Church out of debt, faithful told in 1907

• President Joseph S. Smith told the priesthood holders to be "pure, honest, broad-minded and charitable." He also advised parents to properly teach their children gospel principles, or they would never be permitted to enter the kingdom of heaven.

• Elder John Henry Smith of the Quorum of the Twelve warned against the day's pleasure-seeking trend, which can make men lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God.

• President Anton H. Lund urged good record-keeping by all church members. He also urged any with private journals of significant ancestors in the church to give them to the church historian, so that church accounts could be supplemented.

• Elder James Duffin, former member of the presidency of the Central States Mission, said during his seven years in that calling none of the more than 600 full-time missionaries ever had to be released for misconduct or sin.

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