The Cordova daily times., 1914-12-24
THE CHRISTMAS FESTIVAL TO
 BE CELEBRATED TOMORROW

TT HE DAY of days to the nhabitant of this planet the
 day looked forward for thousands of years by longing
 souls who kept crying: If die shall he live gan? echo back, until first Christ Eve the star moved out of its sphere and and stood the where the young child lay and from teether above sounded down accams On earth peace and men good wll and from far away singing invisible cors: Gory to God in the highest earth peace and good will" Thus sang the hosts the far opane and and the sol stars set their golden aXes to the mighty strain until the universe was thrilled
 Then the thought born that warfare and strife should be the weapons of civilizations then the faith was created that mankind IS but state of transition and son that the higher and truer his life is hee better fitted
 his soul will be to meet the higher souls that beyond the folding doors of death waiting for him.
 The progress of the has been slow for ay of the earth earthly but though the nations that claim to be Christian nations still selfish and often crue though they still forge guns and fashion all degrees of engines of death for land and for though the worlds gifts equally distributed and selsess and often violence rules the tendency upward and faith in God is growing stronger so that when each the old refrain back Th Lord IS Risen! Peace earth, and to good w and more voices join in the august anthem
 1t the day of days to the human race the day which what before was but hope became reality and heaven has grown so near that thousands already dreaming that message to the wireless eegaply of nty telling that just beyond peace and music and praise that there the restraints that bend in this life are cast aside and that there with opportunity mhmpered the souls of may begin to explore all knowledge under light that the rolling ages can never dim.
 How, then, should morta hail Christmas day? Its usl- erng in should be by ringing joy bells with all the pomp and circumstance of organ and choir should it be hailed with of praise and thankuness it's hours should be filed for 1t the birthday of immortal hope and the promise given at its first coming really to the putting all that common and Wcean and the putting of taty; the linking of his spirit with spirits who dwell in the courts from which death IS vanished and where the study o the wisdom of God brings increasing joy the ages their sublime circuit
 Christmas above all others is the chdrens festival The Babe of Bethlehem is tss chief figure The story the star and the Wise Men from the East has fascinated childhood through the ages The good St. Nicholas Santa Claus Kris rng by whatever name known and his reindeer like Abou Ben Adhem leads all the of the legendary lore of youth Here fairy tale that true year after year, generation after generation, And the grown-ups to re- azaton of the innocent and generous spirit of childhood the happier must their Christmas be.
 "EXcept ye become little children This is the sea which put aside the preudce the anmostes the jeaOuses and the peness that acquire with the years We renew youth open hearts (and pocetboos and think of others rather than ourselves Good wishes good wi translated into good deeds bring glow of unse fish happiness.
 As the world grows older coming and more to expand Christmas spirit of good fellowship and brother hood throughout the year. Just fearing to ex- pand religious spirit from day to all seven Nev has there been wider and general interest another upward. Never deeply felt responsibility Tor our fellows. It has pemeated social e politics and business Peace and good will truly and broadly ideals today than before The spirit of Christmas has made this progress possible