Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1869-01-05

Ana nope ne ii never De iOECeu " oeOP' a.
And die in the smoke of the chimney top
1t is a pleasant delusion to childhood
with its warm hued fancies, pleasant
memory to old ages white silver hair.
The story of the Christ-child, though
often repeated, never ceases to interest
human hearts. The children, gazing with
reyerent, earnest eyes at the far-of stars,
shining down through the dark December
air. think of that star, which, ages ago,
rose with such beauty and brilliancy in
the distant East,-the wonderful star OF
Bethlehem.
Christ is born--the king of kings, but
not in palace surrounded by pomp and
splendor, not even in howell amid want
and beggary, but in manger among cat
tie, and the Heavenly choir sing the glad
triumphant song, Glory. to God in the
Highest, on earth peace, good will toward
men.
Here in this humble place is God man
ifest in the flesh. He who swung the
earth into space, who upheaved its noun
tains, who spread out its seas, who made
it fit dwelling-place for all his creatures
condescends now to give his son ransom
for SHINING and lost world, and he sends
him in the form of little child.
Does the virgin mother know the mis-
sion of the weak infant, over which she
watches with such tender solicitude
She ponders many things in her heart
Size is dimly conscious that no ordinary
life is to be her child's. But how coulc
she realize more than other mothers, tina
this is He, who shall cause the deaf tc
hear, the blind to see, the lame to walk
the sick to be healed and the dead to b
raised to life again. How could she re
alize that this little child is to be tn
man of sorrows, who shall wrestle ii
Gethsemane, who shall die on Calvar.
and shall rise again to rob Death Of it
sting, the grave of its victory.
Blessed unconscious mother, such shal
be his earthly life
And what shall Christmas teach us
Humility, charity, mercy, earnestness an
dispatch in our labor.
Knowing the many temptations tina
have bufeted us, and how weak we hav
often found ourselves to resist them, shal
we not be charitable in thought and feel
ing toward our fallen brother?
If God in his goodness has allowed tn
sun of prosperity to shine upon us, sha
we not be grateful for the blessing, an
generous enough to share it with Other
r less favored?
: If he has spared our loved ones, sha'
8 We not have hearts full of tender pity fc
, those whose homes are bereft and desc
II, in our midst are those, out of who's
lives the sunshine seems to have faded
shall we not speak kind, encouraging
u hopeful words, remembering "every hear
} knoweth its own bitterness ?"
Here in the thrift and comfort of GU
country homes, we know nothing of abso
lutte poverty, for work is abundant an,
people disposed to labor, a comfortabl
livelihood, with the blessing of health cal
be obtained. But in all our large town
and cities are multitudes who seldom hay
enough to eat; little children who ar
stlnted at morning, noon and night VIII
are glad of the refuse from the kitchen
of the wealthy to supply the demands o
nature.
Is it any wonder that they grow u
with diseased bodies, and worse yet vita
ted minds, to become the outcasts Of soci
ety. Is it any wonder that crime i
abroad in our land, that our prisons ar
full? The times demand that ever
Christian heart and hand should be earn
est in its labor, that "man's inhumsnit'
to man may no longer make counties
millions mourn"
We should labor with dispatch too, 70
the first moment Of our existence was 81
much time rolled into eternity; the era
die rocked us nearer to the grave; ever,
heart'throb Is a warning Of the approach
of death.
Then whoever runs this race of life wei
must take heed to his ways and be not de
ceived; God is not Knocked, for whatso
ever man soweth, that shall he also reap
CATAMoUNTs.-What about those fierc,
animals called Catamounts, which 30 excl