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Show Work Is a Blessing , Pres. Tanner Emphasizes blessing and men and women hae a responsibility to toil with their best efforts in causes for which there is no monetary pay. Work is a President N. Eldon Tanner of the First Presidency said this Wednesday, May 5, as he addressed a Utah Conference on Volunteerism in the Salt Palace. Volunteer: -- a is rooted in unselfishness and love for others, lie said. America and the world today need to put out their hands more to help rather than for a handout." that the Bicentennial year is an appropriate time 1o recall that this country was established and maintained and flourished through the efforts of volunteers. He spoke of Paul Revere, who was a volunteer the night he made his famous ride to warn his neighbors that British soldiers were coming. The concerned citizens he reached also ventured out that night ol their own free will and without pay because they cared about freedom, Tiesidcnt Tanner said. He noted The fight for freedom continues in 1976, 200 years after the Declaration of Independence, he said. "Our enemy today is not redcoats. But today there are red flagt warning us of enemies which are in many ways more formidable than the redcoats. He named these enemies growing dishonesty in government, in business, in labor and personal lives, growing permissiveness and apathy towards government. There is the enemy of softness, he continued, the forgetting by too many people that work is a blessing. There is no better way to promote love in the world than for citizens of a community to band together in time of crisis, or to rally to the assistance of someone in need, President Tanner said. If everyone were involved in his own community in projects to help make that community a haven where peace and love for one another w'ere expressed and practiced, what a different world this would be! He continued, As our youth practice these lofty principles and get in the habit of performing voluntary service, it will do much to increase their pride in the community, which in turn could virtually eliminate vandalism as they learn to appreciate the accomplishments and works of their own labor. Urging all citizens to become involved in local and national government processes, President Tanner said, Our state legislatures, our Congress, are going to enact better laws if high minded citizens get involved. He admonished Church members to participate in local political mass meetings and to support and vote for the candidates of their choice. Volunteerism is a continuing process, he said. May 1976 be a year for rededication to the cause of America, to the building of better, more wholesome communities, better districts, better states and a better country. America has great promise. It is a land with a divine destiny, but to achieve it will take faith and works. Let us rise to our needs. Let us start now toward a greater building of America and of the world. Old Homes To Be Dedicated lrigham Youngs winter home in St. George, Utah, and Jacob Hamblins home in neuiby Santa Clara will be dedicated as Church visitors centers Saturday, May 29. Elder L. Tom Perry of the Council of the Twelve will preside at the dedication, with services beginning at 1:30 p.m. in the St. George Tabernacle, then moving briefly to each of the two homes for a dedicatory prayer and tour. The public is invited. The pioneer homes were acquired by the Church in 1974 from Utah in a property exchange in which the Church relinguished title to the Brigham Young Forest Farm Home in Salt Lake City. Both pioneer homes were open from April until August of 1975 before being closed for renov ation and repair. Following the dedication, the two homes, as well as the St. George Temple Visitors Center, will be open daily from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Couples provide free guide services for visitors. Also on the program for the dedication of the homes will be George S. Ilaslam, coordinator of visitors centers for the Church; Pres. Ernest Eberhard Jr. of the Utah Salt Lake City Mission; and Donald Ellsworth, director of the St George Visitors Center. Music will be provided by a combined choir from the St. George Utah, St. George Utah East, Enterprise Utah and Hurricane Utah stakes. IiOcal chairman lor the events is Melvin Truman Bowler of St. George, president of the St. George Utah East Stake and chairman of the Area Public Communications Council. The spacious, modified colonial style of the Brigham Young winter home illustrates the New England origins of the second Church president, known as the Mormon colonizer. The home adobe bricks black volcano between 1X69 from nearby Trumbull. was built of laid on a foundation of rock from nearby hills and 1874. Timber came Pine Valley and Mt. sun-bake- d Brigham Young moved into the home Dec. 15. 1873, even though it was not completed. He avoided the rigors of Salt Lake City winters by living in the home in the area described as Utahs Brigham Young's winter home in St. was built in modified colonial style. Dixie. He also supervised constniction of the St. George Temple. An olfiee building was built adjacent to the home in 1876. The Jacob Hamblin home in Santa Clara was built in 1863. The pioneer missionary lived there until about 1869. An austere structure, the home is located just off U.S. 91 at the west entrance to Santa Clara. It is built of red sandstone quarried from nearby hills w ith hand hewn cedar shingles obtained from trees in Pine Valley. The main floor has two lied rooms and a dining room; upstairs is a single, long childrens room. Jacob Hamblin gained fame as the He was apostle to the Indians. 1854 in with missionaries other assigned to establish a southern Utah Indian mission. Renovation and repairs of the homes vzere completed by the Churchs Department of Physical Facilities with direction and assistance from Florence S. Jacobsen, Church curator. Jacob Hamblin's adobe brick is in Santa Clara in southern Utah. George, Utah, Recollections of Jacob Hamblin DOWNEY, CALIF. Amarilla Hamblin laze, the last of Jacob Hamblins children, discussed her famous father in an interview w ith, the Deseret News, shortly before her 92nd birthday May 4. Hamblin, a distinguished Indian missionary, was sent to Southern Utah in 1854 by President Brigham Young. He established settlements in Santa Clara, Washington County, and in 24 Arizona and New Mexico. Hamblin claimed that early in his life, when he was about to shoot an Indian, an inspiration came to him: If you do not shed the blood of an Indian, not one of them shall ever have pow er to shed yours. Later many Indians were to say of him, Jacob never lied. Hamblin moved from Kanab, Kane County, to Arizona in 1878, and in 182, moved to New Mexico. At the time of my fathers death in 1886, we were living in Pleasanton, N.M. I w as only two years old at the time, so I do not remember him at all, Sister Lee said. But I remember my mother sajing he was buried by strangers because most in the town were sick with thills and fever. He was buried on a bend of the Frisco River, she said. After Ins moved with her young death. Sister e family to Alpine, Ariz. years later, when Hamblins in danger of being w' ashed was grave away, fathers youngest brother, Frederick, brought his remains to Alpine. Sister Lee grew up in that town and , Continued on page 1 Two WEEK ENDING MAY 1 5, 1 976 CHURCH 3 . . |
