Brigham Young University - Banyan Yearbook (Provo, UT)

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Work-togetherness is service of the highest form. The work-togetherness of dollars spells capital, and drives the wheels of financial enterprise to the highest summits of material success. The work-togetherness of minds constructs Republics and plans progress in a manner incomparable with all the efforts of the scatter-brainness of the world. The work-togetherness of heart gives to the state, patriotism ; to the school. loyalty ; to the church, devotion : and to the home, felicity. The foundation of the work-togetherness of dollars must be laid in fru- gality : capital comes to him only who spends less than he earns. The work-togetherness of heart is fostered in the family circle through sac- rifice and appreciation. It manifests itself in a high degree where there is co-oper- ative consideration for each other s tasks, a sharing of each other ' s triumphs, and the holding sacred of each other ' s rights. A young man just coming into citizen- ship, said to his father, Father, while I am not convinced that there is harm in the act itself, I will not go joy-riding on the Sabbath day, because I can not afford to tear down what you are trying to build up — a reverence for the Sabbath. Work- togetherness of heart had won its way in that household. Every applause that he joins, every college song he sings, every cheer he gives. every response of his soul to the call for reverence at devotion, adds to the student ' s power of work-togetherness of heart. Today Old Glory waves from the windows and porches of private resi- dences, and from the tops of business houses and public buildings. All over the land the starry banner is unfurled. The display is a signal that our whole nation is engaged in the work-togetherness of heart protesting against an insult to our flag. We go to church to learn, but more to love. It is a place of spiritual recre- ation, where strife is never welcomed — a place in which there are no seats for covetousness or vanity ; hate has not even standing room ; and where mortals may become, through the work-togetherness of the heart, most nearly like that One who is the object of their worship. God ' s promise is kept, Where two or three are gathered together in my name, as touching one thing, behold, there will I be in the midst of them. Such worship has always been the work-togetherness of God and men. — Geo. H. Brimhall.

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IGM M! M ' DI£I M MSLSDM Andrew Clarence Nelson was born January 20, 1864, in Ephraim, San- pete County, Utah. In the fall of 1884 he entered the Brigham Young Academy, and was graduated from the normal course on the 23rd of May, 1890. A. C. Nelson ' s name is found on the commencement program of 1890, the normal topic having been assigned to him. His address gave earnest of the cleverness that later characterized his public addresses and after-dinner speeches. After leaving the B. Y. Academy he had charge of the L. D. S. Sem- inary at Manti, and on November, 1896, was elected superintendent of schools in Sanpete County, which position he held until January, 1901, when he took the oath of office as state superintendent of public instruction. For fourteen years he held this position, discharging his official duties until the eleventh hour. He passed to his reward on the 26th day of Decem- ber, 1913. Devotion to work, intelligent sympathy towards good men and good measures, many of which measures he was instrumental in helping through legislative bodies, are qualities for which he is known. In and out of his native state he made many warm friends. Affability was of the very air that he breathed. There sat by his side in those days at the old warehouse, Professor and Mrs. R. R. Lyman, Dr. George W. Middleton, Professor A. C. Lund, Dean E. S. Hinckley, and many other representative persons, all of whom cherish his sacred memorv and his heartening smile.