Peace on Earth

Good Will Towards Men

A fervont prayer, a fervent desire. Beautiful words, meaningful words, powerful words. Handed down from generation to generation century by century.

Words mouthed in the joy of Christmastide, then lost in the sourry of overyday living. Words unheeded as tho hate groups line up and spit at oach other. Words silenced by the vigil of the bomb.

We must not allow tho atomic age to succumb to the nogative, destructive unreasoning of hopelessness. Wo must realize that as we expect to bo persecuted, so shall wo bo persecuted and prosecuted. As we prepare for war,

oven though we call it defense, wo bring war ever closer. As wo listen to the voice of doom, so shall wo bo doomed. It is the law of the "self-fulfilling prophecy". What wo project shall come to pass.

Por wo are products of our own words our own thoughts and boliefs. And what we are can be changed, for by our own words and actions we can alter our relations with our

follow man. As we act with kindness and understanding, as we truly listen to the other fellow's side of the story, so shall wo be heard with kindness and understanding.

When the individual begins to re-evaluate himself and his thoughts, whon ho sees that he is an important cog in the "wheel of peace", that his thoughts and actions are reflected by the leaders he elects, that what his country projects in the community of nations are what he himself has accepted whether positively or by omission then porhaps there can again bo

"Peace on Earth, Good Will Toward Men".

Del Martin