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with a great hope in their heart.

with great hope IN their heart.
The Angel told that the child name
should be Immanuel-God with us
and the life, teaching ard death OF
Jesus Christ illustrated to mankind
that God is for, not against, all men.
SO the promise o. Christmas has
been fulfilled to individuals in all parts
of the world.
But until comparatively recent times
men have not regarded the angels
message as appealing to national life.
We have supposed that liie must be
lived under the law OF conflict-a con-
slant contention for advantage and
| mastery.
What authority have we for beiiev-
ing only the millennium can bring
peace? Could it not be brought about
if the desire existed in the heart?
Slowly this idea is taking possession
OF men. About hundred years ago
when the first peace societies were
formed by William Penn, Hugo Gro
thus and othe's. they themselves con-
sidered it only an ideal which could
not natcrialize before some far dis
tant future.
| With the coming OF the twentieth
century those IDEAS have changed, and
the times have produced men ana
women filled with hope and insisting
on the probability o. brotherhood OF
aid humanity. There are many yet
who argue that such peace is visionary,
| but there are many too, who are large
! ly inspired by greed All the greatest
truths have been the outcome OF time;
at first seen only by the minds Of 'ex-
ceptional illumination" later to be
adopted by the rank and file Of men.
As each Christmas rolls round the
sorg-
20, hush the. noise, ,ye men OF strife,
!, And hear the angels singh
resounds with a mightier echo. Some
time men viii open their hearts to the
power OF it's persuasivenesS TYle
world has been deaf to the music for a
long, long time, but all our greatest
lessons have been learned slowly. 1t
is ever necessary to wait for a certain
stage of development before some
great fact can be appropriated and
recognized. How many centuries had
passed before the great facts o. science
the sun as the center OF the solar
system, the circulation OF the blood,
the force OF electricity--were discov-
cred!
Has the time come for the awaken
ing Of the human race? America has
produced a Jane Adams, with her
Newer Ideals of Peace Perhaps
our. land wnh her foreign millions,
who demonstrate to us that love is
not confined by isothermal lines, nor
restricted 10 one race or color, shall
figure largely i'll the establishment of
peacel
Miss adams gives us the thought.
for sue believes that the joys and sor-
rows that are common to the Children
Oh all nations are greater than til ir
differences
IN imm grant coony i'll America can
make us deeply conscious OF the fact.
The IDEAL is approaching the rea.n
o, the practicable Andrew Carnegie
in depos;ting his millions to further
this cause emphasizes belief which is
becoming characteristic of the intel
llgence OF the earth.
Among the triunphs OF arbitration
we recall the instance of the two
South American Republics. Chill and
Argentina, who had begun quarrel
z over the boundary line. Feeling ran
high, and each day found the countries
bristling more and more with war. The
Hague Tribunal was in session and
the. countries became persuaded to re-
fer their differences, which were set
tied to the satisfaction of all The
= horror that those countries escaped!
! On both sides of the Andes, rose a
song OF thankfulncss A small portion
, Of those dollars which we're about tc
, be emp.oyed IN bringing into action
all the destroying forces o. modern
invention were taken for another use
| J On high peak of the newly estab
lishcd boundary line, formed by the
Andes, was placed a colossal statue Of
Jesus Christine Prince of Peace
There, with gentle face uplifted the
figure stretches forth his hand in
. owing benediction for his children or
both sides OF the Andes.
| Surely the Christmas song OF the
angels has been heard and the voice
{ OF prophecy rolls on to completion.
The vision that set the skies ahame
5 that first Christmas night and schoed
, about the hills OF Bethlehem will some
day materislve. The glad tidings OF
great JOY shaS be to ALI. people "We
t have heard the prelude, the lei, mott
t has sounded out. and the harmon;es
, have begun TO gather round it."
A We already feel the quivering strains
Of
! Peace beginning to be
, Dee pas the sleep of the sea.
, When the stars their pulses glass
: In its blue tranquility:
i Hearts Of men upon earth,
: From the first to the second birth,
TO rest as the wild waters rest,
| With the COiOrS nf heaven on the
breast"
So the swelling strain OF Peace or
Earth, Good Will Toward Men, shall
go steadily on, "submerging" finally
F the dissonance Of the ages"
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