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THE CHINA MAIL, CHRISTMAS SUPPLÉMENT, DECEMBER 18, 1948.

Christmas Supplement

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MAKE MERRY-AND PRAISE GOD

For many centuries at Queen's 1

College, Oxford, the boar's head And So Contribute

hus been carried in to the words

of an ametent song:

"The boar's hend bear I

Bedecked with bays and rose-

mary.

Andorny you, my masters, be

inerry,

Qui estis in conviro Caput upri defero,

Reddens laudes Domino,"

They were wise in the middle ages. "Be merty and praise God" is the sense of the words. Have they ever beon more apt than today?

When, for one thing, has there been better reason for galety, on the one day in the year dedicated to galety, than now? Not because the social and political landscape is particularly cheerful: but be cause it in not. Remember the old prints of singe coach -partica stretching their legs by blazing logs while the

show falls fast outside; no doubt the travellers found the fro warmer because the high-road had been, so bleak. And Amundsen, the Artic hero, once sud that nobody could enjoy nblazing file as it ought to be enjoyed, unless he had been to the Pole

So Much Else

Is Black

Su this year we should be gayer at Christmas, just because 50 much else is bleak. Even though no Boar's head is bome. aloft to our table, we should be as merry as the learned revellers who halled the bay-decked dish in the College Hall centuries before the atom bomb was thought of. For men were meant to be happy, and, however great a mess they, their rulers, have made of public affairs, they should not case to be happy in private; ond above all on the day sacred to childhood and the home.

To A Happier Christmas And A domestic,

Happier World

By Lord Elton

annual glorification of the home on which Christian civilis- ation had always been based. But In the twentieth century we en- counter increasingly a Christmas which is neither religious nor but as impersonal as the machine age from which it springs. What could be more characteristic of certain aspects of modem life, and what. moro melancholy, then the spectacio of a party of. achilts without child among them, spending Christmas getting drunk in hotel?

Why The World Is Gloomy

a

Latin Ines In the medieval rhyme "Giving praise to God." For Christinas is o Christinn festival, one of the two greatest Christian festivals. The pagans. too, used to feast about Christ- mas time, celebrating the turn-

There are thus three main types of Christmas ing-point of the year when the

celebration; days begin

the Christmas of to lengthen But

church and Christianity,

home, the Christmas.of home on- so to speak, bap tised the old

ly. and the Christmas which has pogon festivol,

forgotten both church and home. transforming it into the Fenst of

What we most need today is to its own Birth. Very naturally and properly the Feast of the turn to the Christmas the Holy Child became in course of which, began at the altar and end- boar's head carol, the Christmas time, and secondarily, the greated at the hearth. For such a re day of the. home, dedicated to merriment. and particularly to pler Christmas.

turn will mean more than a hap-

the merriment of children.

at

WOR

Christmas was thus celebrated

Iwo levels, religious and convivial but they WOTC In tinniely intertwined, and each enriched by the other, When we come to the pge of Dickens, we may feel that the convivial has come altogether to overshadow the religious, and that church bells have become a Rood deni

Wa ought to be specially mer ry this Christmas, I said, Just because there is so little cause for nerriment in the national and international landscape to- day. And why does the world mike so Precisely because it has passed gloomy 1 spectacle? through the very same decilne which we have tracci in the than Christmas celebrations, descend- ing from religion and the cult of the home, to poganism, and the worship of vast

impersonal forces. When man becomes a mere cog In the machine of atte he is not, likely to keep Christ- mas as it should be kept. "T pray you, my masters, be merry ... reddens laudes Domino.

By both being merry and praising God we shall make our own small contribution not only a happler Christmas but to a happier world,

less Important the after-dinner sense of replet- tion. Nevertheless, the church bells were still there, and Christ- nins, though it had become, gros ser, was stil} a festival of the home, dedicated to family affee- ¡tion. It is only with the coming of the machlae age end the melancholy new paganism, bred of it, that we find Christmas des- cending to a new, low level. But we shall not be happy in Hitherto, where it had ceased the fullest and deepest sense ifto be primarily religious: had we forget the last of the three at least remained domestic, an

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