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Bv Jack Dionne

"We Are nU Cfrifaren ":r" ,ioa.rnon",r.ot God."

Humboldt mcrde thcrt remqrk. He wcrs cr gilted Gerur-n- who lived in the dcla when Gernqny wcrs devoting her mighty tcrlents to great works, rcrther thcm grrecrt wcrrs. And those words hcrve been lrequently quoted the whole world orrer cs q truth <nrd c prophecy.

In c lew dcys necrly seven hundred million Chrigticms in cll pcrts oI the world, will ioin in celebrcrting the birthdcry oI the Founder ol their religion But cs they do so, their souls will be sorely troubled, beccruse of whct they see qbout them,' becquse of the crstounding blows cgcrinst everything their religion tecches which hcve been thundering throughout the pcst yecr.

For it would seeur thcrt only under the inspircrtion of Fcrith---cnrd lotE of it<cm we understcnd that we are etill "cll children in the kindergcrrten oI God." And looking crbout him ct this lrightened earth, q Irrcn might well be lorgiven lor csking why cn intelligent God ever mqde mcrnkind in His own funcge, crnd sent His Son to die thcrt such cr world mighl be scved? Indeed, it is doubilul il a iust God would criticize c troubled soul todcry who wcmted to know in whose imcrge Stclin cnd Hitler were mcrde-cnd why? And why the crgonized prcyers ol millions ol helpless people who hcrve in the pcrst yecrr been murdered, mutilated, or enslqved lor no crime other than thcrt of defending their homee cnrd their loved ones-were not crnswered? These, oI course, though nsturcrl ones, crre the sqme unqnswered questions that mcm, with lcltering Fqith, hcre been csking whenever bouble ccme, since time begcn.

There will be no reply; not in this lile. But it is well to remember, while contemplcting the sinister conditions thct surround us, that mcnkind hcrs hcrd its troubles curd dcrk dcys even from the beginning; thcrt there hcs been no erc without its burden of sortow,'no time without its lathomlesE lcke ol tecrs. And lhe uselulness ol such remembering lies in the knowledge thcrt comes with it, thct the dcrrk dcys oI cll by-gone tiures eventuclly pcrssed, lecving the world still sound cnd intcrcL cnd with the courcge cnd cmbition to continue its torluous but gcrllcnt climb upwcrd toward the stcrs.

In rhqt thought we mcy find much spiritucl uplift cnd helplul hope crt this Christmqs aeqson,' Icrith in the promise thcrt "these things shcrll pcrss," even though there be cr long Gethsemcne of pcrin to live through lirst.

Dcrk though the world prospect unquestioncbly is crt this moment, what God-believing person who lecrned oI the Fatherhood of God, the Brotherhood oI Mcn, and the Rule of Right at mother's lcnee, will sincerely doubt thct "Thou shqlt love thy neighbor cs thysell" will eventuclly triumph over the gorillc-like philosophy of the neighbor-murderers,' crnd thcrt "pecce on ecrrth, good will to men" will crgcin llcrme crcross the humcrn horizon in letters oI eterncrl fire.

Those who seek by every foul mecms to tecrr down God lrom His heqven cnd ercdiccrte lrom the humqn hecrrt the priceless boon oI religion, must eventucrlly return into the foulnesa from whence they ccme, cnd their horrid philosophies with them,' while the tecchings of the gentle Ccrpenter, propounded necrrly twenty centuries trgo upon the golden scrnds of Gclilee, will go mcrching on. And pecce will return to this hqrussed world.

Celotex Corp. Opens Sales School

With the expectation of an increase in 19'lO building business, The Celotex Corporatio,n has opened a sales school at the Chicago home offrce where the entire sales force will go through an intensive training course during the next six weeks.

The school is under the direction of I. L. Birner, manager, Architectural Sales Service Department, who organized and developed the school. His assistant is W. J. M.Cauley. School sessions last five days and are being conducted six consecutive weeks for individual groups of 35 salesmen, junior salesmen and nerv men. Each group of