National Republican., 1877-12-25
"Pcace on Earth, Good WIn 10 Men.-

"Rejoice, rejoice for this day Is born TO you q
| Saviour, the King OF Kings, the Lord Of Hostsi"
The manner in which the American people
are celebrating this day is proof beyond con-
| troversy that the Anglo-SaIon Is a Christian.
| 1t is only necessary to point to the local col
umns Of the REPUBLICAN, to prove in what q
proper and rejoicing spirit the people Of tho
District, both Protestant and Catholic, Of all
sccts, creeds, and denominations, at their re-
| spcctive places Of worship are commemorating
the birthday Of the Redeemer.
| Ere you read these lines the communicates
of the Roman Catholic Church will every
where have celebrated the grand high mass
"Chrisi Massd," and the soul-inspiring strains
of the old masters, Beethoven, Mozart,
and Haydn, will have resounded
gloom Of overhanging arches and the
"dim, religious light" Of stained windows,
while the air is heavy with incense, and tho
hearts Of the worshipers are quickened anew
with love for the Man Of Sorrows" who gavo
His life for the sins Of world.
In the Protestant sanctuaries green with
ivy and holly aud mistletoe-in which, let us
hope, the good spirits of. sylvan solitudes T
which our ancestors believed in are snugly
ensconced for tho winter-the day Is cele-
brated on equally grand scale by religious ser
vices. choice music, and appropriate addresses.
Lastly, but by no means leastly in the minds
| of the little ones, comes the Sunday school
celebrations this afternoon and evening, and
the distribution and exchange of more love-
tokens between teachers, parents, and child
N,f% But, best of all. is the happy home circle,
| HOME, SWEET HOME
Is ever felt by the wanderer, 1t is at the Christ
mas-tide. II he has ever enjoyed its exquisite
pleasures on other Christmascs, then the exile
more deeply realizes his loss to-day and feels
the more alone. Yet those who have never
ind sod far tho
was right who sang
/ feel Il when sorrow most
hold 1t true whaie'er befall-
'Tis better 10 have loved and lost
Than never 70 have loved at all.
The comfortable rooms, we'll furnished and
filed the Christmas callers and merry greet
inRs, tho smiles and welcomes, the Christmas
tree in the corner, SO entrancingly arranged
and generously laden, to the unbounded sd-
miration of the small folk! We remember
with tender sadness blue-eyed, curly haired
four-year- -old, who on a Christmas morning in
the long ago, aftcr scanning his well-laden
bush with speechless admiration, cried, 20
mamma, such . bootiful bush! Why don't
this kind grow In the park" And then We
wonder II our dead boy is keeping happier
Ono word right here, good friends-espe-
tally TO the young lady readers Of the Corner ,
Beware Of tho wassail bowl!
EGa-NoGG, &C,
NAV be an established institution of 'ths day
we celebrate !" but, II custom compels Its use,
let 1t bo compounded and administered on
homeopathic principles-sman doses at long
intervals and decidedly more egg than 'nogg"
hundred times diluted. Milk hurts nobody,
| but too much "stick" in 1t sometimes docs q
deal of mischief Perhaps We are not the
proper doctor for the occasion, for our pre-
| scription would read Touch not, taste not,
handle not" at all. Who does not abhor
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words are weak. to describe the disgust
inspired by the sight Of woman in that condi-
tion. Yet many well-intentioned heads get
sadly muddled through tho mistaken hospi-
tality of friends, whose first duty should be to
prevent such u catastrophe. Young ladies,
should a young gentleman visit you to-day
under the influence of liquor, take my advice
aud keen him al yosr home. Coax him into tho
library or some other place, and persuade him
to take u nap. Your own good sense viii tell
YOU TO offer him no more 'nogg' or other
kindred portions, nor suffer him to be exposed
To further temptation. Be cheerful and pleas
ant with him as usual, and don't allow him to
mistrust that you suspect that he has had too
much and when he goes from you, let 1t bs
asa
THOROUGHLY SOBER MAN.
Depend upon 1t, you will have earned that
young mans lasting gratitude by saving bis
self-rcspect and that the salutary influence Of
your charitable friendlincss will inure to his
benefit for many day. Otherwise ho would
probably go to bed tonight drunk an easier
prey for the tempter on each succeeding NOR
row for when once started in this slippery
road to ruin tho downward steps are rapid.
And so may your turkeys be Of the richest
your celery, 81 cetera, the rarcst and your
',goode checre" unlimited. While In happy
circles you enjoy your Christmas feasts, forget
not the poor that "ye have always and re,
member that Charity eovereth multitude OF
sins" making glad the giver us well AS the ro-
ceiver.
Tomorrow night, the 26th inst, occurs tho
long-talked-of Hall hartley wedding vt tha
Metropolitan, Church, announced some time
ago in this column.
The engagement of Miss Wainwright and
Lieut.. scaion Schroeder U. B, n, is an
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