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 10:00 a.m., Sunday, April 9, 1967, through the courtesy of Columbia Broadcasting System’s network, throughout the United States, parts of Canada, and through other facilities to several points overseas. The broadcast was as follows:

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.

With music by Cesar Frank the Tabernacle Choir sings a deeply moving sacred song: “O Lord most holy, O Lord most mighty, … grant us Thy truth and love … Guide and protect us … Keep Thine our wand’ring thoughts; In all our sorrows let us find our rest in Thee; And in temptation’s hour Save through Thy mighty pow’r, …”

(Choir: “O Lord Most Holy”— Franck-Robertson)

Announcer: Alexander Schreiner, Tabernacle Organist, presents on Temple Square today, an Improvisation on the hymn tune “Harwell”.

(Organ: Improvisation on “Harwell”—Anon.)

Announcer: With the music of Tschaikowsky the Tabernacle Choir recalls a motet for mixed voices: “O praise ye, God in the Heav’ns, O praise Him in the Earth beneath, O praise ye, Alleluia.”

(Choir: “O Praise Ye God”—Tschaikowsky)

Announcer:  “… If there is still one … girl … who hopes to reform the man after she has married him,” said a seasoned observer, the “advice is: Don’t. If the person … doesn’t meet your main specifications for a life companion now, the chances are 99 to 1 that … nothing you can do after the ceremony will improve matters.” This may not always be so. Certainly there are exceptions. But people tend to continue to be basically what they are and to believe what they believe. And the desire to please, to change, to reform, to reshape themselves after marriage seems less certain than the promises and protestations before marriage. And a nagging marriage with its reminder of unfulfilled promises has abrasiveness and heartbreak in it. “If you … were paddling a canoe together,” said another, “the important thing is … that each paddle … in the same direction. … In marriage, if each has a different goal, they will always be in trouble.” This is true especially as to standards and basic beliefs. Oh, how important to remember this before marriage is entered into, and never let such far-reaching facts be obscured by the attraction of the moment, or the music and moonlight. “Marriage,” said Margaret Lee Runbeck, “should be something worked toward with every step you take. It shouldn’t be an unforeseen emergency, like being called upon unexpectedly to make a speech on a subject you’ve never heard of.” In a great understatement, an unknown writer said: “Marriage … isn’t a relationship of perfection. It is a relationship of imperfect people who can make it happy or unhappy, … and no one else can, but the two people who are parties to it.” And nowhere more than in marriage—nowhere more than in this closest relationship of life — should two people be more courteous and kind and considerate. For whom should we show the better side of ourselves? Where else but home and family should we be better or at our best? To whom should we wish more to make ourselves attractive? Look most forthrightly and honestly at the facts before marriage, and be at your best after marriage, with those to whom you have pledged love and loyalty. “A successful marriage is worth all the time, patience, [kindness and consideration] it takes.”

(Choir: Without Announcement—“There is Beauty All Around”—Anon.)

(Organ: —Without Announcement—“What Was Witnessed in the Heavens”—Stephens)

Announcer: The Tabernacle Choir has sung a hymn of the love of home: “There is beauty all around When there’s love at home; There is joy in every sound When there’s love at home.”

With Alexander Schreiner at the Tabernacle Organ we have heard a hymn tune by Evan Stephens: “What Was Witnessed in the Heavens.”

With the music of Campbell-Tipton we hear from the Tabernacle Choir, the moving, thankful, fervent words from the 9th Psalm: “I will give thanks unto the Lord; with my whole heart will I Praise Thee, O God… For Thou hast not forsaken them that love Thee.”

(Choir: “I Will Give Thanks Unto The Lord”— Campbell-Tipton)

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

This concludes the nineteen hundred and sixty-fourth presentation and continues the 38th 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.

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.