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A few more days and the EJ>civilized world will pause for a time to commemorate what has become by far the giCatest of all the world's holidays-the ONLY one in which men and women of all kind and color join-Christmas.

l.^lMenofhighandlowdegreeiffi,fror.npaupertopotentate, Mrr,?,(seek to honor the birthday of one of the lowliest of men; born in a manger, raised in ob- 'scurity and poverty-a carpenter, and the son of a carpenter-a man who "had not where to lay }fis head," and who died on a cross between two thieves.

And yet, His words and His works have changed the entire tide of civilization; have had greater effect upon the history of mankind than all other works and all other words coq}!r{.N.ot only on ind.ividuals, b.ut on business, has this.impression been made..{trr

So it seems proper t that a re-telling of one of the most beautiful stories ofHis life, should be pertinent, particularly at a time when a wave of intolerance and bigotry has made its appearance in the world, and taken an active part in the drama of human life.

PerhJlp thf time will yet come when prqlessjng Christians wiltr.pauge'long enough to discover th{gfractically every thing over w\irfi Christians have fo}g[t, and squabbled, and condemn{, and tortured, and killed, sig{the beginning-o&-the CTrristian era, are things to whj6\the founder of Christianitt/ Hiilrelf, gave little .if any attentiq-tattached.little6r do importance: that in Him there $ras no intDlerancec I li - J M/U4,4, tachEd,little6r irnportance; Hini there,I+as +lo iftetftffs UU ,t @L4^ r,tr311,\ffJ'f,"rltiif" the story that rollow"l qfl'u fif,X"fr"" rs qJnns on rne cross between ttfd two thieve/ One of the thieves reviles Him who has been crowned "King of the Jews." But the other thief rebukes his fellow, and turning to the crucified One he said: "Lord, remember me when Thou comest into Thy Kingdom."

Did the dying Nazarene say to him: "When and how were you baptized? What churchdoyoubelongto?DoyoubelieveinGod?ffiInthis,that, or the other?" Did Jesus ask him any of these questions? He did NOT.

In the words and manner of the dying thiefHe found pity, compassion, fellowship, charity, justice, love-in fact He found Christliness. And the small, narrow, mean, intolerant ihings of the world were swept aside, when He said: "Verily f say unto thee, Today shall thou be with me in paradise." '

There is no finer lesson in the Bible.

Thomas Dreier, the Ma sage, tells of a conversation he had recently with a wise Jewish Rabbi, in which the said to him: "We Jews are just beginning to dis:ier savs the Rabbi then added. with a twinkle in cover the great teacher, Jesus." |(nd Dreier says added, ans.tt his eye-"And so are the