Show CHRISTMAS AMONG THE dr not the anniversary of the saviors birth was celebrated as a holiday among the Ne philes la Is uncertain the record we have of them affords 4 no distinct information to PO this point their history from the datlof date of the birth of the savior until the waging of the war that resulted in their extinction as a race is very brief as abridged by mormon and affords but meagre information of their social cu stops from what we know relative to the individual and communal traits bf 6 tae Nep bites hites we are justified jB stifled in presuming libat ibis they were inclined to be a cheerful light hearted people soc sociable lAble and affect affectionate loBate at till all events it is evident that toey they lacked that stability of character and that firmness and fixedness of purpose which usually accompany in races and individuate individuals the characteristics of te re serve solemnity sod and taci taciturnity 1 11 the readiness with which they could coul d f forget 0 et the causes and import ol 01 g great re ca calami 1 angl ties and the cance ot of and miraculous phenomena AS welt well as an their religious teli covenant and cl obliss p eions render reader the lumise that they were awre or less jess rivals to pleasure amusement and mid and gt fcc ucc lu ID au observance mance pe bap excessive of feast days and hol whether or not the Nop hites observed conserved christmas as an 4 1 ly day to be celebrated rated they signalizes signalized to in a 4 et ef ft manner the birth day of thi the redeemer by starting from fromin ti a new striking reasons for taking tat event 48 tuft zero date of a new era thap than Christ christians igns op the eastern continent oa account of the MArJOT 49 ano aei we inspiring cliar character acter ot of certain occurrences connected therewith thero with some of these were ofa of a nature to overwhelm witla with u dredd lest lear terror andre abd murse bolh and lam anitis anides t I 1 I 1 the reign of the religious relie tans leaders and ami kings ol of the continued top W years after lehi lebi left jerusalem when a new chronology beginning with the commencement of tie abe reign of bt the judges and with the year after tia departure from jerusalem was a adapted ted tea in the year ot oi the bf abie judges t there here came upon th escene one of toe most ra of al history what alt acht amov moving nak i brilliantly flashing co comei of the are arst magnitude is amo among ag the 18 I 1 ven aemuel the is among historical character vl 1411 prophets have perhaps lett left more lasi ing monuments of t their e ir MIS missions 44 ax have perhaps some of the great 6 t wr giors and statesmen stat amen whom wh N an W o et ruling providence has from tine dine to time raided up to accomplish its ita liae purposes purpose but when viewed in fac light of his bis semi barbarous ancee ancestry r the startling not to sa say 4 appalling acter of bis prophetic mid and the minuteness a and n d a accuracy 6 r a av 1 which he be foret foretold pid t thea sto bow events which lie le had bad I 1 baik sent toa to announce samuel Saif hd stands without It boft a codi counterpart itelL the sudden f hla prophesy ophy pr which so quickly followed 11 or t its itis utterance and so much the wrecking by a a collision of a a late division of tile the earth being an event of a i such supremely tragic interest 1 ba n acebed to eclipse the light zoild would otherwise have so brilliantly radiated from this remarkable revelator reve laior i He declared that in live five more aba years i rd the christ would be born in in juaa 04 that the event should be signalizes signalized by b the appearance of a star i abe or which had never been seen before atia by many great wonders erfa and abd signs sign sAlk A he heavens one sien oi Probst birx im import ort should be alv given n in proof that the christ was coming the ni preceding his birth should be as ji libit as day A small minority only ot of those who heard these predictions prediction dib at lieveld them and as the time approach ed when abo illuminated night should happen ve te unbelieving untie leving lieving masses sized upon a day for P massacre fit at auvo 4 4 a believed I 1 in n sa san 6 u I 1 ls a byh they y hould be fulfilled 11 1 barely iu llin irac lo 10 u avert the i 1 carnage car nacie the great sign was alten the th hours ol 01 the day passed but no nicha came the unbelieving daft fell to the grot ground inq as it if dead b being I 1 overcome with terror mid and remorse e mag e for fer aday a alget and a day toe me abbit ot of the ed not by this i starts aart ling aing everil event the te greater part of toe pee pie were led 6 to listen to the and to depeo though t hd ugh a spirit of t i lying and 1 stubborn availed extensively the freto ory of the great sion of the order of nature ovag was tuf an forgotten tor for foe time tibie reckoned recko recke hed itom from it but a few av nad had elapsed when I 1 the of I 1 fc people who had been i d it and a realization of what abat I 1 w it ported forgot forget the terror and fe retha with which they had been ditl it iland and dwindled in unbelief edness to a degree atch last fail th fulfill fulfil fulfillment of the portion 11 W f 8 belld prophetic tib message li kl to ti the events which abou should I 1 il tt i with the scone scene on ob cavalie ell came 1 on an this continent a 16 lillne tj samuels awful warning of tah 4 6 lation of the western half of the METE all but a mere remnant in a few hours in shy any she attempt ot affre V 61 count the mandet nyanne to it 1 1 I stoc samuela Samu elB words came to as me rae a most graphic plan pen becomes bacon tor for the service no langu mazetti maZed tv command of uninspired ti with justice and the accomplishment of nu I 1 rodi I 1 the memory of an of his aisil ita atonement cont continued linued in 4 athe he chertin which he raised cawed up op after fackt e st ruction bortold by AS baduel Ba in muel I 1 f several generations the t IV ll 11 still kept in mind by the chro lito it 46 use nse fortio for two hundred years taft crucifixion the members dl abi church of christ I 1 on en this d IS were a ita happy and peaceful their record continues contina 66 le 00 whether or not the anniversary atthe redeemers Rede emeri merls birth was celebrated 1 tug ing period as a holiday ald 9 ft hie are left to conjecture oon jecture P t eject be that it may inky no people Warth ot had more signal reasons ko feeol U nall nally nallain yin in memory the birth aaa attel IN fluxion of the savior than 4 if did K theril th chea inhabitants of this the testimonies that were given boh ot of the dittin divinity ity of his message a bf the necessity olt of forever and obeying it were cereas we reas as crogill and overwhelming af a eanelli can welt wco and the fact that he was practically repudiated by all but a few individuals divi duals within lour four hundred years of the when he ministered among the remnant that were left from amona ith the wreck of the continent conto cont nent anent is a deplorable p proof roof of the forgetfulness forett alness of humanity of their duty to god and shows the fickleness of the nephlee race la in particular ti |