Spencer Heath Archive

Item 375

Drafted in pencil by Heath at Spencer MacCallum’s request for Christmas

cards that never were printed. See also Item 3012. Published in Christian Economics X:24 (December 23, 1958)

Summer 1957

THE CHRIST was born in an era of One-World peace, under a Pax Romana whose eagles guarded and protected all lesser sovereignties and powers against wars among themselves. One power was supreme — to tax and to destroy. There was world peace, indeed, but with world peace no freedom from the one-world power. And in the interest of its own peace, its own law and order, it destroyed Him.

But His Spirit survived and lives again in the bodies of all men who engage in mutual service according to the unforced, the free and equal meetings of their minds. Even in today’s riotous expansion of central sovereign powers, His Spirit moves men, all unknowingly, into ever more obedience to His divine command that they turn away from evil by the practice of engaging in contractual instead of political relationships — each doing unto others in the same manner he would have them do unto him — with the reward of ever more abundant life for all.

The teaching of Christ was a new dispensation to the spirit of man, its first true charter of freedom, not alone from self-1imitations within but no less truly from the powers of the world without. May we celebrate His nativity by ever new births of His Spirit in our hearts and ever wider understandings in our minds.