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entitled Great Temples of Learning on Temple Hill

was given on May 21st of 2004

by Eric Angelen,

then a professor of genetics

in the Department of Plant and Wildlife Sciences.

On the road here to campus for the first time in August of 1980, I felt that I received two

spiritual confirmations that I was on the right path.

The first was when we drove into St George and I saw the white temple silhouetted against

the backdrop of the red cliffs.

The second was at my first glimpse of the massive white wye on the mountainside as that came

into view driving up Interstate 15 from the South. Each day I have a comforting

reminder of the view through my office window. I love this photograph of our

brand new Orem neighborhood temple.

Jesus proclaimed himself the way, the truth, and the life,

whose life was the light of man, a light which shinneth in darkness and the darkness comprehended it not.

The light emanating from the art glass windows and illuminating the exterior of the Templar metaphors of his divine light.

As spiritual darkness descends, the virtuous Savior and his light grow ever

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