Show our chris christmas amas day n is an innate perception 45 ay among men and women that christmas day ought to be the happiest in the year it la Is doubtful if they ever attempt to analyze their own owa halt half formed ideas on the subject but it Is only necessary to turn to tilt the writings of those who have apen most solicitous for the lie well being of their fellow men to see sec that tills this Is the case look for instance at irving telling in 1111 the story of a good old fashioned christmas according to the flesh a picture that wits was to express his fits ideal of on earth pence peace good wilt will toward men or turn to tho the greatest of all the chroniclers of christmas charles dickens the man who in tits his many pictures from that of dingley dell to jo that of scrooges gos bedroom sought to make christmas a season of good deeds and of good cheer blessings on an your kind heart I 1 jeffrey wrote to him on the publication of the christinas carol you should bo be happy yourself for you may be sure you have done more good by this little publication fostered more kindly feelings and prompted more posit positive lVe nets acts to beneficence than can bo be traced to nil all tilt the pulpits ind confessionals in christendom since christmas 1842 after that tead read tile the accounts of how they actually kept kepi christmas at Bruce bracebridge bridge hall and Dingley dell contrast it with the marvelous marve loua story told old by luke aba he beloved physician physic lan of that hint first christmas lay in ili nazareth christian science monitor |