Year
by year Christendom celebrates the birth of Jesus the Christ on December the twenty-fifth, but the scientific Christian seeks to make every day a Christ-day.
In
the book of Proverbs we find practical wisdom, and that balanced statement may well be considered to-day which says, "The wicked worketh a deceitful work: but to him that soweth righteousness shall be a sure reward.
We
seldom realize the great change which has come over the world's consciousness in the last half century, and even less perhaps do we foresee the greater changes which will inevitably come in the next fifty years.
We
are not surprised in these days when we hear that some one who was reported dead is alive, and we can easily guess the well-nigh overwhelming joy of those most concerned individually in such cases.
When
men seek wealth in money or lands, when they seek honor from the fair words of their neighbors, or love from those whom they favor, they find that limitations also arise; the thief, the invader, the traducer, and the ingrate oppose the harmony they desire.
