FIFTEENTH BOOK OF THE
FAITH PROMOTING SERIES
DESIGNED FOR THE INSTRUCTION
AND ENCOURAGEMENT OF YOUNG
LATTER-DAY SAINTS
COMPILED AND PUBLISHED BY
GEO. C. LAMBERT
SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH
1914
April 8, 1914
To the First Presidency, City.
Dear Brethren:
I have had a desire for a long time past to resume the publicationof the Faith Promoting Series that I originated and publishedsomething like thirty-five years ago, but which has been suspendedfor almost thirty years.
I received the sanction of the Church authorities when thepublication of this series was commenced, and had ample evidenceafterwards of the popularity of the volumes issued, and of thegeneral benefit resulting therefrom. I now desire your sanctionin what I may do in publishing additional volumes; and hope tosubserve the interests of the Church and promote true faith only inwhat I publish.
If you deem it necessary to appoint a committee to whom I mayrefer any matter concerning which there may be a question as topropriety, etc., I shall be glad to have you do so.
I am prepared to assume all financial responsibility, and believe,with the experience I have had, I shall be able to do effectivework in the selection and preparation of the matter.
I intend to make the volumes about one hundred pages each, and hopeto be able to sell them at twenty-five cents per volume.
I have the matter partially prepared for two volumes, the first torelate to Temple work, and to be called "Treasures in Heaven," thesecond to contain a variety of incidents and experiences, and to becalled "Choice Memories."
A waiting your kind consideration and reply, and with kindestregards, I remain
Your Brother,
GEO. C. LAMBERT.
April 30, 1914
Elder George C. Lambert, City.
Dear Brother:
We learn by yours of the 28th inst. that you desire to resume thepublication of the "Faith Promoting Series," discontinued somethirty years ago, and we take pleasure in informing you that youhave our sanction to do this, and that we have appointed EldersGeorge F. Richards, A. W. Ivins and Joseph F. Smith, Jr. as acommittee to read the manuscript.
With kind regards,
Your Brethren,
JOSEPH F. SMITH, ANTHON H. LUND, CHARLES W. PENROSE,
First Presidency.
No lesson taught by the Savior during his ministry in mortality wasmore frequently and thoroughly impressed than that of unselfishservice. Of those who labored solely for the things of this world,or for praise or the honors that men can bestow, He had a habit ofsaying: "They have their reward." If they obtained that which theystrove for they were already repaid: they were entitled to nothingmore. Of the rich He said, "Ye have received your consolation." Itwas not sufficient that man should seek to benefit or bring happinessalone to those they loved. Even that He evidently regarded as a speciesof selfishness, as implied by the saying: "For if ye love them whichlove you, what reward have ye?" "For sinners do even the same." Hisexhortation was: "Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, wheremoth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal;but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth norrust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal."
All this was not intended to imply that wealth itself was intrinsicallybad, or that poverty had any essential virtue, except as a means toan end. The rule was, as expressed by the great Teacher, that "wherethe treasure is, there will the heart be also." A sublime test uponthis point was th