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President McKay in turn had a powerful influence as a loving father. When one of his sons, David Lawrence, was a young boy, he accompanied his father in a horse-drawn carriage. “We forded a swollen river in a thunderstorm,” David Lawrence later recalled, “and got caught between that river and a mountain torrent. I thought the end of the world had come, and started to cry. Father held me on his lap in his arms all night until we were rescued in the morning. It’s hard to disobey a man who loves you and puts his arms around you.”3
https://www.lds.org/manual/teachings-david-o-mckay/chapter-16?lang=eng
President McKay’s example and counsel to Latter-day Saint parents demonstrated his understanding of their important influence and reflected his conviction that “no other success can compensate for failure in the home.”5
