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Show . ' - DESERT EVE1NG ER 21 1912 NEWS SATURDAY,' DEC- I - - 00)000 0 1MaillEM111001 tol- itt)i P I , ) , , '4 ;5 I 7 I Nk! VI 1 PIENIIIMPIIIMININtorwoottlEttlemtirttworstirtvw.ip mintmoniontomoormntitot i. ) . VIS 10) 11). t S. 'N. 4r, . , , , , - 4 4, Christmas 1)11. is faint, becoming fainter, for loving work is donefilled little stockings hang from the mantel. Not a sound. first shafts of light soften the dark of the coming Christmas morn. A still, early hour. It 0) ff Child's Day Sermon---- A The silvery tinkle ,tf; Santa Claus Not even the , .' Intense quietthen from an adjacent worn a squeaking of the children's bed. Subdued, excited, whispers, a thump of little feet on the floor. A switch clicks and light gleams beneath the door. Low, eager voices, pattering feet. Other lights switched and the scurrying of feet to the fireplace. Laughter, shouts, the clapping of handsChristmas has come! 'T Mpther and father breathe a il t IQ c- - 3 , , prayerfor (to the fulness of living is children. Christmas, children's day! That wondrous day of a whole year. Bethlehem gave 172' ! to the world a divine child. Once a year for eighteen hundred years all Christendom has paused to revere the Savior, and fulness of hearts finds expression in gift-givin- g. How marvelous 7. 01, i - 1 - wonderful still is Humanity breathes of it. Deep in the hearts of men is a love which guides as surely as the star which guided the wise men to the manger; love of the Creator and our Redeemerand strongest of earthly loves, love of children. 1,, v e I the rhythm- of Nature, the creation of 'life, of growth. How eternal hope which the promise inspires. God's lovewith its promiseand-a- is , .:: A This $ 6 1 Christmas links Christianity to that unfathomed, final home. Up there are our loved onessurely they knowsurely He knows; and if angel smiles permeate the spaceless ,1 ili 41 depths and mellow the daythen it is His radiance through those smiles which lights our hearts when we give joyously. (1 I. t tO for the pleasure of giving, of seeking those who are in want, that they and their children may share in the bounty of a glad Christmas day. , ; gives to Christmas reverence, the time honored custom of giving child-lov- e 0 $ The !IO' I Li Already. theyThTebu'syorganized into tslulLoLeager-Samaritan- s. little bands, gathering bundles and baskets and toys for the big, bright day. fAtz,t 'i; town Let us smile and be hearty in our cheer. 1 0 4:1 The. day is divinelet us j; keep it in a magnanimous way, in a gladdening way, by giving unostentatiously, generously. sight the hero truest is he who doeth good. KEITH-O'BRIE- 1 ,:. o o o : For in His CO. N ii, ttt'!ili :4 : 1 to , ' 0 1 !I A. (i); , Mt ;t 44. ; ! ,41 - V. ZA' t- 01 '...olookoh, 0 0 0 gt 0 0 I I BB 41! s(11' |
