. Te Karere . mily, I extendmy thanks for helping to make mewhat I am. During the succeeding years I foundthe temptations of Satan all aroundme and, had it not been for the teach-ings in my home, I. too, would haveStrayed off the straight and narrowpath, as many of our own boys havedone. Life in the services offers manytemptations to those who seek :vice as a eareer. as the visiting of hotels, visiting of harems; and so 1 exhort the mothers and fathers I iteach your sons in the home to steerthem away from the temptations oftin- outside world in order that theymay live the Gospel to the fullest
. Te Karere . mily, I extendmy thanks for helping to make mewhat I am. During the succeeding years I foundthe temptations of Satan all aroundme and, had it not been for the teach-ings in my home, I. too, would haveStrayed off the straight and narrowpath, as many of our own boys havedone. Life in the services offers manytemptations to those who seek :vice as a eareer. as the visiting of hotels, visiting of harems; and so 1 exhort the mothers and fathers I iteach your sons in the home to steerthem away from the temptations oftin- outside world in order that theymay live the Gospel to the fullest andhonour tin- Priesthood which they holdwherever they might be. I was ordained an elder at the aceof 2] under the bands of Pn Young. February, 1952, arrived and 1 left again on a visil t > another land of which I knew little Iwas 45 miles from Melbourne, thenearest branch of the Church,gave Hi. great i\ and happii (Continued on Page 11) January, 1955 SPOKEN WORDS FROM ZION By PRESIDENT J. REUBEN CLARK MY BRETHREN: It is always*? -H a thrill to meet with this greatbody of Priesthood, and every time Imeet with you I am afflicted with thedread that we are not exercising thepower for righteousness that belongsto us. No one can estimate the powerand the influence that we might wield,no one can estimate the amount ofgood we might do if we were united,and no one can estimate the amountof good we are not doing, because weare not united as we should be, unitedin faith, united in action, believing thesame things, suporting our leaders,ward, stake, Priesthood, and all therest. What we could no if we wouldbut exercise the powers of the Priest-hood which we have. And I return again to a thought thatI have expresed, I think, every time Ihave been here in the last twentyyears, that we cannot trifle with thePriesthood. It is not something thatwe can take off as we wish, and puton when we get ready. It is somethingthat is with us all the time, until welose it through transgression, an
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