San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-12-24
CHRISTMAS HAS GONE.

The season sacred to the church
and sanctified to all the delights of
home, comes around once more. For
nearly sixteen hundred years the
25th December of each year has been
observed as the anniversary of the
birth of Jesus, the Nazarene, the
Saviour of the Christian world. For
two centuries before that time, it was
q memorable anniversary, and cele-
brated in the months of April and
May. Though thus celebrated
as religious anniversary, it
would be difficult to say wneth-
or it were today more Of
religious, domestic or festival &C.
cssion, partaking as 1t does in so
many cases of religious, domestic
and merry making character. No
matter how regarded it has become
throughout England and all over the
European continent. and throughout
the Americas as we'll the one great
festival season of the year. 1t is the
day of all nations. The natal day of
the Christ child, who appears in
the legends, church calenders
and cradle stories of all
lands, and whose coming sig
nailed a day of greater good
will than earth had ever witnessed.
Our keeping of this festal day is in
great measure denied from the
English and German observances of
it, both ofwhich in modified form are
reflected in our keeping of the day.
1t is prominently children's day,
and for them the Christmas tree was
introduced laden with presents for
the little ones of the households. The
practice of decking our houses with
evergreens is copied from the old
druidical custom, 1t being their
belief that the sylvan deities fiocked
to the. .overgreens and were sheltered
there until the frosts were gone. 1t
is the spirit of this old kindly festi-
val, festival sacred to good fellow
ship, family reunions, and remem-
ORANGES of all that is best In the
home and in the church; festiva
that specially commends us to re
mem behouseiess rand givesl Gift he
to the poor; sentiment immorta-
lized by Dickens in his Christmas
carrols-it is this sentiment that
makes the Christmas day and Christ
mas eve, and the Yule tide a
season never to be forgotten, a
festival never to be neglected. 1t
comes to us 10 old San Antonio, this
year of grace, 1890, bidding all malice
and evil-speaking, and envy :and Bit
terness to die out of our hearts; bid
ding us remember only those broad
humanities that should bind men to-
gether as interested members of a
common family; and particularly
charging Us to remember the poor in
their poverty, the friendless in their
isolation, the homeless in their DESC
lation, the sick in their distress,
the young in their disconsolate-
ness, and the old in their de-
spair. Around your Christmas trees
and yale logs tonight remember the
Christ child and his mission, to bless
the unfortunate ones of earth, and
make his work your own. To each
reader or the LIGHT at this Christmas
season, greeting: May your homes
be filled with plenty and your hearts
be at peace. May your hands cheer
fully open to give to those who have
not, and may the benediction of those
who remember the poor be in your
lives. A glad Christmas and cheer
full one to the old, and merry Christ
mas to the young is the greeting of
the LIGHT
| DIVORCE Pendleton of For Worth
has found out who fooled him in the
last August divorce proceedings, on
the strength of which he married the
telephone girl and was "helloed" be.
for the country in way that made
him rattle the clods of Fort Worth
from his feet in hurry. What the
stated.
Assignee's Sale.
Selling out entire stock of A. Bruins
wick g. Son, regardless of cost.
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