The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1910-12-28
CHRISTMAS DAY
A MERRY ONE IN OUR ToWN-sPEcIAL
SERVICES AT The CHURCHES.

Our readers may think US tardy
with our Christmas greetings, yet
they are none the less cordial on this
account. You know Christmas lasts
until New Years, so we come to you
holding on to Christmas with one
hand and reaching out to the New
Year with the other.
This is the season of good cheer.
The season ofthe holly and the mis-
tletoe,-the time for bright faces
and generous impulses-tor glad
some greetings time for noble
resolves to be bona time for old
animosities to die,-a time when the
benevolent side ofone's nature should
eclipse the sordid side,-a time
when the thoughts should be turned
towards home,-a time when the
usurpins chains OF business should be
ignored. A time when the child
with its golden curles, the man with
his silyered locks, alike cry Glory
to God in the highest, peace on
earth, good will to men," These
words have been chanted by all
Christian nations since the infant
Jesus slept in the rude manger in
Bethlehem. The organs in the
grand cathedrals have pealed forth
these words and the hearts of the
worshippers have been filed with
alteration; those treading the cow
less paths of poverty echo the praises
The poor mother in the hovel as she
bends over the smonldering embers
upon the desolate hearth, and weeps
over empty stockings of her neglect
ed children-even she hears these
strains in the distance, and her
plantive voice, so tull of want, joins
in the chorus, Glory to God in the
highest. Peahaps this mother is
thinking of the Christmas days in
her girlhood when plenty crowned
the board, and these memories may
be feeding her hungry heart. The
ologians may cavilover the date and
origin of this day, bnt We will
hold fast to our christnas as.
This year it was Merry Christ
mas all around. Fat turkey, with
the usual sundries, furnished the in
ner man delight, the social was Civ
en- play in many ways and in fact
the day was a happy Anything
like full account Of the social hap
penings ofthe day and evening can
not be given. Time and space forbids;
but never was the day more univer-
sally observed in our city.
Special services were held in all
of the churches, the attendance be-
ing large in all instances.
The christmas trees delighted the
little folks, while the special music
arranged by the different denomi-
nations was both beautiful and i'm
pressive and pleased the older folks.
As We are about to lei go of the
old year we realize that to the most of
US it has been kind year,-to a
few the dark side has been turned :;
to others, the sunny side. We
must not forget that upon the homes
of some of our readers, siuce last
Christmas tide, shadow has fallen
and the mantle of sorrow has wrap
ped the inmates in its somber folds
Other homes are like the nest that
hangs on the withered bough-6es-
olate because the life and song went
out with the birds. New homes
have been made-new ties formed
and old ones severed, but in our on
ward march it is not well to stop to
measure the load each one carries.
No life is either all sunshine or all
storm, Ifthe new year brings pros
perity, let US rejoice; if adversely,
let US be brave. Let US be thank
fnl that our lines have fallen in
( pleasant places;'' that 8 it is as
well with US as it is,' and use our