The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1895-12-26
A Merry Christmas +!

A merry CnrlStmAs9
Here's to your health This issue of
the NEws-HERALD will come to you in
the midst OF Christmas festivities, and
with it, friends, we offer our heartfelt
wishes for yonr genuine happiness. We
have been trying to give our patrons
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have evinced your hearty approval by q
generous support. We appreciate your
kindness, and ours is more than a con-
ventional greeting, when we bid you
IA merry Christmas and happy new
year!"
By the way, friends, what is this Christ
mas? Is it cunningly devised fable
a myth-or was there a Christi
In the forty second verse of the twenty.
second chapter OF Matthew, we find the
alleged Christ, himself, inquiring OF the
Pharisees, "What think ye of this
Christ ?'
Here's pertinent question, as app,o.
pirate today as it was nearly nineteen
hundred years ago.
We would ask it of you, in your happy
home, with your loved ones gathered
around.
We would ask it of the statesman who
views Christianity beckoning on the
march of Empire.
We would ask it of him who delights
to commemorate Savior's advent in
gaming, drunkenness or debauchery.
WHAT THINK YE OF THIS CHRIST? ?
Christmas day is wonderful tribute
to Christ. Not wonderful from divine
standpoint, but amazing and wonderful
from the standpoint of humanity.
All around this world today, wherever
the sunbeams fall or the breezes play, in
every land and every cline, on every
isle of the sea, on every ship that sails
the main, the hearts Of men are lighter,
and their lives are brighter, because OF
Christ.
What think ye Of this Christ, that all
the world should rejoice in his name 7
Was he but man? Then, whence
cometh his strength?
With the sword of death Alexander
conquered the world. But where is his
power today? Where's the mother who
teaches her child to lisp his name in
holy love?
Across continent Napoleon wrote in
blood his name of terror.
But who cares for Napoleon now?
Who prays to God in the name of Ma
poleon?
Who nurses the sick, buries the dead
or soothes the bitterness of sorrow be.
cause of the influences of Napoleon
Who bestows blessed aims, who gives
gifts in the name OF Napoleon?
But Christ, the meek and lowly. the
swordless conqueror, is loved, honored
and obeyed wherever float the banners
of civilization.
What think ye OF this Christ, in whose
name even the cycling centuries are
numbered
Turn back, Oh Time, in thy flight
back to the days when angel heralds
proclaimed from the sky,
"Good tidings of great Joy which shall
be to all people. For unto you is born
this day in the city of David, Savior,
which is Christ, the Lord"
Like the wondering shepherds like
the incredulous Jews il like the worship.
ing wise men like the jealous king, we
ask "Who is this Christ ?''
The rapid years wing their flight. We
find the lad in the synagogue, confound.
ing with with words of wisdom the Jew.
ish Doctors.
What think ye of this Christ
Again we see him, sturdy mechanic,
welding the implements of toll, shaping
post and beam, and rearing homes for
human habitation. We behold his
gentle ways and his sweet, sad smile.
What think ye of this Christ?
Later, we find him turning water into
wine, healing the sick, the lame, the
blind, the deaf and dumb. We see him
raising the dead, comforting the hearts
of the stricken, feeding the multitude
tempted of the devil and saying, "Get
thee behind me-"
What think ye of this Christ
He consorts with the poor and litter
ate-the fishermen of Gallilee. He seek
in the lowly walks of life those who shal
forward the conquests of his kingdom
Who else would have chosen "the foolisl
things of this earth to confound tn
mighty ?"
What think ye Of this Christ
He has not even penny for his taxes
and no place to lay his head. How shal
he hire an army? How shall he gathe
navy? How shall he equip them will
the artillery of war? How shall he con
quer the kingdoms of this world an
make them his own?
Instead of marshsling his hosts il
hattie array. we hear him on the noun