Montana farmer-stockman. [volume], December 15, 1949, Image 1

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Cfjristmas Spirit
By DR. JOHN HOLLAND
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ITTLE HETTY received for Christmas a
model village, with all the things for which
a Christian village stands. She sat down on the
nursery floor and began to put the village to
gether.
When she had finished, her father asked, "What
kind of town is that?
"It is a Christian town," Hetty replied.
"What would you take out of it to make it a
pagan town?"
She reached over and lifted out the little card
board church.
"Now it is a pagan town," she said.
"Are you sure that the church makes all that
difference?" asked her father.
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will have to take out more than the church. Take
out the schoolhouse. Now lift out that Christi
hospital. And that orphanage will have to go."
father, now there is nothing left but
>res and houses. I should not want to
live in that kind of town."
The little girl's nursery cardboard town is a
picture of what this world would be if Christ
mas nad not come to this earth. It is the glory of
y that Christ's spirit leads men to build
1 institutions for the health,
nforl and healing of people.
Yet we are likely to forget that these things all
began in a stable in Bethlehem. Back of that sta
ble is the love of God and the Christ dream for a
Kingdom of Heaven among men.
In our imaginations, let us make room for Him.
In our aspirations and ambitions, let Him have the
central place. In our homes, let the golden sim
plicities of love, faith and kindliness be :
and lived. In our commerce, let human happiness
be put above gain.
Let's stop and bow down before Him. The
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