The Latter-Day Saints' Millennial Star, Vol. 96

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Excerpt from The Latter-Day Saints' Millennial Star, Vol. 96: December 20, 1934Christ's gift of Himself as a ransom to redeem a dead universe was the acme of unselfish generosity. He had no need to die for His own sake. It was for man's behoof that His precious blood was spilt.And He died not only for the good, but for good and bad alike.Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. But Christ was more than man and it took more than man to do what He did He laid down His life for His enemies as well as for His friends. Hence, the supreme merit of His sacrifice. It was pure benevolence and philanthropy - an ex pression of the love of God for man. It had no personal motive, no family reason. It was disinterested, altruistic, magnanimous, Godlike.Let us ponder upon it, this Christmastide, and see if we can not find it in our hearts to feel generous, not only toward those who are generous to us, who give us gifts and Show us courtesies, but also toward those whom we deem, or who deem themselves, our enemies, thus showing ourselves worthy disciples of the Author of the divine injunction Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, pray for them that despitefully use you, and persecute you, and be ye perfect, even as your Father in heaven is perfect, for He makes His sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sends His rain upon the just and upon the unjust. (from the Young Woman's Journal, Vol.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.