mighty means of spreading his principles. The railway and steamship
carry his gospel, and the airship gives wings to the same good news.
Telegraph and telephone flash it, and wireless waves set the ether over
whole continents and oceans aquiver with the messages of Jesus Christ.
The sewing machine sews for him, the typewriter writes for him, and even
battle ships and bayonets may fight for him. Sooner or later every
inventor must lay his magic machine at his feet. For him the statesman
legislates, the scientist investigates, the author writes, the artist
paints and the singer sings. In an increasing degree Jesus is drawing
all men into his service, and they are laying their treasures at his
feet. The gold of the wise men was only the first gleam of the shining
heaps of wealth that his followers are now piling on the altar of his
service. This process will go on until the whole world will lie at his
feet.

Every generation sends a more numerous company to Bethlehem. With every
century worshipers arrive from more distant lands. From every quarter of
the circumference of the globe paths now run to the manger of this
Child, worn deep by millions of feet. The nations are beginning to come.
By and by these converging paths will be crowded and all the ends of the
earth shall bring their gold and shall worship at his feet.

What is the explanation of the mighty, worldwide, attractive power of
this Child? There is only one adequate explanation: "He shall save his
people from their sins." The world is tired of men who come to save it
with programmes only an inch long; who have nothing better to propose
than longer laws and cleaner sanitation; who, unmindful of the
experiment in Eden, would have us believe that if we were only placed in
a pleasant garden where we had plenty to eat and little to do we would
all be good. The weary world wants one who can go to the root of its