| Show our christmas shopping and the joy of giving w HE joyful season of the year has IT f come the christmastide surges through the christian world with a wealth of kindly thought it has bag brought the time of christmas trade the universal custom of giving gifts makes everybody richer and nobody poorer the christmas spirit Is a sacred thing that sanctified sanctifies the humble things of life it kindles generous love in the callous breasts of men it brightens the dreary homes of earth and it hangs angs the star of I 1 ope above the palace and the cabin it leads to light and life the nobler traits of men it Is the finest asset of civilization christmas shopping Is but a kindly way of thinking about friends friend and friendships a concrete expression of human love and hope it brings a sweet and subtle joy to those who give and happiness to whom Is given it builds a fire on the cheerless hearth and re warms the ties of home and kin it lifts the burdens of the heavy laden and to every pilgrim reveals the star of bethlehem gifts given enrich the giver out of the over bending heavens cante came the spirit of giving heaven Is always giving heralded by angels into the night of bethlehem came the gift of life and joy the richest the rarest gift of earth or heaven that giving aup quickened bened the generosity of rich and poor it prompted the return of the best that men have hare to give the rich gave gold frankincense and myrrh put but the poor outrank them far am a ni firing brine the lie alaba satir box VT ot loie from that manger cradle the christ mas spirit has wandered far and wide the spirit of christmas the spirit of giving has followed the star down through the ages and the world Is vastly richer riche r speed unhampered d the christmas joy and let the giving of 0 gifts speak the language of human souls faro fare forth to the temples temple of sale where dealers ate aie Ani priests at the altars of trade and it if you lack the price of jewels remember that nothing Is too cheap or poor to bear the warmth of friendship and sincerity william L gaston 5 ma by newspaper union 1 |
