Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1900-12-22
FAMOUS CHRISTMAS DAYS.
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RHEIMS. 4 eioudjess Christians
morning dawns on tie city. Flags
of silk and of SATIN hout from every
window in the capital 4 p oeession,
led bv the Archbishop and his cier.
CIV, tread on crimson carpets from
the royal palace TO the church. Re
mssius and his assistants admins
ter the rite of Christian baptism To
Clovis and to three thousand oi his
warriors. Christ WINS a kingdom in
Il day. Inspiration indicates such
victories in the glad days to come
A brilliant Christmas anniversary
will some day dawn when the kings
and queens Of earth will all laY their
crowns at the feet oil Christ; and the
heavenly host shall sing, The king
doms of this world have become the
kingdoms Of our God and Of His
Christ, aud he shail reign forever
and ever.
THE CHRISTMAS CORONATION or CHAR
LEMAGNE.
La the cathedral of AK la Chap
ellie is the tomb OF one of the might
lest soldiers and most influential
sosereigns the world has known. The
cultured student there early seeks
the resting place of Carolus Angus
tus-better known in our times as
the great Emperor Gharlemagne. On
successive battle fields he has con
quered army after army, until Flu
rope is In his power, and klngs re-
eeive their diadems from his imper
ial hands In the eight hundfedth
year OF our Lord Rome Is gorgeoasly
arrayed in holiday attire. BY a
unanimous vote OF the college OF car
dinals Chaflemagne has been invited
to visit Rome ostensibly to receive
the holy communion from the hands
OF the Pope, Leo the third, but in
reality to be crowned as Emperor of
the Roman world He arrives and
is received by a glittering array OF
ecclesiastical dignitaries. To the
artistic glory Of the occasion nature
adds it's tribute by bending above
Campagna, and the sacred city Il sky
of stainless blue Charlemagne
kneels at the altar to receive the
moistened wafer As his lips touch
it Leo puts the concealed crown on
his brow and exclains Long live
Carolus Augustus, crowned OF God,
Defender of the Faith and Emperor
of the Romans" On no other ami
versary of the Nativity has Rome
witnessed an event OF such primary
Importance and surprising interest.
Historians rank the Christmas coro-
nation of Charlemagne as one Of the
epochal events OF the middle ages,
1t was at Rome that he determined
to unite, il possible, the Eastern and
Western empires, and bring al. OF
the lands OF civilization under Papal
ecclesiastical government BY mar
riage with Irene, the Byzantine Bm
press of the East. On Christmas
dav, at Rome, he drank ia tae ia
spiration that afterwards enabled
him to devote his royal lite to lhe
authorship Of books,-the erection
of churches, THE multiplication aud
development of Bishopries,- aa4 the
promotion OF the interests OF aGri
culture. art, commerce, mauniar tnr, =
and popular education.
< THE CHRISTMAS CORONATION of VIII.
LIAM THE coNQUFROR
1t is Christmas day, in England,
in the year Of our Lord 1866. Tho
'Witenagamete" has elected Harold
as the royal successor Of Edward the
Confessor. 1t has ignored Edward S
dying request Of William of Nor.
mandy. On the CORY field of Hast
Ings, Harold is slain and William
wins his crown by his martial PROV
ess. He resolves to be crowned on
Christmas day in Westminster Alb.
hey. His troops wrest the building
from the Christians as they are eel
brating the incarnation OF Christ.
His savage Norman battalion massa-
ere the Christians gathered around
tt1V 0tl NClbIt WDi-t JilC
ceremonies are proceeding within
the edifice. He is the first sovereign
of England who refuses to permit
eceleslasties to intermeddle with the
civil affairs of his kingdom. He
declines to yield to Hildebrand the
Pope of Rome, the homage this au
gust potentate demands of him. An
oppressive ruler he virtually reduces
the Saxons to slavery. He dots the
kingdom with garrisoned forts and
governs his subject with a rod OF
iron.
THE CHRISTMAS ORGANIZATION OF THE
M e. CHURCH.
Few events in modern history have
transcribed in Importance, both to
the civil and religious world, the or
ganization Of that progressive body OF
Christians known as the Methodist