The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1901-12-21
John S.ATTERLUND. PUBLISHER.
Some Thoughts that Christmas
Brings.

NNlStl 4 lSSlSs VIlS CtSll-
burn Leader presents it's rea-
ders with an appropriate
Christmas edition. 1t is the
duty of progressive ncwspa-
per to keep in touch with the
times. and at Christmas time
especially, there is a call for
the live newspaper to present
it's readers with an edition es-
pecially devoted to the Christ
mas tide, with it's many mem
Dries and suggestions. In pre-
scnting this edition Of the Lea
der, the cordial wish of it's edi-
tor is that every reader of the
Leader may have a Merry
Christmas. That everything
unpleasant and burdensone
may be laid aside at this time,
and that all may enter into the
unalloyed spirit of the holiday,
which is the spirit of Peace on
Earth and Goodwill toward
Mankind. This was the les
Sol laid down by the Son of
Man at Bethlehem. and the
message has beer echoed and
re-echocd do wn the centuries
for more than nineteen hundred
years. What a splendid COM
mentary upon Christian relig-
ion and civilization is the fact
that nearly two thousand years
after this message was breath
ed to the world from the man
ger at Bethlehem, it's memory
is sti!lpure and sweet and it's
influence still pregnant with
blessings to mankind. Over
nearly the entire world the les
SONS of the Savior have been
taught, and at Christmas time
especially, the civilized world
bows in reverence to the men,
DRY of the Savior.
II
Christmaslide is the civilized
worlds greatest holiday. 1t is
the shrine to which the rich
and the poor, the great and the
small, the prince and the pau
per, bring their little measure
of humble thankfulness and
charity and offer it in token of
their gratitude. 1t is a season
to which all look forward with
gladness and cheerfulness. 1t
glows with Il spirit of good
will! and charity that should be
made universal and last
through all time. 1t is the
time when we set aside the
sterner transactions and allow
our memories to go back to the
old days, and to the absent
ones. 1t is then that we look
about to see where life's bless
ings have been strewn with a
less liberal hand than in our
own pathways, and by charity
and benevolence we endavor to
ameliorate the conditions of
those less fortunate than our
selves. 1t develops and brings
to the surface what is best in
our hearts, and it puts aside
what is small and ignoble and
mean As the Christmastime
celebrates the birth of a new
doctrine, 80 should the recur-
renee IF the holiday celebrate
TOR US the birth of cleaner
hearts and purer minds. 1t
should be a perpetual. lesson of
the duty we owe to the fallen,
the stricken, the afflicted and
the poor. tits a season when
. we can i'll afford to harbor ram
o OF hatred or vengeful spite.
1T is the time when we cannot
afford TO be rnforgiving and
hard. It is then we should ex-
tend the hand Of friendship to
those with whom we have been
at odds, and pledge renewed
friendship in the hallowcd.
Christmas season.
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What greater blessing is
there than the annual gather
ing Of the members of tlle,fam-
lily abou. the Christmas dinner
table,wsith its load of viands,
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