"The beauty of a simply and tastefully decorated Christmas tree is very like unto the haunting beauty of the distant horizon at sunset. Insignificant details take on new dimensions as we see them blended together to form an object of beauty--our Symbol of Christmas. To me there is something else important about a Christmas tree. Its life is truly a golden link in our infinite chain of memories that mould our lives and our thinking. It is a fitting monument to our effort to serve our fellow man and with it our resolve to keep the Spirit of Christmas fresh and vital and growing. What finer memorial to annually remind us not to let life become a dumping ground of our dreams, but rather a challenge that we are expected to make those dreams come true. I cannot conceive how anyone--who has seen the look of adoration in the face of a child, gazing at a beautifully decorated Christmas tree--can ever say there is no Spirit in Christmas."
George W. Goodall