The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1904-12-23
Christmas Day and Sunday.

We heard a young girl friend Of ours
rsgrettipg that Christmas this year
came ON Sunday. We appreciate that
when she expressed the regret she was
thinking Of the fact that on Sunday,
tho IL was Christmas sunday, il would
not be proper TO play dolls, TO run from
house 10 house crying Christmas gift, "
christmas gift and that the usual
Christmas dinner would be shorn Of
some Of lis glory. The "small boy" no
doubt sympathizes with the little sis
ter and for the reason that 1t will not
b e lust the thing 10 pop crackers, shoot
of candles or throw snow balls. And
the grown up boys will mo- doubt chime
inand saw, "this condition breaks up
The german, postpoues the card party,
problbi,. the uog aud spreads a general
gloom al the otherwise glad Christmas
lime We are 90 closest aud tender
est sympathy with the young and
would not take from their brightness a
single beam or their bliss asingle thrill
but are they not in common with so
many older people putting Christmas
on too low a level when they think
ofironly as the season Of unrestrained
frolie aud fuu making? True it should
not be invested with gloom for on the
birth day of Christ the King, angels
filed the air with melody and earth
listened TO the stratus Of heavenly
music. There was not sad angel in
sll the Angelic Choir nor a sad note in
the music. for deliverauce had come to
the enslayed children of men and a
new star OF hope gistened ON the fore
front Of the skies. Christmas day tells
Of that birthday and telling not Of that
il tells Of nothing. Aud what does the
Christian Sunday tell of? Not the
throes Of birth but the triumph Of an
ascending Lord Not "a mother with
her child but a world with a cOnquerer,
not Christ on bis way to Gethseminae
aud TO calvary but the King Of Kings
moving ia triumph TO his throne, not
the alpha but the omega Of salvation,
not Bethlehem and a manger but the
mountain top shrouded in splendor
aud cloud. Chariots waiting for the
conquerer, not the beginning Of battle
but the cOusummatiOn Of victory.
"How pleasant it is for brethren to
dwell together 10 unity and infinitely
more appropriate that the Sunday and
Christmas day should meet in happy
unison. There should be no sad sun
day and keeping the day holy should
make no sad soul.
We do not urge upon the young or
the older either that each Christmas
day should be observed just as each
Sunday should be, but we do say that
the world would be the brighter, the
the happier and the better if all Christ
masses were driven from every Obser-
vance Of the Christmas time and they
bad about them more Of the tinge Of
Gods holy day.
Think Of the Christ born and the
Christ risen on the coming Christmas
day aud then remember that if Christ
be not risen your faith is vain, you are
still in your sins and that will make
this Cbrstmas-Sunday the gladdest Of
all the glad Christmases you have ever
lived, and hard will be that heart that
will not again catch up and repeat the
angel song, peace on Earth, Good
Will among men,
From a grateful heart the Herald
sends out TO all its readers the happy
Christmas greeting. Around warm
hearth stones and boards Of plenty,
and in homes Of peace aud bowling be-
fore affairs erected to the known God,
may the day bring you JOY to which no
sorrows may be added.