The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1915-12-15
SUNDAY SCHOOL NOTES
Side Lights on Next Sundays
Lesson for Teachers and Pupils
Edited by Charles x. Meyers.
SCHOOL ASSOCIATION
oFFYcERS

CRAWFORD cou NTY so y
SCHOOL ASSOCIATION
OFFICERS
President Sears McHenry, Denison
Sec-Treas. ..Chas K. Meyers, Denison
Executive Committee
+. L. Hoffman, Denison VIM. Lindberg
\ Kiron; +. L. Van Slyke, Manila; II. j.
Cook, Denison; frank Woolston, Deni-
son; Seth Calderwood, West Side.
Supsrintendsuts
Elementary Grades ........ ........
........ Miss Susie Craft. Denison
Secondary Grade ..................
.,... Miss Florence Johnson, kiron
Adult Department ................
..... Mrs. +. L. Hoffman, benson
Teacher Training
Rev. A. B. Adams, Dow CITY
Temperance
Miss Minetta Jorgensen, Vail
Missions. Mrs Anna Williams, Denison
Home Department RECOMMENDATIONS.
Mrs. Z. w. Pierce, Denison
Dec. 19-The Song Of the Angels.
christmas Lesson) Luke 2, 100.
Again we come to the joyous Christ
mas time. Well may the christian
world rejoice on the day set apart
to honor the birth of the Blessed
Jesus. With His life for example, and
his death as ransom for our sins,
too great expressions of Joy cannot be
made.
The lesson verses are taken from
the gospel of Luke, and are the famll-
Jar account of the shepherds abiding
in the field, keeping watch over their
sheep by night" who saw the wonder
full vision, heard the heavenly voices.
and made haste to find the Christ Child
at Bethlehem. They saw the child and
the mother in the lowly stable. and
returned to their sheep "praising God
for all the things they had seen and
heard" The song of the shepherds
has never died out nor will it until the
end of time.
1T is not strange that the Christmas
date should be placed at the time
when it is certainly seen that the llfe'
giving sun has reached, for the people
of the northern hemisphere. its 1ur-
thermost limit, and turned northWard,
giving promise that in due time winter
will pass away, and the days OF SEED
time and harvest come again as IN the
past. 1t is said that the time was one
of rejoicing long before the religion OF
Jesus became known to the Anglo Say.
ons, our forefathers. Be. that as III
may, it cuts no figure as to the signlf1'
canoe of the day, and lessons IN no
way the expressions of JOY which
should breathe forth from every heart.
It is indeed with sorrow 1 confess
that in Europe nations protesting
christianity are engaged in bloody
war. All hearts were weighted down
with grief one year ago when 1t was
remembered how different would be
the Christmas time then in Europe,
when compared with similar days OF
the immediate past. 1t was hoped that
soon the uselessness OF war and the
benefits of peace would be recognized.
Alas, things have gone from bad to
worse and Christmas, 1915, findx more
suffering, want, death than it pree.
ecessor. 1t is wrong for the CathO-
lies of Germany to shoot dow their
fellow church men of Belgium and
Italy, for the Protestants of England
tn attempt to starve out and kill the
Lutherans OF Germany who gave the
great Luther to the world as the cham
pion Of religious liberty. give no
Judgment. but Emperor William or the
heads of the governments OF England
and France have some mighty accounts
to square up when their days OF judg-
ment come. Let US all pray that an
other Christmas find the warning
countries at peace.
No event in the worlds history com.
pares with the birth of Christ as snap
ing the course of events for all time.
Roman and Greek culture had proved
a failure to uplift the peoples OF the