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'Lord sets time of death of a righteous man'

Published: Saturday, June 4, 1994

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President Ezra Taft Benson was one of the speakers at the funeral of President Spencer W. Kimball on Nov. 9, 1985. Many of the things that President Benson said at that time could apply to him just as much now that he has passed from mortality to immortality.

At that time he said: "It has been said that the death of a righteous man is never untimely because our Father sets the time. I believe that with all my soul."Whether we work on this side of the veil, or on the other side, before the Lord it is all one great program."