Condon globe. (Condon, Gilliam Co., Or.) 189?-1919, 1911-12-22
EVHE CHRISTMAS time greets again with its good chez
for today and promise of good to We celebrate th

EHE CHRISTMAS time greets again with its good cheer
today and promise of good come We celebrate the
anniversary of Washngtons birth of what he did in
the establishment of nation Christmas kept as the memorial
OF the birth of who did for humanity vastly than Wash
ngon did for America The great and beloved general by his
military skill and devotion ushered nation into the estate of
independence but laying foundation for its and political
institutions he but recalled and enforced teachings of ae u
dean christ with regard to mans relations his feowmen
the government and to his God Abandoning the traditions
political economics the old world sought in the philosophy
the Gaean for the principles which should form the basis of
better civilization than the world had ever known II because
OIL tins that we are styled Christian nation In this anniversary
we may well inquire whether the experience past and the
conditions of the justify the confidence of the
world and give reason for still greater urgency advancing the
interests and power of the
CHRISTMAS WORTH WHILE Christian philosophy. Survey
ing the situation find moth
ing indicate breaking down the Christian scheme in its
broadest application 1t still remains true that the persons who
adhere most closely its teachings develop the highest character
inspire the largest confidence and gather the largest amount of
hapD 1t also remains true that nations which adhere
most closely the Christ maxms build up the most worthy
institutions give the largest liberty the individual the highest
security the citizen largest equality of opporuntv to all
persons and take the foremost place in world councils Much
said about the corruption today the greed graft of preda
tory capital The careful reader of history discovers that
what regarded today enoy the way greed and the
oppression of the by the wealthy upper classes
but few accepted the normal state of things
AS the philosophy accepted by Washington taught b the fol
lowers the Christ to be clearly understood society
wakes up to the fact that these things long permitted are
mites as ofenses against principle of right and Justice
turning on the gnt OF gnt thinking and reveals ndy
where had been supposed that all right The situation
not much Of increasing crime of its increasing
discovery as the standards raised 1t evident all that the
principal agency in the upft of the civil standards to saw
nothing of the moral maxms has been the philosophy Christ as
Its teachings have been studied and applied civic affairs Soc
asm in its advocacy of larger liberty the individual but starts
from the sermon the mount That goes beyond and in
coprates exavagant demands not the dredt of the
Christian system The movement for world peace one of the
most remarkable tributes bencent power and influence of
the teachings of the Jewish whose birth celebrate Mol
believer in the Christ has yet apologize for
faith to look with doubt the future Rather can ustv
point Christianity offering the only effective plan yet dsco
cred for the advancement of the world politically morally