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God rest you merry, gentlemen!
Let nothing you dismay,
For Jesus Christ, our Saviour,
Was born on Christmas Day.

For Jesus Christ, our Saviour,
Was born on Christmas Day.
If Jesus had been born nineteen hundred years
later and had begun to teach His gospel during
the war He would have spent Christmas Day in
the courts or under sentence to the penitentiary.
If He had talked in Washington as He talked
in Jerusalem He would have been denounced as
a wicked traitor by many militant ministers,
have been vilified by most of the newspapers,
would have been arrested by Government agents,
would probably have been brutally beaten by the
Bomb Squad and would have been told in court
that all this was done to Him to teach respect
for law, order, and the Christian religion.
Jesus would not have had chance to talk in
Washington during those two years of brutality
and frenzied lunacy. Even the women of cer-
tain type would have fought to tear His eyes out.
Today Jesus would be reasonably safe in visit
ing Washington in the flesh and preaching His
doctrine of peace, good will, and passive re-
sistance.
So the world has got that far back on it's way
That is something to be thankful for on this
Christmas Day.
1t is not whole lot, to be sure. But it is
something.
And it is something because it is an approach
no matter how hating and feebe-toward the
spirit of the Christmas, which is the spirit and
the essence of all that Jesus said and did while
He walked among men.
When we forsake humbug and attempt merely
to SAY something that sounds fine or eloquent
or pious, and get down to brass tacks and REALI-
TIES, the human characteristics of Jesus which
challenge the homage of all men are His good
ness, Ris kindness, His tolerance of weakness,
His scorn of cant and camouflage, His sense Of
economic justice, and His determined and out
spoken opposition to the powerful predatory
classes that were kow-towed to in His day-to
the bankers who had made the Temple den Of
thieves, to the lawyers who served them, to the
scribes who fattered them to the judges and the
high priests who were controlled by them and to
the whole body of profiteers and exploiters that
composed them-exactly as they compose now
the so-caled conservative and selfstyled better"
classes.
1t is almost as unpopular today as it was in
the time of Christ to teach that the fatherhood
of God means the brotherhood of man, and that
a civilization based upon selfishness, greed COR
ruption, violence, and the wholesale murder of
millions by command of the few who govern may
be rich and splendid, but is not Christ-like.
The blunt truth is that the so-called Christian
world practices the teachings Of Jesus Christ
only one day in the year.
On Christmas Day we all practice the doctrine
that it is blessed to give than to receive and
all generously strive to do to others as we would
that they should do to us.
These are the two fundamental teachings of
Jesus Christ, and in their brief words are con-
tanned all the fundamentals of true social happi-
ness true social justice, true politics, true eco
non,cs true and permanent civilization.
This world will never be as bright and joyous
and beautiful and altogether desirable it could
be until each day of the year is Christmas Day.
We think that desirable and happy time will
come eventually. 1t is not now, and it may not
be for many, many years. But the seed which
Jesus owed will yet increase and bring forth
after Kind until the wide field of the world
is covered ith the beautiful harvest, and the
air of etep land is glad with the songs of
the reapera ringing in their sheaves with
rejoicings