Show greeting from stake presidency to the latter day saints friends parowan carowan stake of zion As another christmastide approaches we extend greetings to you who share with us a living faith in jesus our redeemed his name we honor and revere as the source of all our blessings and the center of all our hopes kinteen hundred and twenty one I 1 ears before his birth upon the ear h a promise was give to abraham by god the father that in him and his seed should all nations of the earth be blessed in the midst of an Idolater Idolat erous ons world the household of abraham alone had retain retained d a correct conception of a true and livingood living god that this true conception of the creator might be preserved and perpetuated upon the earth god drew abraham and his posterity apart and made of them a chosen people and charged them not to mix mix or intermingle with un believers their subsequent history reveals the drastic schooling through which the chev were taken As arace a race they were purged by their experiences of every of Idola tery and so thoroughly chastened chasteney chast ened that faith in the living god became christili zed and fixed as I 1 a racial characteristic then came the dispersal which litte rally sprinkled the nations nation with that blood that believes and finally the crowning glory of isreal christ the redeemer and hope of all mankind man lind As abraham was kinteen hundred and twenty one years before christ so we today are standing kinteen hundred and twenty one years after him in the light of another gospel dispensation pensa tion the last and final one in n which all things are to be gathered together in christ we may read something of the significance of the advent of our savior upon the earth and of the great promises made to his illustrious abraham isaac and jacob acob be reassured at this christ ass mss s time that your faith in christ is net act ilvain n vain benot be not moved fromet from it by the sophes tries of godless men lie he was indeed the son of god and the author of eternal salvation in his tragic death ile he took upon himself the burdens burden of mankind an and d in die ing broke the bands oad of death path and became the redeemer of fallen man the spirit of christs teachings are permeating the earth and when they aire exe received re they warm the souls of man like the sunshine men and nations lay aside their h areas and their vain and selfish ambitions and the golben rule of christ becomes the basis of enduring goodwill good will which alone can bring to pass a lasting peace on earth yours sincerely parowan carowan stake presidency henry W lunt myton myron D higbee e wm win R palmer |