The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1907-12-19
A CHRISTMAS
LESSON
Sunday School Lesson Tor Dec. az. 1907
Specially Arranged for This Paper

LESSON TEXT, Matthew 2:1-2. Mem
GOLDEN TEXT. T.-"For unto you is
born this day In the city OF David
Saviour. which Is Christ the Lord."-Luke
2:t1.
Comment and Suggestive Thought
The Effect of the First Christmas
Day Upon the World. What This
Power Has Accomplished Test
of Power. How do we know what any
person or thing can do? BY what he
oh It has done.
look out of my study window and
see number Of black wires strung
along the street. They look as dead
as a door nail" But every day hear
messages coming over them from near
and from far over the telephone.
Every night | see blazing lights from
the current passing through them.
Not long ago man just over the way
touched one of those wires, blown
down in a gale, and he was struck
dead. | know what those wires can
do by what they have done. There.
FORE I let them alone in the street
and turn the switch with perfect con.
| tidence when | want a light.
Last summer at Niagara I de-
scended 100 feet underground In the
city power house, and in a small brick
compartment, only a few feet square.
saw more black objects like great
rolls of iron wire. They seemed as
lifeless and innocent as coils Of wire
In q store. was told that the power
Of 10000 to 100000 horses resided in
those black. dull objects. How could
I know? knew by what they did.
saw the cars moving all over the city,
and the streets and houses lighted at
night. And all the power and all the
light came from those black dynamos.
We see that with Christ came new
era Of the kingdom Of heaven. with
new powers for the changing Of this
world from the darkness of siu into
tho righteousness. love. peace, pros.
perity. and all that makes perfect peo
pie In q perfect world. The progress
has been slow. but becomes more and
more rapid each century. The world
as 1t is to-day tells us what Christ has
done for the world
The more Christianity, the more hap
piness: the more of all that makes the
kingdom Of heaven. The blessings
lessen and SORROWS multiply In proper.
tion as there Is less Of the Christian
religion. THE new age stands as
yet half-built against the sky. but 1t
is Christ that has built the new age
thus far, and that building is rising
faster and faster each year
There is great deal of evil in the
world yet, In the best of countries, in
the best Of people. But 1t is evil fought
against 1t is good gaining the vic.
tory slowly but surely. The very rev.
elations of evil the controversies and
; conflicts, are signs that the power OF
never-ending conflict till the good has
triumphed.
, The Sun Conquering Winter.-As
, tronomers are thinking that the planet
, Mars Is inhabited. Suppose that this
, winter gentleman from Mars should
come and make you visit, being an
, utter stranger to the ways Of this
|
[ white, snow-covered ground. the trees
4 beautiful In their branching twigs
[ the fringes OF the hills" calm, cold
J sunshine, no mud, no floods, but all
D peaceful as death. But you tell him
e that all this is nothing to what Is com
{ ing next spring-the snow melted
e away, the fields covered with green
r the trees bursting into leaf and flower
4 the gardens radiant with color, the all
e soft with fragrance. A wonderful
r transformation.
@ When does spring begin?" he asks
About the 21st of March," you re
e ply.
But when the 21st of March comes
he finds snow and slush and mud ant
fogs and east winds and bare trees
and he exclaims. as Pliable did t,
8 Christian when in the Slough of Des
pond, rs this the blessedness yo,
were describing, the beautiful sprini
= you pictured to me with such enthusi
!, asm? Is this what your mighty SUI
l. is doing?"
g You reply. These very things /yo'
complain OF are PROOF Oh tno poWe
y of the sun, and of the coming OF tn,
II spring described. BY these thing
t. we know that spring is coming. The,
It are q thousand times more hopefu
Il than the silent whiteness of winter,
o We may personally feel this powe
u Of the coming OF Christ He came t
J. save and change each one OF Us. H
It calls us to accept of him as our kine
our leader. and our Saviour. When W
E give ourselves to Christ we do NO
e always. though sometimes we dc
IS realize the greatness of the change
a When of two boys one makes hi
n- choice to become an educated ma
It and the other to live low and selfis
s and sensual life, we do not always Sc
e a great change or difference immed