♪♪ >> LLOYD NEWELL: THE TABERNACLE CHOIR AND ORCHESTRA AT TEMPLE SQUARE PRESENT MUSIC & THE SPOKEN WORD. ♪ GENTLY RAISE
THE SACRED STRAIN, ♪ ♪ AHH ♪ >> CONDUCTING TODAY'S PROGRAM IS MACK WILBERG, WITH ORGANIST RICHARD ELLIOTT, AND THE SPOKEN WORD BY LLOYD NEWELL. ♪♪ ♪ O GOD,
OUR HELP IN AGES PAST, ♪ ♪ OUR HOPE
FOR YEARS TO COME, ♪ ♪ OUR SHELTER
FROM THE STORMY BLAST, ♪ ♪ AND OUR
ETERNAL HOME. ♪ ♪♪ ♪ A THOUSAND AGES
IN THY SIGHT ♪ ♪ ARE LIKE
AN EV'NING GONE, ♪ ♪ SHORT AS THE WATCH
THAT ENDS THE NIGHT ♪ ♪ BEFORE
THE RISING SUN. ♪ ♪♪ ♪ O GOD,
OUR HELP IN AGES PAST, ♪ ♪ OUR HOPE
FOR YEARS TO COME, ♪ ♪ BE THOU OUR GUARD
WHILE LIFE SHALL LAST, ♪ ♪ AND OUR
ETERNAL HOME. ♪ ♪ AND OUR
ETERNAL HOME. ♪ ♪ A-MEN! ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪ THE LORD MY PASTURE
WILL PREPARE, ♪ ♪ AND FEED ME WITH
A SHEPHERD'S CARE. ♪ ♪ HIS PRESENCE WILL
MY WANTS SUPPLY, ♪ ♪ AND GUARD ME
WITH A WATCHFUL EYE. ♪ ♪ MY NOONDAY WALKS
HE WILL ATTEND, ♪ ♪ AND ALL MY SILENT
MIDNIGHT HOURS DEFEND. ♪ ♪♪ ♪ WHEN IN THE SULTRY
GLEBE I FAINT ♪ ♪ OR ON THE THIRSTY
MOUNTAIN PANT, ♪ ♪ TO FERTILE VALES
AND DEWY MEADS, ♪ ♪ MY WEARY, WAND'RING
STEPS HE LEADS, ♪ ♪ WHERE PEACEFUL RIVERS,
SOFT AND SLOW, ♪ ♪ AMID THE COOLING
VERDANT LANDSCAPE FLOW. ♪ ♪♪ ♪ WHERE PEACEFUL RIVERS,
SOFT AND SLOW, ♪ ♪ AMID THE COOLING
VERDANT LANDSCAPE FLOW. ♪ ♪♪ ♪ AMEN. ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪ ALLELUIA, ♪ ♪ ALLELUIA, ♪ ♪ ALLELUIA, ♪ ♪ ALLELUIA, ♪ ♪ ALLELUIA, ♪ ♪ ALLELUIA, ♪ ♪ ALLELUIA, ♪ ♪♪ ♪ ALLELUIA, ♪ ♪ ALLELUIA, ♪ ♪ ALLELUIA, ♪ ♪ ALLELUIA, ♪ ♪ ALLELUIA, ♪ ♪ ALLELUIA, ♪ ♪ ALLELUIA. ♪ ♪♪ ♪ ALLELUIA. ♪ ♪ ALLELUIA. ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪ I'VE GOT PEACE
LIKE A RIVER, ♪ ♪ I'VE GOT PEACE
LIKE A RIVER, ♪ ♪ I'VE GOT PEACE
LIKE A RIVER IN MY SOUL. ♪ ♪ I'VE GOT PEACE
LIKE A RIVER, ♪ ♪ I'VE GOT PEACE
LIKE A RIVER, ♪ ♪ I'VE GOT PEACE
LIKE A RIVER IN MY SOUL. ♪ ♪♪ ♪ I'VE GOT FAITH
LIKE A RIVER, ♪ ♪ I'VE GOT FAITH
LIKE A RIVER, ♪ ♪ I'VE GOT FAITH
LIKE A RIVER IN MY SOUL. ♪ ♪ I'VE GOT FAITH
LIKE A RIVER, ♪ ♪ I'VE GOT FAITH
LIKE A RIVER, ♪ ♪ I'VE GOT FAITH
LIKE A RIVER IN MY SOUL. ♪ ♪ I'VE GOT HOPE
LIKE A RIVER, ♪ ♪ I'VE GOT HOPE
LIKE A RIVER, ♪ ♪ I'VE GOT HOPE
LIKE A RIVER IN MY SOUL, ♪ ♪ I'VE GOT HOPE
LIKE A RIVER, ♪ ♪ I'VE GOT HOPE
LIKE A RIVER, ♪ ♪ I'VE GOT HOPE
LIKE A RIVER IN MY SOUL, ♪ ♪♪ ♪ I'VE GOT LOVE
LIKE A RIVER, ♪ ♪ I'VE GOT LOVE
LIKE A RIVER, ♪ ♪ I'VE GOT LOVE
LIKE A RIVER IN MY SOUL. ♪ ♪ I'VE GOT LOVE
LIKE A RIVER, ♪ ♪ I'VE GOT LOVE
LIKE A RIVER, ♪ ♪ I'VE GOT LOVE
LIKE A RIVER IN MY SOUL. ♪ ♪♪ ♪ I'VE GOT FAITH
LIKE A RIVER, ♪ ♪ I'VE GOT HOPE
LIKE A RIVER, ♪ ♪ I'VE GOT LOVE
LIKE A RIVER IN MY SOUL ♪ ♪ IN MY SOUL. ♪ ♪ PEACE IN MY SOUL. ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ >> SOME DAYS, READING THE NEWS FEELS LIKE READING THOSE PROPHECIES IN THE BIBLE ABOUT THE END OF THE WORLD. "PERILOUS TIMES," THE APOSTLE PAUL CALLED THEM--WHEN PEACE WOULD BE TAKEN FROM THE EARTH, WHEN THE HEAVENS AND EARTH WOULD SHAKE, AND WHEN HEARTS WOULD FAIL WITH FEAR. EVEN IF IT'S NOT QUITE THE END OF THE WORLD, FEELINGS OF FEAR AND ANXIETY PLAGUE US. WHAT'S WORSE, TOO OFTEN THESE FEELINGS COME TO THE SURFACE IN THE FORM OF ANGER AND HOSTILITY TOWARD OTHERS. ALL OF THIS STRESS IS HAVING A PROFOUND EFFECT ON THE HEALTH AND WELL-BEING OF SO MANY OF US. SOME MIGHT TAKE ALL THE CHAOS AND FEAR TO MEAN THAT THERE IS NO GOD. BUT THAT, OF COURSE, ONLY LEADS TO MORE CHAOS AND FEAR. WHAT WOULD HAPPEN IF INSTEAD THE PERILS OF THE DAY TURNED US TOWARD GOD, NOT AWAY FROM HIM? FOR EXAMPLE, IMAGINE HOW OUR VI OF LIFE WOULD BE AFFECTED IF GOD'S LOVE FOR HIS CHILDREN WERE ALWAYS OUR UNDERLYING ASSUMPTION, NO MATTER WHAT IS HAPPENING IN OUR LIVES. PERHAPS THAT SAME LOVE WOULD INSPIRE US TO REACH OUT TO OTHERS, NO MATTER WHAT IS HAPPENING IN THEIR LIVES. AND MAYBE THAT LOVE WOULD LIFT OUR HEARTS IN GRATITUDE FOR THE GOOD THINGS IN OUR LIVES, INCLUDING THE VALUES AND BELIEFS THAT MAKE UP THE BEST IN EACH OF US. MAYBE THEN WE COULD CREATE A LOVING COMMUNITY WHERE PEACE AND JOY THRIVE AND WHERE FEAR NO LONGER CAUSES DISTRESS. IT HAS BEEN SAID "THAT RELIGION IN A DEVOUT BELIEVER HAS LITTLE EQUAL AS [A RELIEVER] OF STRESS. ... [RELIGION] TELLS [US] THAT GOD LOVES [US] AND WILL GO ON TAKING CARE OF [US] NO MATTER WHAT." BELIEF IN A GOD OF LOVE WILL GIVE US CONFIDENCE IN THE PRESENT AND HOPE FOR THE FUTURE. BY BUILDING ON A FOUNDATION OF FAITH IN THE ALMIGHTY, WE CAN WITHSTAND THE WINDS OF FEAR THAT BLOW SO HARD AGAINST US. WE CAN OVERCOME THE WORLDLY COMMOTION THAT MIGHT OTHERWISE SHAKE US TO THE VERY CORE. THE APOSTLE JOHN OFFERED GREAT COMFORT WHEN HE SAID, "THERE IS NO FEAR IN LOVE; BUT PERFECT LOVE CASTETH OUT FEAR." ANXIETY AND FEAR CAN BE MANAGED--EVEN REPLAD WITH PEACE AND HOPE--AS WE FOCUS ON LOVING GOD AND LOVING OUR NEIGHBORS AS OURSELVES. ♪♪ ♪ LET PEACE LIKE A RIVER
ATTENDETH MY WAY, ♪ ♪ WHEN SORROWS LIKE
SEA BILLOWS ROLL, ♪ ♪ WHATEVER MY LOT,
THOU HAST TAUGHT ME T SA, ♪ ♪ "IT IS WELL, IT IS WELL
WITH MY SOUL." ♪ ♪♪ ♪ THOU SATAN SHOULD BUFFET,
THOUGH TRIALS SHOULD COME, ♪ ♪ LET THIS BLEST
ASSURANCE CONTROL: ♪ ♪ THAT CHRIST HAS GUARDED
MY HELPLESS ESTATE, ♪ ♪ AND HAS SHED HIS OWN BLOOD
FOR MY SOUL. ♪ ♪♪ ♪ IT IS WELL, ♪ ♪ IT IS WELL, ♪ ♪ WITH MY SOUL, ♪ ♪ WITH MY SOUL, ♪ ♪ IT IS WELL, IT IS WELL
WITH MY SOUL. ♪ ♪♪ ♪ MY SIN O, THE BLISS OF
THIS GLORIOUS THOUGHT, ♪ ♪ MY SIN NOT IN PART
BUT THE WHOLE, ♪ ♪ IS NAILED TO THE CROSS
AND I BEAR IT NO MORE: ♪ ♪ PRAISE THE LORD,
PRAI TH LORD, ♪ ♪ O MY SOUL! ♪ ♪ IT IS WELL, ♪ ♪ IT IS WELL ♪ ♪ WITH MY SOUL, ♪ ♪ WITH MY SOUL, ♪ ♪ IT IS WELL, IT IS WELL
WITH MY SOUL. ♪ ♪♪ ♪ AND LORD, HASTE THE DAY WHEN
MY FAITH SHALL BE SIGHT, ♪ ♪ THE CLOUDS BE ROLLED BACK
AS A SCROLL, ♪ ♪ THE TRUMP SHALL RESOUND
AND THE LORD SHALL DESCEND: ♪ ♪ "EVEN SO" ♪ ♪ IT IS WELL
WITH MY SOUL. ♪ ♪ IT IS WELL, ♪ ♪ IT IS WELL ♪ ♪ WITH MY SOUL, ♪ ♪ WITH MY SOUL, ♪ ♪ IT IS WELL, IT IS WELL
WITH MY SOUL. ♪ ♪ IT IS WELL, ♪ ♪ IT IS WELL ♪ ♪ WITH MY SOUL, ♪ ♪ WITH MY SOUL, ♪ ♪ IT IS WELL, IT IS WELL
WITH MY SOUL. ♪ ♪ WITH MY SOUL, ♪ ♪ WITH MY SOUL. ♪♪ ♪♪ >> LLOYD NEWELL: ♪♪ >> LLOYD NEWELL: THIS PERFORMANCE CONTINUES THE 94TH YEAR OF CONTINUOUS BROADCASTING OF THIS HISTORIC PROGRAM. PLEASE JOIN US NEXT TIME FOR MUSIC & THE SPOKEN WORD. UNTIL WE MEET AGAIN, MAY PEACE BE WITH YOU THIS DAY AND ALWAYS. ♪ TILL WE MEET
TILL WE MEET ♪ ♪ GOD BE WITH YOU
TILL WE MEET AGAIN. ♪♪ CLOSED CAPTIONING BY
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