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“Let the Children Have Their Night of Fun and Laughter”
Y’r ‘Umble Scrivener can add nothing to the Christmas narratives in St. Matthew and St. Luke, and will refrain from any attempt to babble about “the true meaning of Christmas” (all major credit cards accepted), and so for this week yields this space to the words of Churchill on the first Christmas of the Second World War for the USA, but the third Christmas of the war for his nation. His words address a specific situation in 1941, but for every Christmas they still apply:
Let the children have their night of fun and laughter. Let the gifts of Father Christmas delight
their play. Let us grown-ups share to the full in their unstinted pleasures before we turn again
to the stern task and the formidable years that lie before us, resolved that, by our sacrifice and
daring, these same children shall not be robbed of their inheritance or denied their right to live
in a free and decent world.
And so, in God's mercy, a happy Christmas to you all.
Winston Churchill
December 24, 1941
Washington, D.C.
(https://www.nationalchurchillmuseum.org/christmas-message.html)
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