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A MAGAZINE OF GOOD CITIZENSHIP
THE CHRISTMAS TEMPLE OF GOOD WILL
WHERE OUR FAITH MAY BE RENEWED
A NOTHER season of Good Will has been ushered in. Whether
the urge that is responsible for our individual participation is
based upon the religious significance of Christmas or not, there
is a universal yearning in the human heart for an annual season
of Peace, when a truce is called, when men can forget their differ
ences, extend cordial greetings and felicitations and participate,
each in his own way, in the dispensation of kindliness, love and
affection, the cardinal virtues in God’s divine concept of human re
lations and the true brotherhood of man. God’s own law is the funda
mental good of all creation. In the complexities of our daily lives
our transgressions are many and usually we wander far afield from
the divine precepts in our vain efforts to have material gains and
social and political advantages make up for our spiritual shortcom
ings. Whatever the Christmas festival means to us, it brings a
spirit of forgiveness into our hearts, it kindles purer desires and
a willingness to be of service and help to lighten the burdens for
those who carry heavy responsiblities and have had a smaller share
of good fortune than we, it radiates sunshine within us and about
us and the joy of the finer life swells the heart in proportion to
the extent God’s sunshine of human love filters into the re
cesses of the soul.
Whatever your particular belief is, enter the Christmas temple,
the shrine of PEACE, and lay at the altar of Good Will all your
conceit and hidden designs. Make a new resolve. Put yourself
honestly on a level with all men and go forth with a new faith,
faith in yourself and your fellowman and faith in the true source
of all life—God!
DECEMBER, 1924
PORTLAND, OREGON