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Show Gems of bought j CHRISTMAS I Christians awake, salute the I happy morn Whereon the Saviour of "the world was born. John Byrom 'For unto us ai child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government govern-ment shall be upon his shoulder: and his. name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace. Isaiah 9:6. And bo the Word had breath, and wrought With human hands thg creed of creeds In lc-vjeliness of perfect deeds, More strong than all poetic ' 'thought. Tennyson. An era in human history i3 the life of Jesus, and1 its immense influence in-fluence for good leaves all the perversion and superstition that hts ' accrued almost harmless. Emerson. ' In : darkness there is no choice. It .is light tWat enables us to see the difference between things; and it is Christ that gives us right.-. C. and A. W. Hare. The basis of Christmas is the rock, .Christ Jesus; its fruits are inspiration and spiritual understanding under-standing of joy and rejoicing, not because of tradition, usage, or corporeal pleasures, but because of fundamental md demonstrable truth, because of the heaven within with-in us.-7-Mary Baker Eddy. |