Temporal realities and eternal possibilities : a history of Samuel Reed Andrus, Melba Phyllis Brown, their children, and grandchildren PDF
Preview Temporal realities and eternal possibilities : a history of Samuel Reed Andrus, Melba Phyllis Brown, their children, and grandchildren
JFK mM%m mrxNtf ■ ' .• ■■ , '■ • . • : • ■■ . ■ ' ■ . • - .. ■ ■ :•■ ] ■ ■ ■■■■■- ■ . ■ ■■■■.'. . ■ ' : ■ ' ■ • ■ ■• .'■ ... • • - '0 •■'■■■... ■.-■'.- •'■' •■. ■ ■ . ■ . ■■ ■ ■ . • , . • ' ■ • . . . Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2011 with funding from Brigham Young University-Idaho http://www.archive.org/details/temporalrealitieOOandr TEMPORAL REALITIES AND ETERNAL POSSIBILITIES A History of Samuel Reed Andrusy Melba Phyllis Brown, Their Children, and Grandchildren By Alyn Brown Andrus 2007 Printed by Brigham Young University-Idaho Press Second Edition Rexburg, Idaho 2007 u DEDICATION This family history is dedicated not only to those who have passed on, but also to those who remain and are sufficiently curious to read all narrative in this book. To do that may give ideas expressed in the following paragraphs a measure of reality. The following quote by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt is inscribed on a theater wall in the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum. If the word "family" is substituted for the word "nation" the quote may be adapted pertinently to this family history. The quote reads: A nation (family) must believe in three things. It must believe in the past. It must believe in the future. It must, above all, believe in the capacity of its own people (family members) so to learn from the past that they can gain in judgment in creating their own future. Of course, to do what President Roosevelt implied, a family, and individual family members, must record history, readable history. If there is no history to read and study, how can we learn from the past? How can we identify and contribute meaningfully to family heritage? To the extent we attempt to know our ancestors — their feelings, thoughts, and deeds — those feelings, thoughts, and deeds, should become an integral part of us. In any honorable family (any service- minded family honored by a written history), such a process is commendable. In Deuteronomy 4:9, we read: Only take heed to thyself, and keep thy soul diligently, lest thou forget the things which thine eyes have seen, and lest they depart from thy heart all the days of thy life. . . . To remember well, we must record. We must write that which we wish to remember and pass on to our posterity. In the Book of M ormon, we read: For we labor diligently to write, to persuade our children, and also our brethren to believe in Christ, and to be reconciled to God. ... (2 Nephi 25:23). This family history constitutes a powerful testimony of God's reality, as reflected in the lives of those recorded on its pages. May all who read that testimony be so influenced that their lives may never cease to be God-oriented and Gospel-honed. ABA in IV
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