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Show A MERRY CHRISTMAS. n g Christmas brings the remembrance w of a gift so great and wonderful that n all who realise what It meant to the a world feel the desire to give some- f: thing Hi return though It may be v nothing more than the expression of b a wish for a merry Christmas. No one e was anxious to receive the gift at n first, people do not always know the n value of what Is given them. The b only door opened to receive It. led h Into a cattle stable! Hut now. whose n door does not fly open at Christmas 1 to send out some blessing, some word C f good will? fc The old carol, sung to few shep- t Ifeerds. tr gone around the world I iow, and the message of peace and oed will has been carried every- t there. Somehow, when you lay a ' ew horn babe In a man'a arms, you I re pretty sure to bring a smile to bis t ace, and a softening to bis heart as i fell. An Infant Is a great peace- I irlnger. What has touched and soft- I ned the heart of thla grim world 1 nore than anything else. Is the re- t iienibranee that Christmas brought a ( 'lessed child down to earth and laid i Im confidingly in the arms of hu- i nanity, brought him from home, and I eft him outcast, that the opportunity night be given to every man to take I Im In and give him the love and enderness which la every child's 1 drthrlgtt j I This It Is. which mores us to strive lo make rhildren hsppy at Christmas. They may be like those who float ilong with the river, knowing nothing :f Its lovely source high up In the pverlastlng 1.111s Hut even If they do not know why, most of us do want to make It a merry time for cMldren It la emphatically the children's fea-iival. fea-iival. No one ever regrets It who gos 3ut of the way to help some ll'tte snes to be happy at Christmas. They ire the special friends of the Christmas Christ-mas child, and It Is well to be able to rntertain the king's friends. If not the kirg himself. It does the world good to open Its beart and take In the season's greot-leg. greot-leg. Duslness goes on all the happier. because there Is a warm charitable feeling In a man's rout towards his employers, or employes, or acquaint anres We are all sn busy, we are apt to forget to be considerate, forglv- Ing. and kind It Is well to let the i brain rest, and allow the heart to rule sometimes, or ni'-n may lose the faculty facul-ty of loving and being charitable. Centuries of experience have prov- , ed that It Is well also to make a clearing house of the season, to square 1 1 accounts by wiping off all the old grudges and settling old quarrels, and listen once asaln to the message of peace and good will Anger and ma!- Ice never gave a man happiness; j, nothing but fnrgiveness and charity , can do that. I |