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Show Pre' s. McKctits Conference Address e King . , CiM .t Catas rophe ,, , '' , Schools; and HI attended the M I A meetings. We commend you, sisters. Al, very:, definite program is carried out by the Avith MIA, for, getting Inactive 'girls' and in lxyinglo In the Mutual Itnhas interest them , text of tbs peal": co-- . (,,, feretscs adroit by Prelidens David O. McKay, Friday, Oct. lo'..tho ,$alt ,Loke, - -- 'Elder Joseph Anderson Just read, thefl vital statistical data; the changes in ward and stake organizations, and the obituaries of the Church. There are a few more items which might ,be mentiotied, in , - r,6ild. jr.'.Ch.0.-i- h which you will Probably be in. ch provement , In'Y MMIA during the past three years there has been an increase of 11,872 in ,enrollthent In the Scouting progrant:-Ac- cording to a report (we have this from Brother D. L Roberts, who is director of the Mormon relationshiPs-Ithe, Soy Scout and from Brother Elbert R. Curtis, General Superintendsnt), on Sunday evening, during the Jamboree at Los Angeles, July 19th, a great Convo, terested. The Church construction of class rooms and rtcreachapels, tiott halls continues without abatement, indeed, with acceleration. During the last pine months,. the Church hes spent cation was held. Attending were ossesiooakeinstakekArA Scouts, In missions, a and there were present 50,000 or $2,109,000.00 total of $7,677,000.00, or a total more visitors. During the Co'nto date this year, including local vocation great attention was funds contributed for this pur- paid to the churches of Amer' pose, in stakes, $10,3137,000.00, ica, and Ajigious training, and and in the missions, $2,704,- - our Church received favorable 000.00 a am:not reading,tbe attention-- . uz hippy full amount), or a total of $13,-- to see an ortanization such u - -- - , - -- This-made 041,000.00. Scouting make such- - favorable comments about the work that You already know about the Is being done for the young in dedication of two temple sites the Church.. , . in Europethe first in the his-- 1 I have notes before me emtorr of the Church -,- one at phasizing particularly what the Berne, Switzirland, ina another Primary Association Is doing for between London and Brighton,' our boys who are , now taking up preliminary England. - The construction of tem- Scout work; also commending ' pie in Los Angeles is the proceed- the high percentage Of attendIng satisfactorily. We wish to ance at Primary meetings, and commend the members of the the most excellent work that is Church in the Los Angeles Tern-- I being done .by the Primary . pie, District for their magnant Hospital. Pious contribution to this edi- Vnalcation Of Church School fice. As has already been an- System pounced, they volunteered to tontributt-over-a-millidotl Since our meeting of last April lars towards the construction there has been a unificatione of and conipletion of this edifice, the Church school system.-Wand their payments are prac- have had, heretofore, is you ticaity up to date. In addition know, a Church Board of Eduto giving this large cash contrt cation with a Commission prethe colleges, inbutiop - they recently volun- siding over teered to assist in the landscap- stitutes, and teminaries. Then . ling, and even now they are we had a Board of Trustees presiding over the Brigham Young planting shrubbery and getting trees so that at the time ' of University. TM's two great dedication of the Temple, the branches of education are now grounds will be properly and united under the direction of .,,,.. beautifully. landscaped. May the, Dr.trnest L Wilkinson, who is Lord bless these faithful people appointed Administrator of the and enable them to fulfill their Church Board of Education, in promise.in order that this edi.- addition to his presidency over . !ice may be completely paid for the Brigham Young University. by its dedication within a- year-- Here I wish to say a word of and a half or two years.-for the excellent , commendation .The plans already are drawn service rendered by Commisfor the temple in Switzerland, sioner Franklin L West. For and the architect and contractor sears he has devoted his entire are proceeding so that that edi- time to the advancement of the ' lice will be completed witffout institutes and seminaries' and -' ' ' - , , delay. colleges of the --Church. His Stake Missionary , , heart has been in the work..lie You will be interested to has expressed, and radiated, a know .that 'the stake mission- fervent testimony of the divinary work is meeting with un- ity of the Restored Gospel, and has been centered precedented results: 6,518 stake his heart -missionaries are now working upon the instructing of the within the organized stakes. Up youth in the fundamentals and to date there haveAbeell 3,441 Ideals st the Church of Jesus the conwho have accepted theOospel Christ. He retirerwith -through the efforts ' of these fidence and blessing of the stake missionaries, and the work Authorities of the Church. Under his direction there has Is continuing with unabated been seal. steady increase in the number enrelled in our insti, Youth Program tutes and seminaries. Last year We might mention, too, for enrolled 38,081 semthiretwere your' interest, thated the youth inary students,: 14,202 institute on program 'is being-tarri1,140 in the schools most ably. I shall not take time students, of the Pacific, to weary you with statistics, but ofr athe Islands of total 41,423; the Girls' Program, cover am glad to report to you that to 19, Ing all the girls from-1moving on with for August, 1953, there. were the Church- is and its influence 56,332 enrolled. We believe that great rapidity extended the being throughout be100 is of all the girls world. tween, those ages. The av-- 1 erage attendance of the girls at .Fassing of Two Authorities the three meetings for this: Since our last meeting. as atmonth, August, were as follows: reaey reported by Brother AnOf those young girls, 49 of derson, two members. of the 'them attended Sacrament Meet.' General Authorities have passed Inv; 59 attended the Sunday away: Elder A. E. Bowen, of temple 'Construction . It i ' - . - r r I on- i . r . - r , , -- - -- , I I , 'b 2 - - -- , CH Stiturday, 01ctober.10, 1953 the Council of the Twelve, and Elder Stayner Richards, Assistant to the iTweIve two stalwarts, clear In vision, sound in true judgment- - men--, loyal-anideals to their c8ll1ngs,-10-tand doctrines of the Church! We pay respect to their, mem- ory. May their acts and services during their lifetime to reverberate for good in the hearts not. only of all 'members of the Church, but of tall those outside of the Church 1who were fortunate enough to comer in, contact with these two great men. Commendation of Teachers and Church Groups I have mentioned, particularly the work of the Church among the youth, because'. the d he continue determined, as ' Goethe says, "upon the opinions of its young men under live and twenty." If that b true, to awaken in the minds of the youth of the achieve- - lifets land a desire-totruest values is to render the greatest of all great services to our country. With this &Ought In mind, I commend the teachers In our public schools, yip) under- present difficulties, are remaining Let true Ati us hope that they' wilflontinue to do so, and tot .go- - Off on a tangent vainly seeking redress - , - r.' pont-0141t- , le, , gravate,- a condition - already regrettable. We have confidence bl the teachers. They will be loyal to their profession, teaching the young to be loyal and true to our country, to love the best in life, rather than to seek that which leads td selfishness. ' ' i ,, ' , , 't , Limimme,,-11miww- In Unions, Which will only ag- ' 1 t e OPENS CONFERENCEPresident David O. McKay steps to the pulpsit to open the 124th semiannual conference of the Church and to deliver his opening address. Below the rostrum are seen five members of the Council of, the Twelve. Reading left to right they are: Elders Spencer W. Kimball, Ezra Taft Benson, Mark E. Petersen, Matthew Cowley and Henry D. Moyle. A part of the choir is seen in the background. 7 towards Rome, was met by this of the spirit- - We are witnessing question "Quo Vadisr (Whither either the crumbling of 'civilizagoest thou?). Were that ques- tion under the weight of its mation put to people today, many terial ,mechanism or the birth pessimists would answer that we are headed for catastrophe, of a new organization with a If not total destruction. One spiritual ideal." Oswald Spendler thinks, and has already said of Europe has so written, that, "This ma'On the whole, during many chine technics to the generations, there has been a ,torld) will end(referring with the Faustgradual decay of religioul -- fluence in European civilizaQ- ian, civilization and one day om-- Each - revival touches a I Will lie in fragments, forgotten lower peak than Its predecessor, -- our railways and steamships and each period of darkness, a as dead as the Roman roads and lower depth. The average curve the Chinese Wall, our giant marks a steady fall in religious eitiei and skyscrapers in ruins tone. Religion is tending to de- like old Memphis and Babylon. The history of this technics is generate Into a decent formula a to its inevitable wherewith to embellish-com- fast, draWing ' close. eaten uto from be will It fortable life. within likixthe grand forms of "Russia officially sanctions Irany and every culture. When, religion, and approves a system and in what fashion, we know of sex relations lower than any not." Catastrophe With this in mind, I should sanctioned: by the lowest AfriThese references indicate like to give the following mes- can tribe.-some men are thinking "The paleolithic savages so Ivhat condiabout the present-da- y sage, feeling as I do this morn- far as we know had no such and Where such Conditiops tions, ing, the potency, and divinity of practices." (Man's Social Des- are leading. Whether you ac- the Gospel of Jesui Christ With all my soul I feel this morning tiny, p. 23.) eept them as true, or not, we What Men Think must face the tact that we are that there is truly "none other name- - under heaven given And Hayden, writes as fol-- in a changing world: and that among men, whereby we must lows: "Today, as never before, the destruction of present-da- y be, saved." I cannot see how mankind is seeking social bet. civilization la . a possibility,- men can doubt that. terment. Today, as seldom if Something Better When I was a boy, there hung ever before, human society is brothers and sisters, the But, above the pulpit Jo the chapel threatened with disintegration. Lord In Huntsville a picture of Presi- if not cohiplete chaos. All ,the store has something better in for his children than dent John Taylor. Under it in evils of human relation-destruction. Nations may pieta gold letters were these words: ships, 'Injustice, selfishness. be born, live, flourish - for a "THE KINGDOM OP GOD OR abuse of Strength, become sin- and through internal cor- later - and terrible when reen- - time, og other causes, die or ruption In childhood I gave little if forced by the vast increase of be but the human destroyed; any thought' to its implication, material power. The soul' of and the nor In youth did I try to com- - man rowePratarved and fear' race will continue, established. of God Kingdom NI. In the midst of a civillza-- , 'Behold," said Daniel, "one prehend Its significance. This morning, with world con- - tion grown too complex for any like the Son of Man came with ditions in mindinternational mind to visualize or to contra the clouds ofsheaven, and came and and enmitiesthreat- Joy suspicion beatity fade from hu- In the Ancient of Days. . clouda---"man- 's in- - man living. Yet life, abundant, enftwar to him was there given man," and other beauteous, laughing life, has dominion, and humanity. and a king- g discouraging aspects of human beeff our, labor's end. dom.,' that all glory, nations, relationships, I am inclined Ao What other conceivable worth and languages, people., serve should paraphrase that motto to read: ha the mastery of the material him his dominion in an ever "The Kingdom of God or Catas- world,; the exploitation of the 'dominion, which:shall , resources of nature and ths cre- lasting trophe." ass awe y, and his kingdom not us that ation Tradition tells Peter, a ofwealthexcept---a- s when on the Appian Way going basis for the release of the life See IMES. IlleNAY, rage 3 This morning I want, also, commend the Presiding Bishopric, the Bishops of the Wards, the Presidencies of the Aaronic Priesthood Quorums, for their efforts to bring 14nto activity all the boys between the ages of 12 and 19, and what is equally commendable, they. are reaching out to incorporate in this great spiritual uplift those who are classified, as the "senior members of the , Aaronic Priesthood," a group of potential power for great good, not only in the Church, but in the world, many of them' leading business men and professional men' I commend you, brethren, for organizing these able men nto groups that'their influence may be felt for good. The Kingdom of God or to -- ' r coin-ancie- nt ' age-lon- , ; 4 - , , |