10 November 1980
No. 1
The basic message of the Bible is true:
We have a loving Father in Heaven.
Jesus Christ is His Son, our Savior.
Our Savior teaches us right from wrong.
As our Savior spoke to men through living prophets in ancient times, so he speaks to men today, to teach them right from wrong.
Right living leads to happiness and success. Wrong living leads to frustration, dissatisfaction, and despair.
Right living is to keep the commandments of our Savior in order to bless the lives of others and to make this world a better, happier, more beautiful place.
Wrong living is selfishness, tyranny, and distractiveness.
Because he clearly shows the way to right living, the living prophet is the most important person now on earth.
No. 2
When a man and a woman marry and selflessly love and support one another, the world is richer.
The family is the basic social, educational and economic unit of society. The strength of any people is measured by the strength of its families.
Children are a heritage of the Lord. The greatest challenge in life is to be a parent and to raise one’s children to be moral, able pillars of society.
The pure love of Christ makes it possible for family relationships to be perfected in this life and to continue past death into eternity.
No. 3
Church and state should be separate, but religion and politics cannot be separate.
Religion is how a person treats other people.
Politics is how people use government to treat other people.
A person’s politics is a true reflection of what he or she believes about religion.
Good religion is where people are honest, fair and kindly one to another.
Good government is where people are protected from those who are not honest, fair and kindly one to another.
Good religion produces good politics which produces good government.
No. 4
It is work which produces and protects the good things human beings need to enjoy life.
Intelligent, hard work is the best kind of work, for it tends to produce more than the worker needs for himself or herself.
Every person should work. Every person should work intelligently and hard, to produce and protect good things.
The ability to work hard and intelligently is a gift from God.
Those who acknowledge the gift of God are glad to share voluntarily the fruits of their labors with those who are not blessed with the ability to work.
No. 5
Every family should work together, play together, and worship together.
Every family should grow gardens together and store against the day of want.
Every family should keep records, so they will remember who they are and how the Lord has blessed them.
Every family should cooperate, so that the burden of one is voluntarily shared by all.
Every family should live together in the beauty of order, music, flowers and manners.
Every family should discover that they can become members of the personal family of Jesus Christ.