Article December 23, 1939 Issue

Signs of the Times

Topic: Christmas

with contributions from George Lawrence Parker, George Richmond Grose, Russell E. Myers, J. Milton Bloomquist, William T. Manning

[George Lawrence Parker, in theBoston Evening Transcript, Massachusetts]

In our human fashion we are perhaps not to be blamed if we rejoice that our friends remember us with gifts. To be appreciated and recalled by others is a sweet and blessed thing.

But there is another side to the shield which says we may be richly blest if we see in Christmas a time for losses as well as for gains. There is always an accumulating process in life that needs to be renovated to its original simplicity. We shall not enjoy life in its gracious foundation-aspects until we rid it of its mass of useless accretions and additions. Deep within us is the wish not to be loaded with more things, but to be unloaded of the heaped-up burden we already carry.

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