| Show prophecy Y 0 of f christmas y I 1 in its prophetic sense christmas becomes an annual review day tor for the world a time of stock taking a mile stone n the march of human progress the angels sang of what was corn com ng not of what had come the shepherds worshipped a symbol of universal peace and good will of mani maul ness pur ity gentleness and charity a standard of what men were bet et to be and looking at christmas in this light it means perhaps more to this tury than it has meant to any pre U ng g century for nearly 2 uia is I 1 Is a BP nr ter chr stir g than was of a i ago because the world Is better if you do abt this look about you iphy hy this growing repugnance to war v hy by all these treaties of peace be tween nat ons it if men have not come to loe lobe peace and gentleness more than they ever d d why this increase ng gift giving this strengthen ing desire to relieve the stress of poverty this greater gladness in the happiness of others if the spirit of christmas is not more potent to day than it ever has beena shiely though perhaps slowly the world Is moving upward every christmas da finds it nearer the heights on which the ange as of old are singing more ears catch the ma mu a yf sic and more hearts understand the words of the celestial anthem every twelvemonth each christmas sees the prophecy nearer the fulfillment and it will be on some christmas day perhaps not very far from this one when the song of all the sons and daughters of men will be that of the angels of the nativity t GO gad it the highest 4 ana n earth peace good uw ard men tbt meaning of christmas to the twentieth century Is the partly tul ful filled prophecy of a perfect christmas to some century in the future just as the first christmas was a prophecy tor for the tile wald ol 01 to day |
