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Author: Various Senior Brethern
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Because man is a child of God his divine potential requires that he be free. In the Lord's own words "I, the Lord God, make you free.'~ It follows that whatever tends to negate or diminish individual liberty is contrary to God's will as well as destructive of human worth and dignity.
In The Challenge and the Choice, Richard Vetterli concentrates in one volume selected speeches and writings -some written specially for this book -by eminent Latter-day Saints which focus on this vital theme. With conviction and eloquence they outline pertinent historical data on the rise and fall of liberty, showing in the process that certain political and social programs have always resulted in loss of the citizen's freedoms; forcefully draw the parallels between past national declines and present alarming trends, particularly in the United States; and forthrightly pinpoint the causes and the remedies.
Facing the title page is the impressive list of contributors. It represents a variety of talents and callings such as Church leadership, administrative capacity, teaching skill, successful authorship, public speaking ability, outstanding scholarship, and a high level of general experience. Richard Vetterli is him-self an accomplished author, and besides compiling this work he has added two of his own penetrating essays. The foreword -which contains a pungent summary of the modern threats to man's freedom and a short biographical sketch of each of the book's contributors -is written by Cleon Skousen.
Both the theory and practice of freedom are clearly set out in this book. The contributors take as their standards the principles stated or implied in God's revealed word -principles such as man's moral agency, the inseparableness of freedom and responsibility, the im-portance of opposition in mortal growth, and the divine origins of the Constitution of the United States. Such standards are then used as the measuring rod in coming to grips with practical and timely matters like communism, socialism, the welfare state, the role of government, war, and the intellectual approach to truth. This combination and focus, readably expressed in the varied styles of the contributors, evokes in the reader a ready interest and a deeper understanding of the problem.
In a day when time-honored moral and religious standards are increasingly called in question, this book strikingly reasserts them and brings them into modern focus in terms of personal freedoms. Life faces us with many challenges and choices. This book warns that none are more important to the future of the citizen and the nation than the challenge to be informed, alert and active in the cause of liberty, and the choice between the road to freedom and the road to personal and national enslavement. These crucial modern alternatives make The Challenge and the Choice a vital book for all.
Pages: 286
