Article December 25, 1943 Issue

"The heart of the jewel"

DAISETTE D. S. MCKENZIE

"The earth has grown old with its burden
of care,
But at Christmas it always is young.
The heart of the jewel burns lustrous and
fair,
And the voice of the Christ-child rings out
on the air
That mankind are the children of God."

If we should ponder the word "Christ-child," with the emphasis upon "child," new light would be received. How surprised the disciples must have been when, in answer to their query as to who should be the greatest, their Master set a little child in the midst of them and declared that unless they became like-minded, the kingdom would be closed to them. There is no appeal from this heavenly law, and we now have the privilege of dropping the load of our adultism, and of feeling, instead, the joy, the teachableness, the trust, the universal friendliness, the continual expectancy of good, by which the child is able to make of life one glorious voyage of discovery, one divine adventure.

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