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Show Rev. ROBERT IT. HARPER DURING the first World War, as Christmas approached, a company of doughboys encamped in a holly wood and the bright red holly berries reminded homesick home-sick lads of their homes beyond the sea. Some years ago, some hoboes salvaged a discarded tree, set it up In an empty boxcar on the river front and pretended that they were having Christmas as they once had known it. But with the many, perhaps, the janitor sweeps out the tinsel and the street JUST A THOUGHT: We need not search far and wide for the "true spirit of Christmas." All we need do is open our hearts and look to Him whose birthday we celebrate cele-brate on this great holiday. cleaners cart them away, and that is that. What contribution does the celebration cele-bration make to the millions who engage in it? It is a time to "view with alarm," as the politicians declare, the abuse of a great day by the disproportionate emphasis placed upon the lesser things of Christmas. Alter the first Christmas, the wise men from the east found the object of their quest, and they opened their treasures and presented pre-sented unto Jesus gifts of gold, frankincense and myrrh. May the thought of God's best gift to men be illumined by the dedication by men of their gold, their worship and themselves. |