by Dennis B. Horne
In late
1973, only two months before he passed away, President Harold B. Lee visited
Rick’s College (now BYU-Idaho), where he attended a luncheon and then gave the
college devotional address. As President of Rick’s, Henry B. Eyring was present
with President Lee and described the events in his journal. These journal
notations ended up in his biography, where they portray an unusually intense
spiritual feasting among those present.
At the
luncheon, held in President Lee’s honor, President Eyring recorded that
“President Lee began to speak. . . . He spoke with power, emotion, and
informality that I cannot recreate on this page. He spoke of his own calling,
saying, ‘If you think Satan doesn’t try to tempt the prophet, you’re wrong. I’m
his prime target on earth.’”[1]
This event foreshadowed the spiritual intensity of the coming devotional, held
immediately afterward.
