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Show hi iiiiiiiiiiiimimiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiimi WhatDoYouWant? By Christopher C rlanrd ill iiiiiiiiiimiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiuiiuiiii K0, lUi, Weatern Nearapaper Union.) TX7IIEN the boy passed the baker's " shop on his way to school, he used to look with longing upon the display of pies and cakes and resolve In his heart that If fortune should ever bless him with means he would have enough of a feast for once. But when, In after years, he passed the sitine old shop and looked upon the new treasures of the old window, now with a pocketful of money, he had ceased to care for the goodies, and went on, Jingling his useless coins. What do we want now? Not what we used to want Not more pie, not more candy, not more toys, not even more money. The old ambitions have been realized, the old goals have been reached, we have the power of which we dreamed, there doesn't seem to be anything In sight worth running after, we look out upon a splendid world with a falling desire for It, we go on by an acquired momentum rather thnn with test Still, we are unsatisfied. Yet we want something. What is It? What do we want? What could the Christmas time bring us of satisfaction? satisfac-tion? How would you like to recover that lost art of imagination? Hiw would a large investment in hope pny you? What would that strange power of beholding be-holding the reality nnd the loveliness of a spiritual world, that mysterious power that some have, mean to you? If you could be a child again, Just for Christmas Eve, perhaps, you would see the meaning of the stars tnat rido so gloriously upon the billows o space. You might feel called up and out by the supreme and 'satisfying Joy that Christmas signifies. After all, we may have gained the world and lost faith, nn Immeasurable loss. Only he who keeps his childlike-ness childlike-ness not his childishness knows the eternal worth of time, the satisfaction satisfac-tion of that everlasting love that faith grasps. What a Christmas gift that would bel Was not the old colored preacher right v.hen he sang, "All I want, all I want; all I want Is a little more faith In Jesus"? |