As Sunday School general officers from the past four decades reunited at the Church Office Building, a Greg Olsen painting on display seemed to set the tone for the evening. The painting depicts a teacher, scriptures in hand, standing before a class of adults. On a chalkboard next to him are words from Doctrine and Covenants 43:15, "Teach the children of men ... by the power of my Spirit."

Elder Russell M. Nelson of the Quorum of the Twelve, who was Sunday School general president from 1971 to 1979, gave remarks to the gathering, which included several currentl and emeritus general authorities who have served in Sunday School general presidencies.

"We all stand tall on the shoulders of those who went before us," Elder Nelson said, citing John 4:37-38, "And herein is that saying true, One soweth, and another reapeth. I sent you to reap that whereon ye bestowed no labour: other men laboured, and ye are entered into their labours."

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