Regarding Heber J. Grants penmanship As a youth, President Heber J. Grants penmanship was so poor that when two of his friends looked at it, one said to the other, 'That writing looks like hen tracks.' 'No,' said the other, 'it looks as if lightning has struck an ink bottle.' This, of course, touched Heber Grants pride, and he worked so diligently, so hard on it, that, while still in his teens and working as a policy clerk in the office of H. R. Mann and Co., he was offered three times his salary to go to San Francisco as a penman. He later became a teacher of penmanship and bookkeeping at the University of Deseret. In fact, with a specimen he had written before he turned seventeen, he took first prize in a territorial fair against four professional penmen.
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If we are striving, if we are working, if we are trying, to the best of our ability, to improve day by day, then we are in the line of our duty.
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The doctrine of pre-existence pours a wonderful flood of light upon the otherwise mysterious problem of man's origin. It shows that man, as a spirit, was begotten and born of heavenly parents and reared to maturity in the eternal mansions of the Father, prior to coming upon the earth in a temporal body to undergo an experience in mortality.
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Of what good is our faith, our repentance, our baptism, and all the sacred ordinances of the gospel by which we have been made ready to receive the blessings of the Lord, if we fail, on our part, to keep the commandments.
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No pains must be spared to wipe out all feeling of diffidence, embarrassment, or shame on the part of those receiving relief we must be one great family of equals. The spiritual welfare of those on relief must receive especial care and be earnestly and prayerfully fostered. A system which gives relief for work or service will go far to reaching these ends.
Heber J. Grant
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