The Red Cloud chief., 1901-12-27
FROM ANCIENT TO MODERN.
what the Birth of Our Savior Has Done for the Hu-
man Race---From a Chaotic State of Deb auch-
cry in Which all Nations ReveIIed the
World To-day Reveals Sum
shine and Happiness.

Hight and death. Another, that clos.
es with Charlcmagnc Ch%ristianizing
the present Austrian Empire. The
next century and Alfred, the Great is
on the British throne. The next and
a Christian king rules France. A
thousand years have passcd-Harold is
king of England, and the next century
Ireland is %conqucred; King John and
his feudal lords rule England. Anoth-
or passes and John Sobcski before the
wall OF Vienna saves Europe from the
yoke of Moslem Empire. Joan of Arc
dies at the stake; Martin Luther Is
born; Columbus sails the summer seas
OF the Antilles, America is discovered;
mdoern history is begun. The light
OF universal knowledge is breaking,
until, ~at'last, there pass before us the
wonders of the nineteenth century.
And there, in the very midst of it's
glory. in the midst Of its inventions
and plans, in the midst of it's enlight-
ened governments, there has come
through al. the blood and tears and
tyrannies centuries, marching with
slow and stately tread across the
realms and across the ages" the Man
God-the God-Man-the Christ of mod.
ern Christianity; and, with "a gentle
ness unutterable, and q majesty un.
~speakablc, is winning the hearts, and
moulding the characters of men who
have naught for a guide but Him who
died on Calvary.
Empires have been swept away as
autumn leaves before the wintry gale:
battles fought that changed the dcs-
tiny of continents; inventions that rev.
olutionized the world; principles pro-
mulgated that changed the form of
governments; and through all these
epochs there has come the soft whisper
of Jesus Cirist,-"Peace on earth,
good will toward men," Millions have
passed away, on mountain, plain and
desert, in the solitude Of prison cells,
in h tracllcss forest, on wintry seas
and battlefields, and with white faces
OF dispair have raised imploring hands
to heaven and cried in anguished
voices, What shall l do to be saved?"
And there has come the image of the
cross and loving whisper, "Bclieve on
thy Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt
be saved" Is it any wonder, therefore,
that a Christian world hallows the
birthday Of such a Redeemer-of such
o God showering upon it such a multi.
tude of inestimable blessings? The
whole plan of salvation-fraught
as it is with so many glorious promises
is one of the simplest, purest, and
most easily adopted Of all the other
aggregated mass of teachings revel-
ments, the ingenuity of man or the in
spiration OF the so-called potentates,
prophets, or powers ever intellectually
encompassed. 1t appeals to everything
that is pure, truthful and upright in
humanity.
1t asks for nothing that is not good
to grant, either as the individual or
citizen. Millions have embraced il
and died as only those can die who are
filed with an eternal peace. TO the
poor and afflicted it has brought con.
ISOLATION. 1t has made nations more
merciful, and the strong more tolerant
Of the weak. 1t has resisted all as.
saults and stood the test of time, into
whose crucible all impostors must 60
Blessed, therefore, is the land which
hallows, reveres and celebrates it.
Christmas. There is not another da,
so momentous in all ancient or modern
hronology.-Robert McReynolds.