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Show Why Do We Celebrate Christmas? I eaper Reasons Traced by Writer . -- B BybUlS United j CASSELS Press International "Wny 0.0 mas?" we celebrate Christ- - Children are apt to ask that question at this time of the year. . Parents who feel for theological discussion may stall for a while by answering that Christmas is 'the birthday of Jesus Christ. But young minds are relentlessly curious. They soon want to know who was Jesus Christ? And why is his birthday so special? At this point, parents may be compelled to. romp to grips with the least understood and most , r New Travel . At University y Robert C. Taylor will replace . nuni as cnairman 01 ui. the; Brigham Young .University Travel Studies program, it was iay-vjo- . .. day by to- Pres ident Ernest L. Jm ' WMVIncnn Mr. Taylor conies to BYU from the Howard Hughes Pro ductions staff, las a . . Head Named a n n ounced article in the Christian gan in a stable and ended, on a cross? . creed. A noted modern scholar, Prof. the it 'dogma Theologians call John atKnox of Union Theological an is of the Incarnation. It words in Seminary says the claim was an a, tempt to express was inevitableoutgrowth of the unanibreathtaking conviction that, mous experience of the primitive disciborn in the first Christian Christian community. ples as they sought to explain The story of the Incarnation, he what they had seen and heard and felt and experienced in the says, is "an effort to represent the meaning of a salvation .which presence of Jesus. had actually been, bestowed and The disciples knew that Jesus in the fellowship men received a man who was a human being had with Jesus. Ed. tired and hungry like other Find God 'In Him men, who shared fully in the "For men in very truth found temptations, limitations and sufGod in him. When he said' ,'thy The existence. of ordinary fering so shines his sins of are warmth humanity forgiven thee,' the sinner warmth of his humanity shines so knew he was in fact forgiven, and clearly through the New Testa- that the hold of his enemy was ment accounts of his life that broken. And men and women many people, even today, - are whose lives had been empty and drawn; to love and respect him meaningless became, in His pressimply jis the wisest and best of ence, , suddenly aware of the men. beauty of God, and what had been a form of death became life Driven To Belief But the disciples were driven to everlasting." As the disciples reflected on the belief that there was more their experience, Prof. 'nox says, than manhood in Jesus. And driven is the right word. The first they became increasingly certain Christiait relievers were fiercely that "an event of incalcuable monotheistic Jews who had at magnitude" had occurred in their least as much difficulty as ny midst, arid that they had witmodern mind in accepting the nessed in Jesus "God's supreme idea that Is expressed in th open- disclosure of Himself to men." ' "This was the faith of the early ing words of the Gospel accorda faith which could be, exchurch, ing to St. John: "In the beginning was t .19 pressed only in terms of sacraWord, and the Word was with ment and 'story. But the sacraas God, and the Word was God. . . ment and story are as truefirmrests and the faith and the Word was made flesh, the faith, ?nd dwelt among us, and we be- ly upon what men had actually found in Jesus and find there held his. glory." still." Why did the early Christians dare to claim that, God. was in- Abv for Friday P.Ms Dec. 18 , carnate in a human life that be- ' " " " difficult ' n g e 1 e s, ; Mr. Taylor rf Calif., where he had been staff assistant to Howard Hughes since 1936. He was Ygraduated from the University of Utah in 1952 with a major in speech. Prior to coming to Utah, Mr. Taylor was president of the Des-ert , 4 Theatrical Artists' of HollyOREM Orem Kiwanis mem- !( $ wood, Calif. He also served as bers and their partners enjoyed f counselor in the Hollywood Ward combined Christmas party, dinner bishopric and as superintendent and installation of new officers ' of the YMMIA. Monday evening at the Maple Valf ) Dr. Hunt, who has been chair- ley Inn in Maple ton. man of the travel studies departInstalled as new president was ment for the past two years, will C. Eldon Bitter, succeeding Ray devote his attention to his major Hanks; Lloyd Christensen, vice field of history. Under Dr Hunt's president; John Huish, presidentdirection, the BYU Travel Studies elect; Elwood Sundberg,secretary; L. Nelson, and Philip Taylor,-Dalparticipants in travel education H Earl Farnworth, Ray Hanks, Jn 10 different programs in 1959. Lorin Jex, Curt Curtis, Clyde E. The same program carrying! Weeks Jr., and Donald Bishop as students to all parts of the world directors. will be repeated in 1960. Self imDistrict officers present were provement, cultural development Governor Bill Bishop, Secretary A V and worldh understanding are the and Lieutenant GoverOlsen, Roy objectives of the university in nors Ezra Warner and Glenn n sponsoring travel study programs. their and partners. Tours scheduled for this year The Christmas atmosphere was d are an Tour, out in the program which Northern and. Southern European carried included the singing of carols, the Travel Study Program, three sec." to ail tions of the People and' Cultures Presentation of corsages Warner Mr. the remarks wives, by Tour of Europe, Short European : . '; Adult program, the 11th annual and a reading by Mrs. Leeman oar ' Church History Tour by air, Bennett. Presenting the toast to $ ' was Marlow Harsfon and Tour of Hawaii, ladies G. Milton Jameson gave the Mrs. Circle South America, and the to men. Serving as mastoast the Mexican and French Residence ter of ceremonies was Eli Clayson. MISS 'GOLDEN CALF' Angie Programs. Committee members for the Dickinson displays the shapely party included Mr. and Mrs. Grant legs which won her the- - new THREE BAT FATALITIES Stevenson, Mr. and Mrs,. Joseph "Golden Calf"3 award by GENEVA (UPI) maker of hose Bats were Smith and Mr, and Mrs. Odell most beautiful 11 for movietown's of for three Christensen reception committee, the responsible fatal cases of rabies in the Unit- Mr. and Mrs. Leeman. Bennett, pro- legs. She has, according to ed States in the past two years, gram; Mr. and Mrs. Milton JohnWilly, the perfect calf which the World Health Organization measures 124 inches. (Herald-- . and and Mr.' son, arrangements r UPI Telephoto) Mrs. Charles Rohbock, flowers. reported Thursday. . 1 Kiwanians of Orem Install New Heads k X - et ? . s i f . ;' . J Coff-ma- Around-the-Worl- -- -- - v v Socio-Cultur- al k-.- ' Mineralogy Museum Grows at T7 S"' V t 1959 SUNDAY HERALD, U A I' it 1 ! i MX.! z 4 fry- 1 gold nugget from the California gold fields, the largest and finest gypsum crystals in the world, large sample of the pre- - 1 cious green emerald from Brazil, ' and a wire covered with magnifi! '- " cent salt crystals which took only a year to form. 3. All of these samples and hun' in on the dreds more are display new miner alogical museum recently completed at Brigham ' Young University. The museum is V ' ' now open to the public and is in f ' ' t. I :::. Room 350-- 2 of the Eyring Science t " i .1 ' r ' Center. yyy.yy.. yy'.yy:. . ' , The display is made up of many v .. '',y' y &r".f t ) , beautiful and interesting mineral it. formations from all parts of the vc i " world, m; king the museum one of the most outstanding of its kind '1 , ! i t ' in the entire area. ' . V iS . i The bulk of the collection came from the Deseret Museum in Salt Lake City which through the ef! forts of Dr. James E. Talmadge, was once listed as one of the betr :ja" ter museums in the West. BYU faculty members and students have added substantial contribu tions to the collection. Anothci large contribution was made by Dr. L. N. Ellsworth, a Salt Lake City dentist, who gave 265 rock and mineral specimens I: to BYU. Dr. Ellsworth's collet-tiorepresents 40 years of rock gathering as a hobby. Eight specially; made glass cases enclosed the collection conTHEY MADE A DKEAAl "COIME TRUE These four ished dream an outdoor patio and fireplace. Above tribution by Mr. and Mrs. CharGeneva steelworkers are back on their regular jobs, from .'left, Harry Edmunds, Lawrence $mith, Charles les W. Lockerbie. They have given hnf flnrinrr fnp rA'pnf st.rikp tripv ustvl thfiir idlp timp350 samples or minerals to BYU, Loris and Lynn Carter get some work infcon the project. to help Utah State Hospital patients realize ajong-cher- including cut and polished materials. On display in this collection i' are samples of barite, fluorite, Strike-Idl- e halite, gypsum, arsenates, magnetite, polished geodes, jasper, agates, and septarian nodules. Mr. and Mrs. Dean Jacobsen have presented a collection of 270 rocks and minerals In meTo most people summer means dreamed of having a patio with poured arid smoothed cement for them. Brkks and material wet e mory of their son, Arthur Duane s, Johnson, who died last summer. picnics, games on the lawn and picnic ' tables, chairs and barbe- a dance area. Here they came donated by a group of Prtfvo of Geneva and But didn't cue to knew a standstill. Uranium ore minerals the Colo- barbecues in the that bricklayers they fireplace. They bapk yard liv- to make a transformed a dream dream become a, stand still for very long. the rado Plateau Mining area were of doors as much as posout one ing when But to on as were do would the have Geneva Steelworkers always reality. reality, they dqnated by Dr. Kenneth Bullock, sible. work. This is how "operation strike. As long as lhere was no dream comes to an end another chairman of the BYU Geology DeTo the patients at the State patio" began. The administra- work tt do, they were free to begins to form. The dream, now lis partment, and geology students Ned King, Jack Madsen, and Ted Hospital summer didn't bring tion of, the hospital donated a pldt spend their time at picnics, play- to have a few pieces ofpatio furScow. A good selection of the im- these things. They could go out- of ground that was of little value. ing games and enjoying barbe- niture , to . complete 4he. overall but, there is very Blueprints were drawn up and cues. They could live out of picture. portant uranium ores are included side, ofto course, do little but But even though the dream dream. They shrubs donated by several inter- doors. When they learned that in "this collection. it will not. dieit will live Utah ends, men. business The ested Hospital patients State Common and unusual minerals, patients in :e a in the hearts of these people for leveled the wanted they gave up ground fircpb as found in their natural habitat, preparation to for it of build time for the planting many years. grass. They their free are shown in the museum. Representative ore samples from various mining camps of Utah are also on display. fTSl One display case is devoted' enLa tirely to igneou- - sedimentary and Provo Thespian Troupe Df Provo of all colors High School will host a Christmas r metamorphic and shapes, an ,iother features social at the school lunch room the beautiful garnet and amethyst on Tuesday, Dec. 22 at 7 p.m. to stones. which all past 'Thespians and The Mineralogical Museum is members of the Forensic Club qpen from 1 to 4 p.m. weekdays are invited. Those wishing to- attend should and by special appointment on ! 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