Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1909-12-23

NOJ HRlsTMAS i, not only mile mark Of
W. another year. moving US to thoughts Of
~ seif-examinatior,: it is season, from all
It's associations. whether domestic or RELIGIOUS.
suggesting thoughts of Joy. A man dissSh.6ed
with his endeavors Is a man tempted to sadness.
And In the midst of winter. when his life runs
owest and he is reminded Of the empty chairs
OF his beloved. it is well he should be condemned
to the fashion Of the smiling faee.-Reben
LouiI Stevenson.
HHOW many old recoIlec6ons and how
III many dormant sympathies does the
II II Christmas time awaken Happy. happy
Christmas. that can win IN back 10 the decisions
At our childish days that can recall to the old
a1an the pleasures Of his youth; that can trans
port the sailor and the traveller thousands Of miles
away. back to his own Preside and his ouie.
home. Fill your glass again. with a merry face
and contented heart. Our life on 4, bp, your
Christmas shall be merry and your New Year
happy one.-Charles Dickens.
TNENiEMBER that a. surely a, in TIA,
tx baby life at Bethlehem there Law the
0A power which has run through all the
world; the power which makes Judea burn Ike
4 star forever; the power which has t1sns6qured
listory;sthe power which has made millions
1t men its joyous servants; the power of the
nillenniums yet to be, SO surely in the humbles,
'ouls humble certainty that it does love, Christ.
here lies embodied all the possibility Of the mos,
perfect ssinthoOd.-PhilIps Brooks.
Is good thing to observe Christmas Day.
The mere marking of times and seasons,
IL when men agree to stop work and make
merry together, is a wise and wholesome custom,
1t helps one to feel the supremacy of the common
ife over the individual life. It reminds man
o set his own little watch. now and then, BY the
Ifeat dock Of humanity. which runs on sun
ime.-EIenry Van Dyke.
q OPPOSE a note came on Christmas Day
~ saying not, Il send my love andsbest
W wishes with this spool-bOx, but 81 want
you to know that YOUR patience. or courage, or
snderness, dunng this last yesr, will help me
o live more bravely and eourageously this year."
What Christmas present the receipt Of such
elter would be to any one Of Us. What a gift
or any one Of Us to send to the human heart
hat has gwen US courage for the burden and
heat OF the day.-Marsaret Deland.
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STTaEiE season of rsgensrAied feelno--sle
season Of kindhns. ne, merely Ike kue Of
IL hospitality ia the hall. but the genial
lame Of ehanty in the heart. He who can turn
ihurhshly away from contemplating the felicity
't his fellow beings. and can sit down darklins
and rspining N his loneliness when all around
$ joyfub may have his moments Of selfish grail
Seadon. but he wants the genial and social
ymPathies which constitute the charm Of a
Merry Christnaas.--WashinSton Irving.
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MAY CHRISTMAS wish for all is that
dWll they may taste the sweetness of love.
q IL enter into the joys Of friendship, and
Know the divine bene6eenee Of helping someone
st present less fortunate than themselves. In
iheSe words are we to find the living spirit Of
he humsn and eternal Christmas. The uni
sersal gladness Of Christmas ia prOpOrSoned to
he extent Of its unsel6shae.s. People are happy.
70, in what they get so much as in what they
Fve.-MinOs ]. Savage
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IN ND there were in the same country shep-
q herds abiding in the field. keeping watch
y u over their Cock by night And 10. the
/ gel OF the Lord came. upon them ,asdthe glory