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Show IT MAKES ALL THINGS NEW While it seems impossible to say anything new on the subject of Christmas celebration, the miracle of the season is that the custom of nearly 2,000 years makes practically all things new. The aged becomes be-comes young again through their rejoicing in the delights of the grand-children with the things that once made their own eyes open wide in wonder memories of their own childhood also come back to them. It is not simply a jest that papa also likes to play even though he may say it is just to test them with the toys he buys for the youngsters. Thus, while the holiday is particularly a) festival for the children, emphasizing the story of the Babe in the Manger, it also has for the elders its pleasures and the wider significance of that world-inspiring world-inspiring event in Bethlehem. |