The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1893-12-23

The Christmas season - upon US.
Before another issue Of the NEw Do
msros it will have come and gone.
We therefore take this occasion to
extend 10 all our Teaders the compIi-
ments Of the season. and TO wish each
and all the happiest Christmas in
their memory.
While the Christmas season is no
respecter Of persons, and belongs TO
humanity withot respect to race,
color. condition, or nationality, yet
it by no means finds all in the same
circumstances for enjoying it. There
will be many to whom it will fail to
bring either pleasant memories of
the past, or any addition to their
comfort and enjoyment in the pres
ent. The old picture of glowing
hearth, and happy children enjoying
their toys, while shlvering figure
under thin shawl, with hungry eyes
looks through frosted Windows at the
light and warmth within in which it
has no part, will again be revived,
as it has for eighteen hundred years.
To many at this season it will
bring no relief from the pinching
poverty and the squalid homes they
have endured through all tie years.
To others it will be the occasion for
reveling in the luxuries in which
they habitually abound through ev-
cry day of the year.
1t will always be so. There will
never come time when all will be
on an equality with respect to this
worlds goods. Even with the same
advantages some will prove thrifty
and others unthrifty--some will have
an abundance and others be IN want.
some will he reveling in riches, and
Others suffering the pangs of poverty.
To very large degree every man
has chosen his own condition in this
regard. If he is in want it is his
own fault. And yet in many cases
poverty and want are the direct re
suits of sickness or misfortune or
other causes beyond the control Of
the sufferers.
There are many whom the Christ
mas season will find hungry this
year, aud whose families are suffer
ing, not from any lack of disposition
or neglect of effort to earn the means
of support, but because they happen
to be in line of industry where no
employment can be obtained.
To such cases the sympathy of
every unselfish soul goes out sincere
ly and heartily. But no matter how
hearty the desire may be to aid them
it is impossible that some shall not
be left TO suffer. In this community
however, there will be very few to
whom the hand of charity will not
be extended if their wants are known
and they are deservingly needy.
After all however, a mans happi-
ness does not rest in, and is not as
sured by the abundance Of this
worlds goods he may possess. He
may have all the comforts which
money can bring and set not have
the happiness and contentment of
others who may be elassed among
the poor. A good conscience; an
Industrious, honorable lite, with
enough to eat and wear, furnish a
better foundation for happiness than,
great riches at the expense OF sense
of integrity and with morbid cray
ing for great wealth. Genuine hap
piness comes more from what we are
than from what we have.
A happy Christmas is therefore,
possible to everybody, without re
spect to whether he is rich or poor,
if he has within himself the real
source from which genuine happiness
alone can spring. The memories and
associations of the Christmas ami
versary ought to take US out of our
selves, and out of our sordid cravings
and false notions of happiness, and
give US better plane of living and
a higher conception of the basis of
happy life.