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I r i M i iA s r 4 y t r a E Il j car tr t ff C I r rR ra I R jj f r a v s r t I Mt l J t. t By JOHN DICKINSON SHERMAN 17 1 on OR nineteen n centuries tho the paint paUlt- era brush tho the gravers graver's tool r z and the tho sculptors sculptor's chisel have havo 1 been busy with the x of Jesus Christ Rut But In nIl all the world 1 Is ls there thero n a likeness 4 SS ot of Him with any credible claim claim 1 o to authenticity To one who Is IsE E not satisfied with the efforts of ot t E the artists and sculptors of ot all ages Is recommended recommended mended the word picture which Is attributed to who Is said to have haye been a t Roman cent centurion in Palestine during ills lifetime The he centurion centurion captain captain of ot of ot the one sixty com com- comi r. r panl panics panes Into which the Roman Homan legion was divided divided- 1 lead had his virtues as well Drell as his vices He ne was as and as hard boiled as modern a serf ser sere E r f ge geant int of the United States marines His EL J passion t was service cel to Home Rome And In statement of ot fact f to toMs has Ms superiors he was of ot necessity and by tr J and training as ns literally exact as ns lay Iny within i Mm him to be lie And here is the statement of P. P the Roman centurion In Palestine aa ns it it- has bas come down own to us through the r ages r 7 There Thore ht has appeared In this F our day a man of ot rent great virtue named Jesus Christ who Is 13 yet living j b amongst ue us and with the tho Gentiles Is le accepted as c prophet r phet of ot a truth but His own disciples call Him tta tiro tn 5 Son Jon of oC God He the dead and curoth all r V manner of ot diseases a 3 man of ot stature somewhat s tall and comely with a no very reverent countenance vf such as tho beholder both may love and fear tear His Hla tl hair In ID of ot the color of ot a filbert full tull ripe and plain y down to His ears but from tram His ears downward f K somewhat curled and more orient orlen of ot color waving 4 about His Ills shoulders In the midst of ot His Hta head goeth a n. scam soam or partition of ot hair after attar the manIs manner man- man Is ner ncr of ot the Isis Ills forehead very smooth r K and plain His face tace nose and mouth so framed as nothing can be reprehended His Ills beard somewhat thick agreeable to the hair of ot His h head ad for tor color fr not of or any great length but forked In the middle f- f j of or an Innocent and ard mature look look His Isis Hla eyes gray clear and quick s In reproving Ho lIe Is terrible In admonishing courteous and fair spoken pleasant In speech amidst gravity It cannot be he remembered that any have seen Him laugh laugh but but many nany havo have seen Him weep weep In proportion of ot body well vell shaped and straight l liIs 19 hands and arms most beauteous to behold In speaking very temperate modest and wise a manof man of ut singular virtue surpassing the children of ot men 4 UP TO the Thirteenth century the Ule pictures of or t Jesus Christ and of the of-the the H Nativity were formal impersonal and find conventional But In 1223 2 was held what JU may v be regarded us as the first Christmas vole cele bration inasmuch Inasmuch as it th the linking of ot the them m I church Imrch observance of ot the birth of or Jesus with the I midwinter festival that Unit had come conic down rL from the Romans and the Barbarians of or E Britain mid the Continent It was staged by St. St Francis ff cf r Assist Assisi of beloved ri memory In a grotto near a I In the AbruzzI mountains of or Italy A I h at fit midnight portrayed the Nativity straw Nativity straw straw- j filler CUed manger ox and und ass adoring shepherds shepherd J and t Wi Wise ire e Men und and nd all Thomas of or Celano who was f e the worshipers writes that they saw a u r r babe appear In the arms of St. St Francis as i r. r I 1 i bent hent over the manger The report of this m i r niclo spread over the land and a 0 convent still c tant c-tant taut tant built hullt was to lo commemorate It Giotto paint paint- Y c t I 1 a picture of or It In n a human buman sort of wa way And tills It c celebration l and this thIs' picture was the tho source I from which sprang sprung the countless masterpieces rep rep- 1 r the Nativity and the Adoration by the great front artists of ot all nil the world The Madonna and Child Is Js a reproduction o of ot tic tle work vork of Luca della delta Luca dl Simone d dl r farco uco delta della of ot Florence 82 1400 This rills L famous Italian sculptor was th the founder of or n s F. F I f 1001 which he and his family popularized for tor a aI kr or I more He lie worked with terra cotta Cott a f IS I'S ures In white and with colored draperies t r a NE NE grave at nt least Is sure of ot decorations at ot a t Christmas time That one Is the grave of or o ol t Dr Ur Clement nt C C. C Moore the author of 01 It Twos Iwas l was th the e Night Before Defore Christmas His ills grave e a Is la In Trinity y cemetery New York city The photograph shows I the Moore family plot with Doctor Moore's Moores grave bravo i at nt the tho left The Time children of ot the time Sunday school t of ot the he Chapel of the time Intercession decorate his grave grace j every year and on Christmas Day sing carols and place fresh decorations Doctor Moore's Moores writing of ot tho the famous poem and i Its publication are a n story In themselves Doctor 1 M Moore ore 1779 1770 was born in New York tho the son eon of ot Bishop Benjamin Moore floors once rector of ot Old Trinity tho the second Protestant Episcopal bishop of the diocese of New York and the third president of ot Columbia university Dr Clement C C. Moore Moore- i was graduated from Columbia and f studied for the i ministry but hul was not ordained In 13 1821 1 he became i professor of ot Biblical learning In the General Theological Theo Theo- 1 l 10 logical seminary New York There Thero ho served until his death He lIe was n a noted scholar and compiled compiled compiled com com- piled the time first Hebrew English lexicon published In America In In 1822 1522 he wrote tho the famous poem as IlS a n ChrIstmas Christmas Christ ChrIst- Christas i w mas as gift to his children A visitor made a copy o of f It with the result that the next neat Christmas it t was published anonymously In to the Troy Iroy N. N h Y Sentinel It went over ove time the whole country In no notIme notime notime time and then spread all over the world Doctor Moore was vexed over Its publication but finally i admitted authorship Now his its sch scholarly lexicon Is i s forgotten But Dut his its poem has hns made his its namo gangs Immortal Co prosperous are the American people peo- peo pie these days daj's Their wealth is shown in many ways way but lint In ill no Wn way more strikingly than by their i expenditure for Christmas gifts Experts estimate that their Christmas ante shopping the country over oyer will total between seven and eight billions i of dollars this year ear One reason renson wh why they are ante able to spend such a Il staggering sum soul is s that untold t thousands have been saving for It t all nil the year through what has come to be known as the Christmas Bank Dank In Chicago for example n a canvass of ot the larger banks of the city shows that the they distributed In Christmas savings earl early this month This was an nn Increase i of or live five millions over 1 1024 and of ten fen millions over 19 12 1023 This however merely Indicates Indicates Indi Indi- cates the growing popularity of the Christmas Lank Dank plan It gives no nn real reul Idea of the amount Involved For the plan hn has been In operation In practically every large industrial establishment without recourse recourse e to the banks SO S 0 RICH are the American people and so fast and furious Is the Christmas spending that they do not even take tal the pains p to see ee that their gifts sent h by null mall are pr t erl wrapped rand and addressed Of course all are mt careless about It t but Uncle Sum Sara postmaster has a n bad time during the holi days Extra clerks cost him a n million dollars dollars- and no small part of ot this e extra force Is kept busy handling poorly 7 wrapped and Improperly addressed addressed addressed ad ad- dressed packages Many thousands of Christmas gifts this year year year-us as every ery year year will will he be sold by Uncle Sam dam Instead of going Into the Christmas stockings s for tor which the givers Int Intended them The department of the Inquiry section of ot the post office In the large cities resembles a w ware ware ware- re- re house And at that Uncle Sam's Sams e experts h have ye a positive genius for r solving mysteries und and sending lost packages es on their way In about cases out of or 1000 letters or cards Inside s serve e us as the saving e clue ue Some gifts cannot be held longs long long long- alligators s from Florida for example fruit mushrooms mushrooms mush mush- rooms lire lite chickens and turkeys These are aro quickly sold and the sale price held in n a fund fund fund- which Is ultimately turned Into luto the treasury When flen flenall all efforts have been exhausted the Ule unidentified and unclaimed packages are sold at auction by an auctioneer who has little Christmas sentiment sentiment- he gets rid of about lots an nn hour CHRISTMAS Day has hUB many Important aspects from many Important viewpoints viewpoints but but dont don't let us overlook the turkey Do Doesn't Picture No 8 make your your- our mouth water It Il does docs of ot course coursel otherwise you are not normal and should be put In solitary confinement for about 43 48 hours beginning beginning begInning be be- ginning Christmas Eve EYe Nature apparently created the turk turkey y especially for the family feasts of ot and Thanksgiving And heres here's an nn odd thing tiling It was America that gave the world tho the turkey yet et this delicious piece pIcco do resistance of ot the Christmas feast Is getting getting getting get get- ting scarcer year ear by year Not only Is the production production tion of turkeys not keeping up with the Uie increase In population but is s actually decreasing year by year We Ve are raising not more Ul than Umu n something something something some some- thing like liko turkeys s 's a year nowadays which Is not enough to go around among n a population of more than Chicago fir example examples probably pall paid more this year than last last for Its Thanksgiving turkeys A A. good guess Is that the near future will see us raising wild turkeys on a n large scale The experiment has been tried in fn several places and gives gt evidence of proving successful The domesticated domesticated turkey Is a hard bird to raise The wild turkey on the other hand SE seems ems to be able to take ct cure care re of himself and to multiply with multIply with room and natural conditions History shows that the North orth American continent was Just alive with wild turkeys once upon a time f MISTLETOE as ns a n time-honored time part of the fe festivities of Christmas may be doomed doomed so so the rising generation should make ha hay while the sun shines shInes shInes-or or words to that effect Mistletoe la is supposed to have been a n sacred plant much affected b by the Druids In n their m mystic ceremonies In old Gaul and Britain lIn For Fot this reason renson It was under the frown of ot the church As late as ns the Nineteenth century It t was forbidden In English churches churches und and still may be Now It Is rapidly disappearing because of Christmas demands And on top of this the time United States Department of Agriculture has declared war var on the mistletoe In the national forests and expresses the hope that hat within ten years It mn may be eradicated You see th the tho mistletoe Is a parasitic plant which flourishes on the life Ufe sap of the Ule tree on which It grows brows So tho So-tho the tho Agricultural department has hns declared It a n forest pest However the main supply comes from the South where the national forests are Inconsiderable And Oklahoma remains a n final final- S r refuge fuge for the mistletoe devotee for devotee for there It Is the state stute flower C CHRISTMAS v time again ogain emphasizes the fact that all nil the world world except except Youn Young America- America Is Increasingly reading the Bible The rhe printing presses are hus busy da day and night and yet ret cannot supply the demand More than vol yol umes have hn been printed and distributed this year Evary nry day clay brings bring's word of new editions of new forms fonts of new translations There are nrc like 1000 languages and dialects In n th the world world something Tho The whole le Bible DIble has been lIeen Testament published In HiD the New V In lu more portions I consisting of at nt least one book in more From Albanian Arabic and nd Bulu to Yiddish and Zulu almost every tongue tics lies Its Bible Yesterday the American Bible society gave an order for 8 copies of six sir separate books of the ScrIpture Marl Murl Luke Lul John Ac Acts und and Proverbs each book to be he sold in tiny America Americo and South America Amer for fot on one e cent Today a I French rench Ica 1 publisher publish r an nn edition of thirty volumes wm WI announces announcE'S Greek texts and an opposite the French Tomorrow will appear a n translation there of ot So sonic some le dialect China new ton tongue flue or a torn tom b by y civil choU strife demands the Ull Ube Bible Increasingly Russia 1 Is time the only forbidden ground the Soviet authorities will not cross the frontier permIt It u to IQ This TIlls Increasing world wide emphasizes anew Mew that demand for tor the Bible I Christianity 1 is still sUll tab Sli Christianity force torce Vf or of Is la civilisation Jesus Christ HIs ChrIst that His the life central the tact fact drIve of I and that i and person the time Holy Scriptures are inspiration of ot Christmas tho rho fount n and Day |