Chapter XVI: Marriage, the Home and the Family

Necessity of Marriage--Marriage, God-Ordained and Sanctioned--Righteousness and Necessity of Marriage--Male and Female Enter Heaven--Marriage to Replenish the Earth--Eternal Marriage--Eternity of the Family Organization--Importance of Marriage Within the Church--No Marriage in Heaven--Plural Marriage Forbidden--Further Statement--Marriage and Large Families Desirable--Be True to Your Wives and Children--Respect the Rights of Others--Mutual Treatment of Husband, Wife and Children--We Should Be Examples to Our Families--The Truest Greatness--Parents Responsible for their Children--The Father, the Presiding Authority of the Family--Duties of Fathers--Motherhood the Foundation of Home and Nation--Husband's Success Dependent Upon Wife's Fitness--Duty of Parents--Watch Your Children--Duty to Teach Children--What to Teach Your Children--What Children Should Be Taught--Training of Children at Home and in Sunday School--Teach Children the Gospel--Teach Children the Story of Jesus' Death--Wise Giving to Children--Do Not Place Children Under Pledges--Children Have Equal Rights with Elders in the House of the Lord--Don't Mortgage Your Houses--No Substitute for the Home--Worship in the Home--The Basis of a True Home--The Ideal Home--Foundation of All Good in Home--Secure Homes--Own Your Homes--Do Not Mortgage Your Homes--Evils of Mortgaging--Our First Duty to Our Household--Unchastity, a Dominant Evil--Degrees of Sexual Sin--Purity--Three Threatening Dangers--The Gospel the Greatest Thing--Duty of Husband to Wife--Wives and Husbands in Eternity--Importance of Filial Affection--Family Government by Love--The Home and the Child

CHAPTER XVII

Amusements and Fashions

Youth Should Look Forward--Proper Amusements--Proper Character of Amusements--Social Duties--The Danger of Pleasure Hunting--Harmful Effects of Bad Books--Proper Reading--Raffling and Gambling--Games of Chance--The Evil of-Cards--Wasting Time with Cards--Card Playing--Stop Card Playing--Pernicious Nature of Card Playing--Cards in the Home--Evil Fashions--Improper Fashions--Exclusive Clubs Among Church Members--A Lesson for the Boys

CHAPTER XVIII

Love Your Enemies

We Are Not Discouraged--I Forgive All Men--We Leave Our Enemies in God's Hands--Leave Results in God's Hands--Our Debt to Our Enemies--A Prayer for Our Enemies--The Golden Rule--Why the World Does Not Love Us--Love One Another--Keep Aloof from the Wicked--The Enemies to Fear

CHAPTER XIX

Education and Industrial Pursuits

We Are Ever Learning--Address on Ignorance--The Value of Practical Education--Practical Education Advocated--Boys Should Be Taught the Arts of Industry--Manual Training and Agriculture--Agriculture and Mechanic Arts in Church Schools--We Should Study Agriculture--Dignity of Agriculture--Encourage Forestry--Young Women Should Have Practical Preparation for Life--Object of Church Schools--Value of Church Schools--Purpose of Church Schools--The Church Ample for All Necessary Organizations--Develop Faculties in Church Organizations--The Foundation of Prosperity--The Object of Cooperation

CHAPTER XX

Missionaries

How Missionaries Are Called--Requirements of Prospective Missionaries--The Kind of Men Wanted for Missionaries--Necessary Qualifications of Missionaries--Further Qualifications of Missionaries--What Missionaries Should Teach--What and How to Teach--Not All Men Ready to Accept the Gospel--Our People Generous to Missionaries--Advice to Missionaries--Missionaries and the Word of Wisdom--Caution to Missionaries--Health of Missionaries To Be Guarded--Missionaries In Ill Health--Care of Returned Missionaries--Work for Returned Missionaries--Duty of a Person Called on a Mission

CHAPTER XXI

False Teachings

The Devil's Knowledge--The Enemy of Truth Always Arrayed Against This Work--Why the Truth is Hated--Only Those Who Deny the Faith Contend--Beware of False Teachers--Where to Expect False Doctrines--Knowledge of Sin Unnecessary--Retreat from Evil--The Law of Recompense--Sympathy with Criminals--The Crime of Witchcraft and Other Superstitions--Superstitious Practices--The Messiah Craze--One Mighty and Strong

CHAPTER XXII

Auxiliary Organizations

Definition of Auxiliary Organizations--Place of Auxiliary Organizations in the Church--Relation Between Authorities of Ward and Auxiliary Organizations--Purpose and Duties of Relief Society--Objects of the Relief Society--Duties and Purpose of the Relief Society--The Relief Society--Object of Sunday Schools and Church Schools--The Teacher Essential in Sunday School Work--The First Qualification of a Sunday School Teacher--The Principle of Sabbath School Teaching--The Stake Sunday School Board--The Importance of M. I. A. Work--The Field of the Young Men's Mutual Improvement Associations--Purpose of Mutual Improvement Associations--The Fountain of Truth--Purpose and Duties of Religion Classes--Teachers Must Believe in Jesus Christ

CHAPTER XXIII

Political Government

The Ten Commandments--The Laws of God and the Laws of the Land--No Nationalities in the Church--The Latter-day Saints Loyal to the United States--Loyalty to the Constitution of the United States--Proud of the United States--Origin and Destiny of the United States: Loyalty of the Latter-day Saints--Saints to Serve God--Guided by God to the West--True Patriotism--Importance of National Patriotism--The Church Not Partisan--The Church Loyal--Latter-day Saints Are Good Citizens--Church Not Responsible for Political Parties--The Church Not In Politics--Shun the Spirit of Mob Violence--The Danger of Mobs--The Basis of Labor Unions--Cause of War--Attitude Towards War--We Want Peace--When Peace Shall Come--Peace on Earth, Good Will to Men--The Key to Peace--God Strives with Warring Nations--Conduct of the Boys in the Army--Message to the Boys in War Service

CHAPTER XXIV

Eternal Life and Salvation

Eternal Life and Salvation--Close Relation of the Next Life--Condition in a Future Life--Spiritual Death--The Unpardonable Sin--The Resurrection--Nature of Ministering Angels--Redemption Beyond the Grave--Nature of Death--The Resurrection--On the Resurrection--Resurrection and Final Judgment--Condition of Children in Heaven--Status of Children in the Resurrection--Address at Funeral Services of Mary A. Freeze--The Resurrection--Work for the Dead--Temple Ordinances Unchanged--Care and Need of Temples--Preaching the Gospel in the Spirit World--Vision of the Redemption of the Dead--Moderation in Burial Displays--Who Cannot be Reached by the Gospel--Principle of Baptism for the Dead

CHAPTER XXV

Joseph Smith, the Prophet

The Reality of Joseph's Vision--Joseph Smith's Name Will Never Perish--The Prophet Joseph Smith--Prediction of Joseph Smith Fulfilled--Joseph Smith the Boy--Joseph Smith a Restorer--Plural Wives of Joseph Smith, the Prophet--What Does the Martyrdom of Joseph and Hyrum Teach Us--Divine Authority of Joseph Smith and His Successors--God's Guiding Hand Seen in Church History

CHAPTER XXVI

Personal Testimonies and Blessings

A Testimony--This is God's Work, a Testimony--A Testimony--The Pledge of My Life--A Blessing--A Testimony--I Know that My Redeemer Lives--Testimony

President Joseph F. Smith

An Appreciation--Reminiscences--A Biographical Sketch--Last of the Old School of Veteran Leaders

Gospel Doctrine

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