He will swallow up death in victory; and the Lord God will wipe away tears from all the faces. . . . Isa. 25:8
"I penned these lines some years ago while seated in the funeral service of a friend," said President Gordon B. Hinckley, first counselor in the First Presidency, speaking at the April 1988 conference:What is this thing that men call death,
This quiet passing in the night?
Tis not the end, but genesis
Of better worlds and greater light.
O God, touch Thou my aching heart,
And calm my troubled, haunting fears.
Let hope and faith, transcendent, pure,
Give strength and peace beyond my tears.
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There is no death, but only change
With recompense for victory won;
The gift of Him who loved all men,
The Son of God, the Holy One.