| Show 5 0 r christmas let the bells ring out hang up the mistletoe bring on the smoking turkey and join in the frolics of the youngsters anything every thing so that the day be merry and all hearts the lighter because christ the lord was born forget for the time the cares of business the pressure of hard times the threatening future lock up the family skeleton and with it all frowns and harsh words and the petty tyrannies and jealousies of co common ramon days it if you can lose the key of the c closet loset so much the bet ter if not even the brief respite from ugly cares will leave its ben edict edic lon tion in your heart it if you have no of your own inasmuch ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren ye have done it unto me sao to enliven seek out the cheerless hearth of some less fortunate brother there are many forlorn little ones to I 1 whom an orange and a picture book would be a foretaste of 0 heaven play santa claus to some child and yoa a will find your merry christmas in the reflection of its innocent delight or carry your greeting and dour our gift to some aged and lonely creature whose last christmas it will be on earth and earn a blessing that will repay your effort an hundredfold there Is happily no monopoly of the joys of christmas it if they do not come to us we can go to them we have but to open our hearts and stretch out our hands and the messen gers of peace will come gladly troop ing towards us it will be our own fault it if we do not each and all have A merry christmas |
