The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-12-24
Signs of the
Times

FANNIE Bucher In the Chicago
Tribune has divisod very unique
nav In which to attract attention to
her hook column at this Christmas
season in order 10 call halt In the
readers winding Christmas trail
Won would think someone had run
Aqmurk-"Haroid Bell Wright is the
Frreqtost living American writer
Avery Hopgood Is a greater dramatist
than Shakespeare, Edgar Guest is
greater poet than Milton. Warren
Gamaliel Harding has done>mo for
his country than Lincoln" The
writer saws one must stop his
render these mad days with pack
ages shriekiug to be tied, Christmas
lists moaning to be finished and
cards demanding 10 be addressed.
That was q week ago. Today,
CHRISTMAS eve. we would use the
-ana device To halt the glad hearts
OF a world grown old in wisdom and
science that it's people from all four
corners may hear the angels sing
their Joyous hosannahs to a great
king. on Christ's birthday anuiver-
fary, which is Monday December
g5. 1922, as we will celebrate it.
DO we catch the heavenly strains
.sa the great waves of ether from
tmyen's home2 De we hear God in
our hearts say, Il would have you
nv servant and loved one. pause to
remember my son who was born in
a manger this day thousands of
years ago and who lived and died
that YOU might have life everlast-
irg2' DO you catch the sweet strains
from the choir invisible that follows
This mandate with an obligato celes-
tial2 when we think Of that olden
time OF the Christ child and the
rangcr, We sec the star In the east
ANA the wise men standing in awe;
W. glimpse that lowly scene in the
stable and there comes stealing DER
ms something akin to the feeling
that must have been felt by these
men from the east also in Joseph's
heart end that Of his wife, Mary;
though one would think that Marys
sweet peace of spirit and soul was
most sublime for she probably knew
more than anyone else about the
babe in her arms. We know from the
cradle age until now, as taught from
holy writ, the story Of Jesus which
never growS old The Thought today
Is associated with this older world
and il we would reverse II, a newer
world in which advancement in civ
ilizauon in all its mighty and pom
uefNAS ways PiutdlicutLllN S'LtiNii
ically, spiritually, materially, has
given the people a power with which
to make great their lives. And have
we grown SO worldly in this ma
terial living with its wealth and
beauty that surrounds us; beauty out
side Of natures dover that is always
ours, that we forget the spiritual
part Of Christmas and sink to that
sordid plane Of se,fishness, self-seek-
ing and make 1t a day that is purely
one in which we satisfy the flesh.
Let all hearts and voices be lifted
this glad Christmas to greater things.
Remember the loved ones that have
gone before us TO somewhere that is
better than this life and let us know
that as Christ was born and died
ne now lives and sends us message
at this time that he sitteth at the
right hand OF the Father and that
through their intercessors, we should
1now the truth OF Immortality and
through that knowledge. should be
happy, far happier than II show
cred with anything worldly on this
day Of days.