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Show To the Memory Of An A rlist Friend Address Delivered at the Funeral In Provo, of the Pioneer Artist, Samuel Jepperson by 1 Harrison R. Merrill Xl being called lb speak upon5lhls occasion feel honored far beyond my deserving. I have known Ibis genius, Samuel Jepperson, less than years. Yet, in the spirit, I believe I have than that probably much fo. In the few words I, have to say of him, I Shall dovole but little time to the ordinary ftfets Of biography. Thatj'.hej was born, is the important thing not lie re nor when. That ho was married to Minnie Johnson and that they loved Is also important. The work that he has (lone, the work that he! has Initialed, like the proverbial ripple on thi sea, will touch every Shore immortal shores. That he was k great sire Is indicated by bis progeny every one of w'liom is an artist to the very core. To hear1 Florence Jepporson Madsen and Marguerite sing is to know, what heavenly music may be like; to see Samuel Jeppcrsom tholr brother, work over delicate instruments with his fingers, Is to know what fificlyTormed hands directed by an artistic spirit may aceom- plish, to hear him play and direct la to know what a musician may do; to see the work of an Parley Jepperson, is to know Ihat artlstlo be Is transmitted; to know Waiter and the! others Is to know what men may be like.' That he waa a great and a fine husband one cnoWg aMer a visit with his loving wife, whose memories of her surely must forever tinged with beauty. A Spark of Grnlua, jKamucI Jepprroi wqi a poor immigrant boy when lie cami to Provo, but he carried with lnni frOfn the rtoCth cOuntGea divine spark of genius that glowed into a beautiful flame here under the inspiring peaks of his beloved Waiateh moilnlains) Mellowed by tlie tender-shadoof evening tnd jibe mystic call Of water-low on tlie whiMienag lake, that spark gavo (s pew skies new shores, icw life, through wlueh s tlie Hidden (kiuntfy shines, .' My aequfimtailep v'ltlt Hroiber Jepperson be gan when I jellied upfm him in lilspincgr stu-l- i. him b(il behind his home, jl was glad m Juki such a' plaee. It breathed of the buffalo trails, the covered wagons, the Indian attacks, tie itnud-wa- jl fopls that jf had aeon in so many of His pictures. He wfis po artist with a vchel Copland a saleenj smork; he was, iinme' diaflV.. my friend. His horny hands of toil' spoke of vv re lies w ilii the forces he had loved so nWh to pumt. j In Pioneer liishlon. j j He weloqmedThe in pjrmeer fashion. At that lime He was working in aj large curtain for soma opera housei or amusement liall in the Uintah basin. Tlie cene jiepirtc( a lake in whosQ bosom wasishadowed some of hi own mountains. Deer, tie Wild joy of all pioneers, (he symbol to them of freedom, were (Shown enjoying the viegin "Six, Above Is a street scene In Palmyra, New York, showing where the first edition of the Book of Mormon uni printed, second story of the building near Uie foreground. It was lit 11130, after the Prophet Joseph .Smith and Oliver Cowdery had completed the translation In manuserlpt from the ancient plates. The printing shop was owned byi Egbert B. Grnndin. The printer who set the first type, by hand from an printing case, was John Gilbert. It is related that Mr, Gilbert was an educated man and proferrd to make improvements in the copy. The Prophet listened to his proposal kindly, but said- - It must go Just as translated; so the printer followed ropy. The first edition was 5,000 copies, for $3,000. It was not divided into chapters and verses, a work that was done by Elder Orson Pratt, after several editions had been printed,' In 1879. The original text, 'j however, has In alt editions been strictly adhered to, ' y jii LIFE BEYOND THE GRAVE i Address By Radio , Delivered Sunday Evenings June 7, 1931, By arttit-weethp- Dr. Joseph F. Merrill Church Commissioner of Education jtf a man dm shall he live This question has (job n.it) probably L een uppermost in the minds of men during all the eenturios of their earthly ox 9, Istence, It the tiigebsoll lcrlure at Harvard I)r. MaeKensie stated, Th e versity in lief in pe .Immortality is found to have in human history, which would bcentiunivi rsa! seem to ii iply that it arose spontaneously and inevitably from the very structure and opera-hummind lion Of thf our talk last Sunday evening wa Iart,.of devoted jjoja disctisslon of this topic. We quoletj freely from an address by Prof, A, IL Compton on Life After Death, .who, as a plijsicist; considered Hip scientific evidence hearing on the quest on. j These Talks For Students. Jvow In5 order that joii may not misunder-atandim- ei jit la probably well that I slate again that these talks a:e prepared primarily for stu-- i dents for young collegians wlnf are in the quest Honing mod, whose pielhods of training require them to examine critically every question of discussion and fo accept as true only that foi1 whicl the evidenced convincing. They are ac quiring, nr have acquired, the habit of treating questions of religion as they treat questions of history or of science tiey call for the evidence, This ik the Explanation, therefore, of my efforts to challenge the attention of their intellects, to show the reasonableness of the fundamental propositions of religion relative to the existence of Got! a (id a ruture life. These students arc generally inclined to give attentive ear to what outstanding scientists have to say, to what science itself has to say, bearing on lhee aVwell as on other questions. I have, therefore. sumbrjoned scientists and leading tliinkeifjs to myJaW and propose doing so in sub- R 4niO gain? KILN OS, i Uni-19J- lie-so- an i , sequent; (talks. And the Church that I represent, the Church Saints permits of Jeaiis Christ of Latter-da- y me to do this. 1 wns born and raised In the Latter-da- y Saint Cljurch. And I have been taught all my life that the Church accepts alt truth truths of science, truths of philosophy, truths' from every source. The Church, there ieareh work- of the truth seeker, and of t nvsnie who, in the real spirit of st'lenco.iriek to discover truth. All my life I have beep taught thO duCliines that the 'Glory of God is intelligence ""that a man j canqolW be saved in Ignorance, that tl plctjse e should strive to become like him, llj.it God Is, cultivate the virtues vve attriln le to him, that progression, both here and .hereafter, is the privilege and duty of man, and biker simiiai; docilities, lienee the Church believe in educh' tlon education dor adults as Well a for youths fit lilaiids for schools, collegeii, universities, it W stands for the development of hUrltjulh. t w feel at liberty, therefore, to present In an ed altitude. the view i of teftcheis. wl- j entits, and philosophers, in a eqniuderatinn Of ouri topics. Ho it und'rstood, hovvev er, (hat Ui$ does jnot- necessarily mean an .endorsement of Some of them lire presented for lhc 0 views. the iake of discussion Our sti depts will expect frank less in our discussions. They want gi'm to the negalivi side of oir topics They arc always interoded in liearujig from great scholars. Selenre C innot Anower. Nbw to return from whence wd digressed. According to Prof. Compton science lias no certain! jinswer to the question II a man die slmll Bo H admitted, howpver, there lie ive again? o" to this are, mlwy scientists who answer question. Alia there ire many o hei scientists, some mf them the greatest, who positively djs clarh they believe so. Of courile the jolain truth of (hl mailer is that science eainnot answer this ; question. We must i ot forgei this dart. The queytipn lies outside if the reach of the tools nnf lfidhods of sclcrce. Onej cif the greatej,t (physf(ians of his day, Df. Willjan Osier, dellw iered the Ingersoll1 lei lube at Harvard University ih 1904, entitling hia address Science and Ifa con duded that oh the quesJlmmoKklity. tion of immortality, tie only enduring enllght-imeis through faith. The maij of gclenqe Is In jt sad quandary today. II? cannot but feet that the emotional s da to wldc.lt faith leans makqs W all that I s bright and lloypus in life. Fed on the dry husks' of facts, the htyman heaift has h hidden want wh ch elone ?annot supply. i our.) (Please Tun To Pag fore, welcomes (he qffqits of the s . open-mind- - nt $, obii-ltye- ftl 1 Imt-hou- sc , -- e laid aside bis bruMies and we talked, ( fbuiid that Jio was irtiit In more ways than one. Ho was a niusiei.fn, band director, orcbestra as well as painter. He beleader, nature-lov- fr gan upon hi story. t te earned ii fie.st violin by working four daH in the canyoq wilh ah ok team hauling four loads1 of wood for 6mej neighbor. That was whefj he was (I. Hi nmther said he couIdiTt iti do But he 'had sefn the violin and loved it. That! .Norse spark of gonitis railed out for Jt. II is mothpr du doi know liat she doing I ) for you and me anq for poslerity when sho ajlowed the lad to purchase at such a price such a luxury as ( yiolin, Vitb the persistence of his ancestors, ho began hpen the Instrument and lmd soon' maslerW it until, he was a leading musician. ' , No Man Can Say. Jfoiter, when he was called to work upon the St. George tcmpla, that purchase became of great importance to the Cburc!h,an(l the slate. TTbe (Plaa Turn Te P,ag m.) j I j , |