The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-12-25
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thought OF fear.
nm the road TO an old fashioned !
Christmas
away with the auto and flying ma
chine
~,e costly coupe and tho fine |
limousine,
On, give me old Santa in cutter |
0f green.
psshing OF to an fashioned |
Christmas"
From the lips Of more people
Nan ever before have been heard
Ms year a wish for the old-fash.
ioned Christmas, cry from the
,sU,ted heart for the Christmas II
used to know or has heard about.
Christmas today has come to be n
,orlod that many wish might never
,rr,ve- because " means taut
ssyyes dlssipated money, and vain
.,,iynqs to please. IL illustrates an
o,,standlng characteristic OF the
tnerlcan people--a tendency 20
Cer.do. The little ball has ac-
,gmulated as 1t rolled. and now has
become unwieldy and beyond all
control.
Whlle persisting in the myriad
festivities OF the Christmas of to-
day A slave to tinsel, tirker-tape,
and gift shops, we listen with envy
10 descriptions Of tho Christmas of
the past, infinitely more simple
and vastly less expensive.
II cannot be that we want TO re-
turn to the day when mother baked
and prepared delectable treats
weeks ahead, when the children
strung white corn and cranberries
for tree decorations, and the boys
chopped down the cedar and
dragged Il home from a mile down
the snow clad hill. These memories
OF the past are glorous, but they are
glorious because OF youth. The
same exu uberance could be true of
the Christmas OF today IL the spirit
OF Yuletide yet remained.
The trouble with Christina today
ls that there Is too much Santa
Claus and not enough Babe in the
Manager. The trouble with Christ
mas today Is that the cause for
celebrating is forgot in the excite
ment of setting off the fireworks.
The trouble with Christmas today is
that too many sleigh bells enter in
TO the children's December story
ana DOt fubuEn vi lIt Slltpllti 10
and the star OF Bethlehem.
Al this season every child should
he told over and over again the
beautiful narrative of the birth Of
Christ. No Andersen ever wrote
fairy lore so lovely. nor Alice told
happening in Wonderland so full of
magic.
Minister'S repeatedly state that
although we recognize the Bible as
the most remarkable Of all books,
as individuals we are most ignor-
ant about It. Sunday after Sun
day we repeat the Apostles creed
yet how superficial is our under
standing? Conceived by the Holy
Ghost born OF the Virgin Mary
a miracle of miracles. the Immacu-
late Conception, concerning which
many give not n serious thought
Take down THE Life of Christ,
by Geikie. as Il stares out from the
book shelves in its chunky, ponder
GUS form, and once get past the
Introduction Of fine print on to that
section where the betrothal OF Mary
and Joseph is chronicled and de-
scribed, and the book from there
on is devoured copiously.
Mary and Joseph OF Nazareth
were betrothed, and though a be-
trothal according to custom was
virtually marriage that could only
be broken by a formal bill of di'
,vorcement," the maiden did not at
once go to her husbands house.
II WAS during the months follow
ing the betrothal ceremony that the
angel Gabriel was sent to Mary from
God, and having entered her cham
Nx.h
was doubtless in lowly prayer in ac-
cordance with her daily devotions,
told her she had been chosen as the
future mother OF the long expected
Messiah--who was to be given the
name Jesus.
Mary's position afterwards, 1t is
recorded, exposed her TO many
trials and 1t was necessary for God
10 make known to Joseph the
pystorious truth, after which he
helded her from all future trouble
p taking her home as his wife.
The Jewish nation paid tribute to
Rome through it's local rulers. and
periodic intervals II was re-
CURED that n census be taken in
every province, that the emperor
might know the number OF soldiers
ne could levy, and the amount of
taxes due the treasury.
The proclamation having been
mace through the land. 1t became
Ine case now that Joseph had no
sholce hut 70 go Sc miles south to
bethlehem, the city of David, the
place in which his family--descent
rom the house and lineage of
David required him to be inscribed,
Unwilling to leave her behind In n
heme so new. he took Mary with
mns the two journeying with JOS
sph atoot and Mary on an ass at
nls side, and thus it came about that
we Christ child was born in a dis
@ht mountain village in which His
F9lher was a transient.
FROM earliest antiquity the Jew
sA nation was hospitable nation.
~ unpeopled districts where houses
,.e eIe Tar between 1t was their
iehdly custom to erect rude
oanolngs on the great roads that
Ulsfed protection OF walls, roof, and
NIef-but little else, with always a
,yuoh for beasts. This was the
Ahan,' our inn In town each
hosplta lity and it was considered n
% nyne had place for individual
tsHlon II every passing way
'a,er was not made someone's guest
put by the time Mary and Joseph
saTed In Bethlehem. the house
Ou they might have expected tc
Nrtain them had its guest cham
r occupied, as strangers had come