https://archive.org/stream/Doctrines-of-Salvation-volume-3-joseph-fielding-smith/JFSDoctrinesofSalvationv3_djvu.txt Family, if you have time to spare to read this volume, it tells us so much! HOW TO BETTER WORLD CONDITIONS. The Lord intends that men shall be happy; that 
is his purpose. But men refuse to be happy and make themselves miserable because they
think their ways are better than God's ways, and because of selfishness, greed, and the 
wickedness that is in their hearts; and that is the trouble with us today. The leaders of our 
nation are struggling and trying to do something to better conditions. I can tell you in a few 
words just how it can be done, and it is not going to be done by legislation — it is not going 
to be done by pouring money out upon the people. 

Temporary relief is not going to better the situation because we will still be struggling and 
fighting and contending with crime, with disease, with plagues, and with pestilence, with the 
whirlwinds, and with the dust storms, and with the earthquakes and everything else coming 
upon the face of the earth, according to the predictions of the prophets — all because men 
will not heed the warning voice. 

When we quit loving money and get the love of gold out of our hearts and the greed and 
selfishness, and learn to love the Lord, our God, with all our hearts, and our neighbor as 
ourselves, and get on our knees and learn to pray and repent of our sins, we will have 
prosperity, we will have peace, we will have contentment. But the people will not repent no 
matter what warning is made, no matter how much their attention is called to these things; 
the people will not repent because their hearts are set upon evil, and destruction awaits them. 
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