Article December 20, 1947 Issue

Signs of the Times

The Message of Christmas

with contributions from Henry St. George Tucker, Whitcomb Brougher, James Reid, Mark R. Byers, John Haynes Holmes

Baptist Observer Indianapolis, Indiana

We have a conviction that the friendship and good will of Christmas need not fade into commonplace sordidness, and that the lilting and exuberance of "A happy New Year" could be perpetuated all the Year and everywhere, if we determined that it should be. Happiness and good will are not cosmopolitan but individual virtues, and are limited to men and women who have caught the true spirit of Christmas through their association with God and his Son, Jesus Christ.

When the glory of heaven shone over Bethlehem and the angel brought "good tidings of great joy," only a handful of shepherds saw the light and heard the good news. When "his star" shone brightly in the eastern sky, only a few wise men, say three or four, were wise enough to divine its meaning and follow it to the infant Jesus. All the rest of the world went on in its sordid way and neither knew nor cared that the greatest event in human history was transpiring in a little corner of the universe.

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