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Show '' . - I ) I ANOTHER CHRISTMAS AND NEW YEAR j ,iy I i Uw I 'k4 Tno riarck ot nn nnnv the movement of a pdr- Hl j ndo may oc measured on tho dial of a watch. Even BM. ' i I ,, tho Blow advance of an Incoming tldo can bo told H( ! ' m hours and minutes. There havo been periods Hf ' It'll " humanity's history when certain forces, sudden- B V H 1 ly roleased, have swept tho raco forward till It Hi , ' I has moved onward like a triumphal procession'. Wo HI , ' ' passed onco over the track of a glacier that had !' ' ; ! broken from tho grip of tho mountains that had held ' It for centuries. From creeping at an Imperceptible ,v pace it leaped Into the plain below with tho pro- J pelling power behind it of a thousand years. Some h I j. reforms havo come as the glacier camo that Bum- H '" I J mer's day into the Alpine valley. H ,' 1 j j The progress of humahlty, however, Is not to H ' ( l , 1 be measured by hours, or years. Centuries only HL i: can tell the story. Our discouragements grow out H: of tho limitations of our vision. This causo that H h ' wo lovo so 'much, that means so much to that H, j vast world of life around us, stood last Christmas, H ' J last Now Year's Day, apparently, where It stands HU i this Christmas, and this Now Year's Day. Wo Hh can measure Its ndvanco by no mile posts left be- Hjtl I hind. Hut ho who scales somo mountain peak of H'' ) t history where not years but cemurles stretch out Hri ' ' before Mm, finds himself exulting In tho triumph Hb l of this causo slnco the first Christmas was cele- Hj r ' 1 brated and tho world was compelled to ncknowl- Hj , . edge that there" was a. now date from which It must HL ' ' number the years. HL, , Yondjr, In those distant days, only hero and HJ' there was a voice raised In tho name of hman HT' freedom or the rights of bird and beast. Today Ht't ' thoro Is no civilized land whence fi:edom has not HJ' unfurled her banner, or wherV tens of thousands HJ-j of voices aro not heard In defenco of tho creatures HJ 'I below us. Cruelties still trail tho weary paths of HJ ' suffering bensts of burden, still a never ending pro- HJ cession of victims moves on to tho needless ordea's HJ, of terror and pnln thnt awnlt It nt tho slaughter HJ Pen, still the hunter malms and kills for sport. But Hi , dark as may bo tho rages that record tho dreary HJ ("id hopeless lot of animals today, they tell of HJ' Pain and torturo and anguish lessened many hun- HJ I lrcd fold over great spaces of tho world, of a clear- HJ , 1 cr recognition of governments and men of the HJ' claims of anlmhl life, and ot a widening of humane HJ education among tho young that nt onco sustains HJ s i and Inspires tho heart. Hft ,' j The Christmas spirit Is as pervasive as the H, 1 ' light, U can no more bo quenched than can the BBJ sun that burns above us. It Is as resistless as U10 Hi - dawn. Tho clouds do not stay It. It comes on HB f through r.ll tho mists and shadows ot tho night., Hi The noonday hour Is as stiro as God. HI '! 4. |