Show Christmas 1rccnls Christmas is the festival of the year and churlish indeed ere tluy who do not find pleasure la the glow and brightness of its manifold enjoyment It is preeminently the one day of the year when young and old meet together on an equal plane flie pains and achlngs cf old age are forgotten In the ooui new of the day and Tiny Thom are ever where among the happiest of Gods own children Depressed inspirits in-spirits Indeed must be that person who cannot bo happy on this festival fes-tival dayof all theworld Wherever civilization extends there mirth and good cheer reigns supreme and If it is winter outside it is summer inside in-side the home and within the hearts of all Innocent Joy and exultation triumph over all and hearts old with yean aud burdens are made again young and light by the air of soclibillty that pervades everything VhlIo to allot us Christmas lias IU charms its significances and its pleasures it is eetcntially the feast of the children Their young hearts long for its comtngwbile their little feet keep time to its mirth and music The mysteries that phlloso llay and religion have unravelled as bearing upon the outward obi scrrance of the day have no mean leg to the chillrcn They know not of them Knough for them to believe in the teality cf the CharleS child in lhemerry yed and whlte Iared patron mint that comes to them armladen with gina from fairyland enoueh for them to hear the jingle of the reindeer rein-deer bclk to picture the shadow of Banta Claus as they lie half awake and half dreaming flitacTDS4 their cosy little room anti then rise In the morning to ice the gifts that loved and midnight liroulit them Happy indeed is that childish faith For the children flrst and then for ourselves let Christmas ever bo remembered In our homcs Lt1 the bells ring the vulelos blare Slid crackle ou the lifirtliauil the holly gleam on the wall Vrary centuries have comu and gone since the star looked down on than plains ot Bethlehem era Iies have tae away suns have risen and set monarch and monarchies mon-archies have lived and crumbled to ilufct but tho earth Is ttlll young aud love and Uuchter are ztlll left us Lit us recognize all the customs cus-toms appropriate to the day and with prvwnt fractand carol Impose it uja the minds of our children so flint It may usa down from generation gen-eration to generation to bless the children of our children and those that come after themEZ |