We have a commitment to serve our Lord. We have an assurance that the cause is just and worthy. But, above all, we have a knowledge that God lives and is in His Heavens and that His Son Jesus Christ has laid out a plan for us which will bring us and our loved ones eternal life if we are faithful. That life will be a busy, purposeful life with accomplishments and joys and development.

The only way we can keep our freedom is to work at it. Not some of us. All of us. Not some of the time, but all of the time.

To be mediocre, when only application and diligence would have netted superiority, is an error akin to sin.

What are we to fear when the Lord is with us? Can we not take the Lord at his word and exercise a particle of faith in him?

I am comforted by the assurance that there will be beautiful music in heaven, and for that I am most grateful.

Many good people, being influenced by the bold spirit of the times, are now seeking surgery for the wife or the husband so they may avoid pregnancies and comply with the strident voice demanding a reduction of children. It was never easy to bear and rear children, but easy things do not make for growth and development. But loud, blatant voices today shout 'fewer children' and offer the Pill, drugs, surgery, and even ugly abortion to accomplish that. Strange the proponents of depopulating the world seem never to have thought of continence!

Every Latter-day Saint should sustain, honor, and obey the constitutional law of the land in which he lives.