This program, which will complete its fifteenth year of continuous nationwide broadcasting in July of midyear, was presented by the tabernacle choir and organ, and broadcast through the courtesy and facilities of the Columbia Broadcasting System’s coast-to-coast network, throughout the United States. The broadcast, written and announced by Elder Richard L. Evans, originated with radio station KSL, Salt Lake City, and was presented as follows:

(Organ began playing “As the Dew,” and then the organ and choir broke into “Gently Raise,” singing words to end of second line from which point choir hummed for announcer’s background to end of verse.)

Richard L. Evans: With the passing of another seven days, we welcome you once more to Temple Square in Salt Lake City, as music and the spoken word are heard again from the Crossroads of the West. At this hour Columbia presents the 769th nationwide performance of this traditional broadcast, now in its fifteenth consecutive year.

The Tabernacle Choir is conducted by J. Spencer Cornwall. Alexander Schreiner is at the organ. The spoken word by Richard L. Evans.

On this Sabbath on which we commemorate the resurrection of Jesus the Christ, the choir opens with the singing of an anthem by Saint Saens, “Arise, Shine, Thy Light Is Come … the glory of the Lord is risen… . Behold thy King cometh unto thee.”

(Choir, sang, “Arise, Shine, Thy Light Is Come.”)

Evans: A hymn in keeping with the Easter theme is sung now by the Tabernacle Choir, with arrangement by J. Spencer Cornwall, words by Eliza R. Snow and music by Thomas Mclntyre—“How Great the Wisdom and the Love That Filled the Courts on High.”

(Choir sang, “How Great the Wisdom and the Love”—Mclntyre.)

Evans: Alexander Schreiner at the Tabernacle organ brings now to this Temple Square hour the “Grand Chorus Dialogue,” by Gigout.

(Organ presented “Grand Chorus Dialogue”—Gigout.)

Evans: To see death gently pronounce its benediction upon a fulness of years, to see its merciful hand remove the infirmities of one who has traveled long and became weary of the journey, is a hallowed experience—-but to see death hover near the fairest youth of many lands and make its choices from among them is quite another thing—youth, whose lives are crowded with plans and prospects—youth, who should be confident in the promise of many days to come, but who, paradoxically, live as though they had less time than the aged. “The days of his youth hast thou shortened… . How long, Lord? wilt thou hide thyself forever? … Remember how short my time is.” (Psalm 89:45-47.) Thus spoke the Psalmist—and in tragic despair the story might there end, except for the assurance of Easter, which our world needs now more than ever before in its uneasy history… . “Remember how short my time is.” … Time is short, whether you’re twenty or whether you’re eighty. “A thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past … Thou carriest them away as with a flood” (Psalm 90:4, 5.)

“For tomorrow we die.” … But we don’t! Life goes on—here and now for most of us, and if not here, then somewhere else—not with forgetfulness, but with acute memories of all that has been, and with the promise of all cherished things renewed … “Remember how short my time is.” … To youth pressed for time, to youth in a generation of uncertainties, we say: Live your lives as though they would continue forever—for they will! And this assurance leaves room in life only for the things we would be proud to acknowledge no matter how long we lived—-and it leaves no cause for crowding years into days, blindly and breathlessly; no place for questionable short-cuts, or for the cheapening of any part of life because time may be short. Time is spent quickly for all of us, whether we’re old or whether we’re young… . “But tomorrow we live”—according to the promise of Him who died that men might live.

(Choir sang “Alleluia”—Mozart.)

Evans: From the choir we have heard “Alleluia” from the Motet “Exsultate, Jubilate,” by Mozart. And now from Temple Square we present variations on the theme “Redeemer of Israel,” as arranged by the organist.

(Organ presented fantasy on “Redeemer of Israel.”)

Evans: “And now, after the many testimonies which have been given of him, this is the testimony, last of all, which we give of him: that he lives; for we saw him, even on the right hand of God; and we heard the voice bearing record that he is the only begotten of the Father—that by him, and through him, and of him, the worlds are and were created, and the inhabitants thereof are begotten sons and daughters unto God.” “We will sing of the Lord now victorious! All the terrors of death were in vain! Let us sing of the Christ ever glorious: He is risen in glory to reign.”

(Choir sang, “Lord Now Victorious”—Mascagni from “Cavalleria Rusticana.”)

Evans: “I am the resurrection and the life. He that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live. Believest thou this: Yea, Lord, I believe.”

(Organ theme: “As the Dew.”)

Evans: This Sabbath hour from the Crossroads of the West is ended. Until we beckon your thoughts again unto the hills, may peace be with you, this day and always—even that peace offered by Him who is the Prince of Peace, who will come yet again as He has promised.

This concludes the 769th nationwide performance of this broadcast from the Mormon Tabernacle on Temple Square, presented by the Columbia network and its affiliated stations, originating with Radio Station KSL in Salt Lake City.

As the voices of the choir and organ fade within these echoing walls, so will they return at this same hour next Sunday over Columbia stations, from coast-to-coast, continuing the fifteenth year of this traditional broadcast from Temple Square.