No Substitute for Charity

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Columnist John Florez's analysis of what's wrong with our society (March 6) should ring loud bells with many, not least with all those who have read the First Presidency Message of President Gordon B. Hinckley in the March Ensign magazine. He tells his Saints, "When all is said and done, when you have lived your lives and go on to eternity, you will not take five cents worth of wealth that you have accumulated, not five cents."

The late great Methodist hymnist Rev. Thomas Tiplady wrote, while still in the trenches of France after WWI, "The questions (at that judgment day) are not to be intellectual or theological, but moral and social, and they are to be answered with a plain 'yes' or 'no.' The examiner will ask, 'How did you treat your neighbor?' "

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