The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1888-12-20
BELLEVUE, LA.
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1888.
Christmas.

Before another issue of our paper
the Christmas festivities viii have
passed with their present issues and
enioyments. Ten thousand harps
win have been tuned and sung sweet
est music in anthems of praise to
Him whose birth was celebrated
Eighteen hundred and lightweight
years ago only few about Palestine
were his followers. To-day over
sixty millions in our own America
worship at His feet. Millions more
throughout the entire world adore
Him a. tsLord of all, " and next Tues
day win celebrate the great event OF
the age, the birth Of the Prince OF
Peace.
Well may the nations of Earth re-
ioioe at the Christmas tide. It was
Jesus Of Nazareth Who taught the
equality Of man in the equilibrium OF
personalities and moral qualities Of
our race. Heset the example OF do
ing good TO our enemies. He taught
us how to live that in dying we live
TO die no more forever. He is the
Resurrection power, the Word that
giveth life and our Intercessor at the
Throne in Heaven.
Yes, Christmas is near at hand. In
. few days viii commence the glad
peals from church and campanile-
the deep-mouthed clangor and the
sweet. clear chimes ringing out on
the cold midnight air shall swell the
song Of praise. In hall and cot shall
be happiness and love. How the
bosom Of the aged and tremulous
occupant Of the old arm chair will
swell with emotion and the tears of
affection steal down his furrowed
cheeks rs he listens to the silver bells
wrineing with JOY in each little in
nocerlt heart. How every eye, now
and then will turn to the seat where
the mother sat of winter evenings
plying her needle--to where the old
house dog laid in his place in the
corner at full length, and where the
cat nestled near his feet. How when
the
DAY is gone and the darkness
Falls from the wings Of night"
viii como back to us the hours when
the wind glancing over the house-top,
whirling and eddying and moaning
around the corners, kissing unde,
the door and sending its cold breath
in every crevice; and how the win
dows ratified when the blast cams
fercest-how the young and the ole
will rejoice in the festal day o
Christendom.
Christmas has another significance
other than that Of which we hav'
written. II is season for the exhi
bition Of the more generous influence
Of o,lr hearts, for the distribution o
thoso silent charities which fall lik'
The dews Of heaven upon the COLI
and hungered around . colder hearth
stone, for remember, ssto whom mucl
is given, of there much win be re
qrlirsd." II 10 . period when IN
pleasant thoughts and bitter passions
should be buried and the very at
mosphere be made redolent with JOY
The Banner wishes the whole
world q merry Christmas.' Ma,
the music Of innocent joys fall sweet
Iy every listening heart and thei
melody ever awaken pleasant recol
lsEtions through life. To those VIII
are entering into the sssear and yel
low leaf, and those who are bending
Beneath the weight of the "goldel
fruitage," may its return come as q
cid playmate, the remembrance Q
those swsstsrjoys Of unbroken youth
and its sunlight awaken forgotte'
dreams Of lore and hope--that Low
ard hope which causss IA to loo
beyond the DARK winter OF death int
ihs6elds Of everlasting besnty INA