Show mi ii N 0 greal ggs I 1 aw VU vwe V we vz TART T ART of the wisdom of providence no doubt is is I 1 JL I expressed in the calendar position of christmas it would i be hard to imagine a holiday of its peculiarly sweet and I 1 tender signi significance cance coming at any other season of the year no other time is so appropriate the sparkling cold of the I 1 air but increases the warmth within I 1 p spring and summer have their more intense activities and I 1 autumn its garnering near the end of the year cames comes the tha balancing of thel tha books the checking over of affairs to see if they have been well or ill this is also a good time for I 1 j spiritual stocktaking stock taking a proceeding happily promoted by 1 14 christmas N if our affairs have been good the more reason for a feeling I 1 of charity and good will if the twelvemonth twelve month has bome trials te bals end and anxieties in in unusual measure the more reason for a sympathetic feeling towa toward rd others who have 1 been similarly burdened and 0 for summoning peace to our hearts and renewing our faith it is the season of quickening pulse and regenerated hope the season when heart calleta unto heart let us I 1 blend our voices in full jubilee MERRY MERRT CHRISTMAS N I 1 THE publishers 1 oc 7 |