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Show uvc (2k EDITORIAL PAGE That Word Discipline in t vital element in our schools, colleges and universities. We must make some new commitment to disciplined learning, disciplined conduct and to disciplined thinking in education And then he said: It is discipline that makes us productive, affluent, strong, enlightened and free as a people. Take discipline away and you have decay, decline, anarchy and abandonment of truth The learned educator in these words .sued a warning to the world which should co unheeded iv Dr Bell made his thoughtful address at a mailing of the council of state school oil .cers in Atlanta But his discourse on discipline need not apply to education alone. Its principles are equally binding upon all other phases of human endeavor, and it certainly applies to religion That is why the Lord has told us to serve ; with all our might, mind and strength that we may Wand blameless before God at the bitt day Perfection never can come by imperfect means We either discipline ourselves in the Kingdom of God, or v, e do not enter. this permissive day, discipline has almost disappeared from among us. Dr. T. It. Bell, a Church member, and currently U.S. Commissioner of education, recently discussed this controv ersiul word discipline" and its meaning as it relates to education. Of course it is part and parcel of succe-.- s education, and without it there is precious little true instruction To attain in any line, we must apply ourselves to a specific program, adiiere to its requirements, comply with the rules, and work, a thing winch many have almost forgotten these days Said Dr. Bell. Most people almost immediatel.v tie the word discipline to punishment, control and restraint. But discipline m education means something else. It means commitment It memis standards and academic rigor It means mastery and acceptance of saeniice in the name of excellence. Discipline in education,' he said, involves learning which converts, molds, strengthens and strives to pertect the mdividuu! "We m ed to return to discipline in locum, n. We are drifting a way from this in ! 1 ' HISTORICAL VIGNETTES . On Beina Honest IbOH, George F. Richards, tne Council of the 12, attended the stake priesthood meeting of the Ensign Stake. Immediately after the roll call, a group of boys about deacon age left the meeting with a dash. It seemed to Elder Richards that the boys had been encouraged to come jus! to get their names on the roil in order to help the pi re i ntage.s In tils diary he records the talk he gave to the stake ih.u ev imng, when he took the opportunity to call attention to the action, and some principles of basic honesty He compared it with similar activities he had observed m (lie Sunday Schools of the Church at that time To (bum credit for attendance without actually ait eliding w as, In- said, on par with boarding a streetcar without being seen by the conduitor and riding without paying the tare On a Monday evening in then Who Can Be Saved? K ABK ALL DOPING for s illation, but bow many oi us are Wohno to pay the V once'' Salvation can nev or come by mere hopes or public expressions. Salvation e. of the Imurt it c omes of a rebh th o! the spii it :t comes oi a remodeling of our d..ily habits it comes only as we build into and traits of character ourselves Christ-likFor this reason we imot look not only to miv a! i.m by taitb but also bv works, reniembeiing th 4 faith without v.oiks is dead, James 2' What are some of these saving wotks-THEY ABE MANY. Ot comae we must n.y the gospel and believe it cod obey it We must pray. Wo mo 4 comply with the saving rdinunees of the Cnunh But what else Living the gospel mu-- t mobile proper relationships with other people The Laid gave us some potent rubs as He prescribed the Ten Commandment s They are certain : , em-toms- ; e -- i iv b.i'ic. ; ; ; CHURCH Such were united into His kingdom, but those who failed to thns help their neighbors wire expelled Worn the presence of the Lord. Can we see t that such acts of kindness are saving acts, that they are REQUIRED for our admittance to His kingdom ONE OF THE GREAT commandments is that we shah love our neighbors as ourselves It was expressed slightly dificr-tuflAll when the Lord saidlungs do to would should men that whatsoever ye 7 12 to Matt. do so thorn even ye you, h-- y - : Do we ever think that tins is a principle salvation' Or do we regard it merely as ' pretty rhetoric , It is basic us baptism or the of a-- i But He expanded them elsewhere For ehaptci o! example, can we read the Matthew without realizing that we are our !,i others keepers, and th.it we eannoi live a life? si I was an hungered and a gave me meat I w as thirsty and ye gave me drink was a stranger and ye took me in, naked and y e clothed me I was sick and ye visited " me; I was in prison and ye came unto me 16 CAN WE EVEK FORGET the Saviors wordsInasmuch as ye have done it unto roe oi the least oi these my brethren, ye have done it unto me S WEEK ENDING WARCI 27, 1976 1 esnrreelion do no! help our neighbor in need, can we say we are Christlike' And do we suppose we w.i! ever go with Him it we do not stnv e to be like Him' The Sermon on the Mount is tilled with saving principles which relate to our lellowmen Let us read them often and know that we cannot be counted among His !! we sheep old if we violate the rules oi the sheep-- a member o! We should, " he said, studiously avoid every thing Ibat end - to dopieciate in the minds ot the young the v 4 ue id the principle ot honesty and honor. He who is dishonest is dishonorable. To think of one selling his hoiioi on live i enls .the price of a streetcar ridel or to m ike ... 'bowing in percentage by any tint honorable means is .simd uiy dishonorable I l! is clear mm F.lder Richardss diary that he believed m using the appropriate moment to teach a lesson about b isle honesty and about the real purpose of meet mgs which is not, of course, to get a percentage on the mold hut to learn th- gospt message brought by the land's si rvalits to the meeting In Hie i ougi egatioti that evening were two of Elder 1!k Lards's sons George, who had recently returned Ironi d. ut u school in Chicago and had established a pr.ietKe m Salt Lake City, and l.oGtand, who had returned not too long before Irom the Netherlands Mission Loth oi hem thought Unit their lather did just right in saving wh,.r he did, lu.s diary adds. Thomas G. Alexander t prmj u tl Or the Church Historical Department ) |