My first Mission President (Armstrong) quoted Sterling W. Sill in a zone conference. Apparently Elder Sill had counted up all the topics in the Bible and found the most mentioned topic was the Second Coming. So recently I thought of reading Elder Sill's General Conference talks in the Gospel Library (the GL only has GC talks from 1971 to present):
April 1971 "Great Experiences"
October 1971 "Thou Shalt Not"
April 1972 "Medicine for the Soul"
October 1972 "Keep the Commandments"
April 1973 "Hold Up Your Hands"
October 1973 "A Fortune to Share"
October 1974 "Transfusion" *One of my favorites
April 1975 "Birth"
October 1975 "Success Stories"
October 1976 "To Die Well" *Another of my favorites
April 1978 "The Poetry of Success"
If you do a search on the church's website there are several references to Elder Sill.
Here is a list of his speeches at BYU.
Wikipedia says he was a General Authority from 1954-1978 and was born March 31, 1903 in Layton, Utah, which is near Hill Air Force Base. I was surprised to learn he didn't die until May 25, 1994 at aged 91. I was in my second year of college when he died. Too bad I didn't learn about him sooner.
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