A Good Soldier of Jesus Christ

Young men and young women of the army of Jesus Christ, I want to begin by telling you a story. It is about a young man who, the day after his birthday in 1971, went as required by law to register for the draft. That young man was me. I did not mind registering so much. But I remem­ber vividly sometime later listening to the radio at my uncle’s shop where I worked for news of how high the numbers went. You see, I was in the last year of the lottery system. Every young man received a number from...