p. 16 | Christmas by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Dec 24, 1912

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 39, No. 50.

Christmas.

By Editor

The day — December 25 — is nothing more than other days. It has naught but its idolatrous origin in the old Roman Saturnalia, and its fostered tradition in apostasy, to commend it; and neither of these is aught to a Bible Christian.

The expensive and extravagant giving to those who have no need, the feasting and gorging, the eating and drinking to excess, the merry-making and riotous fun, are all of its Saturnalian origin, and have naught in them of the spirit of Christianity.

It is a blessed thing to know that Jesus was born; but if the day of His birth were important, God would not have left the day in doubt. He would have instructed us concerning it. More than this: the birth of Jesus was for all days.

“The Word was made flesh” in Jesus of Nazareth, that it might be made flesh in John Smith and Harry Jones and Peter Brown, and every other soul that would accept the Word. The Christ of God wants to be born again in every soul of man, “Christ in you, the hope of glory.”

Then Christ will live in us a more joyous, fruitful life than the worldling ever knew, and every day will be a glad day. Let you who feel that you must observe the day, do it by seeking to make others, especially the needy of earth, glad — glad that Christ lived, glad that you let Him live in you.