Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1897-12-15

Sing the Joyous Christmas carol,
How the great one came To earth,
Not in glorious apparel
But by lowly human birth
Unto all men manifesting,
That Gods greatest gift is still
Nothing but spirit resting,
Child-like, on Fathers WILL
So we vain and Maynard mortals.
In earth s wilderness beguiled
Safe may reach the golden portals
Helped and guided by child.
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Seasons revolve and we once more
greet the festival of ssThe. Child.n
Who can exaggerate its hold upon the
people who celebrate it? There is not
mother whose birth-pangs are vivid
In her memory but that Is moved with
compassion for out-cast Mary, remote
from tender ministrations in the
hour of her anguish; there is not a
child whose little fingers reach out in
awe to touch the latest tiny babe In
the household, but that IL finds the
manger cradle at Bethlehem thing
to marvel at; there is not a man who
surrenders himself to thought but
that sees a world transformation re-
sulting from this squalid birth and
the legions that have gathered
around it; there is not childless
woman whose heart Is hungry for the
pressure Of little face against her
bosom, but that can hear In the mes
sage of the virgin angels, her own
fha tynrlI ~. at
peace and good will, and to ever see
deeper even than the contented moth
er into the holiness and possibilities
of all children.
Over all virtues let us set simplic-
lty. Great messages, great truths,
great happenings are ever simple In
their elements. Simplicity is the
grandeur Of the great and the great
ness OF the obscure. 1t is the charm
OF prattling childhood; it is the dia-
dem OF the learned.
Now II we diyest Jesus Of the COM
pick theories Of warning comments
tors, strip him OF hewildering creeds,
III duJ CNtAu IlGfCl CdiflS iuEO
existence until hundreds of years az
ter his death, we find his message to
the world one of intense simplicity.
Drawing In our minds from the cares
OF the conflict OF life for few mo-
ments, possibly we may find an inspir-
alton to effort by looking back at this
man who led the world into broad
truth whose simple character is after
ages Of thought forcing itself to the
front just because it is so simple.
Onward from the narrow thought
OF the Jews who selfishly regarded the
God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob as
their own peculiar possession and
whose character was often outlined
as little more than that Of a blood
thirsty leader Of a lighting nation
onward from the myriad deities OF
reverential Asiatic and European
minds who sought by the very mul
titude of Gods TO include all truth
onward with greater clearness than
all seekers who had preceded him, he
led the worlds thought to assert the
existence Of one God of one universe.
He did not argue him to exist; he as
sunied him as the simplest explana-
ton OF the powers, visible and inyisi-
BILE, of mighty creation.
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Furthermore, as 0mniScence, Om-
Impotence, omnipresence are beyond
the powers of our finite minds to
grasp, Jesus makes God. greater than
the wildst theories of eager souls.
and yet simpler than the simplest in
depreciation of him, by announcing
him as Father" and as !" Love. !"
The troubled soul can understand
that, and rest. The . Father n.chas-
tens his little ones that they may de-
velop. He breaks down his truth into
small fragments to suit their growing
powers, he interprets thorny ways
into upward paths, his love makes all
things work together for good to those
who love him. Every woman heart
can understand him as Love" for
in her love has been the ascent Of
man. and in his love has been the as
cent OF the soul.
More simple by infinite extent than
the complicated sacrifices and PEN
ances of other and earlier Interpreters,
was bis answer to those who inquired
the way to eternal life. The simple