Christmas and Calvary / by VanceHavner T h e c o m in g o f C h r is t m a s brings along with it nowa days as never before a flock of fellow-travelers to
had forgotten who remembered them last year. Come Christmas and a nation of nervous wrecks whose minds have been in stores for weeks are in poor condition to warm their hearts in church. Santa Claus starts coming to town earlier every year and whereunto this mania will grow we dare not prophesy. Smothered as it is in buying and selling, the true meaning of Christmas suffers not only from COM MERCIALISM but is almost hopelessly lost in PAGAN ISM. Any informed person knows that the early church did not celebrate Christmas. Our Lord never said any thing about commemorating His birth. He asked us to
which most Bible believers may have become resigned but with which they by no means can be sympathetic. The scandalous commercialization of our Lord’s birth gets under way by late summer. By Thanksgiving it has been stepped up for the deafening crescendo that increases by the day until frantic shoppers are com pletely buried under an avalanche of sales talk. Re minded by the hour how many shopping days they have left, they drive their exhausted frames to make the deadline with that exchangeable tie for somebody they
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