Rocky Ford enterprise., 1910-12-23
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A DAY OF GLADNESS.
Let Patience, Generosity and Love
Prevail In Home and Heart At
Christmas Time.

What tender memories that magic
word calls up!
How the page of life rolls back. and
. we read maybe, with fearful eyes. the
characters written there. and through
the long closed corridors of the past
we hear the soft echo Of the footsteps
OF those who have gone out from among
US, and come back no more.
But while Christmas saddens. it is
always a season of rejoicing. There is
hardly any home SO poor in this broad
land. let us hope. that the children can
not hang up their stockings and hope
to find something in them when morn
ing dawns.
And il there be such homes. would il
not be quite rs well for people who en-
dow colleges. already possessed of am
pie means-who build churches with
steeples which pierce the skies-who
sport diamonds that do them no earth
ly g0od-would it not be just rs well
If they would set apart yearly n por-
tion of what they spend so needlessly,
as fund TO give the poor around them
n happy and comfortable Christmas?
God has no need of stccples hundred
or two hundred feet high. lie can hear
prayer just as well from one elevation
rs lie can from another. Christ was
born in a mangcr. and lie never
preached in any costly cath-drals. yet
His words have come down TO us
through the ages-cvcr new, ever
beautiful and sweet, to fiji our hearts
with hope, and TO make glad these lives
of ours which otherwise would he but
as the apples OF Sodom.
And. remembering what Christmas
commentaries. II should ever be sea-
son of good will toward men" Petty
differences should be buried so deep
that no winds of idle gossip would hc
able TO uncover them. We should re-
member our own frailty. and have
charity for our nciShbors. And when
the joy bells ring on Christmas morn
ing. happy is the man who can listen
TO them and say truthfully: 81 have
no hardness in my heart this day for
any living thing" n
Shall We give presents nt Christmas.
Certainly. II the heart prompts the
gift. not otherwise.
-ln--!sar1fas.4cs. 81 e.r..s1-.rcH-cr!s'r 81 ri Is moi
necessary to any ybody's happiness that
there should be a great many kinds of
dishes. One can eat. with comfort an
respect 10 his digestion. only about 50
much. and every thing above that is n
wenriness and vcSation.
And too often the woman who does
her own work is so completely tuck
cred out" with her preparations for
Christmas that she has no heart for
anything; ard when everybody has
Toasted and praised her dinner, she
looks at the stIpcndous array of dishes
she has to wash. and groans In agony
Of spirit. And she may well be for
given IL she says. as she often does:
Thank heaven that Christmas comes
but once year."
On Christmas day. put away cares
and the remembrance Of all troubles
and perplcSities. so far as you can.
Let everybody have as good a time as
it Is possible TO have Fat your tur-
key with no thought that perhaps
Tomorrow you may have to dine on
salt pork.
Indulge in no discontentcd T-cflcc-
lions concerning your richer ncighbor.
who is able to wash down his costly
viands with champagne.
lie thankful for what you have. and
make the best Of il. Likely rs not it il
n good deal better than you deserve.
Give your horse an extra feed. and
treat the cat and dog TO the chicken
bones. and let them have n Christmas.
too.
Fill the children's stockings II you
II yon have 10 cut off your
cigars and soda water TO meet the
And for one day in the year let chart
~. patience and love prevail In your
home. and In your heart-and let that
day he the anniversary of the ever
memorable and glorious day on which
christ was born.-Katc Thorn, in y. \.
Weekly.