Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1914-11-24
A MONTH TO CHRISTMAS.

u il mono too early to begin to talk
NJ the coming Christmas one month
from today viii be Christmas eve.
Well begun with Christmas as with
other good things IN half done Some
one has said that the world il saved
every year by Christmas. and though
IN THE fateful year murky clouds
Obscure It's appearance. We know that
TITS light was horn whore neither
storm nor cloud enshronds.s
browning tells OF one who never
doubted that cnrth's darkest cloud
would break and We may be sure that
the enshroudIag clouds Of this Christ
mas VIII certainly break. and that the
great purpose viii appear like the
how In the sky, and will be seen and
understood SO we Of the United
States celebrate this Christmas with
glad hearts and free
No one ever fully appreciates
Christmas and what II stands for tn
he loses tho old Christmas noise and
confusion out OF his home and quiet
rciRns in the house al those times
when the happy noise Is heard in so
many homes. In n recent so-callcd
autobiography OF the soul. an old man
tells of HIS happiest and saddest mem
DRY Of It Christmas of long ago
Sitting by his library table cover
ing the more remorseless hours with
reading. he Is conscious again Of a
little whIto-robcd figure coming down
the stairs. his little baby girl who has
been awakened. in some way from her
first sleep aud full Of the Christmas
comes climbing on his lap
to give her father another good nleht
kiss, and to hang for n while around
her mothers knee because 1t Is almost
Christmas day and she Is so glad As
a special dlsnensasion. she Is allowed
TO stay in the warm freight kindled
to aid In deepening and making clear
err the happiness of the years hap
picst night 1t Is all gone now, the old
Christmas. and the mother and the
little child But what Is the memory
worth In the days that are largely
made up Of memories? II is prices
less. i
nut no matter what happens, or
seems to happen, one should not de-
spair, for other homes are bright and |
the conviction is growing that Christ
mas means much more than has ever
on its cheerful surface. I'll
stands for the birth into the race Of |
Tho highest consciousness, the spirit |
uai man. We may say that Il Is the |
proof OF the ultimate and certain ans
pcaranoe of the new race which viii
In time crowd out the old. as the civ
hzed man has displaced the savaee
and Will inherit the earth"
Or. Maurice Buckle once wrote O /
hook called THE cosmlc conseious-
ness" in which he gave many in
stances Of the appearance during the
last twenty centuries OF sporadic cases
Of new race. lie predicted that
ihese eases would appear with i'm |
,reasing frequency in the immediate
future, and that with the new race |
wars would cease. Justice would reign |
and that the world would be made
over anew.
Il has been the dream Of prophets
ana seers. and In this case has be-
,ome the conviction OF modern sci
enlist. II Is worth more than faint
hope or a moments consideration. It
Is also the content Of the Christmas
lay that celebrates the birth Of "the
lirst born amone the brethren"
The world has legitimate right 20
rejoice on Christmas day. for no mat
Icr how dense the clouds that obscure,
Ihex VIII break.