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<--h- % v-«" : r>; '•-Ss S6 SKt-giy .!*>;• • s^-' ~ By JOHN DICKINSON SHERMAN VER my cabin on Twin Sister*" slop* in the Rocky Mountain National Ptlk Bides the December moon In blna» black sky To light the Old Iter oat, the New Tear in. Tahosa--"Valley In the Mountain Tops--' ®*P Johnaoo'a Progeny Naturally aented tha Prmnet of inter* toper in the Family. ,|A short distance up the road." •aid a tourist who had halted his car to front of the residence of Gap Johnson of Rumpus Itidge, "T met a small •oy losing It for his life, with a howling mob of children of assorted ilzes pursuing him and fairly ruining •tones, clubs and blistering epithets around him." "Kh-yah!" replied Mr. Johnson. "The party of the first part was Gabe Gigfery s boy and the mob was composed of some of my children, chasing him home. Yon see, their maw washed 'em all up a spell ago, and when they looked each other over they found that kid of Gabe's had been amongst 'em for nobody knows how long, eating, drinking and making merry, as It were. Whurapon they gave a united yell of fury and st irted to swarm all over him, and he let off a screech of terror and defunct out of yur as the crow flies!"--Kansas City Star. * Warning Came Tee Late. Mdtfier was In the kitchen hurtftrig to get dinner. At the busiest minute I saw the minister coming down the street Knowing there was a drive to collect money, 1 knew the object of his visit and that It was apt to be a long one. 1 announced to mother who was coming, and she, annoyed at the inopportune time for such a call, said. '*011. tell him I'm not at home." I went to the door and told blm niother was out; he expressed his regret. Tlother not realizing he had arrived so soon, came In from the kitchen, calling: "Rose, you'd better not t ell him a Ue. Fll come In and see him." The next few moments were such a -muddle neither mother nor I knows irhat was said.--Chicago Tribune. All rimmed abont uttfe lofty clad peak* Is dazzling with new-fallen mow; cup Brims over with the sllVry radiance. Across Tahosa Valley looms Longs Peak, "King of the Rockies," with Its tow'ring Atop Its monstrous, dark, grim precipice _ A-flitter In the flood Of silver light. ^ Behind me rise The Twins to tlmberlli|% Recumbent in silhouette as if carved ^ By the chisel of the Master Sculptor-- : A part and parcel of a perfect whole j Plained by the Vaster Architect himself. Perfected through the ages by His will- That with sheer beauty makes the heart to The hoars pass on. Th£ moon sinks and la goMk Myriad stars that blase like beacon fires Take up the watch the weary moon has quit. The Old Tear pas--s out; comes In the New Without asotind, a token or a sign, - ; There Is DO hint of life. Can It be true The sun will shine again and day come hack v.- And life leap In the glad green spring once motif And Time grant unto us another year? / , M $'s "IQf*Z ) One who never turaeg hit forward. Never doubted clouds would bnck, H»wr dreamed, though right ««• wtntaM, would triumph, - Held we fall to rl*i anf baffted Is flsht Sleep to wake. And now is staged with ceremonious The recurrent miracle of the dawn In' setting worthy of the Master's art, With glories worthy of the glad New Tear; Behind The Sisters grows a pearly glow; The King's o'ertopping crown glows ruby redjf Low-lying clouds in The Pass to the south ni' Are shot with gold; the sky-line of the pines Against their glory stands raggedly oVt The rim of a great golden disk thrusts up Above the silhouetted Sisters' crest. •••••> Deer, Meadow, Meeker, Lady Washington, * Battle, Lily and Estes Cone change white "s 'For rose tints. Weeded slopes doff bfadk | green. • ' The Sisters, as the ana mounts in the sky. Call back their shadows from the Valley floor, A breeze wakes up and dances forth to help The trees shake off their hurd'tilng robes of A created jay flits in a shelt'riog pine. A smew shoe rabbit goes sedately past And makes the first mark on the untraclmd anBpfc. Across Tahosa Valley smoke goes up-- Blue chimney-smoke that tells of kindled hearty With family astir and life and lovoJ And there stands Longs--unchanged, vncfcanjgf* able! _; Now I know glad spring shall come agalifc Bummer time, harvest time, another yea*.' ^ ^ • • , • • • ' • • - v> st' The poet speaks truth. Providence has so created man--or evolution has so shaped him. If you prefer to put it that way--that there is no greater spur to his soul than the incentive of the unsi achieved. Always the unaccomplished that seems ?»£? worth while challenges his ambition, his courage, '? »'•' his determination. ^ Man has already accomplished much on this earth--so much that he has ho* a vision of what his goal should be--so much that he is now able to see how far lie has fallen short of reaching that goal. And no age has been so well equipped to dove on to that goal as this present age. Never has the incentive to the achievement of that goal been so strong. For man cannot stand still. He must press onward to the goal or fall back and jyh-4' lose much that he has gained. Failure to reach the goal emphasizes the Incompleteness of all that has been accomplished. And this shining ^ ~ : VMl is nothing less than the messag* el {fee ee*» !S<#tS , "Peace on earth, good will to men.*' Psactlcally this means the reformation of human nature. And the reformation of human nature means nothing less than the world-wide application of precepts of Christianity to the affairs of mankind. Christianity was blamed for not preventing the 4 ' great war. It has since been blamed for not preventing the Industrial strife and the economic 111# and other evils that have afflicted the world. Per* haps the best answer In brief to this charge Is the -- utterance credited to George Bernard Shaw: % ; "Christianity has not yet been tried." It is a noteworthy fact that during the last year men of affairs, speaking from the viewpoint of business and not that of religion, have publicly ^ declared tliat in the application of the teachings of the Gospel lies the one cure for the Industrial. And so Is born to us this glad New leaf, ~ky? Taj jjjg growing out of world-wide economic warfare,. Nineteen Twenty-three Anno Domini-- ~ '*"• '4 gome of them have gone so far as to declare that "In the Year of Our Lord," the Son of God, nothing but a sincere acceptance of Christianity Who taught man, "Do as ye would be done cm save society from utter ruin and* civilization Who died upon the cross to earn mankind. There la an old saying and wise: "Let the dead past bury its dead V Ra wisdom, however. Ilea largely In what It really means rather than In what It actually says. For burial does not mean both burying and forgetting. And it should not. What the adage means is this: "Let's turn over a new leaf on New Year's day, 1983, and try to make a better looking page than «• did In 1922!" There is said to be "ike new thing under the sua." Certain It is that we hre digging up records nowadays that show human nature to have been about the same In 4,000 B. C. that It is now. So doubtless """ has been making New Year's resolutions ever since there was any New Year's day. And doubtless bf &ks been breaking them just as regularly. And dgttbtleae the cynics and the peeslmlata and the profession ni jokers have been lattglhig over tfie iWH'Tot aiance through the ages. ICajtartfceless, this wtltttf Ifcw Year's perfrr-- MiS' is a lot mo«e than mewiy the material for 4 In feet. It Is 4MM ef the things that keep* aRve the faith In human nature and the iMpnt&pt the world Is progressing year by year toward better things. There are, of course, many foolish people wl»o live only to eat, drink and be merry. And there a** tfre piedatory onefwtM take what they want --thQy CkB jpt it. But most people believe In a fntpre life and are al#ayt trying, often vaguely and hai#*mconsdoualy, to live the kind of a life that seems to them fit to snrvfve. Hence their Jfe# Year's liaeinUsas. Many n man in his heart m New-Teal's day would be, wia^ Bobert fteii ** • - • . » v . - ?!••• ., from a complete collapse. It Is not contended by them that Christianity contains a panacea that WHl at once cure all ln->~ dustrlal and economic ilia They know that no such panacea exists. They admit that Christianity does not teach economics; does not instruct as to production and distribution; does not, In short, ' set forth a system Qf industry in any form or ^ shape. They start from a different basis and their reasoning is about like this: Christianity, however, does set forth a moral formula that can be applied at all times to allsystems. This'moral formula is an active solvent of wrongs under any system. Its application can cure the defects of any system, not so much by* changing the system as by changing the attitude of men toward one another. Practical Christianity would not tolerate Injustice of any kind. With injustice of all kinds ban- ^ lshed from the affairs of men and nations existing economic and industrial systems would either re-" model themselves or would be cast aside. In short, economic regeneration would come about as a byproduct in connection with the larger moral regeneration of mankind through the acceptance of Christianity. For in the last analysis the faults of systems have their source In the hearts-of men. A stupendous undertaking? An Impossible vision? Well, they ask, what other course Is there? The converse of the proposition has been tried to the uttermost. And where Is the world? Apparently civilization in this Twentieth century Is facing the great crisis. George Washington, 133 years ago, as America's first president, proclaimed America's first national Thanksgiving day. And his preamble declares: "It Is the duty of all nation*, to acknowledge , tfte Providence of Almighty God, to obey His will, . to be grateful for His benefits, and humbly to lmvflore His protection and favor." As everybody knows, George Washington was M liar. So that when he wrote these words he wrote them because lie believed them. In short, the United States of America was con ceived and established In exactly the spirit set forth in Washington's words. The nation of his time was a Christian nation. Its sense of dependence upon God wss very real because of realisation of perils past and difficulties to come. It saw the guiding and protecting hand of Providence In the past. It hoped for a continuance of guidance and protection of Providence In overcoming tile problems and difficulties of the future. For America was then a child among the nation! and Its way to maturity looked long and perilous. America has now come to that maturity. And 'ht is a dullard who cannot see the hand of Providtnee in our national history since the beginning. In the t3S years since George Washington** first • Thanksgiving proclamation America has accomplished much. It lias made Its maturity rich and powerful. Today America stands the wealthiest and most favored nation of the globe--f.o rich and m favored that a pre-war prediction has come true: America has emerged victorious and unharmed from the Great War and without a friend etnong the nations of earth. America . Is too wealthy, too powerful, too resourceful, too well able to move on toward Its destiny without "enblngling alliances" to please the rest of the world. America la so favored that It must have a care f lest in Its complacency It thanks God It Is not as other nations are. It Is true America la npt as the Turk, who Is pounding on the gates of Europe, with all the assurance of a victor who asserts that he hns wiped out past defeat by present victory and demands new opportunities for crimes against civilization. It Is true America is not as the Bolshevists In Russia, wbo apparently are growing rather atronger than weaker, seeming to gain strength from the ruin they have wrought, and parade their ftied Army as an object lesson to the nations of «frth. "Yet America sadly needs to take heed of the • Seventh commandment, "Love one another." * And It* needs a Twelfth commandment. "Thou shalt - not profiteer." For the profiteer. It has been said, "*%akes the Eighth commandment by the throat, knocks the Tenth commandment on the head and - treads the golden rule under foot.** And as for the Ten commandments handed down from God at Mount Slnal--it Is liwpafalngly evident that it Is the task of the good clilsen and the church and tie press to hnild up the moral manhood and womanhood that I* suffering alarming deterioration. There are many who believe that in acceptance -\"«§d practice of practical Christianity lie Amwi- V ica's only hope of emergence fro* the greed and ' -ifcto-lessness of 1028, Anno Domini. In this connection the progress of a movement Ivguq. In the United States by "Cltristian Business Men" will doubtless be watched with interest by the nation. Jn some Amfertean city---probably Detroit--will held early in 1828 the first convention of the Federation of Christian Business Men's clubs. Probably 100 clubfe In the principal cities of the country will be represented. "To search out and apply the laws of God in all commercial relations "between ourselves and all men" is the stated purpose of the federation. All members agree to make die golden rule fundamental In their commercial dealings. The clubs reserve at all meetings a clialr ~ for Jesus Christ, "the unseen Guest." whom the members acknowledge to be their "directive head." 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