W. H. D. Rouse
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somewhere children are fed and clothed by that spark plug christmas itself suddenly seemed a kind of spark plug that ignites the gases and vapors of selfishness and distrust and explodes them away everything seemed extraordinarily gallant and exciting take the hotel teresa for instance we had never heard of it before
it is on one twenty fifth street we gathered we would like to wager that all sorts of adventures are lying in wait up there if we can slip away and go looking for them as we were lying in our cool tomb carl sandburg's phrase in the thinking car we meditated something like this christmas is certainly a time when a reasonable man should overhaul his religion and see if it amounts to anything
christmas is a time when millions of people are thinking of the same thing humanity is so constituted that you can never get the world to agree about things that have happened but it is happily at one about something that probably never happened the christmas story as told in the gospels
if millions of simple people believe a thing that doesn't make it true but perhaps it makes it better than true it makes it poetry it makes it beauty stephen graham says in that moving book with russian pilgrims to jerusalem which certainly ought to be read by everyone who is at all interested in religion
it is published by thomas nelson sons you may have to get it from london we don't believe it is in print over here stephen graham says true religion takes its rise out of mystery and not out of miracle religion which has proved to be one of the greatest dividing and hostilizing forces in the world is in its essence just the opposite surely in the origin of the word religion means a binding together a ligament
now take the most opposite people you can think of say babe ruth and the sultan of turkey is there still a sultan or say mr balfour and the chap who runs the elevator in his office no matter how different these may be in training and outlook there will be some province of human thought and emotion some small sensitive spot of the mind in which they can meet and feel at one
we can imagine them sitting down together for lunch and having a mutually improving time each admiring and enjoying the other widen the incongruity of the individuals as much as you like imagine mr joseph conrad and dr bertold bear or mr james w elliott the business builder and mahatma gandhi we care not who they are
if they can make their thoughts intelligible to each other they can find that remote but definite point of tangency where any experienced mind can meet and sympathize with any other human mind discussing the problems of destiny which are common to all it is this common multiple of humanity this sensitive pulse in the mind this realization of a universal share
in an overburdening mystery too real to be ignored but too terrific to be defined or blurbed about that is the province of religion and then the devil of it for there is always a devil in every sensible religion is that the best way to be sure there is this possible point of junction is not to attempt to find it both mr balfour and the cheerful elevator boy
would probably pray heartily to be delivered from sitting down to lunch together this mysterious mental sensitive spot that we speak of remains sensitive only as long as it remains private and secret perhaps religion can be defined as a sense of human fellowship that is best preserved by not being too companionable
we were thinking too how extremely modern and contemporary the christmas story seems it is appropriate that the final installment of the income tax falls just before christmas the same thing happened one thousand nine hundred and twenty-one years ago there went out a decree that all the world should be taxed says luke
that was why joseph and mary went to bethlehem to pay their tax and we can imagine that the bethlehem evening star if there had been newspapers at that time would have had a column of social notes just similar in spirit to those of our own press day
the arrival of joseph and mary would not have been noticed we might have read mr and mrs farisee of white sepulchre galilee are spending the winter at the tiberias hotel the hon pontius pilate governor of judea is enjoying a week-end visit with tetrarch and mrs harrod at the tetrarchal mansion mr and mrs philip harrod are travelling in syria for the winter mrs harrod was before her marriage
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professor melchiar professor balthazar and professor gaspar arrived last night from the west they are said to be in town for some astronomical investigations the professors had great trouble in securing hotel accommodations the city being so crowded
rev caiaphas one of the most respected high priests in this diocese has an apartment for the winter at phylactery court the train pursued its steady way through the moonlight and the silvered loveliness of earth and trees made us think generously of our own country we are still foolish enough to love this america of ours with a dumb queer love we still believe that in spite of senates and live wires
in spite of the antics of some of the half-educated and well-meaning men who govern us this country has a unique contribution to make to the world in future years there should be international christmas cards there should be some way of one nation surprising another with a friendly message on the morning of mornings
we believe perhaps we are not impartial that the english-speaking race by its contribution to human liberty has a right to a leading place in the world's affairs but if it gives way to its characteristic vice of arrogance we weary of it
we think of the feminine brilliance charm and emotional volatility of france of the beautiful sensibility and self-control of japan of the melancholy idealism of russia of the sober industry of germany
have we then nothing to learn from these printer's ink is scattered about these days with such profusion that it becomes almost meaningless sitting in the subway and raising our eye plaintively from a newspaper to an advertising card we have wondered which was the greater menace pirea or japan both were said to be menaces it is our own conviction that nothing can be a menace to america
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