| Show THE LORD OnD THEME j Eloquently on Christmas j speaks I Thoughts at Special Taber nacie acle Service FINE MUSIC PROGRAM GIVEN i AI un LOt Xa To arni I that tie tho I A congregation ot Of thU tho met ut the rub and arni listened ye ID 10 Elder Orson I F y In t the tho Hpe lC cial ChristmAS service e which corn com ot at it 11 The Tho Interior or at orI the building pre presented preciselY tho J I beautiful and Imposing unla last when u El meetIng was wa waI u on beld there tn In commemoration ot or orI tho I I birth ot of JeU thu tho Redeemer and of at Ills I I the tha Joseph Smith the many of the tho gen gentra general I upon tra eral and local Church and was presided OVer by Pres I John R n Winder Tho ot o tho program was tho prelude ot of Lohengrin by byI I I Prot J J McClellan followed by by b Elder Ot George loM ale Fred Frell C j Graham sung sang U It With All Your hearts tram from EliJah and the tho organ se de deI I that followed were welo In Puro Iara dJs dlEe and Old MelodY John m ii rendered the tho solo salo Je IUS ot Of Elder John Henry pronounced the benediction prior to 10 which Prof Irot McClellan played the Chorus tram is II a synopsis or tile tue nd ad dress iress d by Elder Orson l F Whit Whitney hIt hItun ney un ot the council ot 8 lie IlIJ ul been to 10 speck on tM the subjeCt ot ThoUghts and ond by saying The Tho greatest of all Christmas thoughts thought Is the thought of the tho Savior ot mankind and my thought today con him II is wold I um am thinking vi ot the tho mortal advent of the tho Son ion of God when lIe Ho came to lay Iny down Ills IUs life to 10 redeem tho world from the tho bon bondage age of et sin and death I au 1111 thinking also abo ot of his second comIng ot of the glorious of the Iho King ot of kings when lie Hu will wll complete Ills His w work cleanse the tram from Iniquity and mul reign over It II a period of universal These two events one ot of them past nn and the other yet to be are the tho supreme vents events In the tho predestined hl his history tory lory ot of our planet God so EO loved the world that Ho gave Ills only begotten Son Sari that whosoever should believe on Him should not per perish ish hut but have everlasting life lite That wa was the gr greatest at t of nil all Christmas gifts But It not be that the tho Son on ot of God GOll was willing to ho given for tor this purpose that lie He was wasa a conscious party In the tho ca case e that lIo He was one with the tho Father In the giving o ot the tho gift that It was God himself who offered his life lite ns as n a ransom for tor forthe the human race an and made salvation a free gift to nil all who would put them themselves selves In a position to profit by ills IUs lice The custom of giving gifts Is much older cUer than th the observance of Chr Christ t nIS day From time Immemorial tilts have eol emt given from mo ma lives both good gool and bad sR and sycophancy played their part partIn In th as well us ns pity gen generosity and love Tho true Christmas gift hallowed by Its association with the Idea of the worlds Redeemer rep represents resents unselfish Interest In the tho happi happiness ness nes ot of others There Thero are three prime eSIl essentials In every Christmas gift worthy ot of the name In the first place the tho gilt gift should not impoverish or otherwise Injure the tho giver While intended to 10 promote the tho happiness of the one who receives It It should also give Ilvo happiness to the one who bestows It should be such a gift as the giver ran afford to giVe ono one that will bene lit In the highest sense sonso the tho one that will exemplify the tho truth of the divine declaration It ht Is more mora to give than to receive In Inthe the next place the gift should be hp suited to the tho time lime the place the person and the tho condition an exam example pIe In short ot of the eternal ot of things NOT FOR SAKE Lastly and firstly and nil all the tho time it should ho bo given ungrudgingly not for tor sake nor to conform to toa a mere mera custom or fashion It be nn an expression of at pure friendship of holy affection and be heartfelt lt joyful and ancl sincere The Theco co cot t cut no Well and wIse wisely has hns It been said Mold The rho best bost gm gift Is not the one OM that eo costs ts the most money but the tho one that carries carrieR with sith It the tho most lov lovIn love loveIn In this triple Us the gr great nt gift ot of God our Heavenly Father In sending Ills his Son Into the world to die that man mIght live Depend upon It that gift fid Id not impoverish the tho Giver Gher The rho well lIell of oC divine divino love lovo Is always Vh n most Is drawn Bather lid did add to 10 Clods honor and glory The ot of nil all power In heaven und on earth arth came cam to the Savior Him IU the of oC Ills crucifixion On alvary And nd yet et that offering was roads mude unselfishly un ungrudgingly grudginglY with full Cull foreknowledge no doubt of II Its Inevitable fruits but without sordid cal I and with no thought save t tJ glorify the tho J Father ather and to sad and mankind And An who can say that the tho gift was not appropriate The rhe world In lay dead It at the Iho feet teet of oC Death D Ii the tho trans tram lon ot of our parents their tall fall from Edena fail nee necessary mince Adam tell fell that man might be had como coma Into the tho world earth had been cursed to bring forth horns and briars and nud man compelled Ibl to earn his hili broad by the tho sweat his brow In other words the tho world had hadt t I p n a pawn th the name of I the pawnbroker was Val de death and his claim upon earth and all aU It contained was twofold It was wa Ii a spiritual as aswell a well weli os as a temporal death Involving not the tho of the body but also eternal banishment from the Presence ot of Goi Nothing the curso hall had power to lift It D Deatti lt It hiu nil all No Io part of what was held In III pledge could be Used IU as the means of redemption above and In something Orne thing not the penalty was WIlS The lito of a 0 Gild was the Iho price of the tho w and that was waa paid when hun Jehovah tho God ot of Israel camEl came to his own as Jesus the tho Nazarene and was In the tho meridian of time THE TUE GIF OF 01 GOD Elcer then to show that salvation the Iho girt gift ot of God could coult only como come to those thole who themselves ot of the tho gracious offer and put themselves In n a pOsition It to by the atonement ot of ChrISt Men Ien au and women however good and ond honest however benevolent And pure could not save themselves without assistance God Therefore a and a aplan plan pall or of salvation hAd ben provided before th of th 3 1110 ne upon the first fint tour four principles of the tho I repentance baptism by Immersion for Cor the remission of sins Ins anti the layIng on of hands for tor the tho gift ot of the Holy how these principles had been laught by the Savior and Ills apostles and how the tho gospel everlasting and Md had been the same all ull down the tho dis Ho the tho ml mission slon of o Joseph Smith and the true canco cance of t the tho world terms Mor MormonIsm Mormonism monIsm It was th restored gospel of Christ nod It meant In a 11 word ord prep for tor the second coming of oC the theon on of God Cod WHOM we VE Wo io do not Joseph Smith said Elder Eider Whitney In conclusion Ye We worshIp Gad Clod and wo we servo seno the Savior but wo we slug sing with our hearts In oUr voices We thank Thee a 0 Clod for tor a 0 prophet To us In these latter days Wo We thank Thee for sending the tho Gospel To lo lighten our OUI minds with Its rays We thank Thee rhea for tor every blessing d by y Th Thy bounteous hands Wo We feel teel it a to servo Thee And lo 10 0 obey thy commands I Tad Today II we 0 celebrate the tho birthday of the Son ot of God the Savior of the world just as 11 celebrated two days ago aKo the birthday of at Ills prophet who stands lit at the head of at tim tho last gospel to the tho man who with Jesus anointed that prophet and Seer DI Blessed aed to open the tho last laet dispensation IIII Kings s shall extol him and amid nations revere |
