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 7, 1968, through the courtesy of 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.

Announcer: The Tabernacle Choir turns to a traditional song of a triumphant scene—suggested by a New Testament text: “Green wave the palms along the path today; Blossoms of gold and purple greet the King. Jesus, our Lord, in triumph leads the way; O, dry your tears and joyful homage bring!”

(Choir: “The Palms”— Faure, arr. Ringwald)

Announcer: Alexander Schreiner moves to the music of Edvard Grieg, with a thoughtful mood of the quiet hours of evening: “Nocturne.”

(Organ: “Nocturne”— Grieg)

Announcer: The Tabernacle Choir sings a traditional song from the 12th century: “Beautiful Savior, Lord of the nations, Son of God and Son of Man; Glory and honor, praise, adoration; now and forever more be thine.”

(Choir: “Beautiful Savior”—arr. Christiansen)

Announcer: There were scenes of light and triumph, overcoming scenes of darkness, death, and despair. We often see people bereaved and wonder how they face the irrevocable fact. But they face it because life goes on, and because the fact is there to face. They face it with an awareness that all of us shall face this ultimate eventuality. We all one day leave life and loved ones, or our loved ones leave us, and we go on, calmly as we can, as we must, because we must. “In every … age the thoughts of men have traveled … beyond the narrow bounds of mortal life,” wrote a distinguished writer, “and, while the mystery of death has been deeply and often tragically felt, it has never been accepted as a finality in human experience… . The tide of vitality in the heart and soul of man … sweeps past the mystery of death … into the undiscovered world beyond.” 1 “How [then] shall we think of the dead? … I can tell you how I think of … [them]. I think that there are no dead; I think that there is no death; … that life goes on unbroken by what we call death. … I think of death as a glad awakening from this … life; … as a graduation from this primary department into some higher rank … of learning. I think of the dead as possessing a more splendid equipment for a larger life … than was possible to them on earth—a life in which I shall in due time join them if I am counted worthy of their fellowship in the life eternal.” 2 It is this that sustains us as our loved ones leave—not the immortality of memory only, but the immortality of a literal personal continuance. And so we come again to a reaffirmation of faith—faith in the eternal continuance of truth, of intelligence, of personality, of progress — faith in the eternal plan and purpose of our Father, who made us in His own image, and whose intent it is that we should have everlasting life with our loved ones, with family and friends. As Henry de LaFayette Webster said, “There is a future, O thank God!”—a future where our loved ones wait.

(Organ: Without Announcement—“More Holiness Give Me”—Bliss)

Announcer: Alexander Schreiner has presented a hymn melody by Phillip P. Bliss: “More Holiness Give Me.” The Tabernacle Choir brings now to this hour, Joseph Holbrook’s setting for these words of Charles Wesley: “Jesus, Lover of My Soul, Let me to thy bosom fly, while the nearer waters roll, While the tempest still is high. Hide me, O my Savior, hide, till the storm of life is past; Safe into the haven guide; Oh, receive my soul at last.”

(Choir: “Jesus, Lover of My Soul” — Holbrook)

Announcer: 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 two-thousand and sixteenth presentation, continuing the 39th 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 die Crossroads of the West.

This is the CBS Radio Network.