Show MANY w WORSHIPERS AT 51 ST PAULS CHURCH Rector Perkins Preaches Frenches Sermon Verso Verse erso From Front Luke as ns Ills his Text St Pauls Paulg church was well filled this morning by worshipers In attendance on the Christmas day services The Tho fine musical program prepared by Chor Chorister ChorIster ister and Organist Berkhoel was aa sue suc successfully carried out to the marked gratification of the congregation and Rector Perkins then Ulen preached tho the Christmas sermon from the text They The made known abroad the tho saying which was told them concerning this child Luke II 17 The speaker said In part The whole world has hes turned young today tolla Everywhere the spirit of ot Christ Christmas mas ints has gone the old oM world has been rejuvenated It Is the childrens day The Tho father and mother and even the tho grandparents renew their lives upon this bright Christmas morn They live over their lives hives again In the happiness and youth of or their children What docs does It nil all mean to us Ul Whence hence comes this power Into tho the life lito cf of men Surely It Is II not the spirit ot of paganism p which to a large la e extent spent this season sell on In riotous living hivIng and gave save Itself over to tho the gratification of oC lower lowel appetites Indeed some still are In Influenced by b this spirit But this Is not the tho spirit of oC Christmas The Christ Child has converted tho the pagan Institution Into one of oC love and l blessing ble We Vo hear the echo of ot the tho angels song Peace on earth good goodwill will to men It Is a II message of cheer But Bul It Is a message of ot Innocence end antI Joy JO The world Is touched with tho spirit of humanity In all Its highest conceptions at this tItle season It Is the tho family life lito Into which our God has en entered entered entered and made up His abode among men No longer longcr Is God far 01 off oft but buthe buthe buthe he Is near And since God Is In men and among men man they the cannot help re rejoicing reJoicing They are renewed Hope and courage Is theirs We TO can not overestimate the need of ot claiming this blessing of ot Christmas Forever young Is 18 the tho spirit which this world needs When humanity Is Influenced by b It no task Is beyond be ond Its possibility of ot accomplish accomplishment ment Old civilizations stand aghast t tat at the accomplishment of Christian nations Decrepitude and decay are ho tho mark of ot peoples who have havo aban abandoned abandoned abandoned this Idea A nation born In a aday aday aday day Is tho the result of at Its acceptance We Te can cnn not fall fail to make known abroad Its message as the angels did didot of ot old So full of life lite and vigor Is this his youthful spirit of ot Christmas that It t can not share Its Us blessings alone Its ts blessings came camo from tho the lovo love that springs In tho the human heart at tho birth of ot the Christ Child This lovo love renews tho the old earth and will renow renew until all shall be hilled filled with that life liCe which Is always young oung because It Is la eternal |