| Show A i HEVIVAL nmmAHSAL Professor Stephens Sends flew Years Greeting Greet-ing lo Tabernacle Choir embers SPECIAL MEETING CALLED FOR THURSDAY Vl 0 Wk 010 Ift Great 3111111 Will Ito Tkc IM 11lat It lot 10 U1111111 IInr 1111leacy ihu Conductor Stephens has handed In the Hawing self explanatory communication com-munication for publication TaKnmcle Choir Members New Years Greeting lellovv workers In the Dlvlno Art The now year la I here to remind us of tile renewal of all things Many of you till ough the press ot other business and various Causes hv for me time past i been lylnt dormant and It Iconics my duty as the present gardener gar-dener In I chaifcc to n1 you greeting Iho time has come when iou must awake anl again stlul up sap Let the tuls 1 of attendance break forth to show that there Is I still life within and the riomlso of future bloom and fruit Is eutnclint to cause tile trimming knife to lines you by The garden must bo iut In order for the Year 1S38 and If by Sunday Jnn 10th no signs of ilfe apiatur In you though there my hne been In the put U will Ie the secretarys duty lu treat Yen As dead branclits clean Your names In om among the living blanches and place them among the havo ben lour insenee with the choir at rehearsals re-hearsals anti I meetings durlnfl the next two weeks will Ie I the best signs of renew re-new it life this being Impossible a Btatcment with reasons addressed to Conductor or secretary and Bent either by mall or members will bo nccertcd until You can show letter i romiw of fruiting allure nt cither will be tnhen am Iln exprestilon ut your having no dlre to continue 0 a IIn Active mcmlocr though common courtesy to the choir would call for Your reasons for discontinuance to bo given by letter let-ter lOr not Follow workers whllo you halo voluntarily taken upon jourselves thin I trust leasant task you have none tint less been cillel to It and the ITesldency of the Church has solemnly solemn-ly declared this to be your first duty unlesi sieclally callcil to fill another und a higher calling such as a into blon Hence do not let trifles stand In tho way cf your faithful continuation continu-ation In the choir If jou have hn negligent In the late peat try to do better There Is I no Immediate pros poet of an excursion to California New York or Paris Now Is I your op lortunlty to renew cllllMrnco without semlnll to have InrlllIo motives Wo call tu you the licilderthatweare Iot In more need sofar Il mro memo bits 10 hut that we moil the united tialnlm of the noble sKbun Ired who claim membership tl do work worthy cot the noble six bundled Otherwise Other-wise It would be better far to reduce ho army even to one half If need I cIt c-It would then bi the largest church choir In tho world With a united ffoit we might even at that number equal l In quality what It Is I In quantity Thcle will IP a Itevlval Rehearsal In the rabci uncle nt 730 Thursday night Jan Gill Bring Copies of The Messiah Mes-siah Copies of choruses from the Hint oratorio wiltten on the Hook of Jloimin subjict will bo In readiness and the labor of mastering them will bo taken lip For the benefit of all who do not fully understand i the To qulmnl ut the Tabernacle choir members the following from the First Presidency Is I appended Mshlng you und the choir a Happy New nr I com 13 SlLlJirNS Conductor |
