The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-12-25

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WEDNESDAY. DECEMBER %, 1895
THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL.
Joy be with you all.
The world feels young to-day.
Everybody extends the glad hand.
May the realization surpass the anticipa
ZION.
Even the marble heart warns up to the
occasion.
The laughter of children makes music
In the air.
Christmas itself is good gift if you get
nothing else.
The happy heart never lacks welcome
IN any home.
Even the empty stocking has the air of
Christmas in it.
There is many lover would like to ring
the Christmas belle.
Eli may get there, but Santa Claus gets
here, and he's the boss.
Some people say Santa Claus is myth,
but everybody looks for him.
Take second thought before you take
the second eggnogg a second time.
Lots of haI py fellows will be singing TO-
day about "Mollie and 1 and the Baby"
If you have helped any of the poor to
rejoice to-day, you have right to be glad.
Armenia viii sing Peace on earth, good
will to men" with her heart in her mouth.
If you do not read every word in this
issue of The CALL you will miss something
good.
All the worlds toy and all the men
and women are like children playing
with it.
kissing under the mistletoe was silur-
ian custom, but it will take enterprise to
revive it.
Experience will teach many people to-
day that the costliest gifts not always the
most valued.
If good st. Nicholas found any boomers
hung up for stockings he ought to tell
Mrs. Grundy.
If the sun shines it will be lovely at the
park, and if the rain falls it will be de-
lightful at home.
Young men and women far from home
will bless the kind friend who says, "Dine
with me to-day"
This is the holiday of humanity, and if
there is anything human in you now is
the time to celebrate it.
To-day we celebrate the birth Of the
founder of the idea of humanity, our great
leader of liberty and love.
He has dull heart who does not feel
this morning the touch of nature that
makes the whole world kin.
Something's wrong in the world we know;
Forms remain, but the spirit we miss;
Christmas retains the mistletoe-
But where's the old-time kiss?
There are some old folks who would like
to be born again, just to have child's be-
lief in Santa Claus once more.
If you have done nothing yet to gladden.
the hearts of the children of the poor this
is the best possible day to begin.
Christmas in New England is midwin-
ter, Christmas in Australia is midsummer
Christmas in San Francisco is elysium.
This is the day when cranky folks get
cross because they get what they did not
expect and nothing that they wished for.
iHow shall we praise" the pastor cried,
1.-THE affairs bright chrysanthemum?"
And the organist, starting up replied
suppose we Christmas anthem EN-"
No one ever makes fun on Christmas of
a girl who has feet on the Chicago style,
for stocking you can put piano in is
serious business.
By and by somebody will write thrill
ing Christmas story in which the heroine
will hang up her boomers for Christmas
gifts and the hero will put himself in them.
In the beauty of the decorations and the
sweetness of the sacred music there will
be much in the churches to delight you
but do not attend them simply for the
sake of that delight.
There will be a multitude of good gifts
scattered about the world to-day, but none
will bring such blessing to sad hearts as
the words of the sublime Teacher whose
birth we celebrate and in whose spirit our
best gifts are given.
Here's luck to the foolish; here's wealth to the
wise;
Success TO the poor. Where the sufferer lies
may health descend from above