Page 12, The Herald, Friday, December 15, 1978

THE MORMONS

A Christmas message

President Spencer W.
Kimball, Prophet of the
Church of Jesus Christ of
Latter-day Saints has issued
the following message for
Christmas, 1978:

“When the angel of the
Lord declared to the
shepherds in the flelds of
Judea, 'Fear not: for behold,
I bring you good tidings of
great joy, which shall be to
all people,’ he sent a

message of hope and truth
resounding through the
centuries to aur day.

“For unto you is born tus
day in the city of David a
Saviour, which is Christ the
Lord. (Luke 2:8-11)

“If our Christmas this
year is to reflect the
sacredness of that firat
Christmas, we, too, must
know and declare the Divine
Sonship of Jesus Christ.

“This Christmas and each
day in the New Year before
us, let us talk of Christ,
preach of Christ, and pray to
God in the name of Christ, in
order that we, our children,

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and all mankind may be
influenced and blessed by
the Divine Son of God
whose birth we celebrate at
Christmastime.

“Let us each Individually
and with our families

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proclaim that the right way
is to believe in Christ and
deny him not, and to worship
Him with all our might, mind
and strength, and our whole
soul. (Book of Mormon, IT
Nephi 25:23:29)

“lt we will do these things,
we then will eagerly and
gratefully join in the joyful
anthem, ‘Glory to God in the
highest, and on earth peace,
good will toward men,’ that
filled the heavens at the birth
of Jesus Christ. Then we will
contemplate the conduct of
our lives and mend our ways
where needed so that, in-
deed, the promised peace
and good will of Chrishnas
may be ours now and

forever.

“That all mankind may do
s0 and rejoice in the
redemptive mission of Jesus
Christ is my fervent
Christmas prayer and

FROM THE CHURCH

Siebren A. Van Daalen

Who needs to be reminded
in this time of year that itis a
\time to give? Catalogue after
sales catalogue is being
slipped through the door slat
or tucked inside the daily
newspaper. Everybody is
being reminded where the
best bargains are anes vie
the most appro
may be obtained. The whole
matter of gift-giving or gift
exchanging becomes an
increasingly frenzied ac-
Uvity as the day of Dec. 28
approaches. And even mare
suddenly than it approaches,
the frenzy of gifts and
Christmas pass for another
year, and an almost eerie
vacuum is left, How different
from the great Gift which.
‘was given by God in the
coming of His Son to the
world. .

There is one thing which is
vary different about the gift
.of God's son. Ha was not sent
into.the world as one more
dispensable gift toe be
forgotten as soon as thi.
season of the year passed.
He was not sent into the
world aa one more gifi for

blessing.”
Help

Fight

_RESPIRATORY

DISEASE
USE CHRISTMAS SEALS

which we have so little need.
But Jesus was a Gift of God

‘desperately needed. And this’

Gift of God has changed our
world forever! This change

will especially be ex-'.

perlenced by those who
recognize their need for Him
and have committed thelr
lives to Him.

But when Jesus came to
eave the world and call men

and women to faith in Him, |

He also called them to new
life. Salvation is restoration

from the old life to the new in -

Him. Christ also placed
content jn that new life,
Salvation not only evidences
itself in a doctrinal belief
about Him, but it will par-
ticularly evidence itself in
men and women reborn to
new life: a life evidenced in
the obedience to which Old
Testament prophets con-
stantly called Israel.

cr ry ota

ets frequently spo
the abuses of a people who
had become godless. And
godlessness is often
evidenced first by the many
injustices of which the
prophets spoke: oppression
of the employee, oppression
of the widow, of the orphan,
and the stranger (Malachi
9:6). The cry of the prophet
Amos and others was to
forget the formalities of
worship untll “real worship”
comes about in day to day
lite. ‘Let justice roll down
like waters, tik and
a

righteousness an

overflowing stream”, saya"
Amos, The ffopnet Micah
says: “What does the Lord
require of you bul to do
justice, and to love kindness,
and to walk humbly with
your God’.

.God sent the Gift of His
Son, whose birth we
celebrate, to save people
from their sins, that ‘hey
might be reborn to a life
which manifests ifself in the
desires, concerns, and deeds
to whieh the Old Testament

ets cons ca
their people. Trie worship,
though much more, is cer-
tainly nothing less. Through
the power of Christ, we have
received the power of His
Spirit to exercise such
obedience. wih veopbelt
as called for 8 pro ;
can only but call the at-
tention of others to the
beauty of life as lived by
thoge who are in-Christ. And
then the lasting significance
of Jesus’ coming among men
‘will be seen as the Great
Gift. May our ministry to
sac ce

ly and op fh

, be evidence that we
have recognized and ac-
cepted the true Gift of
Christmas. May the love of
Christ be reflected through
His peopie to others. He, who
is ready to give of himself to
others, will reflect the
presence of the eternal Gift,
the Greatest Gift that the
world has ever known.

Bible still —
selling well —

EDMONTON (CP) —
David Reimer sold 1,80

les of the Good News
Bible in September and
October alone. The recently-
published New International
Version sold more than 850
coplés in four weeks—and
the Christmas rush is still to

come.
The healthy sales are part
of what some local book
dealers say is a religious-
book boom.

Reimer, manager of the
Canadian Bible Society
cutlet and a 24-year veteran
of the trade, says his. sates
areexpected to top $1 million
this year.

The society's shelves
cover the whole spectrum of
Christian literature, with
brisk sales in the writings of
Maleolm Muggeridge, C.S.
Lewis, William Barclay and
theological, reference
eee

ymen.

At the Inside Story
bookstcre, one eager

recently spent $300
and found gifts for everyone
on his Christmas list,
eo

ped

“They'll
we've got on healing,” says
Merv Prediger of Universal
Church Supplies.

Moat of his clientele are
fromthe Roman Catholle
and Eastern rite sector of the .
community,

“Roman Cahn are dust
etting to polnt w
fey have started reading
agalo,” he says, noting &
heavy demand for Bibles is a
significant part of his sales.

Readers are becoming
more sophisticated, too, he
says. Trappist monk Thomas
Merton, once considered a
minority taste among
Roman Catholics, is a “good
mover’ on Universal's
shelves.

Top sellers at the Inside
Story include born-again
works by former Charles
Manson cultists Susan
Atkins and Tex Watson and
A Step Further, the second
offering from paraplegic
Joni Eareckson.

Store owner David Belsey
dismisses suggestions that:
people in his trade are
narrow-minded in their
approach to the book
business, .

“we don’t just hire clerks
here,” says Belsey, holder of

Wayne Briscoe,

bachelor’s degree in Greek.
“We're interested in

dervice, not just sales,”

Belsey says it's sometimes
hard to decide between
buying good books and those
that sell well,

The first book of death-

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9: 45a.m, Bible Teaching

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CHURCH OF GOD

3941 River Drive Terrace, B.C. 638-1561

Reverand R.L. White

Sunday School 10:00.a.m
Reverend R.L, White

Morning Worship 11:00 a.m.
Evening Worship 7:30 p.m.
Prayer Service Wednesday 7:30 p.m.

Reverend Rolf Nosterud 635-6882
Morning Service 11:00 a.m. —
Church School 9:45 a.m.
Sunday School, Confirmation

Youth and Aduit Classes

anddying expert Elizabeth
KublerRoss was good, he
says, “but now she’s maved
into the depths of
spirituallsm and is selling
out to the evil forces of
Satanism.

“Spreading optimism is
our main purpose."’

No age
barrier
in this

COCHRANE, Wis. (AP) —
Bored with retirement and
surrounded by a lifetime of
junk, Herman Rusch did the
logical thing. He opened a
museum. That was 22 years
ago.

Now, at 93, the wise-
cracking Rusch still is the
prize relic among the bird
nests, old washing machines
and antique yarn wrappers
at his Prairie Moon Museum
hear here,

“Five dollars for five
people. Bob Hope charges $s
for one and my jokes are
better," he tells the 3,000
visitors each year,

Rusch's museum contains
treasures to delight any
compulsive saver: an 1944
popcorn popper, an old
churn, a school bell, old-
fashioned light bulbs and
antique stuffed animals,

“Ht you've never met your
uncle fram outer space, here
you can meet him,” he says,
hefting a cranium-sized rock
with distinctly human
features, “I chiselied out an
ear, thal's all,’

Rusch, who farmed for 40
years before \ retiring,
demonstrates a 100-year-old
washing machine by clim-
bing on the treadmill that
powers it. Beside the
machine is a newer model
Rusch medified years ago to
rock his children's cradle
and wash clothes at the same

8,

Early agricultural photo:
Braphs decorate one wall,
hext to a print of Teddy
Roosevelt’s familly and
Rusch’s wedding picture.
Recessed in one wall is the
band platform used when the
Prairie Moon was a dance
hall, with the original piano
next to a ti-year-old foot-
powered organ.

Nearby, a  mannikin
displays 19908 furs that

belonged to Rusch’s tate
wife,

“Two shows here—Inside
and outside,” Rusch tells
visitors, The free outside
show includes dozens of
three-to seven-metrehigh
statues that Rusch ma
from cement and bluff rocks,
His bulky creations include a
dinosaur, a concrete cactus,
a stone polar bear anda bust
of Rusch himself,

Rusch, whose wife died
seven years ago, hopes to
sell the Prairie Moon and
move In with a daughter in

{nearby Arcadia. He’ll miss

putlering through his
nostalgia, but he’s not
worried.

' “T'll keep busy there, too,"

A he promises.

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