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If I perish, I perish
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From the Bryant S. Hinckley Humor
Collection
Little girl’s composition on Geese
"Geese is a heavy-set bird with a head on one side and a tail on the other.
His feet is set so far back on his running gear that they nearly miss his body.
Some geese is ganders and has a curl in his tail. Ganders don't lay or set,
they just eat and go swimming. If I had to be a geese I would rather be a
gander. Geese does not give milk, but give eggs, but for me give me liberty
or give me death."
A GRAMMAR school boy handed in the following composition on cats:
"Cats that's mean for little boys to maul and tease is called Maultese cats.
Some cats is reckernized by how quiet their purrs is and these is named
Purrsian cats. The cats what has very bad tempers is called Angorie cats,
and cats with deep feelin's is called Feline cats—but I prefer dogs."
A girl in the Primary wrote the following composition on monkeys:
"A monkey is an animal that wears a red cap and has a long tail. Monkeys
have four feet; cows also have four feet, one on each corner. The other day
me and my sister were going through a pasture and one of the cows ran
after us and helped us over the fence—that was the other cow's husband."
A teacher received the following note from the mother of one of her pupils:
"Dear Madam: Please ixcus my Tommy to-day. He wont come to skule
because he is acting as time-keeper for his father and it is your fault. U gave
him a ixample if a field is 6 miles around how long will it take a man walking
31/2 miles an hour to walk 21/4 times around it? Tommy aint a man, so we
had to send his father. They went early this morning and father will walk
around the field and Tommy will time him, but pleas don't give my boy such
ixamples agin, because my husband must go to work every day to support
his family."
How Pat Downes Spends his Saturday
Mornings
Korihor:
Every
man [fares] in this life according to
Questions…
the management of the creature; therefore
every man [prospers] according to his
What if I depend on God, but He doesn’t answer me
genius,
man [conquers]
when I and…every
need His immediate
help?
according
to his strength.
30:17)why
With
all the serious
problems in(Alma
the universe,
would He have time or interest in my personal
crisis?
Then again, if I organize my life carefully and think
smart, I could resist temptation and not have to
lean upon the Lord for help at all.
If I do that, I will not be one of those who
contributed to His suffering in Gethsemane.
If I just use my skills and brain, I can actually help
the Lord rather than drawing on His strength
After all, so many people around here are in worse
circumstances than I. (Camille Fronk, 30 April 2004 Women’s Conference)
Good Example- Daniel
Royal Linage of David
Taken captive, to Babylon, in 606
BC
Has remarkable to ability to
interpret dreams.
Appointed Governor of Babylon
Appointed Chief Wiseman
Stirred up jealousy among
Babylonian wiseman
The Plot
Then the presidents and princes sought to find occasion against Daniel concerning the
kingdom; but they could find none occasion nor fault; forasmuch as he was faithful,
neither was there any error or fault found in him.
Then said these men, We shall not find any occasion against this Daniel, except we find it
against him concerning the law of his God.
Then these presidents and princes assembled together to the king, and said thus unto him,
King Darius, live for ever.
All the presidents of the kingdom, the governors, and the princes, the counsellors, and the
captains, have consulted together to establish a royal statute, and to make a firm
decree, that whosoever shall ask a petition of any God or man for thirty days, save of
thee, O king, he shall be cast into the den of lions.
Wherefore king Darius signed the writing and the decree.
Now when Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he went into his house; and his
windows being open in his chamber toward Jerusalem, he kneeled upon his knees three
times a day, and prayed, and gave thanks before his God, as he did aforetime.
Then these men assembled, and found Daniel praying and making supplication before his
God.
Then answered they and said before the king, That Daniel, which is of the children of the
captivity of Judah, regardeth not thee, O king…
Then the king, when he heard these words, was sore displeased with himself, and set his
heart on Daniel to deliver him: and he laboured till the going down of the sun to deliver
him.
Then these men assembled unto the king, and said unto the king, Know, O king, that the law
of the Medes and Persians is, That no decree nor statute which the king establisheth
may be changed.
Then the king commanded, and they brought Daniel, and cast him into the den of lions
Question:
Daniel was a righteous man- why didn’t
the Lord spare him from going into the
Lion’s den?
Why didn’t the Lord spare Joseph Smith
from going into Liberty Jail?
…and if you endure it well…
Shadrach, Meshach, Abed-nego
Wherefore at that time certain Chaldeans came near, and accused the Jews.
They spake and said to the king Nebuchadnezzar…
There are certain Jews whom thou hast set over the affairs of the province of
Babylon, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego; these men, O king, have not
regarded thee: they serve not thy gods, nor worship the golden image which
thou hast set up.
Then Nebuchadnezzar in his rage and fury commanded to bring Shadrach,
Meshach, and Abed-nego…
…and said unto them, Is it true, O Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, do not ye
serve my gods, nor worship the golden image which I have set up?
Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, answered…
If it be so, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery
furnace, and he will deliver us out of thine hand, O king.
But if not, be it known unto thee, O king, that we will not serve thy gods, nor
worship the golden image which thou hast set up.
Then these men were bound … and were cast into the midst of the burning fiery
furnace.
Elder Maxwell
Then words
Nebuchadnezzar
kingThese
was astonied,
and roseof
upunconditional
in haste, and spake,
Note the
"but if the
not."
are words
and said unto his counsellors, Did not we cast three men bound into the midst
commitment.
TheThey
possibility
of "if"
wasthe
with
of the fire?
answered and
said unto
king,these
True, Othree
king. until the
He answered
said,rescue,
Lo, I see but
four men
in the midst
of the
fire,
very moment
ofand
their
theyloose,
hadwalking
determined
their
course
and they have no hurt; and the form of the fourth is like the Son of God.
regardless. Sometimes we must "take the heat," even if we are not
certain the thermostat of trial will soon be turned down.
President Kimball
I stepped into the Hotel Utah Coffee Shop in Salt Lake City to
buy some hard rolls, and as I placed my order with the
waitress, a middle-aged woman I knew was sitting at the
counter with a cup of coffee at her plate. I am sure she saw me,
though she tried not to show it. I could see her physical
discomfort as she turned her face from me at a right angle,
and there it remained until I had made my purchase and had
gone to the cash register.
She had her free agency-she could drink coffee if she wanted
to, but what a wallop her character had taken because she
was unwilling to face a friend! How she shriveled! At the
waters of baptism, in sacrament meetings, and in the temple,
she had promised that she would have a broken heart and
contrite spirit, repent of all her sins, take upon herself the name
of Jesus Christ, and serve him unto the end, manifesting it by
her works.
Probably she was certain that I had not seen or recognized her, but the ten stories of the
building above her were not enough to keep the angels in heaven from photographing her
movements and recording her thoughts of deception. It was a petty thing, but for her it was
withering-a weak, mean, cheap, little tricky thing that sent her honor skidding down the
incline toward bankruptcy of self-esteem.
Did that woman think she was hiding from God? How wrong she was! No one can conceal
thoughts or acts from God, for the photographic cameras are running night and day. So
sensitive are they that they record not only sights and sounds but also thought and
inclinations. Remember, we are not talking about a cup of coffee; we are talking about the
principle of integrity. (Miracle of Forgiveness)
Question
During times of
tribulation, why
would a Latter
Day Saint be
tempted to
compromise their
integrity?