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Show 'Merry Christmas' Is Blessing Of Peace, Happiness Deal All: Greetings to you this Holiday Season. "Be of. Good Cheer." In beginning I have questioned myself. "What can I write which will leave the reader of this letter better because of having read?" . In answering myself (said by some to be the first sign of mental deterioration), de-terioration), I have thought of telling tell-ing you something of eighteen months spent in a far off land; Of living among some of the choicest people on earth; Of working with them and seeing their lives uplifted by the Gospel of Jesus Christ. I could perhaps tell of a country with rolling hills, green valleys, deep wooded countryside with trim firm hedges, patriarchs of many seasons, marking the boundaries of each shire. Perhaps I could help you to hear the deep throated song of the thrush as it wings its way home-: home-: ward at dusk. All is quiet. Then from afar comes the under- undertone of a deep rumble. We hear strange rumors and feel an ; apprehensive uneasiness. We tell I ourselves it cannot be. Surely man has learned his lesson and will not permit such awful destruction to shatter humanity again. We hope and pray for peace to remain till finally we see homes being broken. One, maybe two, called to stem the tide of panic and fear ,and we know at last it has come. I might tell of days and nights spent in waiting. Of seeing cities dig deep into Mother Earth for protection. People living in darkness dark-ness of night. All these things I had hoped to write of but already they have been brought to you in stark reality. Then I ask again "what can I say?" To tell you of the Christ Childs' birth, and of His divine message would be useless when you too realize what he did for us what He sacrificed that we might have eternal life. Am I then faced with the inexorable inex-orable fact that everything has been said before! Must I then revert to the trite wishing of "Merry Christmas". Christ-mas". Can it then be that Merry Christmas Christ-mas says for us what no other words can say? Can it breathe peace and happiness into our lives? Truly it does! It is a sermon in itself. To say "Merry Christmas" with a humble and a happy heart, a heart filled with love for our fellowmen, will bring down the blessings of Our Father upon us. To each and every one of you I say with a heart that is happy, happy hap-py with the joy of doing His Great Work; "MERRY CHRISTMAS". Yours sincerley, 1 Joseph H. Clayson o |