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This Wartime
Christmas
This war time Christmas
is a thoughtful, rather than a
Merry one. Even though we
try ever so hard the customary
holiday spirit, is tempered by
our thoughts of the twenty-
two boys formerly associated with us . but. now .
somewhere' in the world fighting this war.
This is indeed a terrible war and a long one
the longest in history. Some speak of it as the
second world war. Others say it is a continuation
of the first world war;1. We say it started a long,
long time ago when a man of Nazareth appeared
with a new and strange philosophy a philosophy,
we accept as our common heritaae, but unknown
to the world of his time. ,
He believed in the kind of world we believe
in. Freedom for all a square deal and an equal
chance in the world for all men even the most
humble. We express this philosophy through what
we call democracy. He expressed it in a ; rule of
human conduct : 'Whatsoever ye would that men
should do unto you do ye even so unto them'
. Facing a world to which his philosophy was a
strange one, he manifested such courage of his
' convictions that f he willingly went to his death in
defense jof them.
He fought a good fight. To his enemies men
of power who wanted to enslave the .common peo-.
pie it seemed that he had lost. Looking back
over 1,943 years we know the fight had just begun.
His philosophy. of brotherly love lived on, but so
did his enemies. They have fought it and those
who practiced it down through the ages, but never
before on a world-wide front, as they are fighting
it today. ' r ;
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and Cantral Qrocatarlai
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It is because the Christmas holiday commem
orates the birth of the . Nazarene . who began this
fight for human justice that We now think so con
stantly of our boys who were called to carry on the
battle. . ; ' - '-.
The enemies of justice are always cruel. They
killed the man of Nazareth, just as they seek to
kill our boys. Injustice survives only by force and
deceit, while justice flourishes through tolerance
and truth. It is because we tolerated those greedy
for personal power because we practiced what
the man of Nazareth preached that our boys were
called to meet force with force, so that the type
of freedom' and justice offered to the world 1.943
years ago shall prevail.
Although we cannot make this wartime Christ
mas as happy as usual, we are cheered by the hope
that with our help next Christmas may find the
boys back with us that it and future Christmases
may be merry indeed. ' V
V We can't fight as do the boys, but we can fur
nish, the money to feed them well to clothe them
comfortably to supply the. fighting tools with
which to win "Peace on earth- to all men of good
will" offered to the world by the man of Naza
reth at the beginning of this war 1,943 years ago.
; Make this and future Christmases merry
for yourself and your boys
Give Bonds for Christmas. . ,
Buy some for yourself.
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