Friend

December 1978

Volume 8, Number 12

Contents

• Stories and Features

• Christmas Message from the First Presidency: A Joy-filled Christmas to All the Children of the World

• Horseradish for Christmas
  Ted Sheil

• The Day There Was No Night
  Mabel Jones Gabbott

• Something Beautiful
  Claudia Remington

• Julie’s Special Star
  Marty Cannan and Betty Purcell

• Our Creative Friends

• Friends in the News

• Papo’s Three Kings’ Day
  Norma I. Garcia

• Christmas Gifts of Honey
  Frances B. Watts

• Christmas in Cairo
  Meg Elbow

• Words of Love
  Carolyn Luetje

• The Best Thing about Christmas
  Athelia T. Woolley

• A Hero to Follow: A Promise Fulfilled
  Margery S. Cannon and Lurene G. Wilkinson

• Verse

• Gifts from a Child
  Brierly Ashour

• Tree for the Birds
  Ollie J. Robertson

• Christmas in the Forest
  Lorna Volk

• Christmas Night
  Solveig Paulson Russell

• Music

• First Christmas in America
  Mabel Jones Gabbott and Thomas Callister

• Have a Very Merry Christmas
  Mabel Jones Gabbott and Michael Joseph

• Things to Make and Do

• Christmas Gifts

• Hidden Pictures
  Len Epstein

• Advent Calendar Cutouts

• Christmas Advent Calendar

• Christmas Fun: Gingerbread House
  Roberta Fairall

• Christmas Ornaments

• Build a Manger

Cover photos by Eldon Linschoten; cover by Carmen Anderson