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pc. Is, alag av, Del. 1900 was dcspaircd Of
Moud..y evc.u-. As O. last resort Good
uouslf consented To- r.Nc the woman quart
OF h.a b'ooG GuoduouSh was sorely In
need Of money with which to continue his
university work. and received 500 Tor his
blood. The operation was performed Mon
CAV night and rlc woman is now on lhe
road TO recovery. Goodnough Is now IN a
weakened condition. hl. viii pun though"
10 docs not seem as though those two
items could be printed in the same cen
ury. much less on the same day IN the
same uew-raper does %"
The Lass ten million dollars OF a thirty
tive-Ghllicn dollar donation to one univer-
sity: ard IN another university a student
buyfnr d little hundred dollars worth Of
educ, ton by his actual and literal hearts
blood
Nov L.y--nve million dollars is beyond
any ordinary mans comprehension. But
/ lot US take T., this way: one thousand dol
lars s. within our comprehension Cevcn X
not Within ou.' grasp) Thirty-fve OF those
/ thousand dollar bills would be only thirty,
five thousand dollars (Which Is getting be-
/ yond most OF u.s. even IN thought. Thirty
| five hundred % those thousand-dollRr bills
/ is bowilGer.ng, and amounts to only three
million f5c hundred thousand dollars and
/ Il will take actually thirty-five thousand Of
! those thouSand-dollar bills TO make thirty
! five million dollars. (But ones head
grows dizzy and he Is lost in the financial
! hcightsl
Three hundred and fifty thousand bills
of one hundred dollars each TO a university
Tor educational purposes and nights
Journey away from the place which re-
I ceivcd that donation student gives n
| quart OF his own best life's blood for "A
/ paltry little hundred-dollar b'll's worth OF
] education!
! What's the answer? one knows not, and
/ yet such a condition II things makes one
! pause and think at this Christmas tliney
| The problem is interesting and you may
enjoy working it out.
.
! Another Christmas item-NIr. Carnegie
has Ten million dollars, (again an incon-
ceivable SUM. FOR the promotion Of Peace.
Just how IT win be distributed, and just
| how 1t will go about the accomplishment
! Of its mission remains yet to be seem but
| It is a suggestion OF tangible realization
! Of the old, old English message GLORY
to God in the Highest, and on earth Peace,
Goodwill to men.
| With Mr.. Rockefeller and Mr. Carnegie
offering gold and young Goodnough, the
student, offering frunbincense and myrrh.
and his own life-blood, the signs OF the
times are not discourRging as regards the
| Spirit OF Christmas. For the Spirit OF
Christmas lives always, not only around
the month of December, but all through
the year Al the Christmas season II shows
itself more materially. and its manifesto
ton is the Epiphany
| Today we have the holly and the mistle-
| toe, The green of the holly-leaf indicates
| the Immortality of the Christmas Spirit
| The red OF the holly-berry indicates the
| love which that spirit pours forth from
| the hearts OF men; the white berry OF tho
mistlstoe suggests the peace which the
| Spirit Of Christmas sheds abroad.
They are priceless gems, the Emerald.
the Ruby and the Pearl And we find them
all in the emblems of Christmas The Emer-
aid, OF the Holly Leaf the Ruby, OF the
Holly-Berry; and the Pearl Of the Bud OF
the Mistletoe The Pearl Of Peace. The
Ruby Of Love. The Emerald Of Immor-
tally.
Immortality, Love and Peace. These are
the priceless gems Of the Christmas season,
These are the great gifts. And the Spirit
of Christmas will never die.
THOMAS J. KELLY.
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