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Keepa’ninny Bessie — who shared pictures of her paper Salt Lake City — tells this story about this “Be Honest With Yourself” card:

The cards were not cheesy to this 1950s teenager. Through the years I’d regretted not keeping better track of mine. Then I found this one in my father’s things after he passed away in 1992. And I knew why he kept it.

That is his daughter (me) sitting on the fountain stool to the left.

His friend, the druggist at the A. & G. Drug Store on South State Street, gave me a job in about 1958. I worked the fountain, clerked, and delivered prescriptions in Mr. Anderson’s little blue jeep. He asked if I’d like to be in a picture they were shooting there one Saturday. The girl behind the fountain in the white starched uniform was working, and her sister and I would be patrons at the fountain in the picture. I was surprised when the card came out to see me wearing a red top. I had worn a blue flowered two-piece dress I’d sewn myself. I was pretty happy though; I looked so much better than in real life.

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The current manual contrasts the righteous behavior of Joseph in withstanding temptation while in Egypt, with the less valiant behavior of his relatives in sinning against both Joseph and God. This lesson from 1965 explores Joseph’s family relations far beyond those in the current lesson, but teaches generally the same ideas regarding the consequences of both righteousness and sin. A second lesson corresponds with the first part of the current lesson focusing on Joseph’s actions in Egypt.

Jacob: Some Family Relationships

Concept

The united and proper family in patriarchal times or ours is a source of joy in life and comfort in death. It is also of course the basic unit in the perpetuation of society, good or bad.

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Artwork by Nelson White; text by unknown author

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More “historic” humor from the 1940 Juvenile Instructor –

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Into a swanky church walked a shabby Negro. After some difficulty he found the pastor.

“Sir, I’d like to join this church,” he said.

The pastor was taken aback for a moment. “My good man,” he said at last, “where do you live?”

“I live in Harlem.”

‘Then don’t you think it would be wise for you to join a church in your own neighborhood?”

“Yes, sir, but I desire to join this church.”

The pastor thought a bit. “My good man,” he said, “suppose you go home and pray over this important step.”

This the Negro did, returning the next day.

“Pastor,” he said, “I went home and prayed to the Lord like you told me, and asked Him how I could get into this church, and the Lord appeared to me and He said, “Rastus, why do you ask Me how to get into that church? Why, man, for ten years, I’ve been trying to get into that church Myself!”

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David M. Ross was both a public school teacher and a Sunday School teacher when he wrote to George Q. Cannon in 1887 expressing his concerns about a practice he was seeing among his fellow Sunday School teachers. In his complicated, tangled roles as head of the Sunday Schools as well as private publisher of the Juvenile Instructor and producer/printer/publisher of other commercial materials, Cannon was publishing and distributing a set of “Question and Answer Cards” for use by the Sunday Schools, covering scriptural stories from both the Bible and Book of Mormon, and church history, and Ross was worried about how those cards were being used.

An extract from Cannon’s questions and answers follows – please don’t be turned off by the length of this sample or get bogged down in reading it. This is only an illustration of the detail and potential tediousness of the material covered by these cards.

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Okay, so I haven’t mastered the fine art of stitching scans together. But I can recognize the charm of these Children’s Friend covers from 1965, where the front and back covers form a continuous picture. The covers are signed “B.R. Johnston,” about whom I know nothing.

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V. Travel by Sea
VII. Table Manners (to be linked when posted)

VI. Ball Room Etiquette.

It has been stated in these lessons that the Lord is not displeased with His children who indulge themselves, under right conditions and at proper times and places, in the recreation of dancing, which is designed to and does re-create or make anew the wasted nervous forces which are of that fine substance that not even food itself can supply the need. The body requires sleep and rest to revivify its tissues, and this, to be sure, rests the nerves also; and yet, not even sleep and suitable food will keep the nervous system in good order, if a monotonous life without recreation be the rule.

There is a strong prejudice in the Christian world against dancing and going to theatres, and this is harmful, not because of the actual dancing itself nor of the attendance at the theatre, if it be a proper one, but because so any weak-minded persons are led by these forms of amusement into sin and misery.

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The numinous adventure of The Pine Cone Story continues …

After a paddle in the sea, and a picnic on a gloriously sunny Sunday afternoon, the weather suddenly turned. The sun was hidden by clouds, the heat became oppressive, the air humid. All seasoned campers will know the tell tale signs that a thunderstorm is on the way, and for us it led to a dilemma. We were planning to drive back to my mother’s house in London that night, after a visit to a second graveyard, but the thought of doing so with a damp tent was not appealing. After much pleading on my part, it was agreed to stop off at the second graveyard, in a place called Sturry, very close to Canterbury. By this point the offspring were tired, grumpy, and not nearly as co-operative as they had been earlier in the day. Not co-operative at all, in fact.

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From 1956 –

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In October conference, 1956, Apostle Mark E. Petersen reported a conversation with another Church member:

He said, “My little five year old girl was watching television and was watching the Lucky Strike program. When the program was over, she turned to Dad, and said, ‘Daddy, when I grow up I am going to smoke Lucky Strikes.’” It turned this man pale as he thought about the effect of the advertising upon his little girl.

That anecdote supported a project Elder Petersen had been working on for a year or more, under the direction of Elder Harold B. Lee: How to counteract negative influences the Brethren saw occurring in the lives of the Church’s youth.

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