Show SAGE SUNDAY SCHOOL two and one half minute talk given by betty tolman Tol nian our bodies have been given to us by our beav heavenly enly father we believe that when we were in the spirit world wo were very anxious indeed and it was a great privilege for us to come to use our bodies only to do good we should take care of them and not spoil thern them by using things that will harm them sixteen years ago dr adams S dennion bennion while speaking at the primary june convention told this story five weeks ago there was hanged in the tha san quenton prison in california an old schoolmate of mine a young man with whom I 1 went to the university of utah through several years a young man who comes from a family that you and I 1 might be proud to claim as our parentage a young man who vh had served a mission for his church six weeks ago I 1 read in the newspaper that the he was to be executed and I 1 took occasion to write one of the hardest leter let er I 1 have ever had to write I 1 told him that if he took offense ale almy rily inquiry he might ignore it but that if lie he did DO ca I 1 wished he would answer a question I 1 told him it was my good privilege to go up and down this and other scenes talking to young men man and women I 1 told him that as I 1 faced these groups I 1 would be gild glad to have hini him talk tor for rc ner n er I 1 said if you could talk to these young men and womer women who ars are facing the problems that you and I 1 faced while we were at the university of utah what would you tell them and he was good enough to write arile me thi this 9 letter he said if i I 1 could talk to those boys and girls I 1 would say three aree things first fill your minds so rull full of truth that wrong can find no place on the program of your lives ha said it after he had laid a foundation because he said preceding it it is a scientific fact if you fill a vessel full you cannot add to it that is true tru 2 whether it is a pitcher of water a glass 0 of f water wate r or a pan of mik fill Fil billit lit it and you cannot add to it on the basis of chait though he said fill your minds so full of truth that wrong can find no place in the program of your lives in the he second place he said I 1 would tell them to shun tobacco as the greater curse imposed by wron wrong upon mankind and I 1 fancied as I 1 read that thai line I 1 could see into his life the whole panorama of his experience from the time when against parental advice he slip plied out with those companions ne ought not to have bave been with and had that first cigarette I 1 fancied I 1 could see him following in the line of that cigarette to ea the places that it always leads to I 1 fancied it was in the smoke of the cigarette that he was led to san quentin in the third place he said preserve your honor to use his own words your virtue because virtue is not only the chief motive to achievement it is the very foundation of life |