Tired from another hectic day, a successful business executive collapsed into his easy chair. The bright colors of a magazine cover in his den caught his eye, and he picked up the periodical and leafed through it while he waited for dinner. It was an issue of The Christmas Annual. There were beautifully illustrated reproductions of Christmas carols. He began to read the familiar word, but being in a caustic mood, he began to revise the carols into parodies:

"Silent night, holy night All is calm, all is bright...Maybe so, but I will wager That innkeeper, didn't have a teenager!

"God rest you merry gentlemen, Let nothing you dismay....You can sing that, Angels in heaven, You don't have any taxes to pay.

"Peace on earth and mercy mild, God and sinners reconciled..."If Christ brought Peace …