The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-12-22

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r. HRISTMAs is not only mile
" mark of another year, moving
Is to thoughts of self-examination;
is a season, from all its associa-
IONS, whether domestic or religious,
uggesting thoughts of Joy. A man
dissatisfied with his endeavors Is
han tempted to sadness. Ano in the
hidst of winter, when his life runs
bwest and he is reminded OF the
mpty chairs of his beloved, 1t Is
YELL he should be condemned to the
hshion of the smiling face.-Robert
Louis Stevenson.
AEA OW many old recollections and
3nJ how many dormant sympathies
Roes the Christmas time awaken!
Happy, happy Christmas, that can
kin us back to the delusions of our
childish days; that can recall to the
hid man the pleasures of his youth;
hat can transport the sailor and the
traveller thousands of miles away,
lack to his fireside and his quiet
Aome. Fill your glass again, with
merry face and contented heart.
bur life on it, but your Christmas
#hall be merry and your New Year
happy one.-Charles Dickens.
akfA EMEMBER that as surely as in
N that baby life at Bethlehem
here lay the power which has run
through all the world; the power
Which makes Judea burn like star
+ brewer; the power which has trans
gured history; the power which has
hade millions of men it's joyous SER
ants; the power of the millenniums
let to be, so surely in the humblest
oul's humble certainty that it does
,ove Christ, there lies enfolded all
he possibility of the most perfect
inthood.-Phillips Brooks.
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III T is a good thing to observe
~ Christmas Day. The mere
barking of times and seasons. when
hen agree to stop work and make
berry together, is a wise and whole
ome custom. 1t helps one to feel
8he supremacy of the common life
8ver the individual life. 1t reminds
man to set his own little watch,
low and then, by the great clock of
humanity, which runs on sun time.
( Henry Van Dyke.
~ UPPOSE a note came on Christ
~ mas Day saying not, II send
4 by love. and best wishes with this
pool-box, but, II want you to know
: hat your patience, or courage, or
tenderness, during this last year, will
help me to live more bravely and
iourageously this year." what
christmas present the receipt of such
\ letter would be to any one of us.
What gift for any one of us to send
/ O the human heart that has given
, ls courage for the burden and heat
bf the day.-Margaret Deland.
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~ HE season of regenerated feeling
the season of kindling, not
merely the fire of hospitality in the
hall, but the genial fame of charity
: the heart. He who can turn chur-
ishly away from contemplating the
Felicity of his fellow beings, and can
Bit down darkling and repining in his
loneliness when all around is joyful,
/ may have his moments of selfish
qualification, but he wants the genial
hnd social sympathies which const1-
Lutte the charm of Merry Christ
Washington Irving.
~ Y CHRISTMAS wish for all is
mJ that they may taste the
sweetness of love, enter into the joys
Eof friendship, and know the divine
.beneficence of helping someone at
present less fortunate than them
Selves. In these words are we to
find the living spirit of the human
land eternal Christmas. The uni
|versal gladness of Christmas is pro-
'portioned to the extent of its un-
'selfishness. People are happy, not
in what they get so much as in what
they give.-Minot j. Savage.
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T1 ND there were in the same coun-
~ try shepherds abiding in the
field, keeping watch over their flock
by night. And 10, the angel of the
Lord came upon them, and the glory
'of the Lord shone around about them,
and they were sore afraid. And the
angel said unto them: Fear not, for
behold / bring you good tidings OF