Article January 4, 1913 Issue

FROM OUR EXCHANGES

with contributions from R. R. Meredith, Malcolm James MacLeod

[Continent.]

What sort of message, then, is the most appropriate Christmas message from the pulpit or from the lips of the Christian who would, man to man, repeat the good news to his neighbor? Manifestly there is nothing else so supremely befitting for Christmas day as that word which is most important to men in every day—that God has through His Son Jesus Christ made a way of escape out of sin and wrong into a life of fellowship with Him. The very best Christmas celebration, therefore, would be what the church has come to call an evangelistic service. Christmas should be "Merry Christmas" indeed, but the merriment which most becomes its hours would be, in any place and in any year, such merriment as prevailed in that home of the Lord's parable, where the patriarchal father stood at the head of the festal board and said: "Let us eat, and be merry: for this my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost, and is found." Atonement, redemption, forgiveness, salvation—these are somehow judged to be words that belong to solemn Good Friday. But they are equally or even more Christmas words. Redemption comes as much from Bethlehem as from Golgotha.

[Christian Register.]

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