Show Z u C ri at ff apo B t S p F HUMAN NATURE is ae the combination of self seeking ambition and greed which some materialistic material iglic philo philosophers so assert it is if life is a contest in which all finer sentiments are subordinated to self advancement and success X at any price how is it that the spirit of christmas j has not only endured but grown in power during nearly 2000 years if the pessi pessimists are right it would seem that the tb light elight would have ave been extinguished long since and with it the spirit would have departed were history and our daily lives not replete with evidences noble evidences too tolof of the unselfishness in in men s hearts we might be impressed with the teachings of the sordid and the car pings of i the morbid christmas Chri amas is the symbol and a celebration of love love which is synonymous with charity charily and which our purest creft teaching leaching tells us is the finest attribute of the soul we who during aring the past x few weeks have watched the yuletide preparations are prepared to say that they represent a beautiful manifestation of that attribute we have noted the working girl taking home at night her parcels X contributions wrung from the dole of her necessities in order that she may teal testify afy to her love and bring a measure of cheer to i some som e child some Xela relative tive some friend tired from her daily toil mayhap 14 i but in her eyes that something which transcends all fatigue transcends in fadl fad everything else in the world and comparable coffi parable only K f to that which shone from a mother s eyes upon the babe in bethlehem rends friends in the face of these and so many other manifestations which we are all witnessing during dining this season what right lias has one of us to say that the light of the world grows dimmer i our hearts tell us there is no dimming let us be thankful for the extra ex tra ia radiance diance of christmas Chri amas let us 1 car it into our daily j lives our wish is that this occasion iori at least will help all of us to forget our tribulations and sorrows our complaints and animosities and that it will be to all a day of cheer and everything which yuletide typifies the words of tiny tim have never been imp improved royed upon and we here invoke them god bless us all I 1 3 K THE TE publishers 1823 1923 0 |