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Show 163 magazines never would amount to a damn if they did not get some people with independence in there who had real ideas and would come out and express themselves. If they were going to rehash old stuff, they would not hold the young people. I told them I thought that Dialogue had caught the attention of more people and had more influence than our own Church magazines did. It has some of the kind of independence that I think is a good thing. I think it is walking a very dangerous road and could easily go sour, but so far it has been good. And I told them that if they left out people like Brother Nheelwright, who had been working with the Instructor, they would be making a big mistake, and so on. I gave them quite a bit of very fine advice and I damned a little when I wanted to and when I got through, Brother Evans said, 'I do not know anyone who characterizes the idea of independence any more than you do; are you applying for the job?I I said, 'No, I am not applying for the job, but I think I have given good advice.I Everyone was very nice to me. I did not have any feeling, even after I had been there, that there was anything wrong, and thought that they must have a high opinion of my wisdom. When I got back to my office, my secretary asked, 'where have you been?I I said I had been down to that Church magazine meeting. She said, 'That is this afternoon at two o'clock.I What is so funny is not that I made a mistake, but that I was so insensitive as to not realize it. I did not go to the two o'clock meeting. I felt I had done my work. Brother Evans got up in that meeting and, I am told, said that they had had a meeting in the morning and that very useful advice had been supplied by Brother Eyring. He did not say I had not been invited. I was amazed at the graciousness of the brethren in making me feel I belonged, when any one of them might well have been annoyed. They are a most urbane group. On my part, there wgs no holding back; I just tried to help them all I could. With such experiences and his deep faith, it is not surprising that Eyring would say that the position he was proudest of was not his scientific achievements and honors, but his membership on the Sunday School General Board of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.16 Eyring's wife also benefited from the move to Utah and her talents were put to use by her Church. She served in the Monument Park Ward Relief Society Presidency for a time after her arrival, then in l950, |
