Show christmas is the festival of the year and churlish indeed are they who da not find pleasure in the glow and brightness of its manifold enjoyments enjoy ments it is preeminently pre eminently the one day of the year when young and old meet together on an equal plane fhe pains and of old age are forgotten in the joyousness of the day and tiny tims time are everywhere among the happiest of gods own children depressed in spirits indeed must be that person e thre who cannot be happy on this festival day of all wherever civilization extends there mirth and good cheer reigns supreme and if it is winter outside it is summer inside the home and within the hearts cfall of all innocent joy and exultation triumph over all and hearts old with years and burdens are made again young and light by the air of sociability that pervades everything every thing while to all allot of us christmas has its charms its and its pleasures it is essentially the feast of the children their young hearts long for its coming while their little feet keep time to its mirth and music the mysteries that philosophy and religion have unravelled as bearing upon the outward observance of the day have no means mean ing to the cb children ildren they know not of them enough for them to believe in the reality of the christ child in the merry eyed and white beaded patron saint that comes to them arm laden with gifts from fairyland fairy land enough for them to hear bear the jingle of the reindeer bells to picture I 1 c ture the shadow of santa ai claue aus as they lie half awake and half dreaming flit across their moir cosy little room n and then rise in the morning to see the gifts that loved and midnight bro them happy indeed is that childish faith for the children first bret and then for ourselves let christmas ever be remembered in our homes let the bells ring the yule log blaze and crackle on the hearth and the holly gleam on the wall weary centuries have come and nd gone since the star looked down on the plains of bethlehem empires have passed away suns have risen and set monarchs monarch and monarchies have lived and crumbled to dust but the earth is still young and love and laughter are still left us let us recognize all the customs appropriate to the day and with present heastand feast fea stand and carol impress it upon the minds of our children so that it way may pass down from generation to generation to bless the children of our children and those that come after them ex |