Article December 20, 1930 Issue

Signs of the Times

with contributions from George M. Derbyshire, Howard Burba, Daniel A. Poling, E. C. Sams

[Editorial in the New Outlook, Toronto, Ontario, Canada]

Can you not imagine how Jesus himself would enter into the spirit of the children's Christmas if he were once again with us upon the earth? Would not the word for him at such a time be gladness—gladness in which every little child might share a part, and every grown person share, too, because he or she had thought only of bringing it to the little ones? It is bad enough to forget at any other time of year how human and kindly and understanding and joyousminded he was, but to forget about it at the Christmas time is nothing short of a crime. How often and often we try to shut him up to the solemn and the sad occasions of life and shut him out of all its joy and its gladness, forgetting that nothing was dearer to him than the shouts and laughter of little children and nothing more depressing to him than the people who had forgotten how to be young and joyous and filled with hope! And if at this Christmas time we should learn the lesson that he was so anxious that all should learn, the lesson of how to become as little children, what a great thing it would be for us all!

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