Show tS WWW we ve MEANING naef gf CHRISTMAS BY REV T IS GREGORY UT tor for it ita great days daya tn in C carna romo ting and ad fleshing flashing forth fluth the tha ideal h humanity ity would he haie no 11 more crove history ill than a thick flock of sheep sharp such days daya are the monuments or of mental bud it spiritual achieve ment meet the eternal reminders ot of the only true progress the progress that thai so ties us to perceive parent and admire min flim th moral sublime c conspicuously u y radiant d t 4 among g ahw gala als days is th the chris christmas I 1 mae standing th a as it d does 0 f tor rt the h na nativity tl t y 0 of f 0 one n e who h 0 all theological quibbling aside was tte tta living embodiment of the most meet beau and at the same time the most helpful manhood that this world hm has i seen co ahe I 1 one am wim who b to ton fmc mars moot 1 in out our thoughts 1 I at this time was preeminent 1 ly hopeful from the harp oer which h I 1 ili he swept his hand 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a r the light of te earth grew up to be the most ancone hing optimist that ever waited the ways of earth carth wherever he went won along with him went gladness glada gla and to rom in h his a radiant presence despair fled as am the time fleca aleem before the rising sun ile he was like the wonderful river in ih ahe sea C warming and encouraging all diet he be touched the he gulf stream sir of liu manity he put new W life and ad chui coui co ge ape and jov jor lure into the cheerless nor mor rowane lug world to which w aich lie ile came and he be was wait able to do this because is ie was so gloriously hopeful me 0 o kanchay commutated to the belief lo in the best beat looking up fan be saw instead of the black bett bottomless orelea tile ali be if loving glance gl of the father hose eternal a goodness would never ever lo in him harm ham looking sheen ahead athla th man saw no spook or bogles bogies no an devils or find fiends al the way th the path clear nod and over it ft hung no 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friend and helper to al all mankind it la is well ovil the then that 1 in obedience bCd lC to 0 old custom we should throw bout about t alie 1 a christmas season the parti col colored red mantle or joy and wreathe it with the be hearts tills most meet exar mor berant glde gladness it I 1 mould be a shame not to be glad and not net to try to make everybody else Is glad a on Ch caristrom day I 1 on christ christmas christas as day to be a cynic cycle and to curl the he up lip of scorn at eight of the rosy festivities about us would be son BO unpardonable crime the ver verj abyss bym of the mean still and contemptible it la is a P part rt of the unwritten law of eve every healthful heart that when christmas comes come we are am to put our best beat foot fact forward cast all 11 care to 1 abe winds and be as full of g gladness d eve and ac mod dior will as an egg 18 s I 1 of most and right here re tn in battle t this 1 nn veordo conquer ne ordo able optimism we find the only true and genuine christianity the one whose chose birth the christmas signalizes came to replace tea tears by aile a ile sorrow waty by happiness worry by confidence dence and ad despair by the hp hope ill that makesh nut not retained ashamed an and d in id his name I 1 I 1 anh von all 11 a berrr christmas so tedi gaqi not merely a an abundance C a of turkey and plum pudding but in an extra extell abundance of good will to men with no lack of the disposition and ad re resolve v to do mane eve everything grything else as happy an am yourselves VOL GT |