Evening star., 1939-12-24
Good Will and Peace
Bring Christmas Songs
Under Divine Command
By Alice Eversman.

midnight skies umned by great angelic
sang their Of and good WILL
the destiny Of music for all times prescribed Divine
command From that moment linked with the highest
the pres and the sweetest aspirations
to know with the coming of the sanc
fed by the glorious played night it
to hold the spark of divinity that humanity has
less to resist and the marvellous capacity up
which authority on earth could nullify.
At that moment also established order into
all must enroll who would call themselves artists priest
hood of art formed that night and dedicated
money before equaed
that priesthood function eighten-
ment the people of the world demonstrate
for further gifts from the Almighty What they
for written in the heavens that night The signs
above them that would the
ward but seek in the canopy them vision
angel cho the sound OF divine melody and soft radiance
of the star of promise.
borderand where spirit and meet lies the
inspiration that the musician must and cherish the
his soul further contemplation
human and the divine that the Lord God made clear
people that when His born a manger
music would speak in language understood by ALL
things the soul of but has entirely
his But the light of the touching the earth
symbol that the path would be always the sound of
divine music provided the be but lifted
sponsive to that message of peace and good will
Those gifted few who have held the glorious OF
celestial music in their secret soul and there guarded with
and loving contemplation have made the world
by communion. vision has pierced
the real to the deaty and again they
the beauty revealed them They
stamp of the divine and their mission was clear before them
all great musical literature with which
blessed be felt the sacredness of their calling and
joyous shoudering of the responsibility to others sight
of that vision that had forever ranhgred the ornarnes
of human existence for them
great significance the Christmas event.
the lowly conditions under which
while the heavens the human form He obliged
attach the world His divinity becoming
the acknowledged God and Savior He became child and
then So it with the artist; he be truly child
and before he give voice to the divine within
him. He the simplicity fresh faith of
childhood gain argeness
he ready to lift his that horizon where the first
rays of celestial glory found Only be
immortal art.
What tremendous and at the time glorious,
sponsbty placed all who in the of
small part the divine ingredient
has been bestowed the individual he become member
that order of the priesthood of and
sirk his duty his destiny is to be fully accom-
pshed Yet Of all the demands made upon the Christian
pleasant ewardng that of earnestly striving
to understand and to cultivate the spiritual quality of music
Joy the spirit and for the battle of life his who
tunes his nature to the great song of the spheres.
Not in many has that angelic had such deep
meaning the present for troubled times
this message a definite
sent the world the wings of glorious melody
representative forgiving
simple words peace and good will They placed in
the realm of music that night of mans redemption and there
they will remain for all time On the priesthood Of the art Of
continual fument of this divine order 1t
embraces all creation without differentiation of creed
onay resoundng from the skies that all peoples i'm
partially progress of civilization all its spiritual and
material phases has altered its universal command
changed its original alliance with music.
Whatever else desert whatever else to be
unworthy retains purity for good and its
potency before should be deeply
only of the individual life but of the national fe that
humanity wandering, the sound Of
that celestial Now than should the musician
grid himself with faith and beauty and with his searching
for the briancy Of that star that never fails open his
prepare follow the and loving calling which
blessed that long Christmas Eve In his hands
lies Of leading the misguided peoples of the world
good will of which the angels sang and the
peace" that "passeth all understanding