“He had no further intercourse with Spirits, but lived upon the Total Abstinence principle, ever afterwards; and it was always said of him, that he knew how to keep Christmas well, if any man alive possessed the knowledge. May that be truly said of us, and all of us! And so, as Tiny Tim observed, God Bless Us, Every One!”

Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol

“Glory to God in the highest; and on earth peace to men of good will.”

Luke 2:14

Front Royal, Virginia — Ebenezer Scrooge eventually was able to keep Christmas as well as any man alive, because he was redeemed, regenerated, indeed, saved. Every man alive needs regeneration because each is descended from Adam, who had committed the only wickedness he could commit. Every person needs individual salvation.

God offered redemption to all “men of good will.”

The Gloria is a collective hymn, however, because there is also a social dimension to our redemption.

God offered redemption to all “men of good will.” He offered it equally for our individual sins and for our complicity in collective sins. For almost a century, many of us have recognized the great failures of the Christian West, including even its repudiation of its own Christian nature.

Four mysteries are the core of God’s gift to us of the power to come back to Him: the Incarnation, the Nativity, the Crucifixion, and the Resurrection.

In the 1930s, the organization Moral Rearmament was founded to fight for the spiritual regeneration of the West and its return to its moral values, in clear opposition to the values of the totalitarian regimes of that time.

God’s love that manifested itself in an infinitely greater way in being born in a manger and dying on a cross to save us from our sins.

In the 1950s, the Christian Anti-Communist Crusade was organized for the same general purpose and specifically for victory in the Cold War. In the 1950s, L. Brent Bozell and Frank Meyer raised the same alarms.

We often think of four mysteries as the core of God’s gift to us of the power to come back to Him: the Incarnation, the Nativity, the Crucifixion, and the Resurrection. It is, however, possible to combine these four mysteries into one great mystery, because each only makes sense in conjunction with the other three.

In Advent, we annually start a new liturgical year that begins a progression that remembers Christmas, the Epiphany, the Crucifixion, the Resurrection, the Ascension and promise to return, the descent of the Holy Ghost, the Kingship of Christ, and the Last Judgment.

Man is capable of overcoming his most desperate situations. God is not restrained by time and therefore this has happened both before and after our redemption and yet is made possible by it. Moses defeated the Egyptians. The Greeks defeated the Persians. The Christian West won at Lepanto. The British RAF defeated the German Luftwaffe.

These events are small reflections of God’s love that manifested itself in an infinitely greater way in being born in a manger and dying on a cross to save us from our sins.

A joyful “Merry Christmas” affirms the beginning of the process of redemption.

In Advent, we annually start a new liturgical year that begins a progression that remembers Christmas, the Epiphany, the Crucifixion, the Resurrection, the Ascension and promise to return, the descent of the Holy Ghost, the Kingship of Christ, and the Last Judgment.

A joyful “Merry Christmas” affirms the beginning of the process of redemption. Anyone who says, “Bah, Humbug” is essentially insulting our commemoration of our redemption from the sin of Adam and our personal redemption from our own sins.

Anyone who says, “Bah, Humbug” is essentially insulting our commemoration of our redemption from the sin of Adam and our personal redemption from our own sins.

The world has too many unredeemed Scrooges, or in contemporary terms, Grinches. In most cases, they are innocent and ignorant; however, everyone who sends out cards with a picture of snow and the simple message “Happy Holidays” is symbolically responding “Bah, Humbug” to the popular “Merry Christmas.” Fortunately, most people know enough of what God has told them to respond back “Merry Christmas,” thereby affirming a true understanding of God’s gift.

Everyone who sends out cards with a picture of snow and the simple message “Happy Holidays” is symbolically responding “Bah, Humbug” to the popular “Merry Christmas.”

Two other practices of the infidels are also great “Bah, Humbugs.” The first is the practice of misidentifying Advent as “the Christmas Season;” the Season actually extends from Christmas Eve through the Epiphany. The second is social pressure to take down our Christmas decorations before the actual end of the Christmas season.

Let us celebrate the true Christmas Season with Bob Cratchit’s “Merry Christmas” and Tiny Tim’s “God Bless Us, Every One.”

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Charles G. Mills, author of The Confederate Lawyer, is the Judge Advocate Emeritus (general counsel) for the New York State American Legion. As a New York lawyer, he has been arguing cases for fifty years in federal courts and in all levels of the New York courts.

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