Show YEARS YEAR'S WORK YORK IN CHRISTMAS TALK Rejoice in the Lord a Seasonable Seasonable Season Season- able ahe Message to Man THE DUTY OF HAPPINESS Delivers Ad Address Address Address Ad- Ad Dr W M Paden dress on Words of St Str Paul Mans Mana dut duty to find partake and distribute distribute dis dis- tribute the joyful things in life liCe was the main theme of the tho 8 sermon rmon delivered deliver deliver- I ed ell b by Rev V. W. M. M Paden at tho evening I Presbyterian church service at tho the I last nl night ht Rejoice I wish you Joy was as one ono o of Pauls Paul's greetings Rejoice I wish you ou I Ijo Joy jo jowas was ono one of his ways ayi of saying Raying 1 larO lC ye e well wild said DI Dr Paden Our Christmas Christ Christ- text may therefore serve sel as aH a a. fare fare- old years lars ma mas n g greeting and an well Rejoice in tho the Lord is 11 a l good message g for Cor thE tho Christmas time Finally Final I ly brethren n. n I wish You yu Joy In tho Lord is a fitting farewell as an we wo meet for the time last time in the thc ol old year car Im I'm glad that Christmas and years year's end uro uJO so 10 nE near al' al together I like to think of tho old year as dying hying amid songs of pence peace and good g willA will wili A A joy beaming jo joy giving giving letter Is Isn Isa Isn n a good Christmas gift gift- iL Pauls Paul's loiter letter to tho the is rich In such v luea There Thero Is a n mine of ot loving 10 good will m in It One of or its richest veins carries jo Joy joyt 1 our text is ono of its Joy bearing nuggets There are many such Buch shinInG shinIng shining shin- shin Ing treasures while th there rf Is hardly a apara paragraph para in the tIme epistle which does doeR not carry It its w wealth of good gool cheer There Theio Is IR jo joy in tho apostles apostle's supplications joy in his Ills faith Jo Joy in his longings and anu tribulation joy in tho the Lord Lord all all Joy and always ls The whole l letter throbs with spiritual jo joy One selects as aR its Ita golden text t Rejoice In tho Lord lArd I jo Joy and rejoice with you all Jo Joy n a Noble Message lc c. c Docs Does not our Christmas season carr carry such values Is not jo Joy one ono of its mo most t noble messages messages' Behold I bring I you OU glad tidings tiding's of or great jO Joy which shall be to all peoples peoples' Does Docs not each coch recurring Christmas tl tide e repeat the summons Again aln I say unto you OU ro- ro As a u matter of oC fact some hundred hun hue tired dred millions or so flO of people have ii heard card this call In one form or other during time tho past week The most of us UR have havo given solven the call and greeting a a. colloquial turn lurn and anel have said Merry lerry Christmas to you or I wish you a l merry Christ Christ- mas Millions of or us have put the message mes moe- sage o Into songs And tho the same name or other othor millions have put it into gifts or Joy giving service ser Christendom has haa done its best to tomake tomake make malo the thc past week a festival 31 of gladness glad hlad ness ness multitudes multitudes who arc not Christians Christians Christians Chris Chris- joining in the festival For a aleast at least one week In the old year joy jO ant and joy giving have o been made mallo a matter of purpose and hind accepted as a matter of duty Time The duty and purpose ha have hac c fostered tho the spirit and as 38 the spirit has possessed U us our purposes purpose have o been heen our pleasure and out our dut duty our delight In the Lord The Tho sentence has the ring of an In order And Is it not IM It It not ones one's duty to find express ex press mimi and make joy joy joy-Christ's Christ's Christs ts t's kind of or joy joy joy-In In tho the world Our text says sas so our Christmas conduct and spirit says so soi Good will towards men neon says eo so Gratitude Gr to God as 38 the giver of every good and perfect gift girt says so 80 During During During Dur Dur- ing this one- one season of tho the year at It ItI I least ast we rejoice b by act of oC parliament tho tIme parliament of Christendom Even en our serious old catechism n links Jinks dut duty and Joy What is maps mans chief chic end endIan's Mans Man's chief end Is to glorify God Goc and to enjoy enjo Him Him forever Mans Man's chief chic end is to manifest the love joy am and peace of his Father and to enjoy that tha Fathers Father's love lovo Joy and peace while ex expressing ex cx- pressing It IL |