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Show EDITORIAL: "Peace On Earth" "Peace on Earth Good Will Toward To-ward Men," with these words the age of logic came to a faltering world, superstitiously fearful of its future course. With these words was born hope; and despite des-pite the hesitancy with which mankind has endeavored to fulfill ful-fill this hope, it is today, as it was 2000 years ago, the chart that clearly guides mankind over the dark waters of human frailty. Nations may war, and civilization civiliza-tion may totter on the brink of oblivion, but so long as these words form the theme of the Book of Life, there is hope that the thirst for righteousness, which is inborn in every man, may yei oe realized. For 2000 years unselfish men, men without fear, have laboriously labor-iously lead the civilized world toward the ultimate objective promised that night on the plains of Judea. Their chart has been the simple words. "Peace on Earth Good Will Toward Men," their accomplishments the progress of civilization over 20 centuries. Is there one who can today say that the world is not better than it was that eve when Joseph and Mary arrived in Bethlehem? Is there one who can say that there is not greater hope than that which prevailed on the day that Caesar Agustus decreed, "that all the world shall be taxed." Aye, if there be, let him stand now and prove to the world that the progress of man, since the birth of Christ, is a fallacy. Let him show that, "Peace on Earth Good Will Toward Men," is a myth upon which good men have based their faith, and let him bring forth the evidence that civilization cannot hope to attain its goal by heeding these words. The screams of those who have died torturously upon the racks of man's unexplainable hatred for truth men who died because be-cause they taught goodness, accomplishment, ac-complishment, progress and justice jus-tice will never be obliterated from the annals of mankind. But their reasons for dying and screaming to an unseen mercy for help, although it may not have been known to them, came to the shepherds on the hills of Judea that night 2000 years ago. And although a man may travel tra-vel his life in hatred and selfishness, self-ishness, somewhere along the road he has expressed the thing for which so many have died. He may have paused to inwardly inward-ly admire a flower or to help a child in distress, and although he may have paused but once, he helped to exemplify the .teachings .teach-ings of, "Peace on Earth Good Will Toward Men." In a fleeting moment he added to the hope that became a heritage . of all men 2000 years ago. |