The following broadcast, written and announced by Richard L. Evans, and originating with Station KSL, Salt Lake City, Utah, was presented from 9:35 to 10 a.m. Sunday, October 5, 1969, through the courtesy of the Columbia Broadcasting System’s network throughout the United States, parts of Canada, and through other facilities to several points overseas.

(Organ begins playing “As the Dew” on signal)

(On signal Organ and Choir break into “Gently Raise” singing words to end of second line, and humming to end of verse for announcer’s background)

Announcer: Once more we welcome you within these walls with Music and the Spoken Word from the Crossroads of the West.

CBS and its affiliated stations bring you at this hour another presentation from Temple Square in Salt Lake City, with Richard Condie conducting the Tabernacle Choir, Alexander Schreiner, Tabernacle Organist, and the spoken word by Richard Evans.

From the words of the Master as recorded in Matthew, the Tabernacle Choir sings music from the Messiah: “His yoke is easy; His burden is light.”

(Choir: “His Yoke Is Easy”—Handel)

Announcer: Alexander Schreiner presents today on Temple Square “Toccata in C Major” by Edward D’Evry.

(Organ: “Toccata in C Major”—D’Evry)

Announcer: “The bread that bringeth strength I want to give, the water pure hat bids the thirsty live; I want to help the fainting day by day, I’m sure I shall not pass again this way. … I want to give to others hope and faith, I want to do all the Master saith, I want to live aright from day to day, I’m sure I shall not pass again this way…”

(Choir: “I Shall Not Pass Again This Way”—Effinger)

We “shall not pass again this way”—and in these swift passing scenes and seasons there seems to come—insistently, almost above all else—this compelling cry: Take time for your children. More and more, professional people are telling us that children are shaped and molded at a very early age—so early that it is a sobering fact to face. Home, parents, early impressions set the pattern for the future—and the evidence is overwhelming that nothing in this world is ever going to take the place of wholesome, happy homes. And there is more to this than food, shelter, and physical sustenance. There is the shaping of attitudes, of minds, of morals; opening avenues of interest and activity; instilling honesty, respect, reverence; prayers at a mother’s knee; correction with fairness and firmness “showing forth afterwards an increase of love” and kindness. All this we cannot be, all this we cannot do, by not being there, by living separate lives, by an over-absorption in outside interests. Take time for your children. They are so soon grown, so soon gone. “Is mother home?” Where is mother?” are the questions asked when they come home from anywhere. Oh, let them have the blessing of your being there. Take time for open arms; for talking, for reading, for family prayer, for home evenings and hours.

As one discerning poet put it: “Richer than I you can never be—I had a mother who read to me.” Take time for making memories, for fixing sure foundations that will last long after less essential things are far forgotten. Mothers need to be home. A mother, a father, waiting is a source of safety and assurance. Parents need to give their children wholesomeness and wholeness by the very lives they live. Oh, the blessedness of coming home and finding mother there, with love and kindness and encouragement. Life goes quickly. Don’t brush them off and turn them over to others. Take time for your children—before they’re grown, before they’re gone. Oh, take time for your children.

(Organ: Without Announcement)—“Come Unto Jesus”—Huish)

Announcer: With Alexander Schreiner at the Tabernacle Organ we have heard a hymn tune by O. P. Huish: “Come Unto Jesus.”

With the worshipful music of an old French melody the Choir sings Gustav Hoist’s arrangement of these words taken from a Greek text: “Let all mortal flesh keep silence, and with fear and trembling stand … Christ our Lord to earth descendeth our full homage to demand… .”

(Choir: “Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence”— Hoist)

Announcer: And now with a Welsh hymn melody by John Hughes we hear the Choir recall the solid, reassuring words of Robert Robinson: “Guide us, O Thou Great Jehovah, guide us to the promised land; we are weak, but Thou art able—hold us with thy powerful hand. When the earth begins to tremble, bid our fearful thoughts be still; when thy judgments spread destruction, keep us safe on Zion’s hill.”

(Choir: “Guide Us, O Thou Great Jehovah”—Hughes)

Announcer:Again we leave you within the shadows of the everlasting hills. May peace be with you this day—and always.

This concludes the two thousand and ninety-fourth presentation continuing the 41st year of this traditional broadcast from the Mormon Tabernacle on Temple Square, brought to you by CBS and its affiliated stations, originating with KSL in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Richard Condie conducted the Tabernacle Choir, Alexander Schreiner was at the Organ, the Spoken Word by Richard Evans.

In another seven days, at this same hour, Music and the Spoken Word will be heard again from the Crossroads of the West.

This is the CBS Radio Network.