The Gospel Defined.--The English word "Gospel" comes from the Anglo-Saxon "Godspell," or God-story--the story of God. It derives its significance from that great central idea of the Christian faith--the coming of God as the Son of God to redeem and save mankind. The joyful intelligence of the advent of the world's Redeemer, proclaimed by the angels to the shepherds on the Judean hills (Luke 2:10), furnishes another name for the gospel--"good tidings," or, as it is otherwise rendered, "glad tidings of great joy." God the Savior.--"God himself shall come down among the children of men, and shall redeem his people, and because he dwelleth in flesh he shall be called the Son of God" (Mosiah 15:…
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