The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-01-23
H r SPIRIT.
By MRS. J l.. JACKSON,

Kansas City, Kas.
Whatever things are true, what
ever things are venerable, whatever
things are righteous, whatever things
are pure, whatever things are lovely,
whatever things are of good report"
all owe their origin and continuance
to the Christ spirit. In this Christ
mas season is a good time to mediate
upon the Christ spirit and to reckon
up the blessings that have their origin
and impulse in the Christ spirit. Is it
possible to think of anything in all
the wide world that contributes to hu-
man hope and happiness that does
not exist because of the Christ spirit ?
All consolation, all comfort, all hope,
all gladness, all that soothes, the
rough asperities of life in this human
world all of these exist and abound
because Christ came into the world
and breathed upon it his spirit. The
Christ spirit is a spirit of good will.
In the angels song that echoed over.
the Judean hills on the night Of the
birth of Jesus was the glad and glori-
Gus refrain: Good will toward men,"
That was an expression and dec
larion of the kindly purpose of God
that the greatest blessing and the
highest good might come to all men.
Just this is what the Christ spirit
means in the world today. AS this
spirit gets possession of human minds
and hearts and wills there is good
will toward men-all men. There is
no enmity, no malice, no hatred, no
feeling of revenge but the desire that
blessings may be upon the heads of
all men. The Christ spirit is a spirit
of good cheer. Again and again dur.
ing his ministerial work on earth
Christ spoke these words: BE of
good cheer" He tried to show men
how there was solid ground for good
cheer. He e~ndeavored to assure them
that if they would ally themselves with
him and trust him and follow him
that there was even in a world of sin
and sorrow and in spite of all the diff.
ficulties and burdens and trials and
sorrows good reason for hope and
cheer. The Christ spirit smiles and
sings glad songs and lightens burdens
and puts light in dark places and
gives flowers and wipes away tears.
The Christ spirit is a spirit of love.
The love of Christ is boundless and
timeless. He loves the unworthy,
the ungrateful, the lowest and most
lost of all the earth. His love never
falters nor fails. Having loved his
own, he loved them to the end" He
SO loved that he gave his life for the
ungodly. The Christ spirit of love is
in the world today. Human hearts
are responding to his love. Men and
women are imbued with his spirit
having his spirit they love-love him
and love what he loves. Saved men
and women are loving their neigh
bors, loving lost men and women for
whom Christ died and acting from a
spontaneous impulse are giving their
time, their money and themselves to
the rescue of the pershing. The
Christ spirit is a spirit of service.
Christ spirit is a spirit of service.
Christ was the greatest of servants.
Hear this work from Paul:
Have this mind in you which was
also in Christ Jesus, who existing in
the form of God accounted not his be-
ing on an equality with God, account
ed not his being on an equality with
God a thing to be grasped, but
emptied himself taking the form of a
servant, becoming in the likeness OF
man; and being found in fashion as
a ma, he humbled himself becoming
obedient to death and the death OF
the Cross. OF himself Jesus said:
For even the son,of man came not to
be ministered unto, but to minister"
And at the same time he said to his
disciples; but whatsoever will be great
among you shall be your minister;