Ultimately, what Heavenly Father requires from each of His children is more than a contribution, declared President Howard W. Hunter in his Sunday morning address.

"It is a total commitment, complete devotion, all that we are and all that we can be," explained the president of the Council of the Twelve."I speak . . . of a commitment that is shown in our individual behavior, in our personal integrity, in our loyalty to home and family and community as well as to the Church.

"If we can pattern our life after the Master, and take His teaching and example as the supreme pattern for our own, we will not find it difficult to be consistent and loyal in every walk of our life."

President Hunter recalled the story of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego to illustrate the importance of being totally committed. The three young men refused to obey a command to worship a golden image. As a result, the trio was thrown into a furnace, heated seven times its normal temperature.

"Then transpired one of those great miracles to which the faithful are entitled according to the will of God," President Hunter related. "These three young men stood and walked about calmly in the midst of the furnace and were not burned. . . . Not even the smell of smoke had come upon these courageous, committed men.

"The ability to stand by one's principles, to live with integrity and faith according to one's belief - that is what matters, that is the difference between a contribution and a commitment. Quoting President Spencer W. Kimball, President Hunter said, " `I may not be able to eliminate pornography trash, but my family and I need not buy or view it.

" `I may not be able to close disreputable businesses, but I can stay away from areas of questioned honor and ill repute.

" `I may not be able to greatly reduce the divorces of the land or save all broken homes and frustrated children, but I can keep my own home a congenial one, my marriage happy, my home a heaven, and my children well adjusted.

" `I may not be able to stop the growing claims to freedom from laws based on morals, or change all opinions regarding looseness in sex and growing perversions, but I can guarantee devotion to all high ideals and standards in my own home, and I can work toward giving my own family a happy, interdependent spiritual life.

" `I may not be able to stop all graft and dishonesty in high places, but I, myself, can be honest and upright, full of integrity and true honor.'

"These are some of the routine but crucial tests of our day in which we must be willing to stand true with our integrity and our honor," noted President Hunter.

"Permit me to close by stressing one place in society where that strength and commitment must be shown if we are to survive as a nation, as a people, or even as a fully successful Church. We simply must have love and integrity and strong principles in our homes. We must have an abiding commitment to marriage and children and morality. We must succeed where success counts most for the next generation."