Stilling the Storm

I endorse with all my heart the good counsel that has been given us by our president. I hope that we will remember it. ¶

I have enjoyed the evening very much, and have listened with pleasure to the singing and all that has taken place here. When the song was sung, "Peace, be Still," it brought me back to a little sail which I took on the Lake Geneseret. I there opened my Testament, and I read to my brethren the chapter where it speaks of Jesus stilling the storm on that same lake. I imagined myself back to that time, when he was lying in the boat asleep, and his disciples were afraid that they would be swallowed by the mad waves. As we sailed along, I wanted to steer, but our Arab friends were afraid to go far from the shore. They said that we might have just such a storm any time, and hence they wanted to hug the shore. We sailed near enough to the shore to have the flowers, the beautiful olianders, drop into the boat. I think lessons of this kind should be instilled into the hearts of the children. We want them to have faith. We want them, when passion moves them, to be able to still the storm of passion, to control themselves, and when they are subjected to storms of persecution, we want them to be trained in our Sunday schools to have faith and to put their trust in our Master, who has power to overrule even the storms of persecution for our good. ¶

Let the Sunday schools prosper. May you, my brethren and sisters, engaged in the good work, succeed in training the young minds entrusted to your care, that they may grow up and be an honor to their parents and to Zion. It is a blessed work you are engaged in. God bless you. Amen. ¶