The following broadcast, written and announced by J. Spencer Kinard, and originating with Station KSL, Salt Lake City, Utah, was presented from 9:30 to 10 a.m. Sunday, October 8, 1972, 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)
(At 9:30 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 the Tabernacle Choir from Temple Square in Salt Lake City, with Richard Condie conducting the Choir, Alexander Schreiner, Tabernacle Organist, and the Spoken Word by Spencer Kinard.
With Harry Rowe Shelley’s setting of the Good Shepherd and paraphrasing of the 23rd Psalm, the Choir voices these reassuring words: “And so through all the length of days, Thy goodness faileth never; Good Shepherd may I sing Thy praise within Thy house forever!”
(Choir: “The King of Love My Shepherd Is”— Shelley, arr. Scholin)
Announcer: The Tabernacle Choir turns next to a chorus from the Messiah: “His Yoke is easy, His burden is light.”
(Choir: “His Yoke Is Easy”— Handel)
Announcer: Alexander Schreiner, Tabernacle Organist, brings to Temple Square this hour a lyrical writing selected from the worshipful music of Guilmant.
(Organ: “Adagio”— Guilmant)
Announcer: “I stand all amazed at the love Jesus offers me; … Such mercy, such love, and devotion can I forget. … Oh, it is wonderful that he should care for me, enough to die for me… Oh, it is wonderful …
(Choir: “I Stand All Amazed” —Gabriel)
Announcer: We recently spoke of the need to be forgiving. The best place to practice and develop that principle is in our homes, as we conduct our daily family affairs.
The family unit is one of the great tools the Creator provided to help keep us on course. It is in a family setting that we most often learn about love, forgiveness, self-discipline and work. It is the best place to acquire beliefs and values. It is there we should learn the lessons of life.
Our family is the most important association we have. Its importance cannot be overstressed. The late spiritual leader David O. McKay offered this wise counsel: “No other success can compensate for failure in the home” [President David O. McKay, Conference Address, April 4, 1964]. And, as Harold B. Lee advised, “The most important work you will ever do … will be within the walls of your own home.” If we will work as hard at improving our own families as we do at many of the other things we attempt, our entire world will be a better place in which to live.
Family success does not happen automatically. It is a task which requires high priority and one that we cannot begin too soon. We must pray and work to develop pleasant family relationships, the vital foundation of which is loving parents.
Young people would do well to remember that a proper partner and a proper courtship are vital keys to a happy marriage and a successful family. Unhappy family relations is one of the greatest tragedies in life. None of us would willfully choose such an existence, yet, that is what we do when we make hasty or improper choices in building a marriage.
One of the greatest gifts mankind has is his freedom. We are free to set our own course; free to raise our own families; free to build our own society. We should remember, as one wrote, that “… concentrating on the quality of life in the home is, ultimately, the best way to raise the quality of life in society.”
The life that is spent improving the family is a life that is full and rich and beautiful. But too often we are “simple souls who stray” and who find that challenge difficult. Indeed, there can be no more important challenge than the success and happiness of our families.
(Choir: Without Announcement “Ye Simple Souls Who Stray”— Stephens)
Announcer: The Tabernacle Choir has sung the music of Evan Stephens: “Ye Simple Souls Who Stray far from the path of peace.”
Turning now to a familiar French Carol, we hear singing by the Women’s Chorus of the Tabernacle Choir: “Bring your torches … hurry and run … it is Jesus.”
(Women’s Chorus: “Bring Your Torches’”—arr. Wasner)
(Organ: Without Announcement “Beautiful Isle of Somewhere”—Fearis)
Announcer: Alexander Schreiner has presented the hymn “Beautiful Isle of Somewhere.”
In closing this traditional broadcast from Temple Square today, the Tabernacle Choir sings from the music of Albert Hay Malotte, “The Lord’s Prayer:” “Our Father, which art in heaven, Hallowed be Thy Name.”
(Choir: “The Lord’s Prayer”—Malotte)
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 two hundred fifty-first performance continuing the 44th year of this traditional broadcast from the Mormon Tabernacle on Temple Square, brought to you by CBS and its affiliated stations, originating with Station KSL in Salt Lake City, Utah.
Richard Condie conducted the Tabernacle Choir. Alexander Schreiner was at the Organ. The Spoken Word by Spencer Kinard.
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.
Always fun to see the contents of Music and the Spoken Word. (And especially fun here because this one is from the same month and year that I was born!)
Two tidbits: (1) I hadn’t realized that Spence Kinard was the announcer all the way back in 1972; (2) Interesting to see two quotes from LDS leaders here. My sense is that the current practice is to quote from LDS sources only sporadically.
I can always count on you to spot something in this series that completely escaped me! I had to look it up — he became “voice” in February of 1972, a couple of months after Richard L. Evans’ death. I’m pretty sure RLE had complete discretion over the contents of the Spoken Word during his tenure. Would be interesting to know how the later voices shaped the program, or how much it was influenced by whatever oversight authority there is now.
Agreed!
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