![]() ![]() The seeds are tiny, like small dry flecks of pepper. Do you remember the movie Sound of Music, with its final, beautiful song, “The Edelweiss Song”? It speaks of the flower of the Alps-“small and white, clean and bright, bless my homeland forever.” I hold in my hand a small package that I bought in Switzerland. And as Nephi said, “… thus the devil cheateth their souls and leadeth them away carefully down to hell.” ( 2 Ne. Each has thrown a switch in the life of a boy that put him on a track that carried him far away from what might have been a great and foreordained calling. So it is with our lives-a cigarette smoked, a can of beer drunk at a party, a shot of Speed taken on a dare, a careless giving in to an impulse on a date. That piece of steel was a switch point, and the car that should have been in Newark, New Jersey, was in New Orleans, Louisiana, thirteen hundred miles away. Louis yards, a thoughtless switchman had moved a piece of steel just three inches. Louis, from which station it was to be carried to its destination on the east coast. We discovered that the train had been properly made up in Oakland, California, and properly delivered to St. One day I received a telephone call from my counterpart in Newark, New Jersey, who said that a passenger train had arrived without its baggage car. Many years ago I worked in the head office of one of our railroads. Our direction is set by the little day-to-day choices which chart the track on which we run. The course of our lives is not determined by great, awesome decisions. The wonderful thing is that this is not beyond your capacity. I would that I had the capacity, the gift of the Spirit, to speak with such power that your hearts would burn with a resolution so to live as to grow in favor with both God and man. ![]() How great, then, is your responsibility so to live that the Spirit of the Lord may dwell in you and that the Holy Ghost may speak through you. But he loves you and he has a work for each of you to do. I believe that God has likewise chosen each of you for something of consequence in his grand design, perhaps not in the category of those I have named. In various times, the Lord has chosen boys and trained them for the accomplishment of his marvelous purposes-such boys as Samuel, David, Joseph who was sold into Egypt, Nephi, Mormon, and Joseph Smith. Said the boy, “When I was going up, I met you coming down for more chalk.” “And where did I come into your dream?” the father asked. “I dreamed I was climbing a ladder to heaven and on the way up I had to write one of my sins on each step of the ladder.” Some of you older brethren may dispute that, which brings to mind the story of the boy who came down to breakfast one morning and said, “Dad, I dreamed about you last night.” If the Spirit will give me utterance, I should like to speak to them.Īt the outset, I should like to say that I am convinced that we have never had a more dedicated or more capable generation of young men in the history of the Church. ![]() I would assume that among them there must be twenty-five or thirty thousand young men and boys. Tonight, gathered in this and in some 750 other halls are more than 180,000 upon whom has been conferred that same priesthood. Wilford Woodruff records that in 1833 all of the priesthood of the Church met with the Prophet Joseph in a room only fourteen feet square, about the size of your bedroom. ![]()
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