The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1920-12-16

DuuuISdIy . DItt II Is d StdrOu,n t lI lSOIdtiOu anu lOutIIcSS Jul li
another, GALL HANDS ARoUNDr with nobody left out.
When W pause to think of the way in which the Christmas originated
it becomes easy for us % understand why the season is everywhere made
to be the occasion of deep rejoicing and multform gadness.
Beyond a doubt the festival had its birth away up in the frozen North,
in the region of the aurora boreaEs, where the battle between the cold
and the heat the darkness and the light, is the longest and the most ter
rible; and it was quite natural that at the turn of the sun, when the light
and warmth began 20 return, men should turn themselves loose In q sort
of paroxysm of joy.
And by degrees the festivities of the ne of the far north worked their
way southwark; for ever there the return of the u meant life to men,
meant the sunshine and heat without which the human ace must perish.
The hyperboreans had their Christ, Baldur by name, Badur the good,
the gentle, the compassionate, who, taking pity o N them, destroyed the
Frost Giant and saved them from death. We cannot very well blame the
hyperboreans if, at first, their religion vas largely of a material type-the
worship of the sum-, for Baldur "a no more than the sun ideaized.
Chrst-not the petty Christ of the professional theologian, but the
Christ of ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS for OPTIMISM. All is well. Let not your
hearts be troubled. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof. In reality
there iSno evil, the thing we call "evl" being but good in the making. 81
am come that We might have ie not death; confidence, not despair; glad
ness.n 10 weeping and walhng."
Away with all grouchiness and greed, all doubt and despaml This is
the season of love and good will, of hope and gladness. Joy is always and
everywhere orthodox" and in order
If you are able to do S o at 10 other time of the year, during the
Christmas time resolve to have the full courage of your noble self and to
let your worthi@t and bravest sentiment assert itself to the full.
Let joy be unconfnedi Again be is said, "ALL is WELL" The Sun
is not going to be conquered by the Frost King; the anarchists are not
going to overthrow the Constitution of the United States and the govern
ment that was inaugurated by ~ venerated Washington; in spite of the
mankind" the ways and NEAR of lettering the condition of mankind will
surely be found; the life of men and nations shall not have been in vMn;
and as for Old Death, who awaits US at the end of the little earthly way,
for all that w e tic the contrary he may turn tut to De u best friend.
Those who have crossed the north Atlantic in winter need not be
reminded of the uplifting and joygiving influence of the gulf stream
Those who have felt it can never forget it. Once fairly upon the mysterious
"rver of the sea-" the chill and numbness of ones body and soul depart
the rigid muscles relax, the pentup feelings let themselves loose in singing
and chat, and an-round socmbIity and enjoyment. and all the world seems
to be refashioned for the better. II
And such is Christmas, with its good will and good cheer, its brave
confidence and spontaneous gladness. It is the gulf stream of life, warm
ing u into the sentiment of a common humanity, with its unselfshness
and comradeship, and imparting to US all the glad ms of security and
victory. N