OCR Text |
Show Only Once a Year. But how seldom Christmas comes only once a year; and how soon It is over a day and a night! If that is the whole of it, It seems not much more durable than the little toys one buys of a faker on the street corner. k But surely that need not and ought pot to be the whole of Christmas; only u single day of generosity, ransomed from the dull servitude of n selfish ear. If every gift is a token of personal per-sonal thought, a friendly feeling, and unselfish interest iu the Joy of others, then the thought, the feeling, the interest, in-terest, may remain after the gift is pade. Henry van Dyke. |