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Show CHRISTMAS HAPPINESS Of all the holidays, the Christmas festival appears the one that produces the most real happiness. There are some holidays which are better for sports because the weather is better. There are some which are pervaded per-vaded with thoughts of patriotism. When Christmas comes, people lay aside their burdens, drop the tenseness tense-ness of the daily struggle, and a spirit of true joy fills the heart. In the rest of the holidays the prevailing thought is to have a good time. Men and women devote themselves them-selves to their customary sports and pastimes, and they please themselves by the wide variety of amusements amuse-ments which American life offers. Christmas is the one holiday in which there is almost al-most no self seeking. It is the giving holiday. People stop thinking of themselves or what they can do to please their own desires, and start out to please somebody some-body else. They think of their friends and how they can Lie made happy. Their pleasure comes not because the have lowered their golf score, or climbed some mountain they had longed to see, but because they have brought happiness into the days of their loved ones, because it gives infinite pleasure to see the children child-ren jumping up and down in sheer delight. The whole show is an exemplification of the principle prin-ciple that it is moer blessed to give than to receive. That old saying is commonly looked at as a kind of pious ejaculation that is too idealistic to fit into cold daily life. The Christmas experience shows that it is really true. , Probably th ehighest pleasure is given to people when they do things of which someone else gets the benefit. So in that spirit our 'people enter for a little : into harmony with the life of Jesus Christ, who was -horn on that day and gave His life to the world. |