I Would Be  Friend

I would be a friend to the friendless and find joy in ministering to the needs of the poor.
I would visit the sick and afflicted and inspire in them a desire for faith to be healed.
I would teach the truth to the understanding and blessing of all mankind.
I would seek out the erring one and try to win him back to a righteous and happy life.
I would not seek to force people to live up to my ideals, but rather love them into doing the thing that is right.
I would live with the masses and help to solve their problems that their earth life may be happy.
I would avoid the publicity of high positions and discourage flattery of thoughtless friends.
I would not knowingly wound the feeling of any, not even one who may have wronged me, but would seek to do him good and make him my friend.
I would overcome the tendency to selfishness and jealousy and rejoice in the successes of all the children of my Heavenly Father.
I would not be an enemy to a living soul.
Knowing that the Redeemer of mankind has offered to the world the only plan that will fully develop us and make us happy hereafter, I feel it not only a duty, but also a blessed privilege to disseminate the truth. PRES. GEORGE ALBERT SMITH