Elder Robert R. Mckay

My dear brethren: Now I know what President N. Eldon Tanner meant last Thursday morning when in the little room at the side just before the opening we were discussing the talks, and President McKay looked at me and said, "Well, Robert, what do you think?" And I said, "Whatever you think." I said, "I think I am prepared if you decide at the last minute not to deliver your message." President Tanner touched me on the shoulder and looked at the talk, and he said "Well, at least you are better off with it than without it." Brethren, I think there isn't a son among you here who would pass this opportunity in the presence of about 95,000 brethren to tell your father how much you loved him. The question comes to me frequently, as it does to my brothers, "How does it feel to be the son of a prophet?" How do you answer a question like that? You don't explain it; you live it.

As my father, he has my love and devotion, and I echo the thoughts of my brothers and sisters. As the President of the Church, and as a prophet of our Heavenly Father, he has my obedience as a member of the priesthood, and my sustaining vote.

I can say this, and act as a personal witness, because in all of my years of close association in the home, on the farm, in business, in the Church, there has never been shown to me one action nor one word, even while training a self-willed horse, which would throw any doubt in my mind that he should be and finally did become the representative and prophet of our Heavenly Father. I leave you that personal witness, and I will close that in the name of Jesus Christ. Amen.

(Elder Robert R. McKay then read the message prepared for the General Priesthood Meeting by President David O. McKay.)