Show MERRY CHRISTMAS before our out next issue asue i our our reader readers wid friend friends tho the n merry chimes of the christmas enrol carol will have died lied away iu in the din mid and turmoil of the tile worlds every day business lle the little cliatt lights on oil the christmas trees trec will have burned down to the socket tho the mirth and hilarity joy and elec glee of tho the festival occasion will have made room t to tho the restraint and sobriety quiet and coldness of bu humdrum md rum life the yule log will be ila only a heap of smoldering ashes and the kinle toc han liati dry and withered over the fim fireside de F faces aces that glowed with pleasure pl ensure will wear the weary expression ki ion of lifes burdens and sorrows oress lips that smiled in happi happiness k willbe will be presed together under the load of stern stern duty eyes that twinkled in merriment will droop in pain or tire in in dumb resignation yet christinas will not have been in vain alot in vain will the cheery fire have baye crack crackled ledat at the happy hearth around which gata ered bred the fortunate family circle the mistletoe toe will aill have witnessed which were not only the idle aa of pleasantries pleasant ries or the hollow show of etiquette there will have been pledges of love and tokens of affection and seals of devotion t q the bellit that rang clearly lilt with their enli enlivening chimes in the crimp winter air will not be altogether ei forgotten their echo will rever berato in trulia rim hearts and loving ni pent ad though the toasts are the clinking of the glasses classes dead and the wave of rejoicing f subsided voices will have been awakened accents of love whisper era of faith breaths of liopo hope which refi rei nahun theiu the inmost most heart which sound pure and clear cle artruc true and mig mighty lity it is nigh r on to 19 10 centuries that the event occurred which all chaij t te c el ebra tee on oil dec thep the prince of peace was era died in the humble manger niane of beth aelic lehem ni k known aown to a few only adored dured b by a little band liand but from that Bethh beni has gone forth the raigh tiet et energy that ever shaped t the lia d destinies esti gies odthe of the world and the character and history of mankind the gopel of love the glad tidings of the golden gulden itu rule I e the message message of the angels to the j pastora of palestine glory to god I I i lh n the bi gle and pe peace abe on earth to men nien of good will through of if medieval superstition the baar of bethlehem has ever shone clear and bright though th the e churches were 17 cr entrapped in the egares of a ncy ev the faithful still had tl the ic one e tru true f faith aith left the peacemaker peace maker of bethlehem amidst all theaon and tumults of war when father was arrayed against son and brother combated brother chri chrict chrit t i nias was aho oasis in the montla months round christmas brought one glimpse glimp e of heavenly light into th tho valley valle y of the shadow a of death of later days when the t grossness of superstition and the error jofs false filse religion have baye beca been largely succeeded by the hollowness hollow of skepticism aali and the despairing doubts of infidelity still christma christmas s prevails till still the yule lois log i fired the christmas trees illuminated and open boards still betoken the open hearts thebold the old cold dull blade ot infidel logic htiu breaks at the hilt when villen it comes in contact with the warm strong armor of faith underneath of which glows and beats a heart with the tile fires of love arid add the clastic elasticity it y of ho hope c mankind at least ila its civilized portion lias has lost or or fur forsaken its idol idols but it clings more inore fervently ja because lucre more intelligently to the ideals the worship of images has become ob obsolete olete but the worship of the ideal still ia is as powerful as over ever it was man has abandoned his handmade god gods but has bas learned to love I rid and lift up his fellow man hence when in the rapid rotation of the year the of december dawns over the snow clad mountain tops of iho the northern regions or over the blos bins tot tonning ning forest crests of the tropic tr the bells ling zing their chimes where cathedrals and aud churches lift their spire s j and micro no architecture represents reprints the faith of the tile chrit chris tian the follower of christ feels the ahe glad tidings of tho the goepel gospel of luke 11 II 14 ring rin in hia bis heart beart as glad and as 16 as the metallic hlll lie al on this day the catholic in ill ilia ills cathedral the methodia iu in his ills bouve lie the latter day saint in iu hid ilia tabernacle and wid th tho I E episcopalian pisco in his minster th they CY all celebrate the day when gods lovo love dawned ju in its it upon maii and ni mans ins love fur for wan inan was kindled by the rays of the star of bethlehem hence on next monday we bid truce to allwell nil feud d wo ave lay down the buckler of brej prejudice u dice and the tile sword of hatred and it 11 id clasp one an others hand land in truth and lovo love and amid the cheerful strains of the christmas carol un der the brilliancy of the st star nr of of bethlehem and find in tile r spirit of peace on earth to men of good will ill we ave li hai lonc another with one loud accord blebby |