Christmas Quotes ~ New York Times

We hear the beating of wings over Bethlehem
and a light that is not of the sun or of the stars
shines in the midnight sky.
Let the beauty of the story take away all narrowness,
all thought of formal creeds.
Let it be remembered as a story
that has happened again and again,
to men of many different races,
that has been expressed through many religions,
that has been called by many different names.
Time and space and language
lay no limitations upon human brotherhood.

~New York Times, 25 December 1937,

quoted in Quotations for
Special Occasions by Maud van Buren, 1938,
published by
The H.W. Wilson Company, New York