Charity

One of my favorite examples of (charity) is the subject of a forthcoming Hollywood movie called The Little Red Wagon.

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I Have to Get Out

On the night of January 30, 1945, Latter-day Saints Margarete Hellwig and her daughter Gudrun fought their way through the crowds that thronged the piers of the Baltic Sea port and secured passage on the Wilhelm Gustloff.

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Recommend For A Dollar

President (John) Taylor was standing by the east pulpit on the morning of (the Logan Temple) dedication, watching the hundreds of people filing into the assembly hall through the four doorways in the corners of the building

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Preaching to The Dead

President Marriner W. Merrill, the first president of Logan Temple, was a very spiritual man and took good care of affairs at the temple.

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An Interesting Visitor

President (Marriner Wood) Merrill was sitting in his office one morning (in the Logan Temple) in the early 1890’s when he heard a commotion outside. Stepping to the window

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The Fire

During (the) busy summer of 1871, a Portland minister called at Mr. Condon’s home accompanied by a representative of one of the great eastern colleges who wished to purchase the Geological Cabinet;

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Geared to The Tread of Oxen-II

You have asked me to write the story of that branch of the McCornack family which came west in pioneer days and include some personal reminiscences, either first or second hand.

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Balancing The Budget

Let’s play a little game: Let’s pretend that you readers are our elected federal leaders and you wish to do something about the deficit.

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Pinned To The Ground

Marriner Wood Merrill was working alone in North Mill Creek Canyon east of Salt Lake City in January 1856 hauling five large logs for houses.

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What’s Your Hurry?

One day in the mountains I came upon a sweet birch sapling apparently growing on a solid rock with only one slight depression, which had collected leaves that had turned to mold.

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Moved by Compassion

Brother Thamas, a thin elderly man, sat by himself, often some distance from the other members who gathered to greet each other at the beginning of our Sunday meetings. His was a small figure, humble in appearance

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Repentance

Repentance is the key, a gift, the way, and an opportunity.

Repentance Repentance
A gift, an opportunity, A matchless gift,
The key, and the way. The way back to God,
The ultimate opportunity

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The Tree of Life

To be sung to the tune of, “O Thou in Whose Presence”

Behold, in the field how the tree gives its light, (1 Ne. 8:9-10)
And bears fruit in every month; (Rev. 22:2)
The beauty thereof is a joy to the sight, (1 Ne. 11:8)

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A Creed For Life

“Do not ask for that which you ought not.” (D&C 8:10)
You ought not seek what should not be sought. (Jacob 4:14)
You ought not think what should not be thought. (Mosiah 4:30)

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Irony

Incongruities, I see,
Are what give us irony.
Results that were expected,
Differ from those exacted.

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Happiness

Forty years is a drop in the bucket of eternity.
It’s nothing at all in the cosmos,
or placed next to God’s plan.

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O Home Beloved

O home beloved wher-e’er I wander,
On foreign land or distant sea,
As time rolls by, my heart grows fonder
And yearns more lovingly for thee!

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Why Me?

For over fourteen hundred years
There wasn’t a soul on earth Baptism
Who could be freed of fears and tears

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