Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-12-25
CHRISTMAS.

A merry. merry Christmas,
And happy, bright New Year.
How sweet the kind old greetings
Sound in every heart and ear,
M ~" & er how sore burden d,
And no matter how depressed,
A something in their welcome
Makes them dear to every breast.
We heard them in our childhood
When with spirits light and gay
We dreamed not that lite's Joyfulness
Gould ever pass away,
Ana though long years of caretulhess
Have sobered many a heart
A GOV still fingers round them
Which can never quite depart.
As fits the solemn Christmastide,
AS fits the holy Christmas birth,
BE this, kind friends, our carol stii'
BE peace on earth, be peace on
ear0h,
To men Of gentle VIII.
And Thaekery's Christmas greeting
is still appropriate. 1t is recorded
that when the Christ-child was born,
wise men came to inquire about HIM.
and it is not to be wondered at that
lie has arrested the attention of wise
men from that day to the present, for
lie has so gotten Himself into the
warp and wool of human history that
ausevents have come to date from HIS
birth We speak of the history of the
world before Christ and Of all other
events IN some year OF our Lord.
And still further, although lie died
nj an age when other men begin TO
plan the work Of their lives, lie trod
this earth so heavily that the marks OF
His feet are still visible everywhere.
No wonder then that this Divine
Man has always arrested the attention
of wise men and of all other men, and
no wonder the anniversary of His ad-
vent to the earth has such universql
recognition
That the cross has at last sup
planted, the crescent in the place OF
Ills birth, and in the land in which He
preached peace and good will to men,
is an event of great Importance to the
world.
But the matter of greatest import
nnce to MS Just now Is that the most
vital problems facing us-problems
which threaten to overwhelm ciVili2a-
lion unless they are solved right
must be solved through the teachings
of Jesus Christ.
II was clear and definite issue that
was fought out in the life of Jesus
lie died hanging upon Roman cross
between two crucified thieves, and TO
The Roman government and to the
Jewish priests, His influence in the
world appeared TO be finished, eX-
tinguished.
But the Jewish nation was obliter-
ated a few years later and the Roman
empire was blotted out within Few
centuries. but the power of the
thought planted in the world by Jesus
spread and grew until now 1t is the
chief force in the lives of men ana
women.
We shall have waves of radicalism,
as now; we shall have periods IN
which the material things seem to
oyerwheIm the spiritual; we shall be
taught that this is a civilization based
upon economic rather than moral law,
hui the teachings of Jesus stand for
the complete and everlasting victory
of man over his lower natnre, for
mans triumphant ascension above
that nature.
There is much of struggle ahead OF
us, long periods of doubt and gloom
and terror and death of individuals
perhaps we shall see the blottinE out
of civlizatfons--but any person who
has studied the life and the teachings
of Jesus and the history of the growth
Of The Christian religion. must know
That the Golden Rule ultimately Will
triumph and that all mankind VIII
live together In harmony as one great
family in which the welfare OF each
member of that family shall be cared
for as the father and the mother OF
today care for the comfort and the
well being of their little children.