| Show If the Master should come tonight Would there be THERE should on Christmas a second there not be seen a second AND THIS not by the Romans or the but by those who proudly call themselves I wonder how we today would regard and treat this man with his strange and frightening and doctrines of human behavior and Would we believe and any more than the masses of people in ms day believed and WOULD NOT the m ii s among us assail him as a cowardly pacifist because he urges us not to resist evil WOULD NOT the nationalists among us attack him as a dangerous internationalist because he tells us we are all of one WOULD NOT the wealthy among us castigate him as a radical because he bars the rich from entering the kingdom of WOULD NOT the liberals among us dismiss him as a dreamy vagabond because he advises us to take no thought for the to lay up no treasures upon WOULD NOT the ecclesiastics among us denounce him as a ranting heretic because he cuts through the cords of ritual and commands us only to love God and our WOULD NOT the among us deride as a cynic because he warns us that the way to salvation is narrow and WOULD NOT the Puritans among us despise and reject him because he eats and drinks with publicans and preferring the company of and harlots to that of church WOULD NOT the sensual among us scorn him because he fasts for 40 days m the neglecting the needs of the body WOULD NOT the proud and important among us laugh at him when lie instructs the twelve disciples that he who would be should be the one to take the role of the least and serve WOULD NOT the and educated among us be aghast to hear that we cannot be saved except we become as and that a little child shall lead WOULD NOT each of us in his own way find some part of this man's saying and doing to be so threatening to our ways of so much at odds with our rooted that we could not tolerate him for I WONDER IN GERMANY For German children the Christmas season begins with the hanging of a calendar showing a painted on December Doors and windows of the house often hide pieces of candy Try the Standard first for High Quality Printing |
