“Contents,” Liahona, Dec. 1998 Liahona December 1998 Volume 22, Number 12 Contents Features Comment First Presidency Message: What Is Christmas?President Thomas S. Monson I Have a QuestionCelebrating 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).