Show the meaning of Christmas BY REV VERNON KENDALL Pastor Community Baptist Church Moab Ed Note Not At certain time the year rear ear It ft U le our pleasure to bring brine thought from our community clergymen to th the editorial page Ke Re Rev Vernon Kendall haa bees written the following especially for tor or this thU edition A small boy was just learning his first scripture verse and he started to repeat it to his father by saying For God so loved the world that He gave his only FORGOTTEN FORGOTTEN FORGOTTEN FOR FOR- GOTTEN Son SonIn In a world that thai is sick with cold and hot wars complaints complaints complaints com com- plaints about high prices and higher taxes and headlines of vice crime and delinquency it is good to come to Christmas time and find that the Christ of Christmas has not altogether been forgotten We complain many times about the commercialization of Christmas and how far we have removed ourselves from the religious celebration which is at the heart of Christmas In recent years however there have been encouraging encouraging encouraging en en- signs that the significance of this holy day and the birth of the Savior have not been forgotten Among these signs in Moab r have been the beautiful presentation presentation pre- pre of the Christmas story by the elementary schools the playing of traditional carols on Main street the cooperative cooperative cooperative co co- co- co operative effort by civic fraternal and religious groups to see that every needy family is remembered and the increased use of manger scenes and and other religious motifs in the decoration of some of our learing stores May Christ not be Gods God's only forgotten Son this Christmas May 1 everyone in Moab take time in this joyous season to pause and give thanks for the Christ of our nation and our world May we turn from our worry about what the world is coming to and rejoice in what has come cometo cometo cometo to the world |