oR wT OS eS woO% Te ae HE CONTINUED to serve in| the First Presidency under “What could be more glori- President George Albert Smith ous than to live until you are and, on President Smith’s death 90 without an ache or a pain?” in 1951, became president. President McKay marvels at) THE declaration the THIS WAS of President David growth O. McKay born, a son Evans of David and Jean- McKay. “WHEN wondered I WAS young I what those words Qa SAISs ™ meant. Now I know.” he said. President McKay’s birthday t message: cory Live temperately, avoid1 ex-| V | |tremes, do your duty and your| best and leave unto the Lord| | | regrets that MCKAY has| the are years passing. “Time has a habit of making us old, but I am enjoying it. We used to have an order at home not to use the phrase ‘old age,’ but that is no longer true. I have welcomed UB PRESIDENT Ss the rest.” ft < Ee GANT the current LDS Church. Sr ea. Paes soogereenis in history. where he er County, nette Neh he ct of has almost -|his 90th birthday ari versaty and membership doubled. | Sunday. The silver-haired leader of PRESIDENT MCKAY’S ad\more than two ee toendchurch ministration has been marked|' PORE | 28_ one of the greatest church|: no only from church leaders but from distinguished persons throughout the world. PRESIDENT MCKAY was| sustained as the eighth president of the LDS Church at General Conference on April 9, 1951. ‘As a young man he_ had aspired to become a _ teacher and he still considers | his ex-| | | perience as a teacher at Weber| | Academy as one of the bright-|_ est periods of his life. HIS it unprecedented of the Church of Jesus Christ During the 12 years he has). of Latter-day Saints Wednes- served as president, it has -|day as he looked forward to grown from 180 stakes to 380): “I WOULD LIKE to go to |the old church again. It holds so many memories,” President McKay said. _ “T remember as a boy a picture of John Taylor, the third president of the LDS Church, which hung on the wall behind the pulpit. Under the picture was this caption, “The ese of God, or nothing.’ ” 1€ ~ By ‘Satan A. Jones” Tribune Church Writer Jes Weber ar is as a abn a mbes =A ee: ORD td wry Dds Ces... “Nie Xs a BE on Oe oe peed ERRORS : CAREER AS an educa- tor was cut short in April, 1906, when at 33 he became a member of the Council of Twelve Apostles. He was named assistant in the superintendency of the Deseret Sunday School Union and later its superintendent, a position he held until 1934,|. when he was named by President Heber jselor in the J. Grant First as a coun- Presidency. ’ = — Bah St ies his NN gD |