Evening star., 1922-12-22
N Christmas eve the angels
sang, Peace on earth; good
y will toward men"

Christmas eve the angels
sang. Peace on earth; good
~ y will toward men"
Christmas is~peace day for
all Christendom. and therefore 1t seems
natural that thoughts OF how to bring
peace on earth should be uppermost
in the hearts Of men ana women. IT
il said that thirty-eight nations.
| through their organized mothers. are
icrying out against giving martial toys
| to children. A meeting OF Washing
! ton women which was held within the
last three or four days took UP that
prominent representatives of the So
! ciety for the Prevention Of War.
The argument is that war roys. such
| az wooden soldiers with guns and
| cannons. and martial instruments Of
| music-the drum. the fife or the bu-
gle-tend. to suggest to the infant
! mind that war is Curious and noisy
and much to be desired. We are
l learning more Of psych illogical sug-
gestion than we used 70 know: we
discover that mini rules the physical
world snd outside suggestion molds
the mind. Therefore, give the child
| the right to his best spirit OF kindly
! feelings and sympathy and love that
! knows no race distinction nor class.
The ultimate ideal of Christ Is that
| the spirit OF a little chill shall lead
the world, and the pcture He leaves as
| our ideal is that Of 4 babe leading a
| lion and setting its foo: without harm
upon the adder and the cockatrice.
But there are other phases of this
peace psychology which the senti-
| mentaiists Of non-resistance should
4 never overlook. It is the spirit of
right. not Of weakness, which must
be instilled into the character OF the
babe. Character displays itself in
the nursery as truly as upon the bat
| tleheld. The youngster who shows by
his quivering lips and whimpering
voice that he is afraid of right and
+; fairness and justice becomes the tar
| get Of his younger sisters and little
| piaymates until they whip him into
| cowardice and sneaking. That sort
OF boy should be sounlSy spanked
until he arouses enough spunk to
whip twice his own size. II the rod
is spared then the child will lose all
self-reliance and his manhood will be
milk water worthIessness. Be
neither a sissy nor a bulIy-be a
gfrlfsh boy or even a sissy girl But
being man really never doek mean
a roughneck. for a bully Is sure to
run across some bigger bully some
where who will take the nonsense
out Of him. Nobody thinks il is
worth while to attempt to pump man
hood into sissy boy-he does not
count anywhere nor at any time
! ABOUT mere is where some real.
kind-hearted parent is going to speak
harshly of what 1 am saying. and is
| going to hide ii so it will not mislead
his or her darling. Peace on earth.
good will toward men, can never be
twisted into justification for war or
any sort of fighting" Let dogs de-
light TO bark and bite. for 'tis their
nature to. but children must never be
| 1naughty-especially around Christ
| mas time"
Before dismissing me as unortho-
dox, how about the scene Of the night
when the short-change swfndlers
l were attacked, single handed
| And when He had made a scourge
| OF small cords he drove them all out
fof the temple. and the sheep and the
oxen; and poured out the changers
money and overthrow the tables.
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| It is with a spirit of genuine rever-
] ence that I call up that picture of the
| fight in the temple and holy admira-
1 tion of tho Man who dared the Gus
| toms Of the day, the protection of the
| officers OF both church and state, and
who made a scouree of small cords
and struck right and left. not even
! calling up His disciples to help
! There never was a gentler char
acter. The smoking FAX did He not
quench." the most timid child He
/ iwelcomed. and drew to Himself. but
| world war. and he approved specifically
| of war.
Think not tina. come to send
peace on earth; l came not to send
peace. but a sword" (Matthew.
| 1o.3D.
! And when ye shall hear of wars
| and rumors Of wars. be ye not
| troubled. for such things must needs
be-" mark, 13.O.
l The brave man is not seeking a
hight. but he will have peace if he has
| to fight for it-and he is not too
proud to fight. The peace on earth
which the angels sang was a right
peace. not a cowardly non-resistance
| TO crime and wrong. Hence, while
the babe should not get the roman
tic perversion OF war-which, how
! ever magnificent. is not war-neither
| let him be given a fiabby soul. We
want manly men in America There
will be work for them to do when
they become adults. There Is