“Long before Christmas comes it is well to get the Christmas mood and to review the event which it celebrates. So much tat is done at this season has no real significance, and does not relate itself to the real meaning of the event.”
“In the life of the individual we find that youth looks forward and lays plans, and cherishes hope; middle age still looks forward, but finds its hands to full of things to revel in memories or indulge in dreaming; old age beings to look back and to think of the glory that has been. This same thing is often true of nations and civilization, but it was not true of the Hebrew prophet to whom we owe much in our religious inheritance.”
“It is legitimate to carry long enough among the things of yesterday to learn our lessons. But we must not tarry there too long, nor be tempted to take our permanent abode among the pleasant nor the unpleasant memories of other days and things. Those who have done so have lost their usefulness and their happiness. The road ahead calls insistently and will not be denied.”
“Now we know, if we did not know before that rightness, and rightness alone can take us where we must go. The gains of wrongness are illusory and unstable. They leave us even more quickly than they come.”
“We will come out of this dark period on the side of a more sensible and better balanced prosperity, on the side of a better ordered social life, which will bring a larger measure of happiness and opportunity to everybody.”
“But the one best thing the church can do is to keep thrusting out into the world that type of person needed for the problems of the world. Are we sending out that type which will insure the better lie, men with convictions and the courage to stand for them? This is our biggest task. This is the place to begin. The hope of the future lies in our manhood, and womanhood. Passing resolution and taking a stand for this and that will not save the day.”
