Norwich bulletin., 1919-12-26
GOSPEL OF LOVE IS
 SOLE HOPE FOR WORLD

In the Christmas sermon at Christ l church the rector. Rev. Richard R. Graham connected the present unrest l with the failure of complete fuIfillment of the doctrine of love and urged the 1 support of the Nationwide campaign of the Episcopal church as means to the end of Peace on Earth, Good Will to Men" He said:
 We have seen that St. Mark dates the beginning of the proclamation of the glad ttdings concerning Jesus, the Christ, from the preaching of John, and the baptism of Jesus, while Saints Mathew and Luke suggest an earlier date, namely. the birth of Christ.
 But when we turn to the fourth gos- pei we find that Saint John. with his deep spiritual insight, puts this be- ginning back infinitely further for he opens his account of the life and teachings of Jesus with the wonder ful words. Tn the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. All things 1 were made by Him, and without Him was not anything made that hath been made" and then tells us, ''The Word became flesh. and dwelt among us full of grace and truth"
 Thus the beginning of the gospel is pushed back to the beginning of all | things, and at the same time is insep- arably connected with a definite his toric event namely. when ''The Word became fiesh." that is, when Christ was born.
 The great Christmas message which ought to thrill our hearts and influence our lives is the great message of love. l It tells us that God loves us with 1 love that is ready to overcome all ob- stacles. and is in no way dependent on our attitude towards Him. for it was to a largely loveless and unrespon- sive world that God gave His Son. He came unto His own and His own re- | ceived Him not because they did not
 understand the richness of the love of
 God.
 We may sing of Peace on Earth, :" but with all the international jealous | ies, the social unrest, the class war fare that exists we know that there is no real peace existing in the world, l and we further see that many are
 apparently doing all they can to stir
 up these feelings of d:sharmony in ac-
 tive and e1nbittered hatred. A ship load of deported anarchists
 sails down New York harbor and its
 passengers show in every possible way their hatred of America and of the great majority. of it's people, and our, as we are convinced justified hatred of
 them and of their doctrines breeds in us spirit of hatred which is apt to
 include not only those who deserve
 our hatred, but all those who differ
 from us on the great social questions
 which are demanding solution
 Il We read that thousands, yes, hun
 dreds of thousands of children in Aus
 tria are dying of starvation and there
 are those who tell us to disregard all
 these suffering little ones because they
 aer the children of our enemies. Of
 course, we know there is another side
 to all this. If it be true that a wave
 of hatred has enveleped the whole ] world, it is at least equally true that
 a great wave of love and sympathy is
 sweeping over us.
 } We have been engaged fin a great !, campaign for the Church's mission. } In it's final analysis that nnsision is
 the proclamation Of the glad tidings . of love, a proclamation which must be made in deeds as well as in words , The failure of the church in so far 7 as she has been failure and while slit Is only the ignorant or the preju