“Contents,” Liahona, Dec. 1998
Features
Comment
First Presidency Message: What Is Christmas?President Thomas S. Monson
I Have a Question Celebrating Our Savior’s Birth Roger A. Hendrix
Visiting Teaching Message: Observing the Law of Tithing
Proving the Lord’s PromiseTheodor G. Baalman
“Have I Ever Told You … ?”Mark E. Martinsen
“Thou Shalt Not Covet”Brent L. Top
Our Not-Quite Tabernacle ChoirJeanne P. Lawler
Words of the Living Prophet
Especially for Youth
Mormon Message: Seek the Best Christmas Gift
A Witness of Jesus Christ
“The Peaceable Followers of Christ”President Boyd K. Packer
Making the City BeautifulJanet Thomas
Gift ExchangeJill Taylor
The Friend
A Christmas Message from the First Presidency to the Children of the World: “Peace on Earth”
The Day There Was No NightMabel Jones Gabbott
Boss’s Christmas GiftMelissa Sedrick, as told to Sarah Leone Christensen
Sharing Time: “Come unto Christ”Sydney Reynolds
Fiction: B. J.’s SecretClare Mishica
Christmas Crafts
Making Friends: Janaina da Silva Santos of Rio de Janeiro, BrazilMelvin Leavitt
On the cover: Front: Simeon Reverencing the Christ Child, © Greg Olsen; courtesy of the artist and Mill Pond Press, Inc., Venice, Florida.
Back: The Presentation of Christ in the Temple, by James Jacques Joseph Tissot.
Inside back cover: Gentle Healer, by Greg K. Olsen; painting courtesy of Glenda Perryman. (See Gordon B. Hinckley, “A Season for Gratitude,” Liahona, December 1997, 5–6).