Comments about ‘Reader Voices: LDS Church's welfare plan was pattern in a 1930s Virginia community’

I've been wondering if such an experience as this, outside the LDS Church but inspired by its teachings, had been applied somewhere. It would be a manifestation of great humility, generosity and Judeo-Christian charity to see more communities adopt such a stance today. Consider how much good could be accomplished now if these efforts were similarly applied. Need and love are at the basis of it. Power could corrupt its implementation, so I wonder... But small, locally-based community self-help services seem to me to be at least one great answer.

Lewis E. Harvie lived to suffer â along with his family and the entire region â the consequences of the secession he had so hotly and confidently sponsored years earlier.

Funny. Could you imagine saying something like this about the Founding Fathers had their bid for independence been unsuccessful? Good for Lewis to "hotly and confidently" sponsor a struggle for independence and freedom.