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12/5/07
"What is a man without vision? What is a man without an object in life?
He is like 'a painted ship upon a painted ocean.' A life, to be
successful, must have directness of purpose, and one reason for the
strength of this work and of this people is that God has blessed us with
a mission, with a work. O, blessed be the man with a work and the people
with a mission. When the Angel Moroni appeared to the prophet Joseph
Smith he did not say, 'you may wear soft clothing, God is going to give
you ease,' but he said: 'God has a work for you to do,' and in that work
the Prophet Joseph Smith achieved greatness and the favor of God, and
that is how we are becoming a great people, not by what we receive, but
by what we give. For it is more blessed to give than to receive. Now the
prophet of old said: Where there is no vision the people perish." -
Charles A. Callis, "Conference Report," October 1919, Out-Doors Overflow
Meeting, p.192
2/9/08
"I beg of you mothers and you
fathers to teach your daughters that they, too, have to fight a
strenuous battle. God bless and protect. the womanhood of this nation!
The young women, under the sustaining prayers and the counsels of their
mothers, need the restraining, discipline which characterizes a
well-ordered home. Protect the young men and young women, and build them
up in the faith of the true and the living God, so that when they go
forth in the great battle of life, they will have the assurance that
they will not fall victims to the evils of the world. God help us to be
loyal to him, to give unto him all the praise and the glory. And if we
go forth to battle, let us remember that the great God of the whole
earth, Jesus Christ, is the King...."
- Charles A. Callis., "Conference
Report," April 1917, Second
Meeting Outdoors, p.136
4/8/08
"When we see the judgments of
God coming upon the earth it is proof that the Savior, who said to the
troubled sea and angry elements, 'Peace,
be still,' will say to the
troubled world, 'Peace, be
still.' He will, at his second
coming, inaugurate the Millennium, bring to pass the glorious
resurrection, and all the things he has promised to those that obey him."
- Charles A. Callis, "Conference
Report," October 1928, Afternoon
Meeting, p.127
8/24/08
"It
should be the ideal of Latter-day Saints to be at the close of each
day one step nearer heaven. They should have in mind the building of
more stately mansions, mansions of character, of patriotism, of
thrift, of morality. We do not live for ourselves. Every man can wield
a tremendous influence for good, more than he thinks."
- Charles A. Callis, Conference Report, April 1936, Afternoon
Meeting, p.29
11/25/08
"We are walking in
the path of humility, and God is making us a power for good in the
world. After all, brethren and sisters, there is more strength in
the humility that comes from trusting in the Lord Jesus than in the
strength of worldly power. 'When I am weak,' said Paul, 'then am I
strong.' So long as the Latter-day Saints put their trust in God; so
long as they walk in the light, they will be clothed with a power
that is invincible. They are guided and led by men who are blessed
with inspiration and revelation from God: they have been led out of
the darkness of the world into the sunshine of political and
religious liberty. If we continue to pray to the Father and work
hard to have our prayers fulfilled or answered, God will give us a
goodly portion of His Holy Spirit. No man or woman need ever be
afraid that the Almighty will suffer His chosen people to be led
astray by any man or set of men. I care not for the theories men may
frame as to our existence, or the beginning of our existence. I know
that God has said, through His Holy Spirit, that we are His sons and
daughters, and that is comforting to my soul. We stand upon a sure
foundation, for our faith rests not in the wisdom of men, but in the
power of God." - Charles A. Callis, "Conference Report," April 1911,
Overflow Meeting, p.80
1/29/09
"The days are dark; we
suffer temptation, we suffer hardships of various kinds, but there is
one thing that depression and war cannot take from us. I refer to the
gift of eternal life. We should put more trust in the spiritual values
of existence. The things which are seen are temporal; but the things
which are not seen are eternal. Wars may rage, famine may come,
earthquakes and the like, and depressions, but these things cannot take
away the eternal riches of Jesus Christ. Some of these riches are the
glorious atonement, salvation for the dead, the second coming of the Son
of God, the glorious resurrection and the eternity of the marriage
covenant by which we are united in marriage on earth and in heaven by
the power of the holy Priesthood. Thieves and misfortune cannot take
these things from us, for they are immortal, God-given, and shall
survive death and destruction." - Charles
A. Callis, "Conference Report," October 1940, Afternoon Meeting,
p.119
5/2/10
"Why will not the people of the world engage in national
and international repentance and humiliation? God is not responsible for
our calamities. He has pointed out the means of escape. If we will turn
our faces towards him and repent this depression will vanish like magic.
Let the spirit of the Prince of Peace be firmly fixed in the councils of
the nations and observed; then all talk about war will cease, and
nations shall no longer learn war for their 'swords shall be beaten into
plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks.'" - Charles
A. Callis, "Conference Report," April 1935, First Day—Morning Meeting,
p. 17
7/5/16
Ere long the skies will rend and Jesus Christ shall descend in glory
with all his holy angels. Then will begin the long foretold Millennium,
for which women have wept and for which men have prayed. Christ shall
reign upon the earth in glory and in power from the rivers to the end of
the earth. In that glorious Millennium we shall have good government,
freedom from corruption; we shall rejoice in the divine reign of Him who
is Prince of Peace and King of Kings. - Charles
A. Callis, “Conference Report,” October 1940, Afternoon Meeting, p.119
7/11/16
As we are co-laborers with the Almighty, how can we indulge in the vain
hope that we shall be idle during the millennium. No, we shall be
co-laborers with Jesus Christ throughout all eternity. I am so grateful
that the hopes and the fond desires of the saints concerning immortality
and eternal life are voiced in the doctrines of the Church of Jesus
Christ of Latter-day Saints. The Apostle Paul tells us that when the
Savior comes to reign in power and in great glory, from the very
headwaters of immortality there is going to flow a stream of
immortality… - Charles A. Callis,
“Conference Report,” April 1943, Second Day-Morning Meeting, p.61