The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1949-01-05

lea Il dismal science. and this
eoaid with equal truth be said OF
history. whose myriad tongues
tell aickenlng story IN the rise
and fall OF nations and the ups
and downs OF mortals with their
swift change OF fortunes. The
pages OF histry are darkened By
mans inhumanity to man a. the
Bard OF Alton told in plalntlva
tones. Greed and gain stlll pos
sess the hearts OF men ana ne
hearts Of nations.
That loud voice we hear II TIE
market places OF the ages Is the
voice Of mammon crying Ter the
sordld things that may viii for
the moment but can never satisfy
TIE deeper longing Of the human
heaart. One OF the higher nrosi-
denees Of Gods power and Wis
dom Is exemplified In the lack Of
satisfactions which accompany
material pursuits; In the Insult
ficieneies related to knowledge
which stops short OF faith In God;
in the decree that nothing Il set
tied until II Is settled right; In
the hunger and longing for some
Promised Land wherer the splr-
its of men may be made perfect
and where the wicked shall cease
from troubling and the weary soul
shall be at rest.
It was a great blessing OF the
Divine plan that decreed earth
rshall be no resting place and that
the thither calls of the ThIther
Lands are ever ringing in the
souls of men. II is a mean and
foul design OF worldly men that
they would dismiss as non--essen-
tial the lure OF some Great Be-
yond.
The claim is most blatantly
made by blatant men that
preaching should be conferred only
on the here and not the Here
after; and so 1t has become FASH
lonable to dismiss from our ser
monte discourses illusions to
Heaven and the hereafter. And
this in spite of the fact that the
peoples OF the earth who live are
but handful as compared to the
millions that slumber In earth's
bosom, as was told by William
ellen Bryant.
The real fact of life is, we live
this life to better advantage when
we live 1t In reference to life
hereafter. The poor mortal who
concentrates only on this life fails
ingloriously to grasp this life in
its fullness. AS Paul said. II In
this life only we have hope, we
are of all men most miserable!
Christmas teaches that Jesus
came to earth; and Easter teaches
that Jesus left the earth as mys-
teriously as he came. We are told
that when Jesus arrived In Beth
lehem, his arrival was attested by
the angels and the Heavenly
hosts and that there was great
joy. The holy episode hardly does
more than to give unto mortals
glimpse of the glory that sur
rounds His advent. whether into
the world or into some IowIy hui
man heart.
1t can hardly be imagined that
mortals can Withstand the glory
of God In its ineffable effulgence.
Even as the Israelits who shrank
at the foot of Sinai, unable to be-
hold the glory Of God that lin
gered upon its smoking SUBMITS,
SO we poor mortals cannot con-
tain in reality or imagination, the
glory OF God or the glory of the
God-fillcd man. We ae treated
at Christmas to a mere glimpse
OF the blessedness and the glory
of che reign Of the Son of God.
The Christmas SPIRIT Is but
glimpse of Christ glorified In hui
man life. The outgoing OF hui
man hearts at Christmas time is
a projection Of an age that il on
the wayl Christmas is not In our
conditions. but in our SKIRTS: 1t
is a glimpse of glory that comes