Heres an excerpt from my Friend, Rev. Fred Smalls sermon on the historic Christmas Truce of 1914. Click on the link to read Freds sermon in its entirety and for a link to John McCutcheons song, Christmas in the Trenches. At Christmastide in 1914, men at war rediscovered their common humanity in food and drink, in song and sport, even in burying their dead. Their brief holiday could not turn the tide of history. But it reminds us that war springs less from the violence in our hearts than from the urgings of power, pride, profiteering, and false patriotism that we are capable of resisting. “It was an amazing spectacle,” reflected Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, who lost his son in the war, “and must arouse bitter thought concerning those high-born conspirators against the peace of the world, who in their mad ambition had hounded such men on to take each other by the throat rather than by the hand.” At this Christmas of 2014, as cold stars light the night of a world riven by violence, may we remember the soldiers who made peace in No Man’s Land, and dedicate ourselves to making peace with justice in every land. Rev. Fred Small First Parish in Cambridge, Unitarian Universalist
Posted on: Tue, 16 Dec 2014 18:12:37 +0000
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