Winter Festival - Felix Adler * Dec 4, 2002
Jean Kotkin sent this excerpt from Felix Adler about Winter Festival, and I was able to post it online so others (including those in other Ethical Societies) might find it.
Ethical Culture Roots: Festival of the Winter Solstice by Felix Adler
It fits very well with one of my favorite readings for the winter festival, by Sophia Lyon Fahs:
And so the children come.
And so they have been coming.
Always in the same way they come -
Born of the seed of man and woman.
No angels herald their beginning,
No prophets predict their future courses,
No wise men see a star to point their way
To find the babe that may save [hu]mankind.
Yet each night a child is born is a holy night.
Fathers and Mothers -
Sitting beside their children's cribs -
Feel glory in the wondrous sight of a life beginning.
They ask: "When or how will this new life end?
Or will it ever end?"
Each night a child is born is a holy night.
Sophia Lyon Fahs
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