El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1920-12-24
THE WORLD NEEDS THE CHRISTMAS
SPIRIT. AS THE EARTH NEEDS RAIN

TO THE rsg1sr southvesternsr who really belongs there
is 10 other perfume in nature quite fragrant and re-
fesng as that which drifts the desert after
sumner late afternoon rain Everything that grows In the
desert seems be spced with sweet aromatic essences
needing only the distilled liquor Of natures alchemy to Ten
And the Yery SIND and rocks seem to be secured that
they shine ana sparkle Gttsrng drops laugh IN unex-
sed places in flower cups N tiny creVlces OF the rock
The breeze has little tang it. It is cool Looking
away the and hills to the serenely self su
cent mountains ones eyes sharpen their locus 70 bring tnat
gorious distance within reach Be 1t 50 100 OF 200 miles,
since every shsert veil OF vapor and dust has been
drawn away IN these alreuewing an-reveang breezes
after rain.
One taxes long breaths and snaps the eyes one feels the
corners Of his mouth tEchng turn little up and one
finds himself suddenly become quite roguishly optimistic
How al troubles flee away with the coming Of twilight
after sumner rain Rose lights delicate brides blush
turn the prosac earh-folds and Of human occupation
into oympian realms fit for fairies and into gardens Of
poets paradise There mountain Of quartz there
peak Of pusst sapphire at our feet emeraas and gold
Everywhere among the flowers
Most precious moment In all the desert calendar, when
earth baptized rises all shrlTen and filled with the splt
20 the new e-unsss find swseer solace in that
other when the birds can to the morning star Just
before limited human the first hint Of day
at the edge Of the east.
sons such refrsshmeut comes to the human soul at
Christmas time. He would be bold one who would Try
10 describe interpret the Christmas spirit As wen Try
70 describe the dessr" to who had never slept under
the stars; the mountains, to who knew not the
haunting melody Of the canyon wren, the teasing moeery
sf the hangers miustrelsy.
But If one cannot describe spirit one can at least
auda 70 the effects Of its perTasion At Christmas time
people thinking Of others besides themselves than
at any other time Of the year Some mystic charm takes
possession Of earths habants at Christmas time and
makes them, for little WHILE almost worthy Of their
divine kinship.
Eow soTddness and Htensas DO sluk away at Christi
mas time.
Hsa are ashamed, at Christmas time, to seem to be
thinking inward
There Is reaching out taking hold Of hands, world
around; ueghborhness good old word which creaks all
year fro rust and dsuse brought out and busted and
fabricated and set TO work right spIyys for the uonce
There Is moment, at dawn in the desert" when
feels himself with the natural world; when smiles
at his insignicance and his irresistible power
tas faary with the birds and the little people Of the
to cal the granite peaks his very OWL to have and to hold
forever and Instantly bows IN divine humility to the
Infinite wonder q the universal riddle Han masters be-
he neWs his master And It is the tiny attenuaed
whisper Of night the soft Iesssug breathing Of the earth
Which, when he is all alone and peace makes him strong
God's Ticar5 ruling by serving.
There is moment, at Christmas time, when feels
himself the embodiment Of the race charged with its future
and big with its destiny. And It is the little that
tel h this is the eyes Of child that reveal to him
world wonderful most wonderful, which he may enter
if heiWu It is the hand Of child tender yet firm and
confident, that leads HIM to the gate Of the kingdom and
knocks for him at the wicket
Through al the ages since recorded tns began there
thread Of mysticism IN the lore Of and child
their retion TO each other and life every land in
every language, there tales Of children bore the
truth 81 their bosos and COMPOUNDED the elders the place
Of judgment Some strange unlnss the pure child
mnds t. know without being told, know the truth and