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NEW YORK — What is Christmas?
It is the time when people’s hearts ring like bells. And legend says that oxen kneel in their stalls at midnight in memory.
Christmas is the anniversary of one kind of faith and selflessness. It is the natal date of a lonely Jewish carpenter who in 33 short years of breath stamped an undying conscience on this world and promised all men life everlasting through belief.
He died a radical upon a cross for what he taught, bleeding slowly to death from the agony of nail and spear wounds. Few listened to his message in his day. He died a minor gadfly to a Roman world.
One of many martyrs to many faiths, time has raised Jesus Christ to a gigantic stature, so that today more than 600 million people, onefourth of all mankind, celebrate his memory. More men follow him than any man who ever lived. In the centuries since his birth, he has become the greatest religious figure in history.
What is Christmas?
It is his spirit and his philosophy — that “it is more blessed to give than to receive.”
Today the celebration of his birth, as is his death, is crossed with old pagan' ceremonials. But his spirit and his example inflame the day.
Sometimes religious leaders get cross with Santa Claus and say he takes the honors that belong to Jesus. But no one who.has read the life.of. Christ could ever, think of him
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