The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-17

masses Nothing but the deep, soie1nn
notes of the angels song can satisfy
us. That held a new divine pro-
gram for our hurt and sorrowing
world. Good will and peace-these
are the slogans for mankind today.
Hank Hear you not the angels?
"stin through the cloven skies they come,
With peaceful wings unfurled
And still their heavenly music floatS
Der all the weary world:
Above its sad and lonely plains
And ever DER its Babel sounds
The blessed angels sing.
so We. beneath life's crushing load,
whose forms are bending low,
WE Wit5 ton nai aiGhe stems enc ann SLOW way
Look now, for glad and golden hours
o6 c0m Pes s Safds f 2n t ReaF wings 4oad
And hear the angels sing.
For To- the days are fastening on,
BY prophets seen of old.
When with the ever-circling years,
Shall come the time foretold,
When the new heaven and earth shall own
The Prince of Peace their King.
And the whole world send back the song
Which now the angels sing
Even though the Christmas land is
itself today garrisoned by Moslem
troops at war; even though the sounds
of military strife re-echo over the
fields where the shepherds watched
and over the hills where the Christ
Child played, still we may know a
deeper, truer Christmas than any
that has ever gone before.
Opportunities for deeds of good will
are more abundant than usual. No
thoughtful person at the present time
can contemplate a Christmas that is
not shared with the worlds sufferers:
the War-Smitten lands need our
Christmas gifts. The great heart of
America should go out to perishing
Armenia, to starving Servia and Po-
Nd md lrrI1l
the Christ ever more pertinent than
now: ''Inasmuch as We have done it
unto one of the least of these my
brethren. we have done it unto Me-
What say the dazed and wondering
shepherds to us, as they stand gazing
into the glorious Syrian night
of stars, after the celestial choir had
sung itsSsong and spoken its MESA ge?
Let US now go even into Bethlehem,
and see this thing that is come to
pass That is the word. Let US
reverently turn in spirit to Bethlehem,
to the great simplicities, to the 1owli-
ness and humility of the nativity. Put
ting aside all the glitter and tinsel of
in that smoke-grimed, unadorned,
cherries cave-stable, the great truth
which lies at the heart of Christmas:
God has drawn as near as he can get
to man. The Babe is emmanuel
God with U.S." No longer are we to
contemplate God as enshrined in the
ineffable glory of the highest heaven:
He has drawn nigh US in Jesus the
Son of Mary; and His Christmas name
is Saviour and Love-
TransIating a Song Into Works.
Terse Comments on the Uniform
Prayer Meeting Topic of the Young
Peoples Societies-Christian En-
doavor, ctc.-for December 10;
How the Prophecy of the Angels
Christmas Song May Come True"
Luke 2:S-20.
A world-conquering missionary /
crusade was inaugurated by the an
gelic host on that first Christmas |
morn The angels have returned to |
heaven, but they have left to men the |
duty of repeating their refrain. This /
every day and everywhere by all who
believe on the Lord Jesus Christ.
Somehow, thoughts of Christmas |
enlarge the borders of ones neigh |
oorhood. 1t is not easy to be narrow
1r provincial on Christmas day. That /
world ira nsforming event, in old /
Judea's little town of Bethlehem, was j
1r planet to claim. Even the stars !
n their courses felt it; and the ST. |
ent heavens broke their immem orial |
stiffness to jubilate over it. We re-
all that it was because God so loved |
he world"-not merely Palestine, or
he chosen people, or that particular
century, that He gave to all mankind |
is first Christmas Gift-a Babe who +
should for all time and in realms per-
'onify mans brotherhood and Gods
owe.
Christmas is Gods definition of love
'or man.
Christmas angels who by any means
S telling the world that God loves it.
Christ Himself came, Not to be
unto, but to minister"
Ind He puts the same spirit into the
hearts of His loyal followers. Not
get, but give, is the royal law. To-
lay the world is filled with a shining
company of men and women who are
ollowing in the train of Jesus, and
pending themselves, as best they
lnow how. in labor for the welfare of
heir fellow men. Every Red Cross
stamp" that appears on a Christmas
etter is but an expression of the
Christmas dinners that will be given
o the poor. So are the wide ching
of foreign missions. So
re the multitude of altruistic activi-
a beled with the name of Christ, are
ct born of His Spirit ii
There was light for all the world
n the shining of the Christmas star.
,hrist's coming was not merely into ;
he Holy Land. He came into all the !
World. True, much of His coming !
must be on the feet of His disciples.
ut that is part of the Christmas mes ,
age. The greatest truth of this day '
5 a missionary truth /
When the shoemaker of Antwerp came to
nd in fear and trembling faced the Lord {
most high, Is