The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1919-12-12
Christmas the
Glad Day for
All the World

have their own special Holt
IL days, both national and rell-
glous, but Christmas is day
for all countries and all people. 1t Is
the worlds holiday.
1t Is a day Of gladness, as 1t should
be, for 1t commentaries the birth OF
him who brought to the world the
greatest gladness 1t has ever known or
will ever know. though it were to last
for countless aeons to come.
So universal is the application Of
the celebration Of Christmas that oil
men are included In 1t, whether they
be Of high or lowly station. rich or
poor in the goods Of the world.
1t is a time for kindly deeds. for
charity, for gifts and all that goes to
make life gentler and sweeter. The
hardest heart can scarcely escape its
softening influence, the most sordid
miser must struggle to resist Its
promptings to generosity.
At first the day was day observed
by professed Christians only; now 1t
Is observed by both those who profess
themselves Christians and those who
make no such professions. Its warmth
envelops all.
This being true-and no one will dis
pute 1.-THE meaning Of Christmas
| grows ever clearer to us. Its meaning
| Is beyond all that we have already said
Of 1t. Christmas means that, ultimate
ly, the whole world will become one
vast brotherhood.
II And 1t Is entirely logical that thi.
should be the real meaning Of Christ
mas, because that was the reason Christ
came upon the earth whose birth II
celebrated by Christmas. 1t was t.
make all me2 brothers that he LIVED
and taught and toiled; 1t was to &C
complish this that he gave himself vi
voluntarily to q cruel death on tn,
cross.
1t Is a wonderful thing that he wa
horn In a stable. that he was son of {
carpenter. that he never had dolla
to his name. that he had no HON,
after he left Nazareth, that he was
wanderer on the face Of the earth will
no place wherein to lay his head, an,
that now, 1000 years after his death
his power Is over the world as thu
power Of the Roman empire nevel
| was.
It Is a marvellous thing about Chris
that as the years and centuries In
crease since his death, the more rea
he becomes in the thoughts Of mer
and the better he Is understood.
There have been attempts to prove
that he was myth. But there never
was an attempt at anything that failed
so dismally. There have been at
tempts to dispute the miracles he per
formed, but these attempts have also
| failed.
There Is no question now in the
mind Of any historian worthy OF the
name that Christ performed all the
miracles that are related Of him In the
Gospels. He undoubtedly healed the
sick-the leprous, the palsled and the
| others. He turned the water into wine
he fed the multitude on a few loave'
and nshes. He raised the dead.
Men may differ. ~ indeed they do
as to whether or not Christ was thu
divine son Of God, but even those WHIT
In the face Of every proof reject thii
claim stiIl regard him NJ the purest
the noblest and the greatest man tina
ever walked this earth. Every mai
does not worship him a. God. but n,
man defames him. he n the vision
and the hope Of al men.
When, In mockery, they crowned
him king with the cruel thorns, llttls
they thought that ~ would rule {
world at Iast-a world In which n
| races vie with one another to rsndsl
him their homage.
Now comes again In the swing o.
the years another Christmas day. MAJ
It Be . clad and . merry one for 81
our readers. /. s~,~-.>.s 1880 81 \. - ,