With
the close of the year thoughtful people scan the horizon on which the light is dawning, though a backward glance may yet prompt the familiar query, "What of the night?
The
Christmas issue of The Boston Globe contained a very interesting symposium of answers to the question, "Have the events of 1904 been such as to add encouragement to the hope that the world is approaching the reign of universal peace and to give promise for a growth of the spirit of the Prince of Peace in the New Year?
It
was the hour when history's hope had come to its blossoming, an hour whose significance to the Hebrew people, those born into the unpoetic and unracial sense of a cosmopolitan age may neither appreciate nor In the long years, the Messianic expectancy had been sung and storied into their deepest and noblest thought.
A Clever
critic of western civilization, who writes under the caption, "Letters from a Chinese Official," hews close to the line when he says that instead of thinking of the quality of the life lived, we are ever thinking of the means of living.
When
Jesus was asked whether he was the Christ, "he that should come," he answered, "Go and shew John again those things which ye do hear and see: the blind receive their sight, and the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have the gospel preached to them.