The Washington times., 1919-12-21
The Season of the Souls
Ascendancy
b Y B L L PRICE

BY l. RICE.
Perhaps the Christmas tradition that ST. Luke was
painter is based on those few of his gospel telling of
the annunciaton the shepherds of the birth in III.
manger
Whatever our beliefs may be- all of us who feel and
think must realize that the story by its SIMPLICITY and
orevy is the nobest and purs artistry Those who have
'eo 10 picture 1T with brush and paint have added no
beauty to the original As written il awakens and invites
the soul and inspires the imagination to boundess ex
pansion and illimitable heights
Wltn fewer than two hundred words St Luke puts
Vldy before us the vast stiffness and darkness of the
night the Eastern plain Sudden ine.he r.d;.ro
mysterious thronng amid the stars of legons of being,
procamng the answering of infinite power IN the
yearnlngs OF piteous weakness and infinite need No
human genius or skill dare make spectacular for the
mortal this wonderful and compelling appeal 10 IN. I'm;
mortal spirit living within us with the likeness of ma
ter1a things content the craving of the divinity of vh;c
each OF us inherits some little part
The Christmas is for the soul Its renn;or. -
families and friends its dedication to the happiness of cb
dren Its tokens OF love and remembrance and it's benev,
ences to alleviate suffering and soften the stnps of ~
erty to have real value in lives be the fruaee
OF seed planted in the soul and nourished there IA the
time for calling souls asoendancy for llinp then
with sweetness and light for future for creation -
memories which will abide with us and spring To .dder
ing e at every Christmas time to U.S. whether We
may look Tor few or many For the soul is the DWELLING
place of dreams coming to us mysterously - the
heavenly hosts crowdng among the stars and our desm
are companioned and guided by our memories and our
hopes
Therefore the most fitting honor and celebration of the
season is to thrust aside and away from all that ero
and small and and sord in our lives and tboupbta
1t the time to summon and apply every ounce of moral
strength we can command to the banshment of all the bit
erness to the burial beneath kindly impulse and the grand
courage OF remuneration and tolerance of the sorrows dis
appointments and deusions Of the past DAYS and years
The rea vital meaning of it is that of the proclamation
from the spanged darkness of space good will for all man.
q of 0a hall
mighty expanding its sympathetic charity over the
earth.
So feeling and living this Christmastide we will gather
in our souls as guests to leave the light that
illuminated the somber night upon the plains the grand
harmony that came into the Stiffness the magnificent mes
sage that aroused and warmed to life and higher hone
soulfrozen gloom stricken, and desparng world They
will glorify for every Christmas hereafter Whatever
fate may do it cannot take from the happiness we make
for ourselves and others wrest from the pleasant
memories of 1.-THE annual joyful resurrection of Il in our
hearnor deprive of the hopes may build on them
while life lasts
And to its thousands Of readers filed with the slor;-
ousy softenng impulses of the season. The Times sxtepd
its greetings and best wishes