The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1897-12-18

had not cause TO forbid Christmas
when they found their public acts
under so many Christmas pies?
Butler wrote of the dominant
Presbyterians as
"A sect whose chief devotion lies
In odd perverse antipathies;
In falling out with that or this,
And finding something still amis;
That with more care keep Holy day
The wrong, than others the right way.
Still so perverse and opposite,
As if they worship'd God for spite.
Rather than fail they VIII defy
| That which they love most tenderly
Quarrel with minc'd-pies and disdaragc
| Their best and dearest friend, plum por-
ridge;
Fat pig and goose itself oppose,
And blaspheme oustard thro' the nose.
Men were declared incapable
| Of serving in parliament who had
evergreens in their windows OF
minced-pies at Christmas, and
Warner, afterwards Lord Mayor
"raised tumult in Christmas
about Rosemary and Bays" We
read in the Petition of e. IL. ESQ.
| in No. 629 Of "The Spectator" "
that in his day he was remarkable
for having dared to treat some
visitors "with Brawn and Mine d.
pyes on New Year. Day"
"A humorous poem of the time
went thus:
"All plumbs and prophets sons despise
And spice broths are too hot;
Treason's IN q December pYe,
And death within pot:
Christmas farewell, thy days Il fear)
And merry days are done;
So they may keen feasts all the year,
Our Saviour shall have none.
Gone are the golden days of yore
When Christmas was an high day,
Whose sports we now shall see no more,
'Tis turned into Good Friday"
The reign of the theologic
prudes soon came to an end.
1t was too much for honest hui
man nature to bear. Christmas
in all It's varied customs for va
rious parts of the Kingdom
returned stronger than ever. All
joyousIy hailed
"The happy night
That to the cottage as crown
Brought tidings of Salvation down"
The bells pealed again merrily,
the yule log blazed unrestricted,
and dance and merriment, with
much foolery, too, at times, once
more lifted up the hearts Of old
and young. "Poor Robins AL
naan"o" fo- 1870 Gays or winter,
"And lastly, who would not but
praise it because of Christmas,
when good cheer doth 50 abound
as if all the world were made of
minced-pies, plum-pudding, and
furmety." A description of the
old dishes and quaint customs of
this period would fill q volume.
A good pie was a great fayorite.
Allan Ramsay tells us how the
ale-wife drew her customers:
"Then ny at Yule whene' er we came
A bra goose pye,
And was ma that good belly baums
Name dare deny"
Let us be thankful that the
odious tyranny of the Co.nmon-
wealth and the stupendous i'm
morality of the Restoration have
passed away; that we have secur-
ed our liberties and our morals
upon firm bases that need never
Re removed; and that with all
our faults we are lovers of mercy,
of justice, and of right doing.
TO all that aids towards the New
Brotherhood of Man we say. God
speed, and So we welcome Christ
mas with thankful hearts as one
strong link in the eternal chain
to bind men together. All that
remains for US is to use its good
things in moderation, as BELTS
those who should live we'll and
wisely, and, to see, so far as we
can, that all have a share. Let
all strive for all, that this and
each New Year a happy one, re-
naming ever green in our memo
ries and fragrant of the bud and
blossom of kindly deeds.
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Senator Walthall, the wide-a-