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Show i , SATURDAY, DECEMBER, 1927 - AMERICAN Oilico Alpine l'uMiab' A I'KOOHISSSIVH, INDEPENDENT 1'UKLICATIOX KutiTt-iJ iu the l'ost Uiliec at American Fork, Utaa, at Beeood-class matter. .... .vv "... Subscription ratea, $2.50 per year in advance. Advertisement rates: Display, 30 cents a column inch. Legal notice and readers, legal rate of 10 cents per eight-point line per in' ertion. Want ads. Kate 2 cents per word each insertion. - Payment must accompany advertisement. . , A. F. GA1SFORD, Jit.. CHRISTMAS Christmas, that img'w word, how it thrills mankind! That day when practically all selfishness is forgotten, and men's hearts are jreuerous. , That day when the voices of little children joyously ring in millions -' tft homes throughout the Christian world because of happy giftff. Let us, as wi.se meu of old, gift to the world. Let us bring 4reert,?ffr' about uh. Let us forget strife, if. may truly say, "Glory to Ood in good will toward men. THE DEADLY CHRISTMAS CANDLE On the eve of the year's happiest day, residents will do well to hed the warning-of the loeal fire department against carlcssnes that may result in bringing tragedy .Christmas trees and most Christmas decorative materials are highly inflammable. The electric lighting outfit for the festive conifer has done miich to cut down the hazard from that source: but the dangerous wax candle is stilll blazing taper that the majority wounds and even deaths fan be Slum the ,w eandle as you have electric service, it is better the light of some life be needlessly Christmas and its custom should exercise of a "hit .of caution and possibly save you a lifetime of regret. ". ' . DON'T WRITE Clergymen; are protesting . . .. wnicn reduces tne name or Christ to X . The abbreviation is disrespectful to the most beautiful word in history, and it is disrespectful to the English' language. Anybody vdwjvasjn. too-much-of a-4mrry- to- write out "(Tli'riStinasrr shoiild not use the word. Among other things we'll like kids have aVd. "When is Santa The first Christmas card was is safe to assume that it has been American Fork Locals MraTVPTA. Homer spent Saturday in the eapltol city combining busi ness and pleasure. - Mrs. Emma Jenkins spent last week end; Jn SaltLake . City, visiting with friends and relatives. Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd B. Adamson pent last Saturday la Salt Lake City, combining business with pleasure. Mr.. and Mrs. George Meredith visited visit-ed in Salt Lake City Sunday with .4r4ea4s-nflr -relatives.' Bill - Thornton returned . to Salt Lake Sunday evening, after spending the week-end here visiting his parents, par-ents, Mr, and Mrs. William Thornton. ' Mr. and Mrs. Rulon Klcholes and Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Mcholes motored motor-ed to Provo last Friday, and spent the day combining - business with pleasure. - ,.. Mrs. David Davis and daughter Donna were week.end visitors in Salt .Lake City, at the home of Mrs. Davis's parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. A. Merrick.-v - Lee Halstrom, who has been very seriously 111 with pneumonia and 1st stJU. in .a I CrRIcarcondltlo'n; is Haht--f ly on the Improve. H js the wish of bis many TrleTnds that" Hb constantly Improves, and will soon be able to resume his work. : ; The Firemen and their wives met Monday evening at the home of Glen Chad wlrk, where they spent the eve-j filng In. filling surprise boxes to go on the Community Christmas tree, to be enjoyed by all of the kiddies. The Junior Beehive . girls . of .. the First Ward M. I. A. were guests at a Christmas party given by their teachers, teach-ers, Misses Hazel Cobbley and Flor. -ence - Iogsdon,- Thursday evening at the home of Miss Cobbley. Holiday -games were the features of the ave. Ding's fun, followed by dainty refreshments. re-freshments. A merry time was re. ported. ' The Fourth Ward Primary entertained enter-tained for all of their little members at a Christmas party Monday after noon In tbelr ward chapel. A glittering glit-tering Christmas tree and Santa Claus were the predominate features of the entertainment. The little folks were presented, with a gift from the bounteous Christmas tree. A large Ctowd was present, and they all reported re-ported a Jolly tlmt. , FORK CITIZEN vlr r ', 'Imnnanr Building: Phona 85 J .EDITOR give, thanks to God for His priceless happineHS to the unhappyjaind. gAoJJ those there be any iu our lives, that we the highest, and on' earth peace, 1 . into a scene of joy. largely used, and is to this bit of of Christmas fires and Christmas traced. would the plague. " If you do"not that your tree go unlighted than extinguished. The observance of be one of happiness unalloyed. The common sense can keep it so, and IT "XMAS"! agamst the abbreviated "Xmas," to have' nickles for the times the Clans coming?" designed in England in 1846. delivered bv this time. It Dr. and Mrs. James M. Grant were business, visitors in Provo on Tuesday.-. r-rw Mrs. Prank Edwards spent the week-end visiting In Salt Lake City with her daughter, Mrs. Earl Dean. -Mr. and Mrs.- C. A. " Orant were business, visitors In the eapltol city on Saturday. Mrs. Walter Chlpman ot Provo, spent Saturday In this city combining business and plmirf, Mr. and Mrs Helge Johnson motor- t-SSTtLake" City Saturday to spend Christmas Eve at the home of Mrs. Johnson's sister, Mrs. A. Ella-son. Ella-son. Mr. and Mrs. Harlow Jones arrived arriv-ed here today to spend the Christmas holidays with Mrs. Jones' grandmoth. er, Mrs. Melissa Boley. 7A largB Tepresehtalloii was ' ' pre ent Tuesday evening, at, tha Pu ward chapel to hear the splendid discussion dis-cussion on "Oliver Cromwell" given by Clifford E. Young to the Advanced Senior class. Everyone felt repaid for their coming out t Mrs. Thomas Coddlngton, Mrs. Leland Mitchell and-v MrsTioaeph Xtcrioles vllt ed tbeTFTKat, Second, and FlftE' wards of -Lent Monday after- noon while their Primary classes wvfe In attendance. They made the report that they are all In Jlne condition. con-dition. The Gleaner girls and the Beehive girts of the Fourth Ward M, I. A. en- tertalned at u social Tuesday evening, after the regular meeting and program, pro-gram, for all of the members present Light refreshments were served la addition to the presenting of a one. act play.-- - Monday afternoon In the First ward chapel, the Primary kiddles were "entertained' at a Christmas party. A clever program was featur. ed, followed by the visit of Santa Claus and the unloading of gift from his bag. Over two hundred children were present at the delightful party. The officers and teachers of the First Ward Primary were entertained entertain-ed last Friday evening by the PresL dency, Mrs. Helge Johnson, Mrs. Roy Greenwood and Mrs. Frank Bush, at the home of Mrs. Johnson. The time was spent in discussing the work outlined for the new year and making suitable plans for l. After the bnsl. oess was carried out, a social was enjoyed, followed by refreshments. AMERICAN v - i V i . , .lb V At the Holiday Season , We express to you out appreciation of past favors and wish' you a Happy Christmas and a Prosperous New Year 15 t if; Bank of American Fork & I zz. r - A STRONG BANK We pay. 4 Interest! triTiL" !S IS LI In The Star of Bethlehem The Light Of 8crlpture, History and Science. By Adolpb (Continued from last week) Modern Revelation On -Christ's . Birthday. In Section 20, of. the Doctrine and Covnantsrflrst Terser is stated," that the Church of Jesus Christ was organized on the sixth day of April. 1S30 being, "1830 years, elnce the com Ing of our Lord and Saviour Jesus innsi in ine nesn." in tne "com ments''" bii this is stated: "The church was organized on the 6th of April. 1830. This date wa chosen in accordance with a divine command. In all probability the sixth of April, Is the anniversary' of the birthday of our Lord. There is no authentic record. of the date of . the birth of Christ but scholars (Greawell "among others) consider It probable that He was born on the 10th day of the Jewish month Nlsan, which In the year of the Nativity has been calculated calcu-lated to correspond to Saturday, April the 5th. But as He was born at night and Saturday expired at sun. set, the date would be more precisely, precise-ly, April the 6th and that would be the beginning of Sunday, "our Lord's Day."' On this supposition the date was most, appropriate." .Doctrine and Covenants, Commentary page 138). The New Star Says Professor Selss: "Now, It Is a matter of record that a new and peculiar star did make Its appearance ltt theH rstDpcano FT! rgiT I n pe r i od Immediately preceding Christ's birth, snd' that it was so bright as to be visible even in the day time. Ignatius says it "sparkled brilliantly love all stars." The same continued in the sky during the whole period of Christ' lifetime and tor a time thereafter. there-after. Hlpparchus, about 125 years, before Christ, observed " It as a new star, and was led by it to draw up his catalogue of the stars. Ptolemy, about 150 years after Christ refers to It as having been observed by Hlpparchus, but as having become so faint as hardly to be any longer distinguishable. dis-tinguishable. The Chinese records, also make mention of thla new bright star at a time corresponding to the period of our Saviour's birth. Since theUm. of. Ptolemy..we have no record of any observation of it This star was in C o m a, the sign of the Infant accompanying Virgo and it MARKED THE VERY HEAD OF THAT INFANT ... Its brightness would necessarily arrest the Attention Atten-tion of observers of the heavens and awaking special Interest In Coma and Virgin-born Infant, which" that constellation con-stellation signified both In figure and name;. "It was a sort of midnight cry, "Behold, he cometh!-- The star Itself would thus also be just, what these Magls called the star by which they wera led namely Christ's star, emphatically "His Star;" for It was a star of Hit particular constellation as the "Deolre of Nations" and the FORK CITIZEN helpers and planners. 1!S I X; : i i.WJI TitT K LI N'ielson peculiar star of His Infancy, as It marked the Infants Head, and was at the time by far, the brightest In the constellation, as well as In all the heavens around." Conjunctions of Jupiter and Saturn. This was not the only sign and Indication of the great Kings birth, but the same sign as heralded the birth of Moses was. also present here. "The 8ign of the Birth of Moses In the rabbinical commentaries of Aborbanel, EHezer and others, great stress Is laid on conjunctions of the planets Jupiter and Saturn. It Is there also affirmed that about three years before th birth of Mim conjunction- between Jupiter and SarjLcrrsoU.fJn,th.-lga--flf- Pishes. By astronomical calculations we know that such a conjunction of these particular planets, in that particular sign, did take place about that period. According to Josephus and the rabbis, this sign was interpreted inter-preted by the Egyptian astronomers and wise men as very favorable to the Jews and very unfavorable to the Egyptians. - m Theirs sacred " icribes, noted for their skill and sagacity in these things, came to the king In sisting that It foretokened the birth of a child among the Jews who, If allowed al-lowed to live, would bring the Egypt-Ian Egypt-Ian dominion very low, excel In virtue, vir-tue, and glory, exalt thechIldrenof Israel to power and honor, and be remembered throughout all ages. (See Josephus, Ant. 119 2 and 27) Josephus says, that It was 1n consequence conse-quence "of these Interpretations by the scribes, that - the decree went forth from - Pharaoh to slay ' every male child that should be born during the time Impending. Now, if an isolated ; conjunction of the two planets presaged, the birth of Moses, and always indicates the coming of some great one on earth, what would be the dignity and glory of a child whose birth heralded by three successive succes-sive conjunctions of these same planets, in one and the same year. And yet this to the fact, as It did occur Just before the birth of Jesua of Nasareth. A JTrlpIt JConjunction As A 8iorr Of ' "... Messiah. In the year ot Rome "47, within 3 years preceding the Nativity, there was three such conjunctions, one In May, another in October, and another In December the same year. It was Kepler, the great German astronomer, who first pointed put Jthese remark, able incidents of the heavens and gave the opinion, that they were mont likely the starry phenomena which influenced the wise men In the cam . before us. 8uch portentous conjuue-tions conjuue-tions along with the new star In Coma and the Virgin herself on the meridian at the same time would seat the whole matter. The signs were full, definite and complete. ,The Slpn'tl the Flshsv'Vfe side of And as to lih pek g born in Ju4ea aa a Jewish Pri4ce, the algn of the Fishes, by Jew's taifiS .Gentiles alike. was assigned j,jjftajraelltlflh peopia. With the" same clearness i' and Xloud neas, therefore, -with - which these planetary conjunctions and stellar la dlcatlona announced the Immediate birth of the glorious divinehuman seed of the woman, did they also an nounce that He was to arise out ot Jacob and to be a Jewish Prince;" The Following Of The Star. "When they had beard the King, iney aepartedf and lo, the Star, which they saw In the east, went before "w came ana stood oyer wnere the young Child was. When they saw the Star, they rejoiced with exceeding great joy." .Commenting on this Dr." Serss 'says": ''About Ujftjlma fta rfngeouino (between March 20 and April 20r . . . The bright star in. Coma was vertical at Jwrisa-lem Jwrisa-lem at midnight.' The record nlainiv (Implies thaf these men" were follow-' ing the Star, they spoke of It as Christ Star (or "His Star.) The following fol-lowing of the star In Coma L'.f. phatlcally the star of the Iufanf-Soed of the woman, could be no other following, fol-lowing, than the going to the place, at which it would be thus vertical over Him at that hour. We cannot conceive con-ceive of any other sort of following of a nea siar. And it was at Jerusalem, and. only- here or Tlose on ihU' partt sumr jme of latitude; at thai barticu lar time of the year, that this1 Star was vertical at exact midnight. That "the star went before them till it came and stood over where the young cmia was- is explainable in the same way. The short distance of some six miles between Jerusalem and Bethlehem Bethle-hem would make so little difference In the observation of a vertical star, that it would be impossible to note it without Kperlal astronomical appliances. appli-ances. Hence when these followers of the star came to Jerusalem they had gone as near to-the spot .they were searching for, as their natural observation could serve to bring them. Accordingly, the record implies -that there they somehow lost the benefit of the star's leading, so that they applied ap-plied to Herod for further information. infor-mation. Thefr lieht from .ho k- vance of the stars being In this way exhausted, they would naturallr h- take themselves to the reigning FBovereign, tnere to learn that specific locality in ,u Buuiiuitj rrince ' was born, being assured by their starry guidance . luai u must needs oe somewhere in that Immediate v,c,n,t:- . And having, obtained-the answer that Bethlehem was the exact Place Indicated by' sacred prophecy, they set out for Bethlehem. But on their way to Bethlehem, by some means or other to their areat joy, their star began to serve them Milne jameas it did be How this came about is explained bv ajMlIuKgewed-andljeaiBtiruT'oli! (..JUL. l i . I..U.WUU, wmcn we nave no reason I ic aiscmnt. Though Bethlehem is only about 6 miles from Jerusalem, it Is said that these distinguished visitors .uuypeq OB me way and tarried by A Merry The happiest time of the year is neie. We hope those -who are more fortunate will think of those who arejess fortunate and make the Christmas season happy for tli em also. - ... Every O. P. Skapgs System store has enjoyed a most prosperous prosper-ous year and we realize , that our success has been due to Public popularity. All members of our organization extend thanks to those who have had a. part in this success " and heartily greet you - with best wishes for a'rnost happv Christmas, filled with peace, jo'v and contentment. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 9i ic a deep well. ws.. A Halted .for In so short a Journey! would be hard to tell, except it J to take another midnight observatl KL-- rpose. V11 "t - 'PlOttcular would serve them the sme as a 11 observatory, It was by means of ,J .we na me refiectlon ot the sun it (at Syene. Egypt) that the tt. the tropic was discoverd and a., mined., So these wise men by lo . uunn iae wau, and observing reflection of th( .k.ii. . still water at the bottom, could fi with great accuracy whether it J exactly vertical over them, or in whJ respect If any, it was not. An 1 the-tradition Is, that they looked lu me we i ana saw their sUr. anrt ni vc.cu ui ji tuna over exactly vertIcalat-4iot 'Jerusalem l, w. awning u ' aeslenaip house" is not In the recori! "And when they were come lntn house, they saw the young child wil aimj, am mower, ana leli down an worshipped Him, and when they ha opened their treasures, they preeen ed to Him gift- gold and frankinceni and myrrh." Had we been in the! place, with their beliefs, feelings an anticipations, with such, signs aud j,1 dicatipns upon the face of the k where we and our fathers were taugh - wr.v vicbai)iigg o what was to come to pass,-! eel sun that in spite of, his humble surround Ings, we would have been moved n Jolced, thrilled, and Impelled like the were. It was to Jesus of Nazareth! even in His cradle, that the prlmeva astronomy conducted these remot Gentile believers, and to that sam Jesus, araia vivia and glowing illu stratlona of the truth respecting His! nature, "person, mission and work past, present and future, this prime val astronomy "Is still capable of con ducting even Christians themselves. And happy" they, and wise indeed to whom it Is given through .these con templations to say - In - truth and earnestness of Him .to whom the heavens thua testify; "We have seen his star In the east, and are come to worship Him." Miss Berta GIbbs began working at the J. & I. Cafe this week, filling the vacancy left by Miss Vlda Berg, who discontinued her employment there the first of the week. nn.a. trt)n t.t,. n, L. t -v- I Wl Ml VIL , DCUb kJ IXilUCX y vidiv- Ing here, with Mr. Steele. . and Mrs. Roy Mrs. Walter Durrant and Mrs. Frank Humphries spent Monday in Provo on a combined business and pleasure trip.' A. F. LOCALS frr an d MrsTRay DT CI ark of San Franclsco,jrethe jPQuiar.e.nis,Qf-, a nine pound baby girt born Decern- her 13. Mra. Clark was formerly Miss Irma Booth of American Fork, Mrs. Clark's mother, Mrs. R. E. Booth is at present to San Francisco with her daughter. 3B1 Christmas lit jcH r', ; 1 :& Soon j sol ierec lf ,siiiE 7s: 4Il r, ierso Idoci litre tit be ttlie plow i raw ! iter i Don kof pap Ml' Pale Lnce kbl blust ma Bis dot t si hd t Hoo kbit fer hi Ulss j'lf : Dale iko Be-o Be-o Bll h Ion; invo I "' f |