Pioneer Day Talk 2011
This is a talk for Sacrament Meeting, which is based upon and quotes talks given by then Elder Thomas S. Monson (Pioneers All) and Janette Hall Beckham (Modern Pioneers), both from April 1997 General Conference. Pioneers are a big part of our family. I love the heritage that they have given to me. Our daughter Libby is named for a pioneer in our family, Speedy Esther Ellsworth. When Libby was one year old, in 1997, there was the big 150th anniversary celebration of the Pioneers coming into the...
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Planting and growing a garden is a basic tenet of self-reliance, as the Founding Fathers knew. “During the whole of the American Enlightenment,” Henry Steel Commager notes, “every President was a countryman.” (The Empire of Reason: How Europe Imagined and American Realized the Enlightenment, p 243.) We must have hard work so that we can create order and virtue. Hesiod says, “The immortals decried that man must sweat to attain virtue, since for mortals, order is best, disorder is...
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