- so to do. To the boys of Our characters,, and 'great families, and talk . . ' Anonymous group: I listened to aging to find men and women in Church, upon, entering the and great nations are established, the stories of some of this group. all walks of life who are serious- Armed Forces and leaving their and without it decay is inevitable. I .,, , The leader,, a comparatively ly disturbed about our moral homes, the presidency of the . I hare some fear that we. the . ..,,, 'I 1t young man, said something like standardsI state my cue with Church leaders of the in . people, i Ispiritual :-unthis: 1 t" a quotation from the, "Woman's "Better dead clean than alive Our interpretation of the word of . I "I thank God for the privilege Home the Lord with respect to the , le: . 4., Companion" of Septem- clean." 1 , 4 ot being In this institution." I ber, 1949, under the heading "Is .,. to Choosez.L., great principles of repentance I was . , surprised at what be said, Chastity Outmoded?", ' - a doctor and forgiveness of sin, have so 1 4 t last the war,During -, ,, s, , but he went on to explain: "Be, the of fop - avout emphasized sex principle we talk service from will; "Today whe,was returning i fore I came here I was no good . unembarrassed frankness that in the Islands of the Pacific, said giveness that an attitude of com, 4 ''. ' to myself,' to my- - famill, or my an have-filled our grandpar-- , to Mr "in the islands everyone placency . is growing among us would -I was Just no goodf tount17.ents with amazement and horror. lets his hair down." Then he based on the assumption that if 1I - period, But now I Inve hope This new liberty of speech has added,-"b- ut there was a young we sin a little we may be forgiven . that when I leave here I wilt be its . - on our to loss. without I go In way commubehavior. nurse in from there counterpart your I. worth something to somebody." ! traditional re- nity whom no man could touch. am inclined to believe that we Can you imagine, a Mtn hav- many circles the I straints in set conduct are con- She said,!I left my home ,clean are in need of placing greater n ing followed the "broad! road so Sidered abstinence from ale.. emphasis-oi and! am going to return-the-wa- y stpffy and out far that he could thank God for modern peo- I left." It was her faith In God, and less on forgiveness, for God. say Chastity, t the privilege. of being behind t I and her respect for the teachings has not abrogated the law that' ple, is outmoded." k he t that in bars the hope prison . so "as shall Ye ,sovt t of ye Church her and reap." that parents People may have changed their might be able to extripate him' Resist 'Temptation , not ,gave her the courage to ctoose , self, and again be able to plant thinking, but , God has "the narrow and way, eternal. are His laws straight nar-And changed. so, in conclusion, I shouldi his feet on "the straight and , like to urge our youth 'as they row way which leadeth unto If we will sav our civilization, which leadeth unto life." 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