Professor A. O. Nelson's Operation and Survival

“I was with him, said Dr. Kirk, when he went to a great surgeon to have an operation performed on his neck near the jugular vein. The doctor said, 'Nelson, you have only one chance in a hundred.' 'Then,' said Nelson, 'I'll take the chance.' The doctor then asked him if he had ever contracted certain diseases. 'Why, no!' said Nelson indignantly, 'I am a Mormon.' ' What difference does that make?' 'Why, this difference, doctor : In every Latter-day Saint home every boy is taught as I was taught, to giow up through youth, through manhood, to marriagable age, just as pure as a maiden. There is no double standard of morality among the Mormons.' ' Have you lived that way ? ' said the doctor. 'Yes.' 'Then we'll perform the operation.' The one chance in the hundred was Superintendent Nelson's, for he passed through the operation successfully. — Millennial Star 85:41”