Editorial December 26, 1903 Issue

Some Christmas Lessons

It is surely most fitting that between the ebbing and the flowing tides of each year, humanity should pause and think upon that great event which wrought such changes in the history of the race,—the birth of Jesus of Nazareth. In all history there is no story of such sublime simplicity as that which tells of the annunciation by the angel, of thoughts' outpouring from the pure virgin heart of Mary the blessed, and of the coming to earth's sense of the song of the heavenly host, with its message of peace and good-will. So inspiring is this story, that we wonder the whole year is not illumined by its grace, and this will surely come to pass when the spiritual conception, the birth, the life and work of Jesus the Christ are not merely believed, but are understood in their scientific relation to all humanity.

In her wonderful, though perhaps but little understood poem, "Christ and Christmas," our Leader says,—

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