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Show Ot -- Radio Address The e r--a F - Full text of the message by President Clark on the Church Radio Hour, Sunday, Feb.8,1948at 9 p.m. ever RSL, Salt Lake Cite, Vali. - - , - , life were 'ebbing away, and mortal strength had almost gone, he cried out First Counselor in the first-Presiden- cy In the words by the Inspired psalmist a full millennium before, "My -. "I am not alone, but and the but for them also which shall beGod, iny God, why hast thou forsaken if ye bad 'lleve.on me through theiru,word; that mer (Matt. 27:46-4that Sent me. Mark 15:34-35- ) be as all known me, ye sshould have known my one; may Father, So questioned the Son of the Father as they 1 speak to the world art in me, ind I in thee, that they - thedarkness of mortal death blinded Father also. . also play be. one in- us. those things Which I have beard of that, they his eyes. him .4. as my Father bath taught me, may be onei even as we are one," e All these are not the outcries in in purpose,,. I speak these things. for I do (John' one in will, one in faith,--onin obeprayer, of a mighty soul in divine agony always those things that please him." to an immense, formlessimpersonal, dience, one in service, one in right(John 8:16, 19, 26, Later to the Jews in 'the Temple,he eousness, but different persimalities. spiritual essence,rwithout body, without re In the early affirmed that he tame not-- of parts ,without passions aretlie himself, but that God sent him, that he spoke Caiaphas, the nigh Priest, who ad- heart outpourings of a loving Son, that which he had seen with his Father jured him to weighted with the sins of man, to a "Art thou the Christ, the Soli of the divine Father, who knew, who sufferand concluded with his declaration of -Blessed Messlihship: said, "1 am; and ye ed when the Son suffered, who loved shall see the Son of man sitting on his Only Begotten as only God can Abraham was, I am." the right hand of power and coming love; a Father who had mercy; a Father In whose image and likeness the Sbn As the evening In 'the Paisover 71n the clouds of heaven." (Mark 14:61-6Chamber drew to a close, he declared Matt. 26:64). war,' a Father who. could speak and to the Apostles: In Gethsemane, Jesus, leaving the answer back, who could give aid and succor to a Son in...distress as he bad-- - drew- - apart-wit- h the way the truth, andAhe rest-o- f. done time and time again during the life: no man cometh unto-lhaskFather, Peter, James, Ind John, And then but by me,. he that bath seen me ing them Jo tarry and watch, he "ex- Son's mission on 'earthrhe person bath seen the Father; and how gayest ceeding sorrowful, even- - unto death," Son was beseeching the person Father thou then. Shew us the Father? 26:38) went on a stone's cast for help, and the Father gave that help I go unto my Father." (John 14:6, - 8, and, falling on his face, prayed in to the full, not for the lessening of the 12) agony while "his sweat was as it were mortal agony of the Son, as might seem such on the Mount of Olives, he 'great drops of blood falling down to from the prayer the 'ground," (Luke 22:44) "0 my lessening was neither asked for nor declared: it was a call for aid to the fulfill"I have kept my Father's com- Father, if it be possible.. let this cup given, of his mission-th- e, ing making of the I from in his love. as abide not, rne: and 'nevertheless, pass mandments, atonement for Adam's Fall, thus great as 1 come forth from the Father, thou wilt." (Matt 26:39) will, but and am come into the world: again, Thrice repeating the prayer--, and thrice bringing to every one of God's children I leave tlie world, and go to the returning to Peter, James, and John, he born on the earth, the power to overfound them sleeping each time; "What, come mortal death and gain the destiny-o- f Father." (John 15:10; 18:28) a returrection. And in the great prayer before could ye not watch with me one hour?" May God give to each of us on our Gethsemane he declared of the oneness But though they watched not, an angel of those who believed, as he had de- came from heaven, to strengthen him. way to immortality and eternal life the Mark 14:32-42- ; Luke necessary testimony that we are in his clared Many times of the oneness of (Matt 28:34-422:40-4John 18:1-2- ) Image and likeness, I pray, in the Son's the Father and himself: Then, on the cross, when the lees of' name, Amen" "Neither pray 1 for these alone, , e , R. 7; - 17:20-22)on- e 28-2- - n,- Anorning.--standing,,befo- - -- her -- 2; s e 1; 7; CLARIC-J- th-o- de-dar- - J. REUBEN pre-voic- mense spiritual-- , essence, nebulous, unformed, without body, parts, and pas- side a being on the-ot&ions, with a living, vibrant, dynamic personality with body, parts and passions, with a mission to carry out and in truth fulfilling it. From the moment when, on the banks of the Jordan, he directed John to baptize him to fulfill all righteousness: and the Father in voice from heaven as the Holy Ghost descended upon the head of the Son, "This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleasMark 1:9-1Luke ed," (Matt. 3:13-1311-23until on the cress, expiring, ) the Son cried out, "Father, into thy bands I commend my spirit". (Luke 23:46) Jesus went forward in an intimate relationship with the Father that was based upon the fact that the l'ithr;' like the Son, was a personal being. The Son's actions, his teachings, his prayers, permit no other reasonable explanation. In his great sermon to the Pharisees in the Treasury to the Temple, Jesus ' declared: kii-d-- to e , BY PRESIDENT FRIENDS of the air': Last week we spoke of the personality of God, and read his declaration that he made man in his own image and likeness, that Jesus was in - the likeness of the Father, that he who had seen Jesus had seen the Father. We may tonight profitably dwell for tender a moment or two on the divinely relationship between Father-a relationship, as told to us by Jesus himself, that is not conformable to a being on the one side that is an im and-So- n , s s 6; 6; . . -- Salt of the Earth -- - - 'CA Wins Confidence of Authoritie s President tidence 'has been placed In bars them well Clawson for his unruffled calm- - her, and she has kept It. She is representative of a corps ness under stress; Reed Smoot for his ability to make quick of devoted employes who decisions and get things done; prise the Church Office seeOrson F. Whitney for his tat- - retarial staff. But her unusual abilities are ented expression, particularly in writing; James E. Talmage for not confined to secretarial work. his profotind knowledge and She proved and polished a rare preciseness: Melvin J. Ballard gift of public speaking while enthusiasm in the Eastern States Mission. for his contagious of fOrTibe :- work---t- he Lord; Fa m 4 d Charles A. Callis for --his love Broadway are familiar to her. for and interest in people, and She and her companions held his remarkable gift of discern- - daily meekings there over a long mat:-- Alonzo A. Hinckley for period, and she later particihis kindliness and abiding faith;patedinnoonhourineeting Sylvester Q. Cannon for his front of Philadelphia's city methodical manner and attention hall. People were drawn by her , , to detail. sincere and attractive manner, Prior' to her mission In the and held by the logic of her Eastern States. Miss Bridge was eguression. In the ,office of the Church DeBut even with her recognized mispartment of Education. Follow- value as an ing her return, she entered the sionary, she did not escape ofoffice of the Council of the fice work. The familiar "pB" Twelve where she remained was in the lower left hand coruntil President Smith took her ner of correspondence signed Into the office of the First by Presidents Henry H. Rolapp and James IL Moyle. , Presidency. e For eight years she served Day after day, year In and as counselor in the Salt Lake year out, she has taken the dictation of Church leaders, Stake YWMIA. presidency, written their correspondence, and for seven more years she and looked after scores of served as president of the routine details. She has known same organization in Riverside her place, and filled It. Con Stake. Few have given more devoted service to the youth a of the Church than Pearl Bridge. She has never grown out of their way of thinking, 1 nor lost touch with their problems.--Maybe her unusual capacity comes of hard work. Maybe her loyalty to the Church comes of "N.. the home in which she grew 1i 17-e- .. up. Maybe each is something of a gift with which she was 't : , 't natively endowed. Her father tti...., ... t ) was a highly skilled mechanic, a Union Pacific shop foreman ! 1 At6 " $ ' "I who served his company a full r fifty years and at whose funeral William Jeffers, . Union Pacific president, paid him high tribute. Her mother came of a family of pioneers, the "patriarch because three family," of its members were ordained patriarchs. There is no substitute for na . , tive endowment. Pearl Bridge has been fortunate in this. COLUMBIA WARD BISHOPRIC, South Carolina Stoke, Building on that which was consists of Bishop Oliver H. Joyner, Bradley P. Cooper, given her, she has won a repufirst counselor; Keith A: Jensen, second counselor, and tation for loyalty and ability, and renders a service, - recogW, Scott Keister, who has been set apart as word clerk. nized by those close to her, and by them also ,sincerely Pip 2February 14, 1,411 have served as confidential secretary for fifteen min of differing natures is no small To have won the esteem and praise of every one of those fifteen is a signal achievement. It bespeaks , un- usuill ability and remarkable - , efficiency. --- As a girl just-o- ut --Of -- school ' Pearl Bridge came, to work at -the Church Office Building. Since then thousands upon thou- sands of letters have gone out from 17East South Temple Street with the initials "PB" in the lower left hand corner. Among the signatures over Which they have been written have been such names as George Albert Smith, Badger Clawson, Reed Smoot, Orson F. Whitney, James E. Talmage, Stephen L Richards, Melvin J. Ballard, John A. Widtsoe, Charles A. Ca Ills, Alonzo A. Hinckley, Albert E. Bowen, Harold B. Lee, Spencer W. Kimball, Ezra Taft Benson, and Sylvester Q. Cannon. She has served as seeretary to all of these men. ' Eight of these have passed ay. She knew them as few have known them, and remem ,rKCM?;W, . To s ' ' -- ..- nion---Squareand U b & new ebhooria i r x, Á' '....0 i led PEARL BRIDGE Two Girls, Teacher Set S. S. Records TWO girls, Ade 11 Reynolds, record of attendance for the Past and Lavonne Thompson, of the Luna Ward, St. Johns Stake, have set outstanding attendance records in Sunday School. Between them, they have attended nine years without missing - 4t a Sunday. , Lavonne Thompson, who is has had a perfect record for II, five years. She hopes to continue the record for at least another five years. She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Patrick 'A. Thompson. This year, Lavonne is a member of the Second Intermediate Depart, 4 ment., Mall Reynolds has a perfect Lout years. She is twelve years old, and is also a member of the Second Intermediata De.w Partment. Adell is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Reynolds. Their' Sunday School teacher, Mrs. Myrtle R. Laney, also has an outstanding record of Sunday School service. Sin has been an officer or teacher continuously for forty-eig- ht years. She first served as a kindergarten teacher in 1900. She has. taught the Second Intermediate class for the past twenty-si- x - |