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LOUISBURG COLLEGC
SBURG,N.C. 27549
Christmas is the most unique season of the
year.
For one thing, it is a family occasion.
Everybody wants to be home Christmas, to
be with loved ones--parents, grandparents,
sons, daughters. Christmas can draw the
family closer perhaps than any other event. It
is preeminently a family event.
Again, Christmas is a time of sharing. It is
not only the occasion for giving presents to
loved ones and friends, but the time for with
those less fortunate then ourselves--the poor
and needy, the sick and hadicapped.
Christmas brings out the best in us--the best
in generosity, in unselfish service, in
compassion. We do not begin to live until we
learn to give.
Moreover, Christmas is an occaion of
peace and good will. Somehow the spirit of
brotherhood and understanding breaks
through our crass, materialism and hardness
of heart. Somehow the Scrooge in us
diminished and the spirit of tenderness and
kindness and trust emerges.
But, most of all, Christmas is the occasion
of the birth of Jesus--the Prince of Peace, the
redeemer of all mankind.
Unfortunately, sometimes we crowd out
Christ. We close the door to His coming. We
let fun and merriment and parties and the
sensual pleasure consume us. When we do,
we miss the real Christmas. The true meaning
of Christ's coming escapes us and we are left
empty and bitter and disillusioned.
It is my prayer that all of us in the Louisburg
College family-students, faculty, admin
istration, staff and all others who love this
institution--will pause to seek and discover
anew the real Christmas and take time to
sing the great carols, read and reread the
story of His Birth and seek to know Him more
fully and to walk with Him through the
uncertain months and year ahead. Then
Christmas will be real, authentic, full of
Christmas meaning.
by Cecil W. Robbins, President
VOL. XXXII NO. 3
LOUISBURG COLLEGE
LOUISBURG, N. 0.
The Columns December ’72