2025 Worship Guide LINCOLN DAILY NEWS December 2025 Page 13 the attempt to capture the infinite on canvas and stone has left our world a much richer place. That’s also true of music as well. If His birth in Bethlehem had never happened, we would have no Handel’s Messiah nor would we have the music of Bach who dedicated every note he wrote to God’s glory. Think of how literature would be different without the words of the New Testament. Or what about humanitarian efforts (past and present)? Jesus came to minister to the downtrodden and poor and His life gave courage to men like William Booth to begin the Salvation Army and Clarissa Harlowe Barton to start the Red Cross. Think about the effect Jesus’ birth has had on education. Although different today many of the oldest universities were founded by Christians for Christian purposes: Oxford, Cambridge, Yale, and Princeton. Harvard’s founding mission statement was, “To be plainly instructed and consider well that the main end of your life and studies into know God and Jesus Christ” (2). Without the birth of Jesus, Christians like William Wilberforce and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. may have never dedicated their lives to provide equality and equal rights to all people, regardless of the color of their skin. Honestly, the list could go on and on. James Allan Francis states the impact of Jesus well in his poem “One Solitary Life,” “...He is the centerpiece of the human race and the leader of the column of progress. I am far within the mark when I say that all the armies that ever marched, and all the navies that ever
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