Here is The Greatest Christmas Wish

Clarence Edward Noble Macartney was born in 1879 and died at age 78 in 1957. He is most remembered for ministering 27 years at First Presbyterian Church in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Unlike most American preachers today, Rev. Macartney's preaching attracted mostly men “not only to his Sunday services but also to his popular Tuesday noon luncheons.”

In 1943, Abingdom Press published Great Nights of the Bible, a collection of sermons by Rev. Macartney. In that collection is the sermon “The Night of Nights” in which the great preacher explained why the night Jesus, the Man of Peace, was born must remain the greatest night in history.

In the sermon, Rev. Macartney relates an incident that took place the first Christmas after the start of World War I. He said “the colossal armies” of Germany, France, and Great Britain “had fought themselves to a standstill, and now millions of their soldiers were glaring at one another out of the trenches that gashed the earth from the North Sea clear to the Alps.”

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