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level. Now, Brother Jones, of course, didn't have those qualities alone, but I think you will agree with me, among those who did, he was outstanding. Men of vision are in a sense the eyes of a community. They see ahead and sometimes when others of us are too much concerned with immediate problems, such as our riches, and too much concerned with things, these men, like prophets almost, are looking forward to see what the long-range results will be. They have an insight that enables them to have a foresight. For instance, we may Ile happy accumulating wealth from the soil, not knowing that we are bringing ahout our own destruction, for it happens in so many communities. A man of vision comes and tells us that, if we keep that up, our whole commnnity will go to pieces. I might illustrate in the life of Brother Jones. When Cedar City had won its college, there were those who knew that, if it were to be an agricultural College, it couldn't have heen built on a rocky knoll, it had to have land. As an individual, he went out and secured more land. When he had tlought it, the bank asked for collateral, and he put his property up for mortgage. H e did this in order that the college (:auld fulfill its mission. Or, take a case in more recent years. H e was talking to a friend of his who had gone into the turkey business. H e asked him how the business was doing. H e said it was paying out pretty well. "What can you do that will tell you about the future of Southern Utah?" said Mr. Jones, interested in the long-range . Jesus said, "Whosoever of you shall find his life shall lose it, and whosoever shall lose his life for me shall find it". Fortunately, communities have those people in them that can lose themselves in them. They recognize that community nced is morc important than personal ambition; who recognize that their own good is identified with the good of the community. Those are the men who sacrificed most willingly. Mr. Jones was one who did. A young lady back in New York once wrote to her fiance back in M'yoming. H e had referred to it as a God-forsaken country. She said, "There is no God-forsaken country except when men and women forsake their God." And men and women who have to huild a community without God are undertaking an impossible task. Unless those who build recognize the unity of mankind in God. There is a moral law of the universe just as real as a physical one, they will never build for success; A law as basic as one could he. That man's religion is most practical and most useful when it is identified by that law of hrotherhood. T o feed the hungry, to clothe the naked, to house the homeless, to encourage those who need encouragement, to lift those who are down, to work for peace, to forgive others; those are the true measurements of the Christian relizion. Sympathies are meaningless unless they contribute to human welfare. I have a feeling that Brother Jones

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Title	Lehi Willard Jones: Biography
Creator	Jones, York F., 1925-; Jones, Evelyn K.
Subject	Jones, Lehi Willard, 1854-1947; Cedar City (Utah) -- Biography; Cedar City (Utah) -- History; Mormon Church -- Utah
Description	Life of Lehi Willard Jones, centering in Cedar City, Utah, 1854-1947, and history of much of the development of Southern Utah
Source	Lehi Willard Jones
Date Digital	2008-01
Date Original	1972
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Publisher	Woodruff Printing Company
Language	eng
Genre	Biography
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Description	level. Now, Brother Jones, of course, didn't have those qualities alone, but I think you will agree with me, among those who did, he was outstanding. Men of vision are in a sense the eyes of a community. They see ahead and sometimes when others of us are too much concerned with immediate problems, such as our riches, and too much concerned with things, these men, like prophets almost, are looking forward to see what the long-range results will be. They have an insight that enables them to have a foresight. For instance, we may Ile happy accumulating wealth from the soil, not knowing that we are bringing ahout our own destruction, for it happens in so many communities. A man of vision comes and tells us that, if we keep that up, our whole commnnity will go to pieces. I might illustrate in the life of Brother Jones. When Cedar City had won its college, there were those who knew that, if it were to be an agricultural College, it couldn't have heen built on a rocky knoll, it had to have land. As an individual, he went out and secured more land. When he had tlought it, the bank asked for collateral, and he put his property up for mortgage. H e did this in order that the college (:auld fulfill its mission. Or, take a case in more recent years. H e was talking to a friend of his who had gone into the turkey business. H e asked him how the business was doing. H e said it was paying out pretty well. "What can you do that will tell you about the future of Southern Utah?" said Mr. Jones, interested in the long-range. Jesus said, "Whosoever of you shall find his life shall lose it, and whosoever shall lose his life for me shall find it". Fortunately, communities have those people in them that can lose themselves in them. They recognize that community nced is morc important than personal ambition; who recognize that their own good is identified with the good of the community. Those are the men who sacrificed most willingly. Mr. Jones was one who did. A young lady back in New York once wrote to her fiance back in M'yoming. H e had referred to it as a God-forsaken country. She said, "There is no God-forsaken country except when men and women forsake their God." And men and women who have to huild a community without God are undertaking an impossible task. Unless those who build recognize the unity of mankind in God. There is a moral law of the universe just as real as a physical one, they will never build for success; A law as basic as one could he. That man's religion is most practical and most useful when it is identified by that law of hrotherhood. T o feed the hungry, to clothe the naked, to house the homeless, to encourage those who need encouragement, to lift those who are down, to work for peace, to forgive others; those are the true measurements of the Christian relizion. Sympathies are meaningless unless they contribute to human welfare. I have a feeling that Brother Jones 243
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