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Show uvc SCWewS EDITORIAL PAGE The Value principles and it is rooted in human nature. Dr. Henry Link, the clinical psychologist, says that, contrary to the behaviorist theory that high moral standards mean repression, frustration, nervous illness and unhappiness, most people with high ideals are better adjusted to life than the swingers. "Another psychiatrist, Dr. Edward It. Pinckney, is bitter. I hopt, he has written, that the world will return to the belief in love, ideals, good taste and courtesy books that have been burned by the Freudian inquisition. "Dr. O. Hobart Mowrer, former president of the American Assn., Psychological writes: We have good reason to believe that psychopathology, instead of stemming from inexpressed sex and hostility, comes rather from an outraged conscience and a violated sense of human decency and responsibility. Lloyd .Jones, nationally known columnist, recently wrote a so pertinent to a present need that wo reproduce a good part of it in thi editorial. Jenkin He strikes at the permissiveness of presenlife which has berated high standards and encouraged behavioral patterns which now have led to our great breakdown in chai actor He then says 'MORALITY MAKES SENSE." To quote him further: nonsense "An era of may be corning to an end in America just in the nick of time. As our crime rates rocket and the level of civil commotion, and general misbehavior rises like a tidal bore, a number of psychiatrists and psychologists are coming around to a new appreciation of a very old idea t-day drug-takin- g "ONE INTERESTING contrast is the diffeience in the effectiveness of the Alcoholics Anonymous program on problem drinkers as compared to psychotherapy. AA has a highly moralistic approach that wastes little time in worrying how the alcoholic became one or in clucking sympathetically over his plights. It permits the member to cough up his guilt and concentrate on the "MORALITY makes sense. "It also has a lot to do with mental health and happiness. "For a long time American psychiatry social sciences' have been and the with theories of supFreudian prempied libidos. wounded sex chives and pressed From this it was often argued that people were really not responsible for and that only after exhaustive analyses of their psyches could they be straightened out. "But Dr. Abraham Maslow has recognized that the effort to excuse the errant and to comfort the unruly isnt paying off. He has laid down the following precepts: "Behavioral science which ignores moral decisions is grossly inadequate. and approval "MAX NEEDS from others, and he usually has an innate bias in favor of freedom, justice and achievement. "There is a scientific basis for moral so-call- anti-soci- self-respe- al f Morals re business. new the Synanon, program for drug addicts based on AA theories, claims that more than half of its members are cured by cure rate as against a methods." other by Even before the days of Moses at Mount Sinai, the Lord laid down the moral law, and to Moses He reiterated it. To us in this day again He has defined it. P is part of the restoration of the Gospel. The moral law is divine. It cannot be replaced, nor can it be abolished by Freud or any other psychologist. When God speaks, we should listen and obey. cr self-hel- p ct From Weakness To Strength Excerpfs from an add ess bv Elder Marfman Rector Jr , at General Conference, Aprit 1970 IIow can fallen luitnan nature he changed from evil to good? Basically, this must be the most important question confronting mankind. All other questions pale into insignificance when compared to this one, because man cannot be saved in his sins. And yet there are those who say, 'You can't change human nature. This claim is frequently and flippantly made. Of course it is false, for if you can't change human nature you cannot improve man intellectually, morally or spiritually. All per-- s o n a 1 advancement involves changing an inferior nature to a better one, or weaknesses into strengths. Dr. Edward L. Thornan eminent educator, defines education as the process of making useful changes in human lives. President David O. McKay taught this in 194.) when he said, Human nature will have to be changed on an enormous scale in the future or the world will he drowned in its own dike, blood." On the one hand, man wants to keep the commandments of God and sene his fellow man; on the other, he can't forget what he wants to do for himself. He wants to pay his tithing, but he keeps thinking about what he could buy for himself with the money. If he stops considering what he could buy with the Lord's money, the temptations will cease m exist. If WFEK ENDING AUGUST 29, 190 he stops feeding tire evil desire it dies But what usually happens is that he feeds the evil desire just enough to keep it alive, so he keeps himself in constant turmoil. I presume that each of us lias certain weaknesses that keep us from being as spiritually in tune as we would like to be. You are no doubt familiar with the way we kneel each day and ask the Lord to forgive us of our weaknesses and imperfections." We call them weaknesses I don't know why we dont call them what they are. Of course we are really asking the Lord to forgive us of our sins. But somehow, we dont like to associate ourselves will; sin. so we call them ZION'S CAMP A Mean Spirit Saturday, May 17. the weather was hot and Ihe long hike that day, 3d miles, had wearied the men, making some of them cross and irritable. One such was Sylvester Smith. At Portage, the Prophet Joseph Smith had given him a dog to guard his tent, but the animal had not pleased Sylvester and he and some of the men :n his company were for killing it, but others objected Ttie Prophet was called to decide the matter. Sylvester was severely reproved bv ttie Prophet, who disclosed to him that he Ivd the same spirit as he dog, or even worse. But Sylvester was stubborn, notwithstanding Ihe reasonings and reproofs of the Prophet. If that dog bites me I will kill him, said Sv Roster Smith. If you do, I will whip you," warned Joseph Smith. When Sylvester replied that he would defend himself, the Prophet answered that he would do it in the name of the Lord. Then Joseph turned to the men gathered and asked if they were not ashamed of such a spirit in the camp. I am, he declared and went on to explain that he had conducted himself in such manner as to demonstrate how mean and ugly thir spirit had been. Finding a rebellious spirit in Sylvester Smith and to some extent in otbe-s- , I told them they would meet with misfortunes difficulties, and hindiaoies. and said, and you will know it before you leave this plate, " Ihe Prophet predicted. The next morning, Sunday, almost every horse in the camp was so badly foundered "that we could scarcely lend 'hem a hv rods to the water,'' the Prophet noted in his journal. The brethren then deeply realized the effects of discord. When I learned the fact, I exclaimed to the brethren, that all those who would humble themselves before t he Lord should know that the hand of God was in this misfortune, and their horses should he restored to health immediately. And by noon it was done. The horses were as nimble as ever except one belonging to Sylvester Smith, which died. The lesson was dramatic, and a particularly hard one for Sylvester. Yet, as future events were to prove, a lesson that was not fully learned: The Lord will have a united and humule people or He will scourge them until they become so. . (Another . in a Series) |