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Show MERRY CHRISTMAS To each and, every resident of Milford and the community surrounding-, we present the season's greetings and our heartiest wishes for a Merry Christmas!! It is our sincere wish that in every heart there abounds at this time the peace and happiness and contentment that makes of this the most helpful and inspiring season of the entire year. In each heart we trust there is cause for joy and gladness, and out of each heart we feel sure there comes a kindly and neighborly feeling for all mankind. The Christmas Christ-mas spirit now finds its way into every comer of the civilized civiliz-ed world; into the hovel and the palace alike; into the fastnesses fast-nesses of forest homes and homes set upon the plains; into the hearts of those who possess little of earthly goods and into the hearts of those who possess much. The Christmas spirit the greatest leveler of all now touches the hearts of all mankind alike and kindles therein the beacon light ot hope a hope that was bom beneath the star of Bethlehem almost two thousand years ago; a hope that keeps the eyes of the world turned, to the future and the hearts of the world united in a prayer of Peace On Earth Good Will Toward Men. In this, the most beautiful season known to man, there should be found time for every heart to count its blessings and give thought to their source. The age-old lesson of the lowly birth of the One the Christmas seeason honors should serve as a solace to those who feel life's burden heavy upon them. It should lighten the heart and make it glad. A season of joy and gladness for young hearts, it is likewise like-wise a seaon when old hearts are made young again, when the spirit of childish innocence is restored by memories, the bonds of friendship renewed and the welfare of our neighbors neigh-bors set with new importance- It is a season for renewing our p'ccfe of friendship for ttiose about us; a season for demonstrating by smile and hand-clasp and cheering words, our love for those who make up our individual circle of neighbors and friends. It is a time for thankfulness that we have it in our power to make those friendships endure. Out of the east comes once more the light that guides mankind to higher and better things and toward a haven that is more magnificent than anything yet buDt by hands. We see that light we know it as the Christmas spirit. And now as hearts grow mellow beneath it, and are filled with it; as it is scattered abroad through smiles and laughter and gifts and gladsome song, we enter the Christmas season with only love and kindliness. We find hope and earthly happiness happi-ness bom anew within us, and a tenderer feeling toward those about us- It is this mystic power of the spirit of Christmas which makes this the most sacred and inspiring holiday of all. It is with this mystic power in our hearts that we repeat the wish now uppermost in our hearts the wish that this will be for you and yours A Merry Christmas! |