| Show VERY EVERY CHRISTMAS IS BIGGER day means more to greater number of people boundaries Boun darico darien extended i year after year N uncounted pulpits and on a multitude of printed pages this christmas day will be made the subject of glowing pictures of the progress of the world toward peace and peace with honor and justice in some features the holiday of giving the day set apart for rejoicing over the birth of the most potent apostle of peace mankind has ever known wears a more nobly prophetic aspect this year than it has had in a century or a millennium and thrilling appeals to the faith and brotherly love of good people can be made without in the least overstepping the bounds qt truth the facts are rich in promise beyond the realization of many eyes weary of long strife and repeated disillusionment there will be comparatively little danger of exaggeration in the praise of christmas this glorified day which finds the world scarce able to grasp the full meaning of grent great events but there Is another phase of christmas which is always well worth noting and especially so when the puce pace of human progress Is quickened by momentous changes toward peace and good will this Is the constant widening and unending conquests of the best of holidays every christmas Is bigger than the one before it always the day menus means more to a greater number of human being lie lugs after year its boundaries are extended year by year its sunshine Is shed upon more of the earths inhabitants I 1 tills this does docs not necessarily mean the pains gains of the christian religion for christmas Is wider than christianity them alie day of the coming coining of jesus Is clied cherished shed by many millions who have no connection with christian churches or the faith they profess the holiday Is dear to all who live in lands landa where christians are most numerous it wins the devotion of little children and holds their affection is as they grow older for multitudes its ita observance Is not in any sense a rite of belief but a manifestation of rejoicing in the love of fellow dwellers in a world at best has too little of the sunshine of kindness and affection there Is no reason to fear that this growth of christmas will cease there la is nothing to indicate that it will over ever tall fall to widen the realm of bright hopes and radiant thoughts shining childrens eyes and smiling older faces when winter days are briefest and darkest in the more populous h half nu of the earth and nature leaves roost most for roan mart to do in making the world cheerful and life worth while cleveland news leader I 1 |
