Life is an education in love.
Hugh Black
Learning to love is a long lesson. It takes all of the longest life to learn it. The most inveterate obstacle in mastering the lesson is self, which persists with an energy which nothing but divine grace can overcome. When no longer we seek our own in any of our relations with others, we have learned to love. Until then we still need to stay in Christ’s school.
J.R.M.
Philadelphia
Every where, everywhere, Christmas to-night---
Christmas in
lands of the fir tree and pine,
Christmas in lands of palm trees and vine,
Christmas where snow-peaks stand solemn and white.
Christmas where children are hopeful and gay,
Christmas where
old men are patient and gray,
Christmas where peace like a dove in its
flight,
Broods o'er brave men in the thick of the fight---
Everywhere,
everywhere, Christmas to-night.
For the Christ-child who comes is the Master of all,
No palace
too great, no cottage too small;
The angels who welcome Him sing from the
height,"In the city of David a King in his might"---
Everywhere,
everywhere, Christmas to-night.
Then let every heart keep its Christmas within---
Christ's pity
for sorrow, Christ's hatred of sin,
Christ's care for the weakest, Christ's
courage for right;
Christ's dread of the darkness, Christ's love of the
light---
Everywhere, everywhere, Christmas to-night.
Phillips Brooks.