1946 (Sunday) – It was a wonderful day, so warm and nice. My heart rejoiced in prayer and in the service and partaking of the Sacrament. I enjoyed the class of Brother Mortenson. Afterwards I attended a genealogical meeting in which several people were set apart as home teachers and two to help in the training of members in the ward in research work.
In the evening, President David O. McKay was the speaker at the Sacrament Meeting. He gave a marvelous Easter talk, explained something about the writers if the differed gospels, talked of the Passover, where the partaking of the sacrament was introduced, thought perhaps the room where this feast was might have been the home of the mother of John Mark and he likened it unto these days, if a banquet was to be served there would no doubt women present to see that everything went off all right, Perhaps Mark’s mother, some of the Mary’s and Martha, etc., might have been there again after the brethren left the room. They may have wandered in the Garden of Gethsemane. Mrs. Mark may have seen Judas approaching with the soldiers, hunting for Jesus, and this mother may have aroused her son, John, from his bed and hurried him away to warn the Savior, he could have snatched up a garment, or robe and wrapped around him and hurried out, the bridge he may have found occupied by the soldiers and he gone in a round about way to give his message, the soldiers saw him and grabbed him, but he slipped out of his garment and hurried home. He said that young man might have been John Mark, the one who wrote one of the Gospels.
Brother McKay held that audience spellbound for at least an hour. After services, Sister Smith and I went up on the stand and shook hands with him, then I hunted up his wife and spoke to her.
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