Show CHRISTMAS REUNIONS HOW many families whose members mem-bers have been dispersed and scattered far and wide in the restless struggles of life are on this day reunited and meet once again in. that happy state of companionship and mutual good wiil which is a source of such pure and unalloyed delight and one so incompatible with the cares and sorrows of the world that the religious belief of the most civilized nations and the rude traditions of the roughest rough-est savages alike number it among the first joys of a future condition of existence ex-istence provided for the blest and . I happy ! How' many old recollections and how many doumant sympathies : does Christmas time awaken I Charles j Dickens. |