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Show CfMS Of THOUGHT EDITORIAL Call To Arms PAGE Obligates LDS Manhood Excerpts from an address by Elder Boyd K. Packer at one session of General Conference of the Church held in April l')6S. The (Prophet I Chron. 12:32. "Men that had understanding of the times, to know what Israel ought to do is a gem verse in what appears at first to be rather a barren field. Here men of the tribe of Issachar were true prophets, because they were men of prophetic insight. It takes no prophet to tell men what they want to do. But it takes wisdom and courage to tell them what they ought to do. Back of the "ought must lie the knowledge. We have many men of deep commercial insight, and a few men of deep political insight, telling the people what they ought to do. We do not have so many men of deep moral insight. THE MOST desperate need of the world in all ages has been for man of prophetic wisdom, who could translate the writing of the hand upon the wall. , No century and no decade has been without its prophetic signs. Cur ' lack was that we were often without men to interpret them. Master, we would see a sign from Thee, was the insistent demand of those too blind t' read the signs themselves. They could read the weather with fair accuracy, but they could not read anything in the life . and words of Jesus. . THE SIGN WHICH He gave them, the sign of Jonas, of the Resurrection, of the living Christ, they were powe dess to interpret. We need not more signs, but more spiritual vision to read the signs. Have we, then, no moral insight to observe the drift of national life in other countries as well as our own ? Do we not see how surely certain moral causes produce certain moral results, whatever the nation or the age? ARE WE TOO blind to see that God is still on His throne, and that no injustice or wrong escapes His eye, no cry of hate or sorrow escapes ' A message of the First Presidency dated April the 6th, 1942, states: The Church is, and must be "... ... -- His . , .. . ear? .... the call to military one must suspend many things dear and sacred. Such service requires a severence hopefully a temporary one from intimate and sacred tics that bind a young man to his family and from those relationships to which young manhood is so very responsive. Interruption comes likewise to schooling and lifes work is delayed. And, as alv'ays, it carries with it the threat of jeopardy to life and limb. A man answering the call now is not left in total comfort that all will sustain him. There have emerged in our society groups composed mostly of restless unchallenged young people. In the name of peace and love and brotherhood, they criticize those who, obedient to the laws of the land, have answered the call to military duty. To answer service While you see the danger, do you also see the cure? II. P. II. Christian Jlerakl . it cannot r' raid war against war as a righteous means of settling inter- national disputes; these should and could be settied the nations agree-- ing by peaceful negotiations and adjustments. . "But the Church membership are citizens or subjects of sovereignties over v, Inch the Church has no control. The Lord himself has told us to befriend that law which is the constitutional law of the land: . . . when, therefore, constitutional law, obedient to these principles, calls the manhood of the Church into the armed service of any country to which they owe alletheir highest civic . duty giance, requires that they meet that call. "If, harkening to that call and obeying those in command over them, they shall take the lives of those who fight against them, that will not make of them murderers, nor subject them to the penalty that God has prescribed for those who kill . . . THIS WEEK IN CHURCH HISTORY: Prophet Predicts Move To Rockies "Dont drink too freely of this ice water, brethren, too much of it can be bad for you in this heat, cautioned the Prophet Joseph Smith as he sipped the clear, cold liquid from a tin cup. The Frophet and several other leading men of Nauvoo were standing around a barrel of ice water under a bowery on the shady side of the Montrose school house. They were waiting for Judge James Adams, deputy grand master of Illinois, and Patriarch Hyrum Smith, a high official in the Nauvoo lodge, to complete their instructions inside the school house to the new master of the Rising Pea Lodge, Ancient Yori Masons. It was hot on that Aug. 6, 1842 in Montrose, Iowa. The conversation turned to the Missouri persecutions and to problems of the Church in Illinois. -Breathing a sigh of satisfaction as he drank the Iasi swallow from the cup, the Prophet remarked, "This water tastes much like the crystal streams that are running from the snow capped Rocky Mountains. He predicted that the troubles of the Church would increase in Illinois, to the point that the saints would have to take refuge in the Rocky Mountains where they would become a mighty people. Nodding toward his friend Anson Call who had stood by him steadfastly since the trying times in Kirtland, Ohio, the Prophet declared, "There is Anson. He shall go and shall assist in building up cities from one end of the country to the other. Anson did not have to wait long to see the fulfilment of that prophecy. Three years later, he was riding wi.h a Hancock County sheriffs posse trying to protect Mormon O WEEK ENDING JUNE 29, 1963 hemes and farms against mob destruction after the murder of Joseph and Hyrum Smith. He saw the homes oi his own father and brother burned to the ground. He moved them and their families to his house in Nauvoo, where they stayed until they could move west. Before starting on the long trek, Anson took his wife Mary to the temple he and his brethren had worked so hard to complete. She had not yet recovered from severe complications resulting from the birth of her son Hyrum. Anson carried her in his arms from room to room so they could receive their endowments and be sealed for time and eternity. On the way across Iowa, their baby died. "He was buried near Cedar Creek near Wesley Cains sawmill on the south side of the mill about 50 rods from it by the side of an oak tree. We wrote hs name upon the tree, Anson recorded. After their arrival in the Valley of Hie Great Salt Lake the Calls moved a few miles narth of the main settlement where Anson was appointed to preside over what was known as the North Kanyon Ward. Bv 1852, just 10 years after Joseph Smiths prophesy was made, Anson had helped settle Fa rowan where he had been justice of the peace and bishop of a ward, and Fillmore, where he had boon probate judge, stake president and representative in the Territorial Legislature. Later, he pioneered Calls Foil near what Ls now Brigham City in northern Utah; assisted in the establishment of a settlement in Carson Valley, now In Nevada, and founded Calls Landing, intended as a river port on the Colorado. Anson woiked on the construction of the transcontinental railroad through Utah, arranged the groundbreaking service for the Bountiful Tabernacle wliich still ls a landmark, served in the Davis Stake Presidency, was a moving force in many business and community enterprises and reared a large family. He died Aug. 31, 18y0 at the Arnold Irvine age of 80. Sourco Latter-da- Call, Saint Ouono D , "Anion Call And Hit Contributions YU thesis, Colonisation," Its. i Toward |