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Show the underlying cause of Aunt Rachels early heart failure, or the test of character and the opportunity for virtuous work that Aunt Helga's barren years had provided.' Both assumptions made no sense to me. How could one produce quality people - the primary aim of The Principle - i f one was too overwhelmed with quantity to c u l t i v a t e each individual! I wondered if Ben and Ervil had f e l t ' l o s t in the shuffle' just as I had. Had they seen l i f e in two categories: powerful and powerless, and had they determined to become powerful as I once had, to become 'mighty and strong' regardless of the cost of asserting their strength? How different was my f a t h e r ' s assertion of strength than Ben's bizarre ways of 'proving' that he was 'the One Mighty and Strong?" I remembered how Uncle Arthur had happened upon Ben LeBaron one day while crossing Main Street. When Uncle Arthur refused to stop on the s t r e e t and argue priesthood lineage with the hulking man, Ben stretched himself out on the warm asphalt and held up t r a f f i c for an hour while he did a couple hundred push-ups to prove that he was f i l l e d with righteous strength. "I'm the head of I s r a e l , " Ben had shouted between roars and push-ups. "You t e l l that to Rulon!" And then, swiveling his head to address the gatherPcrowd, he said7 "And t e l l David 0. Mackay! I'm the^head of the Church!" kart^atriY*^^ between' Ban-ana my father wiile the family staled on the LeBaron ralch at Los ParceleJ during my f a t h e r ' 1 parole. When Ben c anmanded my father tcl respect him as Pa-Jriarch of the Priestlood, my father must kave l o s t pat Ben, he snapfed, "You've no more priestho ience^^for although he usually ignored „„ n,n*l rvriesthood than ttfift mesquite |
