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For Christmas Eve, White House South Lawn
way MY FELLOW COUNTRYMEN:
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This is the Christmas that a war weary world has prayed for
long and awful years. With peace come joy and gladness. The gloom of the
war years fades as once more we light the National Community Christmas Tree.
We meet in the spirit of the first Christmas when the midnight choir
for R first time
sang the hymn of joy: "Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace,
good will toward men".
comming of the Savior
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Let us not forget that the Desire of the Everlasting Hills was ful-
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time of long peace throughout the Roman World. It is, therefore,
fitting for us to remember that the spirit of Christmas is the spirit of
peace, of love, of charity to all men. From the manger of Bethlehem came a
new appeal to the minds and hearts of men: "A new commandment I give unto
you that ye love one another".
In love, which is of the very essence of the message of the Prince
of Peace, the world would find a solution for all
its ills. I do not
believe there is one problem in this country - in the world - today which
could not be settled if approached through the teaching of the Sermon on the
Mount. The poets' dream, the lesson of priest and patriarch and the prophets'
vision of a New Heaven and a New Earth, all are summed up in the message
delivered in the Judean hills beside the Sea of Galilee. Would that the
world would accept that message in this time of its greatest need.
This is a solemn hour. In the stillness of the Eve of the Nativity
when the hopes of mankind hang on the peace that was offered to the world
nineteen centuries ago, it is but natural, while we survey our destiny, that
we give thought also to our past - to some of the things which have gone into
the making of our Nation.
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