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Show 0- o CHRISTMAS CHILDHOOD. I) o Christmas is, perforce, n winter festival, fes-tival, a family and fraternal reunion. "Suffer little children to come." Li they have come. And the music o! their child voices! The concert of tho morning stars, what were they to tho natural untrained melody of Innocent childhood In Its joyous expectations? A brief, bright morning picture with fervid expectant fancy attuned to "peace and good will to men," a sacred, solemn, confident, joyous, "peace." a "good will" and fraternal friendship that shall, Jill and fructify and sanctify the yenrfWo come. Ah, childhood, Christmas childhood See how for ov'ie day it mocks th poet's lines, "Some traces of Eden ye still inherit, but the trail of the serpent ser-pent Is over them all. Its own gift is always the best, and it rejoices lh;t Hill and Jim and Lizzie and Siira fared as well. "Peace on earlh." but no or 1 earth; "good will" that shall inforii; , I ; coming year and mold the man and 1 woman of the future. |