Religious Educator: Perspectives on the Restored Gospel Volume 8 Number 2 Article 6 7-1-2007 Bruce R. McConkie's Final Testimony Joseph Fielding McConkie
[email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/re BYU ScholarsArchive Citation McConkie, Joseph F. "Bruce R. McConkie's Final Testimony." Religious Educator: Perspectives on the Restored Gospel 8, no. 2 (2007). https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/re/vol8/iss2/6 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Journals at BYU ScholarsArchive. It has been accepted for inclusion in Religious Educator: Perspectives on the Restored Gospel by an authorized editor of BYU ScholarsArchive. For more information, please contact
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[email protected]) is a professor emeritus of ancient scripture at Brigham Young University. This talk was originally given at the 2006 BYU Easter Conference. For those who would like to read Elder Bruce R. McConkie’s final conference address, visit www.lds.org and search for “The Purifying Power of Gethse- mane” (Ensign, May 1985, 9). As he stood to his full height of six feet five inches to approach the rostrum in the old Tabernacle, he was thin, even gaunt—his step measured as if his balance were uncertain. As he faced the congrega- tion, his features were sufficiently jaundiced that many watching on television instinctively reached forward to adjust the color, yet the sound of his voice was measured, deep, and strong. It was the confi- dent, sure sound to which the Saints had become accustomed.