The Belding banner-news. (Belding, Mich.) 1918-1973, 1918-12-25
CHRISTMAS means
MORE THAN ANY \
OTHER HOLIDAY
"PEACE ON EARTH, GOOD WILL
TO MEN, SLOGAN SHOULD
NEVER BE FORGOTTEN
written especially for the Banner
News by Robert HAZEL, Phi. d.

written especially for the Banner
News by Robert HAZEL, Phi d.
While angels shout their Christ
mas joy,
Across the crystal sea,
Yet may some linger very near
With "Peace on earth to thee"
Gift time is here once more, the
time for loving deeds, fer good wishes
and open hearted hospitality To ev-
eryone Christmas means something
more than any other holiday. 1t is at
Christmas that we feel holier, deep
er heart thrcb for the peor;we are
able to understand the longing in
little children's hearts for the coming
of the mysterious gift-bringer they
call Santa Claus; we enter into and
appreciate the buoyant mirth Of the
young, people; we alie tenderly
Thoughtful for the dear mother and
made dear our childhood's happy
Christmas times and for the still cid
er ones who have worked and wrought
of love is active.
At Christmas time it is easier to
forgive those who have wronged US,
to be reconciled with our neighbors,
to overlook Sights, to see something
good in everybody, and to go forth
with Christmas cheer In our eyes and
on cur lips.
All these signs of an. inward glad
ness, Of universal friendliness, are
apparent in every city, town, village
or country hamldt throughout our
land and the whole world where the
name Of Christ is known
Have you thought of this?
Have you realized that all your JOY
and all the worlds joy at this season,
is because of the exaltation and ador-
alton in the human heart of an ideal :?
Yes, the ideal man, the Goldman, the
man who came to the world to show
it how to- love, whose coming was to
bring Joy to every creature and to es-
tablish the Kingdom of love upon
earth.
The love that pulsates through pou
at Christmastide, and moves you to
express your better nature In words
and deeds of loving service, is touch
of that love which is the light of men,
and which was so wonderfully en-
bodied in Jesus that He stands as He
stood for two thousand years, the
great type of a perfected humanity.
He is illumined and glorified by love.
That is what made Him what He was
and what He is.
You are what you are today with
all your possibilities of loving, be-
cause of this great ideal which has
been enshrined in the hearts cf Christ
ians through all these centuries that
have passed since His coming. You
have only to let the same mind be in
you as was in Christ Jesus in or
der to be, according to your measure
of love, wonder worker, gift giver
as~he was.
What his mind was you can know
in faint degree by what you sim
cerely feel and express at the Christ
mas time. 1t is the sign and seal of
what you may feel and express the
whole year, il you will
Because the world feels the warm
touch of this sweeping tide of Christ
ly love, it is blessed and vivifed with
new life as surely as the Christmas
season comes. Why should we not
have continuous Christmas season?
How great the thought that love is
the light of the world! How literally
true that this is the Christmas love
that in a mighty stream of light
sweeps through mems hearts, warm
ing, cleansing them and giving them
new and holy lifel