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The Heritage and Promise

Improvement Era, vol. 28, no. 10, August 1925, pp. 941 to 953

Evans, John Henry

THE HERITAGE AND PROMISE By John Henry Evans, Author of "One Hundred Years of Mormonism" Part III II Notwithstanding "all men are created! equal" politically, as Thomas Jefferson reminds us in the Declaration of Independence, still in every other respect — in physical qualities, in native ability, in mental endowment, in spiritual power — they differ very greatly from one another. It was so in the pre-existent world, when we were only unembodied spirits. For, as the Book of Abraham tells us, there were upstanding "intelligences" in that "first estate," whom God chose to be His "rulers" in the earth-life that was to follow. And certainly it is so here, as the most superficial observation will show. Not only so, but men differ in the kind of "gifts" they possess, as well as in the degree of their intelligence. Some are executives, some artists, some thinkers, some mechanics, and so on without limit. As to why these differences exist, we are not here concerned; we are interested only in the fact itself. Now, out of these differences among men arises the need of leader- ship. To quote that luminous passage in the writings of Abraham to which we have already referred in this same connection: "These two facts do exist, that there are two spirits, one being more intelligent than the other; there shall be another more intelligent than them all." The inevitable inference from this statement is, that God is God by reason of His superior intelligence. And all down the line of spirit- life doubtless the same thing is true. Normal conditions being taken for granted, the spirits higher up are there because they are more in- telligent than those lower down. This fact accounts for the prominence in the ante-mortal sphere of Jesus and Lucifer. Essentially the same condition exists in this world, in the absence of "pull" of some kind — family, political, business, or other. Men under natural circumstances tend to find their own level, just as water does when left to itself and not run through pipes by force. And that level is always determined by their degree of intelligence in the sense used by the patriarch in the passage just quoted. The leaders rise to the surface by a power within them. In every group of men some one of them stands out in the recognition of the others. These others "look up" to him. Said a large employer of labor to one of his man- agers one day, who had asked him how to pick out the leaders: "Don't pick them out. They'll pick themselves out. Watch the men — all of them. You'll find pretty soon that they'll gather round certain ones, asking them questions how they did this or that. These men to whom the others go are the natural leaders. Take them." And

942 IMPROVEMENT ERA this is always the case. While it is true that, in a truck-load of potatoes, the large ones sink to the bottom, exposing the little ones; the big men, in any group whatever the size, always rise to the surface, hiding the small ones. Progress is due chiefly to ieaders. "The initiation of wise and noble things," says John Stewart Mill, "comes and must come from individuals, generally from some one individual." For confirmation of this fact we have but to turn to certain outstanding names in connection with the movements of history — Stephenson, Bell, Morse, Marconi, and Edison, in the field of invention, which has changed our material environment so greatly; Alexander, Napoleon, Wellington, and Foch, in the domain of war, which is mainly destructive in its effects; Washington, Bismarck, Gladstone, Lincoln, Wilson, in the department of constructive statesmanship; Aristotle, Bacon, Darwin, in the field of science and speculative philosophy, which paves the way for in- ventions; Homer, Shakespeare, Browning, and Hawthorne, in the realm of literature, which embodies not only the spirit of the age in which it is written, but also the greatest reaches of the spiritual forces in man; Moses, Mohammed, Luther, Joseph Smith, in religion, which is all inclusive in its higher lifts. "Universal history," Carlyle says, "the history of what man has accomplished in this world, is at bottom the history of the Great Men who have worked here." The world cannot get along at all without leaders of deed and of thought, even though it may refuse to follow them till long after they are dead. Never is there lack of opportunity for leadership. "There is always room for the man of force, "Emerson tells us, "and he makes room for many." The world is always shouting for a Man, but only on rare occasions is there a Man ready to answer the call. We are for- ever looking for some one on whom we can turn our spotlight with- out being disappointed when he is in it. In no country today can we point to an outstanding figure that would answer to Carlyle's phrase about the call for the great. Lenin, in Russia, that great sprawl- ing commonwealth which is so distressingly in need of leaders, is dead, and with him all hopes of the establishment of communism, the dream of his life. Mussolini, in Italy, has force of character enough, but it is doubtful whether that character is of the sort that will lead his emotional followers into something that is of permanent value. Wood- row Wilson, too, is gone, whose passionate yearning was for a world-state that would end forever the hideous spectacle of war and herald the dawn of that long-looked-for era when all men should "brothers be, an' a' that." At this very moment both of the great political parties in the United States are searching with a microscopic eye for leaders to win for them the victory in the presidential election of 1924. And we hear on every hand, in Congress and out and from partisans and non-partisans, that the low ebb of statesmanship in our national legislature has been reached. Clearly, therefore, the leader- ship of the future comes from the boys and girls of today.

THE HERITAGE AND PROMISE 943 There are two general classes of leaders. On the one hand, there is the man who thinks, who contemplates, who experiments. John the Beloved apostle, in the New Testament, is a notable instance of this type of leader. Then, on the other hand, there is the man of action, the executive, the man who brings things to pass, as we say. Of this class, there is no better examples than the apostle Peter, in the same good Book. Sometimes, as in the apostle Paul, we have the two types represented in one and the same person. In our own Church history Joseph Smith belongs to the first class, and Brigham Young to the second. Thought always precedes action, although we often find the idea developed by one and applied by others. Pasteur devoted most of his mature life to the development and verification of his germ-theory. This fertile thought, when it finally got hold of men, began to work like a veritable germ itself in minds that were more "practical" than that great scientist's, till now we have it resting as the basis of all our sanitary measures. People pay taxes to employ men to carry away the refuse from our kitchens, to inspect the milk that comes every morning to our doors, to examine our children's eyes and throats and mouths in the school-room, to inquire into the methods by which vegetables and fruits are canned in the factory, and to do a hundred things that would have greatly interfered with the peace of our for- bears. Roosevelt, on the other hand, often got his first suggestion from some of the experts under him. Conservation is an instance. This idea he received from Pinchot. While the idea originally was limited to the conservation of our forests, it quickly widened till it included other natural resources and man. Roosevelt's dynamic person- ality coupled with his powerful position in the government pushed conservation to the forefront of American thought, where it still is. What qualities should a young person look for and cultivate in himself in order to develop a leadership that is really effective? (Answered in the September Era.) Worth Living For It's a day of real sport worth living for, The day you applaud your competitor, It's a capping event in your own carreer, The day you revere an old compeer, It's a climax to court in a round of days, When your energy turns to your enemy's praise. It's a triumph complete and a real conquest, When you feature your neighbor at only his best, It's achievement rare and you are the sport, When you show up your rival in good report, It's a vision sublime and it's yours to scan, When you paint only good in your fellow-man. Mesa, Arizona BERTHA A. KLIENMAN

WE ARE HERE! An Address at the M. I. A. Jubilee Conference in the Tabernacle Sunday, 10 a. m. June 7. 1925. By Junius F. Wells "And ye shall hallow the Fiftieth Year and proclaim liberty throughout the land unto all the inhabitants thereof" * * * "Then shalt thou cause the trumpet of the Jubilee to sound on the tenth day of the seventh [sixth as applied to us] month. In the day of atonement shall ye make the trumpet sound throughout all your land." I have looked forward to the Jubilee year of the Y. M. M. I. A. for a long time. It may be remembered that, speaking from this stand ten years ago, I fore-shadowed our fiftieth anniversary, suggesting that it should be fittingly celebrated — especially by the consummation of three things: 1. That we should have a thousand Associations and fifty thousand members. 2. That fifty percent of our members should be actual ob- servers of the Word of Wisdom. 3. That ten percent of our members should certify to having read the Bible through — every word of it from lid to lid. Officers and members of the Y. M. M. I. A. I congratulate you upon the realization of the first of these forecasts. Today we have in the Stakes and Missions more than one thousand Associations and more than fifty thousand members. I hope — well I will say I believe, at least fifty percent of these are actual observers of the Word of Wisdom — they do not use tobacco — they do not drink hot nor strong drink — they are sincerely trying to do and to keep the commandments of God that they may realize and rejoice in the wonderful promises of that revelation. As to the third — the reading of the Bible through — I suppose that we have been negligent, and have not followed that up — at least we have no reports nor certification of the fact. It is now too late to secure these for this year; but it is not too late to begin to prepare for them, and much may be done before the year is over towards securing a splendid showing for our next annual report. That brings me to the prime purpose of this Jubilee Conference. At the annual reunion and banquet of the General Boards, March 18, 1925, I responded to the toast: "The Root" and in it expressed my thought about as follows: "Let us begin forthwith to prepare the ground; roll off the rocks, grub out the sagebrush and, ladies, permit me to suggest that you might find it helpful to gently top off some of the empty-headed sunflowers and smudge the thistle-

WE ARE HERE! 945 down — which are beautiful to look at but pernicious when the frivolous breezes of the summer time shake their unfruitful substance to the ground, polluting the pure seed we are trying to propagate there. Let us send out our notices, advertise our intention to celebrate our Jubilee jubilantly; call the youth of Zion to attention by the clarion voice of all the authority here present; then, at our conference in June, sow the seed, broadcast it abundantly on this good ground that it may take root downwards — and for the rest of the year cultivate, nourish, develop the Root with vigilance and great care. We shall be disappointed then, indeed, if we do not get many, very many of our members on their feet bearing testimony, with delight in the exercise of the gift of God that is within them. "We wish to get every member of the Y. M. M. I. A. and of the Y. L. M. I. A. also, down on their knees praying to know it, and up on their feet testifying that 'Mormonism' is in fact the Church of Jesus Christ and the Kingdom of God on earth. We can hope to do this by taking the double course mentioned by Presi- dent Brigham Young when he said: 'As many people have obtained a testimony while on their feet bearing it, as down on their knees praying for it.' " The Program Committee, you will observe, have generously provided in the varied and splendid exercises of the conference, op- portunity for "sowing the seed," that is for bearing our testimonies to each other and broadcasting them to the world. I said generously — perhaps from my point of view this is an exaggeration — for I am quite intent upon maintaining this exercise fundamentally and con- tinuously and profusely in all our gatherings, in the Ward Association meetings, in our Stake Conventions and in our Annual Conferences. I believe I am regarded as extreme in this. I have been told that some- one said: "If Brother Junius F. Wells had his way and could ar- range the program he would have every one of our hundred thou- sand members bear testimony at the Jubilee conference." Well I presume that is more or less true, and, in some manner, it is more or less true that he is having his way; for in the five days' celebration, which we have so happily begun, the combined testimony of these two great organizations will be expressed in such a manner that all our people, and indeed civilized mankind generally, will be better informed and be bound to take notice of our existence as a Mutual Improvement Association of young men and young women, having no equal nor counterpart in any other church or community of equal numbers upon the earth. Upon the occasion of our first General Annual Conference held in this building, June 2nd, and 3rd, 1888 (we had held many single session semi-annual conferences before), in an Epistle of the General Superintendency, addressed to the officers and members of the Y. M. M. I. A. throughout Zion, the following tribute to the M. I. A. pioneer of us all, President Brigham Young, was read: I quote from it; "An appropriate time has been chosen on which to hold your first General Annual Conference, for it is eminently fitting that the young men of Israel should thus honor the illustrious statesman, colonizer and Prophet Brigham Young, by holding their conference meetings on a day so near the anniversary of his birth. He was inspired to organize the Mutual Improvement Associations throughout Zion. With delight you can revere his memory; for distrust of the young men of Israel

JUNIUS F. WELLS The Leader of the Y. M .M. I. A. in 18 75, as he appears today.

SUPERINTENDENT GEORGE ALBERT SMITH The Leader of the Y. M. M. I. A. in 192 5.

948 IMPROVEMENT ERA never marred his great mind. In them he had unbounded confidence, and for them unlimited love. The Almighty endowed him with the faculty of reading men more accurately and more thoroughly than most people read books. The study of human hearts and the analyses of human minds enabled him to distinguish between the good and the bad. By the inspiration of the Holy Spirit frauds stood rebuked, while the sincere rejoiced in his presence, and were comforted by his love. Noting the yearly harvest of death, and comprehending as few men comprehend the magnitude of the great work in which we are engaged, he fully sensed the responsibility that must ultimately rest upon you in bearing to a victorious consummation the Church and Kingdom of God." We are here, Uncle Brigham, (with apologies to General Persh- ing), President Brigham Young, we are here, standing on our feet, fifty thousand of us, in this year of Jubilee — bearing our testimonies, as you said that we should fifty years ago on the 10th of June, 1875; and bearing witness today that you were a prophet of God. You M. I. A. Pioneers lift up your hearts and honor the memory of the M. I. A. Pioneer of us all, President Brigham Young. We are here, President John Taylor, as aids, helps in govern- ments to the Priesthood of the Church and the Kingdom of God, as you said we should be, on that morning in your office in the spring of 1 878, when you sent Elder Hardy and me to organize the Stake Superinten- dencies. Are we aids, helps and governments in the Church? Consider the poll of its officials, just taken, from the President down to its bishops. We sent out twenty-six hundred cards in April asking for an expression of appreciation in that respect from them. We have returns from two-thirds of them. Their universal testimony is that as such our service has been valuable beyond expression. I presume that nine-tenths of the Church officers this day have been members of our Association. And so President Taylor, we honor your memory as a prophet of God. We are here, President Wilford Woodruff, bearing off the responsibility of the Church and Kingdom of God, as the Lord revealed it to you, when your heart was faint with fear concerning the youth )f Israel and you sought the Lord down in the woods of Arizona to know somewhat of the future; when it was revealed to vou that the Lord already had among the youth of his people those who would bear off the Kingdom triumphantly and you were commanded to cease your troubling on that matter. You did so, and there has never been a day since when it has not been perfectly apparent that there were young men and boys fit to be, and to become, leaders of God's people. And so, dear President Woodruff, beloved of us all as our first General Superintendent, we honor your memory and praise you as an inspired seer of the future and prophet of God. We are here President Lorenzo Snow, though some have died and passed to their reward whom you admonished that day in 1899, and promised that if we would pay our tithes and keep the Word of Wisdom that we should never deny the faith. Those of us that have gone, died in the faith. God help the rest of us that we may do

WE ARE HERE! 949 so, and continue to prove you, President Snow, a leader of righteous- ness and a prophet of God. We are here Brother Joseph F. to show you that we are on the way to become "the head and not the tail," among people, as you said that we should when you spoke at the M. I. A. Conference in October, 1883, and the Spirit of the Lord prompted you to say: "The day will come, and it is not as far away as some suppose, when it will be deemed a great honor to be identified with this Association and this people. We may be scoffed at by the ignorant of the world, but the well-read and intelligent have ceased to look upon us with contempt. While they do not know that we are right, they are afraid we may be. The day will come when Zion will be the head and not the tail, when God will sit among his people, and the wicked look upon them with awe." That is but one of scores, perhaps hundreds of prophetic utter- ances of our beloved leader, friend, brother. He never grew old, as some men do with the lapse of years, but he was in heart and sympathy, in loyal devotion and love the same young man among young men to the last: — so long our counselor, guide, and General Superintendent. Blessed is the memory of President Joseph F. Smith. "He was a man, take him for all in all; we shall not look upon his like again." We are here, Brother Moses as, so many times in the best and happiest days of your life, you thrilled the hearts of thousands, when with rare eloquence, in the light of the Spirit of your calling and with perfervid pen you pointed the way with lofty aim to every triumph that youth can aspire to. Happy memories Elder Thatcher of those days, when they were glorified by the inspiration of God in you. We are here, John Henry Smith, as you foresaw it even from the first. Do you remember, when you wrote the Deseret News, March 16, 1876 and commended Elders Hardy and Morris Young to the consideration of the people on their first tour of the Territory? You said: "Our labors up to the present have been attended with success and we have bright prospects for the future." Another time, when we organized the South Cottonwood Association in December, 1876 and you promised the youth lives of usefulness and old age of honor if they pursued the course of the M. I. A. I had a letter yesterday from one of those boys. He is seventy-five now and a patriarch in the Church. And so, Brother John Henry, you also are among the prophets. We are here, Father Wells, as you so constantly and so boldly de- clared that we should be. Your memory is precious above all. I cannot speak of it; but will let one who wrote me when your call came and you passed from among us. He referred to one of the most important meetings ever held by the officers of the Associations. It was in 1887, when we were introducing the First Year's Course of Reading. President Woodruff, Elders George Q. Cannon, Erastus Snow, Moses

950 IMPROVEMENT ERA Thatcher and other leading men were there and the meeting was one of thrilling interest. Elder Thatcher wrote to me: "I shall never forget the inspirational remarks made by your father in the old Social Hall on the occasion of a Young Men's Mutual Improvement Association gathering there, when he spoke so beautifully about the tread of coming Israel, whose footsteps he could hear, and they were music in his ears. The light of heaven shone in his grand lion-like face, the wrinkles of which were softened and made to glow like rays from the throne of God. The sound of the tread of Israel's approaching triumph and glory will ever be in his ears, in the land of peace and eternal progress whither he has gone." And so President Daniel H. Wells was a prophet. He saw, in as clear a vision as ever comes to men, the tramping of the multitude of the sons and daughters of Zion, which you will see in verity next Wednesday in the Parade of the Banners. We are here, Dr. Hardy. I wonder if you are happy in the consciousness of the fruition of your stupendous labor; for it was you who lived and moved and had your being as in a grammatical diagram, so methodical and logical were you; you that systematized our work; you that laid the foundation of all our manuals and pre- scribed the courses of progressive study in the Associations; you who first distributed tracts of the first principles among the young men of Zion and taught them to read religion rather than trash, to form cabinets and study nature rather than roll cigarets in wanton idleness; to be gentlemen, when so many of them were hoodlums. Who shall measure the immensity of your service as an organizer, instructor and faithful servant of the young men of Zion? No man deserves higher praise than Dr. Milton H. Hardy from the Y. M. M. I. A. and so we honor your memory today, dear friend and fellow laborer, among the highest. It is hard to think of you and not mention that grand old stalwart whom you discovered, who became your chief lieutenant and collaborator in enlarging the scope and field of the manuals, that you had pioneered. Where are you Dr. George H. Brimhall? Oh, he is here' and shall speak for himself later in this conference. He is like a river of living water flowing down from the mountains, spreading itself in directed channels over fertile fields, producing an- nually— perennially, as the fruit of his husbandry, great crops of converts in boys and young men of character, some thirty, some sixty and some a hundred fold. Now I cannot name the names and speak in detail of all those who in the early decade, or two, or three were the hard workers, the inspired leaders among the Associations. I can only congratulate them, living and dead, and in loving cameraderie mention a few (those I omit are just as dear), and say to them: We are here, Rodney Badger, Nephi Clayton, Benj. Cummings Jr., Richard W. Young, George F. Gibbs, John Nicholson, Orson F. Whitney, Joseph A. West, Benj. Cluff Jr., George C. Lambert, Lyman

WE ARE HERE! 951 R. Martineau, Edward H. Anderson, Thomas Hull, Moroni Snow, James E. Talmage, Brigham H. Roberts, Anthony W. Ivins. I say we are here in the realization if not wholly, in great part, of all that you dared to hope for — that you strove with earnest zeal to make us. When I reflect upon the varied contributions given direct to our magazines and standard books covering the basic studies of our organization, Religious, Scientific, Historical and Literary, coming from the deep thoughts, flowing lucidly from the talented pens of the Andersons, Nephi and Edward H., of Dr. Talmage and notably of Elder B. H. Roberts, my heart is full of gratitude to them and I bless the memory of those that have died and I praise to your faces those of you who live and were the early propagandists of our Cause; you so true and faithful, who still abide, exemplars of its worth — an in- spiration to all who seek the benefits and blessings of the M. I. A. Now I must conclude with one other personal allusion and a comment on our Memorial Banner. We are here, Brother Heber, look upon these assembled hosts and let your heart rejoice — that great heart of yours, which from the first has throbbed with fervent hope and earnest prayer, with abounding faith, and never despair. You know that this Mutual Improvement work is of the Lord. You know, as I do, that but for the favor and blessing of the Almighty it would not have survived and grown and prospered as we now behold it. You know, and have often declared it, that God heard and answered your prayer when you sought him to take the place and part in it that your heart desired — the great and noble part you so diligently, untiringly performed and from which you have derived benefits, "beyond your power to express." You also are among the prophets — a true and faithful servant of the people. Lord bless you, President Heber J. Grant forever, and let all Israel say Amen. Now, my brethren and sisters, you have listened to me with much fortitude and patience and I shall not detain you much longer, but I want you to look upon our new banner. You will see the Pioneer banner, which was carried in the Jubilee Celebration of the Church on the 24th of July, 1880, by Elder Horace H. Cummings on a big bay horse, forty-five years ago. He is going to carry it again next Wednesday on a big bay horse (not the same horse) ; and I intend to ride behind it in an automobile, as I walked behind it on that other occasion. Now, to lead our great Parade of the Banners and to celebrate our Fiftieth Y. M. M. I. A. Anniversary, we have had a new banner made in which I trust we shall all take pride and pleasure. It is not only intended to commemorate this Jubilee, but it is designed also to memorialize a somewhat closer union than heretofore of the Young Ladies' Association with ours, upon their gracious acceptance of our Motto, which henceforth has become theirs. This motto was first brought out, in relation to the M. I. A. work, on the sub- title page of The Contributor, volume one, number twelve, and

952 IMPROVEMENT ERA continued thereafter in all the seventeen volumes of that magazine and in its successor The Improvement Era: "THE GLORY OF GOD IS INTELLIGENCE." Let us pause for a moment and consider this motto. Whence comes it? Not from the Psalms of David nor the Proverbs of Solomon, MlllllllllllllinillHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIMIIIIIIMIUIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIirilllllllillllMIIIIIIIIIIIIIIMMIIIIllillllMIIHIIIMIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIMMIIIIMtJ | JUNIUS F. WELLS | The Y. M. M. I. A. Leader as he appeared in 18 75. E z ITT 1 1 1 1 1 1 • 1 1 1 1 1 1 ■ i ■ 1 1 « i 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 ) 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 n ■ 1 1 1 • 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 m 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 m 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 > 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 ■ 1 1 1 n 1 1 1 1 1 1 ( 1 1 1 1 ( n 1 1 1 1 ri 1 1 1 1 > 1 1 1 1 ■ 1 1 1 > 1 1 1 ■ 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 ■ 1 1 1 < 1 1 1 • i il nor from the wisdom of Job, nor the poetic flights of Isaiah. Not anywhere in the Bible is it found. Nor fell it from the lips of Nephi or Alma or Mosiah or Moroni. It is not in the Book of Mormon. Nowhere in the writings of the great philosophers, in the rhapsodies of the Christian Fathers, in the homilies and sermons of the doctors of divinity of olden or modern times shall you find this simple sentence. We must go to the revelation of God himself for its origin. Spoken to the prophet of the last dispensation, recorded and given

WE ARE HERE! 953 to men by Joseph Smith, the youth that was unlearned, came this incomparable combination of six words, at once forming the most perfect and significant sentence of any language — "The Glory of God is Intelligence." Let us examine them. I do not think the word intelligence should be taken in its narrower definition, meaning to have informa- tion; but in its truer and broader significance — the power to know. This is the Godly gift which distinguishes and elevates created man above all other created beings and qualifies him to name and govern and have dominion over them. Yet how far beneath is he by com- parison— only a little child in intelligence — though a son of God with the right of inheritance, the ambition and faith to attain the perfection of the Father, whose greater Intelligence knoweth and comprehendeth man himself — his origin and existence in spirit and body, mortal and immortal, everlasting. Who also knoweth the marvels and mysteries of every created earthly thing, great and small, in all their generations and development; together with the wonders of the starry heavens and the laws of their control and governance. By what power cometh this vast knowledge? Intelligence — the power to know. Possessed in part it is the impulse, the sure guide, the safe director, which leads man in his spiritual and temporal career onward and upward to the heights of heaven. Possessed in its perfection it is the Glory of God. Personified, it is God; to whom we lift up our hearts in adoration and love; before whom we humbly bow down and worship, in Spirit and in Truth. Amen. Humility Give me thy counsel, Lord, Thy guiding hand when I grow weak, Lest I forget My need of love and sympathy — Tomorrow's strength, I asketh not today, Teach me but to obey. For thou art the unseen hand that Guideth me, O God, Sometimes against my will, perhaps, But always there in time of sorest need; Then: teach me to bow down in humility, At thy command, Nor, ever asking why. Teach me obedience, God, Lest I forget thy sovereign will, That thou art him who maketh nations weep, Who causeth kings to fall, Then, why not me? O Lord of Hosts, Teach me humility. Nounen, Idaho NELLIE SKINNER