The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1877-12-29
cnRlsrlAnIrvs NATAL pAy.


Tuesday, the 18th, is tho great festi,
fal Of christianity, and few refiec
.ions on the subject will not be deemed
put Of place by vast majority of the
readers of TINS HuALp While tolera>
ting and respecting the opinions and
prejudices Of the thousands who do not
accept christianity, yet it is no less our
purpose a. well rs duty, to stand up |
manfully for that religion which has |
worked the civilization OF mankind. |
and under whose benign auspices have
been worked out the great problems
which have made the last few centuries
illustrious in the history of the world
We deem the railroad, the steamship
aud the telegraph ~ much tie Off
springs Of christianity. as St Paul's, ST
Peters or Trinity, New York. The
men who gave to the world these won
derful inventions grew up under chris
tian influences 1t was christian eivili-
cation and progress which revealed TO
them these great, though hitherto hid
den possibilities in nature.
Considered with reference to mere
numbers and among the people Of the
earth, christians are bat meagre minor
ity. but when We rcAect that this minor
~ has for eighteen hundred and sew
snty-seven years led the progress Of the
world, and is to-day leading and con-
trolling the nations, we forget its nu-
merical insigniicanee, and cry all hail :
10 the light which Bethlehem gave
out nearly two thousand years ago
and which has since grown 20 be the
beacon to light the nations to still
greater triumphs in science, in the arts
Of government and in the progress of
that Intelligence which leads men upon
higher planes, and nearer to the great
source OF all excellence and all intelli-
geuce.
The bitterest opponents of the
christian religion, and the theory
Of the divinity of Christ ali
acknowledge the wonderful periec
ton Of the school Of morals which he
founded on earth They all readily &C,
knowledge that christian people ar,
governed more easily, cheaply and sat
isiactorily than pagaus. Even infde
intelligence seeks the protection OF tina
liberation and the advantages OF tina
b civilization which were taught auc
founded by the .owly Nazerean nearl,
two thousand years since, ia the shadow
Of the temple, erected by authority OF
the Creator, to mark an epoch in In,
march Of events, which We're to b.
crowned and completed when His Sol
assumed the tie which was to max
him brother to all the sons Of men, tina
the sacrifice contemplated at the be
u cunning should be triumphant in TIA
end
The science Of the christian has cor
quorcJ the clouds. binding the yer
Iightniugs Of heaven to the car of b,
man progress, and making them tn
traetable and intelligent servants {
men christian science has anuihi
ated space and has brought the shor,
:, Of FAR off Europe within few days di
lance Of tbe western world christia
!. science has given Us the useful, til
: beautiful and the good of the worl,
. and the armies which fight under Il
: symbol Of christianity are always VII
toriOus
= Let Texas, and especially Dallas, ce
eberate the birthday Of the Sayio,
A., with becoming reverence, and as bef
!, ting a people enjoying all the gIorio,
privileges yoUchsaied to the world
and through Ills birth aud death. Wi
charity toward all. and malice to non
IN let the day DC one Of joy and perfo
ID. peace