| Show It Was the Night Before Christmas Little Snow Snowflakes akel Glad to toBe toBe toBe Be of Service on Greatest Great Great- est of All Days By W. W D D. D PENNYPACKER I A T WAS one of ot the oft tiniest things Im mm- In all an antho the tho whitened fields s i of late December It could scarcely bo be reckoned with It b was a snowflake Fleeting was the span of its existence Today here bere tomorrow possibly drawn Into the tile moisture of the atmosphere depending upon temperature an and where It chanced to fall Some say fairies fables fashion snow enow-crys enow crystale crys- crys tale In wonderful workrooms and laboratories laboratories lab lair oratories which man has not explored It may be They are more exquisitely cut than the rarest Jewels It was the night before Christmas There was the tile usual sense lense of or quiet which comes over things when the pre pre- holiday hollday rush and confusion n ends the ends the sense of peace perhaps peace perhaps the echo of that old song which man has so often and so ruthlessly heard and forgotten It seems that the snowflake knew In the land whence snowflakes come comeTh l ft chi I fl Th e coon n t Ln II a great e u ry If it one speaks of It as such Buch Is an ana a absolute b so 1 ute mon mono archy But Dut It Is d different I tr ere n t from those our geographIes geographies geogre name under Political D Divi L vl- vl alone It Is a monarchy monarchy mon mon- archy ruled by love Iove where a de do- desire desire sire to give happiness happiness hap hap- Is the prevalent ambi ambi- lion tion So on that night before Christmas as tile B s snowflakes n now o w fl ft a k k-e k e a 8 danced about In great billowy clouds some lome of them thought of companions already fallen to earth Yes some somo had bad fallen and their beauty had lasted for a while then disappeared Then time tile chief spoke e Fellows ho said with an appealing appeal appeal- appealing ing note in la his voice voice-a a voice that had much of the tho plaintive sound of the north wind there Is a n service to per per- perform form This Is the tha night before the tte birthday of our King Millions will wll worship Him when the morrow L. L n u comes but out more ignorant 01 or ItS us source win Will seek to revel In n the gladness which I His Ills coming brought and many millions mil mu- lions more more more- ho he went on The nations of the world watt wait for lor that gladness Once a n year they seek to know the spirit and the significance at of the Christmas time They see vaguely vague vague- ly what the of angels and the thelong thelong long song of shepherds was all about about and and then forget Perhaps he be said In Inthe Inthe n the chaotic strivings of mans man's life lIfo beIs he lie heIs lieis Is not so much to blame Silence profound A stillness like lIko unto onto the silence of the plains before the angels uttered their refrain of Peace on earth good will toward men Comrades sold eaid the chief I Aye Are I answered the crowd in a note that had the shrill of the winter wind and yet ret was warm with within in an eagerness to serve Berve i a Down just below ns us there are boys bors m tad ind girls dreaming of Santa Claus Clans and ind snow and sleighs and sleds To tome some your going would give life lite and andI test meet and happiness to Christmas You I ma may stay here or go 10 to give them joy I Think soberly before you rou make reply So hearty and so quick was the response response re re- re- re that the results were almost blizzard like Uke Twisting and turning In fantastic ways they fell to earth flied filled high the paths and all but capped the tho fences and almost blocked the roads made When morning broke a truly Christmas Christ Christ- mas ong day the world lay white as un untouched untouched un- un touched marble Such myriad flakes had fallen In the that the ablest statistician could not guess h haw bew w many and oh what Joy I Snowballs snow snowmen snowmen snowmen men and ond sledding And coasting too on yonder hill Such Buch healthy winter I exercise such sueh ruddy cheeks such mighty appetites I IWho Who would have hare thought so eo much i I of goo good a little snow bad had wrought j jAn An ag aggregation of tiny snowflakes was putting value Into the sleds which Santa Banta Claus Glaus bro brought and making mak ing lag of the day dal a ar area areal r rea real e a l 1 Christmas In themselves the little flakes Oakes scarcely counted at all bu but t In r their united desire desire de de- sire to give happiness happiness hap hap- I to unnumbered unnumbered unnumbered I boys and I Ig g girls I r 1 s. s they became became became be be- j 1 came a great power The chief had wireless communication communication cation with each of his humble bumble su sub sub- I of course j When night fell tell he lie was eager r to I ascertain the feelings of ot his bis white crusaders some of them crushed beaten benten down and muddy as ns a result of ot their service Some would havo have thought it a hard bard day for them Nobody really thought of the tho white ground covering as an aggregate of Individuals They recognized no personality personality per per- and thought It merely merell snow Yet In n spite of the tact fact that billions of snow crystals were maimed and soiled Boiled and melted as a result of their Christmas Day mission the chief received received re rev many replies We have given a child chit happiness and would rather do that than stalIn stay stal In the clouds douds forever forever said one Enabled a boy to play pIny with his old sled shed sold said another and would woul not I come back If lx we could Has lIas been a great Christmas We have given much but have re received elved full tun measure In return The There e and similar bulletins were posted in the tho court of the clouds and every snowflake held In reserve felt feU felta feUa a sense of regret et that it had not been beena a participant In providing so much of the Joy and jollity of Christmas Only a snowflake I Yes But It rendered service And this was the snow snowflake that was glad Qs 1928 un p r Union i i |
