Show Provi provided dem Poin pointers tor z EDITOR Jov jovnas TorR SAi nAI it indr et ept you v ott to hear bear front from thi place tho the old adago tho the to church tile tho farther front god I 1 think wt w lavro it in provo prove to bo be true for wo we are arc the ne nearest arest to that fountain of light commonly called tur TIIE Joun VAL fAL rut put we are the alit leaba represented rel repented there so I 1 ll 11 thought I 1 0 u I 1 would try and remedy lint we have iad had but very little littfe sickness sic kliest so far wi have had tu jo tided lidy who looked a as I 1 if i she had filled tho the nic inc asure ol of her der creation the other ony one I 1 alen in it tho full bloom of womanhood with a a life full of hopes bories before in fore her surrounded hy by loving t fri friend erds husband and children but she hai had to sty SAY thy will be be done 0 lord there is a resper whoso choso name is dent 11 and WR nil keen lie ile reap the bearded grain crain at a and aarl me blowers that grow beta een wo have four t good schools running taught by four excellent teachers teach ra with nn all at of scho schol hirs tars christmas passed off v vry ry quietly perhaps tile the reason being that evey one was loaded down with roast beef and plum pudding perhaps you amigh might 0 t cay y it was W as because be cause of hard hand aimee ti me 8 but 1 lit if yu had stepped into out our tithing office onica a lay day or two before christmas christim is you would have seen that could not lot hilve have been bc eu the reason it would have h ivo done your eyes good to see the abundance of good things that was v aa there for thi poor there ars not room i in it the otince to hold all the 0 good things 0 that thai had bad been beell brought 0 it mic might lit bo be interesting to you to know hw how we ive do these thin thins things s hert hero well about sixteen years agoa ago 0 a very very foolish fellow of this place started out on oil christmas morning morn inc with a basket on his hia arm arin to 0 o visit ta alie he rich to get ct them to give a little of their good g things z for the pear which they lid did very willingly since that thai timo time the good sisters of the relief society have taken the thing i in n ba hand lid and every house it in the settlement and the donations seem to increase every year and it is not now as it was sixteen years ago a pie pic here and a piece of beef there and some su sugar suar ar and some pudding somewhere goic where else ehe but it is beef by the quarter and groceries ind and all other good things by tho loid load so that the poor can call have ri a good time christinas christmas and neri ner years also cut but whether we hare badre foundered upon roast beeland plum pudding or not we have been very quiet but still me memory mory will trace back baak to times FO gone no by ay and fancy ourselves dreaming in tile ni night M ht that thai thu the angels wit with their hartis of gold mid and a thousand apet voices have conle come down t beinli to usher in ill thel the birthday birtha ay iy of christ cut but a as you wake you yoi be bein begin 0 in to realize that they aro are rot cot angels 0 that is not celestial but earthly barthl y beins beings bein s with angelic adelic AD elic voices that have lave made you feel t hat yo you u was waa near the sates ates of heaven did you ever experience this because if you rou havo have not you have missed one of the most delightful feelings 0 that it is possible poe sible for human beino being to feel I 1 have bay experienced thi this s ahny times in providence in the good old timex and again memory takes me farther back back down tio ti tr o stream ot 01 time and I 1 see myself again a boy in a little country village while mother boiled the plum pudding 0 for christmas waiting to hear bear tile the old church clock strike tile the hour of twelve and then listening to tho the merry peal of bells for miles around as the poet says save ilow how soft the music 0 of f those village bells tolling at inter upon tho the car in ili cadence cad lice sweet now dying all 11 away N now 0 W pealing dellill Dea lill loud again and louder still clear and lonee lonesome ome as the gale coleson comes on with every force it opens all the cells where memory slept and then coules comes the good old village carol ginger einger breaking forth with Chr christians iWans awake the happy morn on which the savior of mankind was born and they give it voice silas we og |