To You Who Mourn—and to You Who Remember – Sunday, May 29, 1949

To You Who Mourn—and to You Who Remember – Sunday, May 29, 1949

There is perhaps no more persistently pondered question among men than that of immortality, and one great witness of its reality is that men deal in futures. The time rarely, if ever, comes in the life of any person when his planning and his purposes do not extend beyond the present. This is true of those who seemingly yet have far to travel in this life and also of those who seemingly have not far to go. Men have in common a love of life, even under conditions which would sometimes seem to make the love of life difficult to understand; and even when interest has been lost in the values of this world, there are earnest thoughts for the future. The constant beckoning of the limitless unknown urges us on, as it always has and always will, no matter what age we have attained as men count time.

This universal looking toward things to come, this ever-present awareness of what lies beyond our present perspective is born of man’s conviction of his own personal and perpetual continuance. Of course, there is always the certain fact of death to be faced. As the ancient prophet proclaimed: “What man is he that liveth and shall not see death?”¹ Some fear it; some calmly contemplate it. But there is nothing more certain than that we shall all sometime leave these familiar surroundings and pass through those portals whence go all men. But the conviction that death is a change and not an end, a transition and not a finality, brings its peace and quiet comfort as we approach those scenes which we shall all one time behold. And so, you who mourn, and you who remember take comfort and quiet conviction to your hearts this day—for it is by the very eternal nature of man that young and old alike look toward things to come, and that we, and all those we love and cherish move forward into a future that ever unfolds before us. “Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.”²

*Revised.
¹Psalm,89:48 21
²Cor. 2:9

“The Spoken Word,” heard over Radio Station K S L and the nationwide Columbia Broadcasting System, from the Tabernacle, Temple Square, Salt Lake City, Sunday, May 29, 1949, 11:30 to 12:00 noon, Eastern Time Copyright 1949
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May 29, 1949
Broadcast Number 1,032