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Chaplain B.H. Roberts Eulogizes the Dead

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This post is a sort of prequel to previous posts about B.H. Roberts’s experiences as an LDS chaplain during World War I, here and here. It’s long; you can safely skip lightly through the multiple eulogies – I include them all here for the sake of history and to emphasize what must have seemed to be an endless experience to the men involved.

It was 90 years ago that the men of the 145 Field Artillery began to settle into their training routine at Camp De Souge, France (near Bordeaux). So far, the men seemed to be enjoying their experience in a new land, far from the battlefront. Sgt. William H. Latimer, a Latter-day Saint, wrote to his parents: Continue reading Chaplain B.H. Roberts Eulogizes the Dead →

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President Hinckley Came By It Honestly

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Bryant S. Hinckley – father of President Gordon B. Hinckley, businessman, high school and college administrator, popular public speaker, and president of Salt Lake City’s Liberty Stake (1925-1930+, the largest stake in the church, with a membership approaching 16,000) – used to write and speak on the uses of humor. I can glean some general principles from his writings –

”This delightful quality of the imagination has many uses and is given to few abuses.”

“Humor is built very largely upon incongruities and contrasts. An investigation of a large number of funny stories and their families shows that they are based upon comparatively few subjects, such as mothers-in-law, hen-pecked husbands, fatness, thinness, baldness, stuttering, sea sickness, foreigners, prohibition and politics.” Continue reading President Hinckley Came By It Honestly →