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Christmas Carols No. a Longer Word.
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Christmas Carols No. Longer Word.
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Will some brother, who is an au-
thority on the subject, please come
forward and explain TO the ladies
why Christmas, of all times of the
year, is chosen for getting drunk and
.indulging in free fights and other
.pastimes Of that nature? 1t is q
problem that they have been trying
+, solve for many years, and they
are no nearer solution now than
when they first began. OF course
they know that there is more time
for it thenNthan for any other season
of the year, in towns where a long
vacation from ones usual work is
given, as is the case in "Traots End"
aud if it was not such very inap-
propriate thing to do, that would
seem to be the answer to the ques-
tion, for "Satan finds something for
idle hands to do" always; but they
cannot understand how reasonable
being can bring himself to act in
such a way at this time.
If it was any one else's birthday
they were celebrating it would not
seem 80 preposterous. Think, men
and boys, how your wife, mother,
sister or sweetheart would feel if
you should celebrate their birthday
by getting drunk and cutting up
generallyr Do you think they
would feel complimented and graft
fed at the attention. If you do,
just try it once and then listen at
tentively to their remarks when you
are in your right mind again and you
will soon understand just how such
course of conduct would affect
them. You will feel like the lunatic
asylum is the best place for you,
when they get through with you.>
We do not know that the twenty
fifth of December is Christ's birth
day, for the Bible does not give the
exact date of his birth. He very
evidently foresaw that we would not
have sense enough to keep it right,
and thought it best to leave US in
doubt as to the exact time, and now
that we have taken it on ourselves to
select a day and set it apart for his
birthday does it not appear ridicu-
lous for us to spend it in doing
things that We know will grieve and
displease him?
When Christ and his holy angels
lean over the parapets of heaven
and look down upon our poor little
world, as they very likely do on
Christmas day, to see how we are
celebrating his birthday, they see
some things which, no doubt, causes
them to smile indulgently. "Jesus
loves the little children" and is
pleased to see them happy, even, we
believe, if they have been made 30
by the old myth of Santa Claus hav-
ing come down the chimney the
night before and filled their stock
ings with the beautiful things they
found in them. No, not always
filed them. Sometimes while the
father is celebrating the event by
getting roaring drunk, the little
stockings have nothing but stick of
candy and an apple or orange in
them which the heart-broken mother
has managed to get for them, so her
children will not have the great dis
appointment of finding their stock
ings entirely empty. Then the holy
watchers are pleased to see old
friends who have become estranged
reunited by the little tokens of re-
membrance which they receive at
this time, and if there is miserable,
starving prodigal away from home
on this day when the "vision of the
old folks at home" comes to his mind
and he remembers how seven the
servants in his fathers house have
enough and to spare, and he resolves
that he will arise and go to bis father,
how our dear Lord and the angels
rejoice at the sight.
We cannot celebrate Jesus's birth.
day as we ought. because we are not