One of my favorite Christmas carols is a beautiful contribution to the world by a Mormon musician called “Far, Far Away on Judea’s Plains”. It has a miraculous backstory.
John Menzies Macfarlane (1833-1892) was converted to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Scotland, at the age of thirteen. His widowed mother and siblings were part of the very first pioneer company whose journey to Utah was entirely funded by the churc...
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