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Show Merry Christmas Time Here Again Every One Is Filled With "Peace to Men of Good Will" Spirit. By KATHERINE EDELMAN m . . I IIBIST1IAS has iw I come asuin the ;,NJ7 happiest, gladdest, ' '! 'fii O l merriest time of 5q4wJ tlie wll0le year' i&"jii Glad bells peal up-f&ti up-f&ti ffl&r on the uir ; holly w'tf?rS(iVv5 wreaths and mlsle-toe mlsle-toe are everywhere and heartli fires glow with a warmer welcome. Every home Is filled with cheer, every face alight with happiness and every heart Is tuned to catch the message of love and peace that Is abroad. Men and women greet each other oth-er with added friendliness; little children chil-dren stand eager-eyed and radiantly expectant. All humanity Is filled deep with the desire to give, to serve, to love. A new bond of fellowship is encircling en-circling the world and bringing hearts together ; today prn 5 we are all one great, big family, watchful and solicitous so-licitous about one another's welfare. The ties of home, and kindred grow even more close friendships more dear memories more precious. Our thoughts fly on eager wings to those who are absent the vacant va-cant chair grows sacred In our eyes. The very air is lull ot some strange, wonderful force that fills us with exhilaration and delight. de-light. Youth grows more tolerant of age and age looks with new understanding under-standing into the eyes of youth. Streets are crowded with happy throngs shops are filled to overflowing overflow-ing with gift seekers. Thousands of Christmas stockings are to be filled thousands of older hearts are to be made happy because they are remembered. remem-bered. The gospel that it Is more blessed to give than to receive is In evidence everywhere, and its practice is bringing radiance and beauty to every face. Christmas has come again its star Is gleaming in the sky its magic Is all over the land I The young and the old, the gay and the wise have fallen under its spell. And every heart is singing the song of the angels the song that echoed over the hills of Judea in the long ago "Glory to God in the highest and on earth peace, good will toward men." (, 1925, Western Newspaper TJnlon.) |