The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1878-12-26
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EDITOR TINS Throughout Christen.
dom there is one day of days which in the
midst of the darkest weather beams forth
with excelling radiance, like a great stsr
that, when the sky is overloaded, shines
alone this is the holy day of Christuas
In the old land, on such day. neighbor:
visit: neighbors and renew the frayed and
broken bonds OF friendship in the saluta
tion Christ ha, arisen" And into Rome,
the Imperial city, the mountaineers des-
oending in their picturesque costumes, the
Pifferair, accompanying upon antiquely
simple pipes, sing their carols. And upon
thai day the earth Is girdled with cincture
OF melody, the chime Of church bells in
joyful cadence surrounds it, and choir to
choir calls like sentries In the night repeat
ing the hymn Of love and sacred invitation
to be of good and holy cheer; to forget for
q time the material bonds of earth snd re-
member those which unite them to high
of kindred, remembering there is home on
high whittier it may be, some have gone
before to forgive the bitter enemy strong
with the strength of pardon which he infu-
ses who torgave all, and to diminish the As
periti,s Of nations, one TO another over the
whole earth, reminding them that indeed
they have something in common, that they
were not wholly set apart and hostile, that
they cannot be altogether Indifferent each
to each, because they have the same Faith
er. Such lie the call of the choirs. A Sc
rene and holy joy hangs over Christmas
day, similar to that sudden light which fell
upon the shepherds watching their sheep by
the hillside, when the voice of the angels
were heard among men, and the invisible
thought of God-his word-became vIsibly
clothed In humanity, that humanity might
behold, and yet live.
EBLANA.
Pleasant Ridge, Leavenworth county.
Ge,rxe Henry Lewe. and Bss ard
Taylor,
New York Times, q
There are 20 mary parallels between
George Henry Lewes and Bayard Taylor
that their deaths, only few days apart,
can scarcely fail to be considered a re-
markable circumstance. Lewes was gener-
ally regarded, and probably was the best
German scholar of Great Braltain; Taylor
vas, no doubt, the best German scholar of
America. Both had made long and deep
studies for biography of Goethe. Lewes
had published his years before his death,
and it was esteemed on the whole, the best,
as it was the most popular, of his works
Taylor was still preparing his life of
Goethe (much Of il had been vritten) up
to the hour Of his disease, and had
expected it TO be the intellectual
crown of his life. Both were ex-
ceptionally conspicuous for the extent
and variety Of their attainments. Both
were accomplished linguists, though the
American had command Of many more Ian
gusges than the Englishman. Both had
shone in many departments of literary art,
Lewes inclining, latterly, to science, and
Taylor to pure letters. Both, though OF
religious nature, rs true artists of any kind
are apt to be, we're avowed rationalists. who
kept fully abreast Of the advanced thought
Of the time. Both evinced from their ear.
liest years passion for authorship which
could not be repressed, in one case in
counting room, in the other in q printing
Office, and which asserted itself long before
manhood proper had begun. Both were
journalists as veil rs men of letters, and
retained their connection riih journalism
70 the iart- Both had been drawn To Goe,he
in b ,yhood, and had been much influenced
md partly formed BY study of his works