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M.G Kelffex "26
KATHERINE EDELMAN
HE peace of Christmas time is all over the land, the blessed, holy
peace that the angels first sang over the far-off hills of Judea and
‘which has echoed and re-echoed with added strength through each
succeeding year.
“IT )EACE on earth to men of good will.” This is the secret of the peace
that comes at Christmas time, for true and abiding peace can come
only to men of good will, it can dwell in the heart only when all that is
opposed to it has been driven out. And so it is that at this season, when
man is at his very best, when his heart is filled deep with the spirit of love
and service, of giving and doing, when everything of doubt and fear, of
hatred and mistrust, of envy and malice, is cast out of his heart, this blessed
and holy peace enters in and he knows a happiness so deep and sincere
that it floods all his being, like sunshine flooding a darkened landscape.
EACE — the word itself has a beautiful sound, a sweet cadence that
delights the ear. It was a word that the Christ child used often when:
He grew to man’s estate. Once He told His disciples: “Into whatsoever
house you enter, say peace be to this house.” What a wonderful saluta-
tion and how sweet it must have sounded falling from His lips!
15 us away with strife at this season. Now is the time to speak kindly
words. Let us not carry into the new year the enmities of the old.
Let not the harsh notes of contention come into the heavenly song of
peace. Christ came to give peace, and from heaven's throne today He:
bends to give peace to all who trust Him.
Ce have peace within the heart and home is to enjoy sincere and
genuine happiness. Without it no joy can be really satisfying, no
pleasure or gain worth while. With peace lacking there is always unrest
in the soul, always an unsatisfied yearning no matter what else one
may possess.
{Shar when the earth is wrapped in this beautiful mantle of peace,
when it is enfolding the world and binding men and women more
closely in a brotherhood of love and service, when its influence is filling
all hearts and leading them to ways of happiness, let each one of us pray
and hope. that this beautiful spirit of peace shall endure long after the
Christmas time is past and gone. i raat Sh.