PEACE ON EARTH

This Christmas season finds us a rather bewildered human race.  We have neither peace within nor peace without.  Everywhere paralyzing fears harrow people by day and haunt them by night.  Our world is sick with war; everywhere we turn we see its ominous possibilities.  And yet, my friends, the Christmas hope for peace and goodwill toward all men can no longer be dismissed as a kind of pious dream of some utopian.  If we don’t have goodwill toward men in this world, we will destroy ourselves by the misuse of our own instruments and our own power.  Wisdom born of experience should tell us that war is obsolete.  There may have been a time when war served as a negative good by preventing the spread and growth of an evil force, but the very destructive power of modern weapons of warfare eliminates even the possibility that war…