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Show -i"i 1 1 1 1 1 1 ; i ; 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 t i l 1 1 1 1 Let's SMake It "qA ZAierry Christmas" By JAMES EDWARD HUNGERFORD in Southern RuraliaC WI'tM'IvI I 1 1 1 II I I MiiM i 1- Mr FRIEND, will Christmas mean to YOU A day of blessings rare, Among good friends, 'whose hearts art true. Whose happiness you'll share? Will Christmas bring the ones you love The day with you to spend? If so, then thank the One aborc, For you're in "LUCK," my friend! To some it means a cheerless day, With strangers all about, And not a single sunshine ray To wipe the shadows out; And all about you they abound- In hamlets, towns and marts; No loving friends will gather 'round To cheer THEIR lonely hearts My friend, will Christmas mean to YOU A home that's bright with CHEER ? A wife, and laughing children, too, And all that life holds dear? Will Christmas bring you gifts of gold, And BLESSINGS without end? Or niill you be "out in the cold," Without a single FRIEND? If YOU are blessed with worldly weath. And friends whose hearts are true; With wife and children; home and hcalih, My friend it's up to YOU To help your friendless fellow men. Whose lives are drcb and gray, And bring God's sunshine back again To THEM on Christmas Dayt |