Wild Bells

Some thoughts by Wayne Abernathy on how the eternal things make all things new. A brief consideration . . .

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Worth Repeating

“Christmas comes once a year to reveal to us the beautiful and near approach man can make to the divine, to the ideal, to the Christlike life.” (Spencer W. Kimball, The Teachings of Spencer W. Kimball, p.247)

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Come Unto Christ

No one ever came back from the dead before, until the resurrection of Jesus Christ. He was dead, and the third day arose from the dead, perfectly alive, forever. He then extended that gift to us all. CELEBRATE WITH US!

Ring Out, Wild Bells

Old things are done away, and all things have become new.
—3 Nephi 12:47

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky,
The flying cloud, the frosty light:
The year is dying in the night;
Ring out, wild bells, and let him die.

Ring out the old, ring in the new,
Ring, happy bells, across the snow:
The year is going, let him go;
Ring out the false, ring in the true.

Ring out the grief that saps the mind,
For those that here we see no more;
Ring out the feud of rich and poor,
Ring in redress to all mankind.

Ring out a slowly dying cause,
And ancient forms of party strife;
Ring in the nobler modes of life,
With sweeter manners, purer laws.

Ring out the want, the care, the sin,
The faithless coldness of the times;
Ring out, ring out my mournful rhymes,
But ring the fuller minstrel in.

Ring out false pride in place and blood,
The civic slander and the spite;
Ring in the love of truth and right,
Ring in the common love of good.

Ring out old shapes of foul disease;
Ring out the narrowing lust of gold;
Ring out the thousand wars of old,
Ring in the thousand years of peace.

Ring in the valiant man and free,
The larger heart, the kindlier hand;
Ring out the darkness of the land,
Ring in the Christ that is to be.

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