Show IT c lie n C Christmas l art li sin s h 1 1 i G Gift i if ll I d i i t TIfT T ta f J Li Jl I i iM 1 JL M J L Cho Donn t- t WO Yo stockings s hung f I either side of the j piece of nn an old old 1 I room roam They were well tilled fillet 3 They bul bulged cd inartistically but generously at nt eQI every possible pos II sil sible le place Over the pIe 0 tares turcs on on the walls wi-ro wi P of green In In large c branches spruce one corner of the tile room stood u Il I Christmas tree gayly galy bedecked with willi tinsel and favors and amI on tho the very cry top lop a n cardboard Santa Main taus was wan perched t who still appeared as ruddy and amI festl v e as he had when first lie he had stood there seventeen years before j The stockings which hung so heavily I looked cd as though thc they would tire drop I their load an any minI minute min Olin z ute but thc they lies were I securely fl fastened and held down at atthe I c the top lop h by heavy hea Ii a J books umrie cried crieda a girls girl's voice rolce The front door hall hail ju just r t rA A opened I JJ II lIe B c ello 11 0 o. o c came cameI a PI m mIt r I hack back the answer r It I from the worm wom n nI sitting before the I J a fire lire in the I I 1 J room She gaze Ii I i with half wistful I eyes ees at nt the stockIngs stock stock- stockings i ings n r s t then It ens she sheI h e eI I called although she knew the answer answer- Yes Who Is It Oh the girl exclaimed 1 r. r ay I she came carne In the door how lorel lovely th the tho trimmed th house looks And youve you've I stairway since Ive I've been gone one Oil Dill you put some green In Jn the pulpit of the living liv liv- living Louise W ran out ing room and up the stairs around the bend hend of which was an opening which h ch strongly sf l' l o-ng o 1 resembled a pulpit architecturally There again and again as a n child Louise ha had preached sermons sermons ser mons Maus to to who had sat on the stairs states the sole listener to her oft re text and sermon on the theme she he loved loyed the best It gave gare her n a chance for so many repetitions and again and nud again In Iii her own wn way she would give ive her text test Samel Samel and ami he answered Here n am I Again an and n again the Lord would call can Samuel Samul in Louises Louise's recitation If she had gathered some of her bel friends together at any time time- she site had formed a choir processional and the they had ad added ed to the service b by sin singing in From Greenland's Icy Ier Moun Moun- Iou It was such a n graphic hymn I She could see Indias India's coral strand strand tile the great rent ic Icy mountains of Greenland and the hot soil of Africa Africa all all vividly In her mind She was glad the hymn had been written by some one ono who had traveled traveled site she was sure ft it must ha have vc been I Yes the pulpit had been decorated with great branches of green spruce pruce and null pine and hemlock There Thel i as ras nothing in the house which didn't show that it was Christmas time and the room where they sat with Its four windows Its wreaths at each ench one Its white woodwork its Us huge open Ore fire dancing gayly and throwing shadows and lights anti and making mating a wonderful series of fantastic fanciful pictures on tile the thoYal Yal w-al all breathed the spirit of the season So they had sat every Christmas eve now for seventeen years hall hail waited until Louise was t year rear old to decorate the house we better be bo having haying super supper sup sup- per er now Weve We've a u long evening ahead ahem So these two cele celebrated rated their Christmas Christmas Christ Christ- mas together one of th them m old theother the tho other young And when Louise said sale night good oo to one little happy tear leal did dill escape tier her and felt fell it on on her cheek the tatter matter bane dearie Nothing nt at nil all Louise Only Ive I've been thinking that th Hu Humes mes most t wonderful of nil all the gift tta A n beautiful d' d I m most 0 s t Christmas gift or NJ G gift f M t life or nn anything any any- ir 4 j thing thin am Hurl every 4 a athing thing Is the wa way MI a ayou you OU ha have nl a always s 's B made made- madeus U us have hac so much happiness and autI so much joy joy- jn out out- of keeping 1 nr o days ns enterIng entering enter enter- 1 in ing into the spirit t r of them end md in 1 I matting making the tile lla day I Ih I h day hy II living 1 ng- ng some dome something thing thing- so F J I and s so happy Oh t I you von pill put pur tU m the sll spirit lit of Christ Christmas Christmas t I m mas minto into Intel e every moment of the year nar And AmI hugged Louise and 83 said Id I My I dear youre you're oure the secret of It U nit all It Is because a n young creature such n as you OU has hns never nC never neve made me 1110 feel feci old OZ V m rn n Newspaper Union u 19 u 1 The Other ot at Fellow at Christmas Sometimes its it's bell beti belter r to have hare o ia 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