Our aim in the liberal church is to help our children understand the deeper meaning of their day-to-day experiences, to discover a spiritual significance in all that goes on, about and within them. No season of the year lends itself more readily to this purpose than Christmas. Here are all the elements to delight the heart of the youngest child and to provide an outlet for the social idealism of the most mature. There is the symbol of the holy family, a springboard for a more penetrating realization of the miracle of birth and parenthood and the joy of family life. There are all the wondrous decorations -- the tree, the star, the holly, the mistletoe, the lights -- symbols relating each of us in the here and now to the long ago past of our race and providing opportunity for revealing insights into humanity's struggle for a higher life. There are the age-old customs of the giving and receiving of gifts and concern for the well-being of others -- customs that lead into a moving realization of the ties that bind people to people, of humanity's neverending need for companionship and sympathetic understanding. There is, above all else, the central figure of the festival, Jesus himself, the radiant figure of a human being who realized to an unusual degree the driving potential of the human soul, and who lived his life in unwavering devotion to eternal truths. Here is the embodiment of true human greatness, a neverending vindication of liberalism's faith in the supreme worth of every human.