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Show i fSW SHOULD CMRlist- Bf" tTIWa question," if. you, ddar M. reader, are child, being visions K fr bulging stockings hanging by H tho fire-placo; enndy galore and H any amount of pi,c, cake, and L other indigcstiblcs. If you area Hf young girl or boy, tho thought, HT perhaps? is Of numorous presents from friends and a dance overy m night, . excopt-Sunday, and you H wish vou 'mfirht"driCfrthon, If M ydu aro cldorly it probably sug- M gasts the real object of Christ- H nfts, and yortirtealL uthe' timo H wjicn tho "Saints" of each littlo H bujrg in Utah would hold a sort j of "town reunion.;" the,meeting injtho log schqpl hous.c, .n tho on)ypub.Uqi,VwnnB--wh9W olc af& youpg jouwl in helping , tp, H m&o tho program and.sumptoiqut , v "plihlic" dinner a-WSWJ ;t,hfc ' dunce commenting t.ui iq' ptyufc K initho evening-. utkV qwlWTOi H until thoj),woo,Rrna hPW't " in ' B th&o dwn,.tkvOT9WMrRW'Wc thankfulness to our .,ViPK & mingled with ttQ .fwrtMUuw Hk Today a great majorty of us K"'' '&&. tiplnd weeks before holidays Hfc I -fv' Aping nd cooWng.f Jmd, by Ffh" - t-. tjj.timo Orfetmw is horo are K7fc 'MWJllbt "i"BSd tXi.fctf rfroni the Hf AIy u1 "n( worry, and cannot np-, yW V''?F-' pnW'tlie-riti'HihrflfflcnWeflPftf B JPfel ;i Christmas, and aro thankful I m whon it is ovor. M There, too, is a, class who con K elude that they arc not properly B cojohrating Christmas ' if they H havon't a big supply of MPbtiq" ( f and other jntoxicuns to whicl H 1 thoy can havo ready nqcp; who M m think if thoy do not stay out at iBP- least thrqo or four nights of the m vF holiday week, making lifo miser-B miser-B j ablofor peaceful iti?cn&by thpir Mm. howling, profaning and carous-HB, carous-HB, ing about the town, th'at tlicy ' are not having n "good time." B This class of boys ant men is a B disgrace tq any town and the K membdra haVe very little respect Hy for themselves or others H . How much better it would be H for till if we considered Christ; H mua ' a ' time for quiet, ' p'e'aceful K home celebrations. ,V1q is thqre H among us whb' woulct hot enjoy H beih with his own immediato H 1-olutive.i on Christmas evo, each H moml,)or of the 'rmnily n6ding to HB thcipcace and pleasure of the K occakjon by littly cIiclMitul',.Jcin(l-HF cIiclMitul',.Jcin(l-HF ly aLs? And after tho Christmas T tropins been decorated is -tlujro B anyory moro beautiful oi,nre H apidpriato to tell, when tho m fanjil'y is gathered around tho m firopo just before thoy retire, 1 tlmujUho story of tho birth' of m Chris, or the origin of Christen Christ-en maWhat a hallowed, thought-B thought-B ful Vood it puts Us in; how new Bj thisild, old story always seems, HF cUdron and grown-n aliko H never! tiro of iL, Ths stpry m seldom fails to make us resolve witf'ii ourselves hut we'll al-1 al-1 wiiy'jtry to see only the good in H utliers, and only the beautiful in H lifej makes us feel uplifted when H we ;jink of tho sacrifice that H . that'll ttle baby was desttnud ta H ' i makei and did make, so nobly. B n6n we think pf the, presents, H on thVhi'Ohat wo have ciitlic H :-HBHl :-HBHl ' ...I.. . 1. !-. ' ' - m. -c..ip U 1 I'MM'i'i J mndo orpiIMbasW vre feel -thankful that the wise nicn, irt 1 1 givjng gifU$ to tho baby. Jesus, ; set so bcattifu) an pxample, and j , feet that in following i,t,f wc are j able to sh6w our spirit of lovo? and "good will toward me." j We fc that . Jfc.iS JBOWoTiiuch. the price of the present thatjj! coun&'feut the spirit in which it .j jsi'gfvep.. A , . i After hearing and believing; tho story qf thQ origin. oX Christ S mMhqWMn'QlifwtmMttey bring- anything but 'f Peace on earth,, j good will to men' : j |