2006—The Rededication
Richard B. “Andy” Anderson:
I guess all I need to do is go down through the items on the program, there.

Brent Anderson will lead us in a hymn which I hope is familiar to us all. If it isn’t, folks, with all love and respect that’s your fault: it’s in your hymn-book (laughter). It was in the hymn-book when he was around. It was in the first LDS hymn-book that Emma Smith put out in 1835. It’s been in every one since. And I'm told it’s the most often-sung hymn in Christendom to this day. Okay? So if it isn't familiar to you, you might want to make it familiar to you.

If you don’t have a purple song-sheet, Brent will give you one, and Brent will lead us.

Brent Anderson:
I have heard Elder Packer refer to this as the “sealed portion” of the hymnal (laughter).

Richard B. “Andy” Anderson:
If we’ll gather a little more tightly together, we’ll be warmer and we’ll sound better, okay?

Brent Anderson:
Looking at it, it isn’t obvious…the melody goes [sings]…that’s the melody; it has been put to many, many, many, many words.

Richard B. “Andy” Anderson:
It’s the German National Anthem, among other things.

Brent Anderson:
Einigkeit, und Recht, und Freiheit…OK.
[singing]

Richard B. “Andy” Anderson:
Thank you, Brent. Thank you, everybody, for singing lustily. Let me now introduce Steve Nelson, who is going to give us a historical sketch of Isaac Decker’s life, and then I will offer the rededicatory prayer for his grave and the dedicatory prayer for our monument.

Steve Nelson:
Well, family! It's good to be here, isn't it? Even though it's a little chilly. Just think of what our ancestors had to do in order to get here. This was probably a pretty good day, for many of times, at the time they coming on. My name is Steve Nelson, but I want you also to especially appreciate the work Richard has done, in terms of bringing this together. He's been a major contributor, and I'm just really impressed with him and his efforts to do so. My role in this has been...I've been writing a book, and so I've been trying to find information about Isaac and what I've got. So I want you to know he's my hero, too. Just a couple of quick facts about it. I realize it's a cold day, and my wife has told me to keep it short. (laughter)

Anyway, Isaac is a hero. He joined the Church at the Kirtland period. At the Kirtland period, Joseph Smith came to Isaac and said, "We need your help. The bank is in trouble." Isaac was a rich man; he was a rich farmer. He gave virtually everything he had to the salvation of the Kirtland bank, all to no avail, as you probably know the bank failed. Now, this was a very dark day in the history of the Church, because one third of the leadership of the Church apostatized, most of them partly because of the failure of the bank. That was proof to the members of the Church, or
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