The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-12-23

permit yourself TO get IN this state OF
talnds Tor surely II YOU do. you will be old
before your time. Make as gay a Christ
mas as you can. and call in your friends
ana neighbors 10 share 10 with YOU Think
over the list IN your book and find out
lhose who are nice people and who will
.ot nave very much TO enjoy on this holy
gay Have them in to share with YOU
ana bring in some children. and give
mem the good time they would not have
n"G out TOT you, and YOU will be surprised
go uiS'oNer now much YOU enjoy yourself
There Is no enjoyment in life. my friend
1nat isn't shared with somebody else
mere ism a book worth reading a PLAY
worm seeing or "a picture worth looking
a. unless you share the delights with
Mnoe4er Is closest TO YOU. Having pleas
ults alone is like kissing the air
II Is stale. fiat and unprofitable When
y Is IN your power 10 make some people
happy, how can YOU help doing it2 How
DO you get yourself In such an ironbo1nd
state; You fail To see why YOU should
make life any fuller for your friend. not
70 mention the stranger within your gates.
That's wicked.
Take your joy and divide il up in lot
or little pieces, and make il 20 around
among a whole circle Women are not
naturally mean. but they forget. They
torget what little things please people
who have hut little. and they forget what
the woman who is kept busy all the time
IN her own until she is body-sick and
heart-stck. Bring into your pretty home
as many Of your friends as YOU can. Make
II a house beautiful i'm every way. Your
brocade chairs and sofas lack all lowell
ness unless their luxury Is enjoyed by
somebody. and your beautiful house ceases
10 De home when IL is dressed up in
linen overcoat and the sun is kept from
looking az it for fear il Will fade it,
Homes are made by friends, by the at
mosphere OF gracious giving, which means
not only the mere sharing of the bread
I but the sharing of the good and loving
thoughts. When he who came on earth
/ so many hundred years ago, as little
/ child. he came as a present to us all The
/ first Christmas gift.
When he grew TO manhood, and when
the day came that was to show to an I'M
/ believing world that he would die for it,
almost the last thing he did was to call
/ about him those whom he loved and who
/ loved him, that they might break bread
/ together. He set us the example of hospi-
J tally. And we must not fear in selecting
our guests, lest we make mistakes. for
/ when Christ sat down at table, there was
Judas also. How much ii meant, and how
I much II stu means to us all-that first
Christmas gift. A little child that lay in
the arms of its mother and looked to it's
| mother for help and care. Somewhere there
is little child who is looking to you and
to me for care and pleasure. Happy
| women have their own, but the women
who have none born of them must look out
. into the big world and search for the little
child that she can help. and give to It a
I merry Christmas
We say, as we meet each other. "a
1 Merry Christmas; but what IL really
means we do not always comprehend.
! IL is a Christmas without envy, hatred,
malice, or any uncharitableness. 1t is a
/ Christmas full of joy and glee. and one
which forces us all TO forget for a little
while the worries of life, and to ne like
little children. / like the quaint old
phrase, "A Merry Christmas" 1t seems
to have been the one that has come down
TO us in all the long years, and II seems
right that while to each and every one We
may hope for a Happy New Year" what
We long for just now is "A Merry Christ
mas" To the master of the house and TO Us
mistress, to all little children, and to the
stranger within the gates. And it will
come If we wish for II with intensity. for
in the sight of God an intense wish is a
prayer. Remember this as you hear the
carols sung. Perhaps one verse of the oil
hymn will linger with you, and sing IN
your heart all day long, as it does I'm mine
when the Christmas blessedness is over
everything:
"All glory be to God on high
And on the earth be peace.
Good will henceforth from heaven to mer
Begin and never cease"
To how many of us has that verse come
when we were little children? TO YOU
To your neighbor? To her neghbor? A.
1t did in the Christmas of long ago t.
Bah.