Temporal realities and eternal possibilities : a history of Samuel Reed Andrus, Melba Phyllis Brown, their children, and grandchildren

2007·72.2 MB·English

by  Andrus, Alyn Brown

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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
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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.
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