The Big Sandy news., 1912-12-20
HOME Circle COLUMN,
COLUMN DEDICATED no TIRED
MOTHERS AS THEY JOIN
THE HOME CIRCLE AT
EVENING TIDE.
A Merry Christmas.


Christmas brings the remembrance
of gift so great and wonderful
that all who realize what II meant
to the world, feel the desire to give
something In return though 1t ma,
be nothing more than the expression
OF wish for Merry Christmas. M
one was anxious to receive the gift
at first. People do not always know
the value of what is given them.
The only door opened to receive 4
led into cattle stable. But now.
whose door does not fly open at
Christmas to send out some bless
ing. some word OF good cheerv
The old carol, sung to few shep-
herds. has gone around the world
now and the message OF peace aud
good will has been carried every
where. Somehow, when you lay 4
new born babe In n mans arms, you
are pretty sure to bring smile to
his face and softening to his heart
as we'll. An infant is a great peace
bringer What has touched and so't-
ened the heart OF his grim worli
more than anything else. is that
| Christmas brought blessed child
down to earth and laid him con-
fidingly in the arms OF humanity,
brought him from home. and LETT
him outcast. that the opportunity
might be given to every man tc
take him In and give him the lore
and tenderness which is every
child's birthright.
This Il is which moves us 10
strive TO make children happy at
Christmas They may be like 'hose
who float along with the river know
ing nothing OF It's love source high
up on the hills. But even II they
do not know why. most OF us want
to make It merry time for the
children. II Is emphatically the
children's festival No one ever re-
grets II who goes out OF the way
to make some little ones happy at
Christmas time. They are the spec
ial friends of the Christmas child.
and 1t is well to be able to enter
tain the kings friends II not tho
king himself.
II does the world good to open
its doors and take In the seasons
greetings. Business goes on all the
happier because there Is warm,
charitable feeling in a mans soul
toward his employer or employees
or acQuaintances. We are all so
busy we are apt to forget to be
considerate, forgiying and kind. It
Is we'll to let the brain rest and al
low the heart TO rule sometimes. or
men may lose the faculty Of loving
and being charitable.
Centuries of experiences have
proved that 1t is we'll to make a
clearing house OF the season, 70
square accounts by wiping aft all
the Old grudges and setting old
quarrels and listening once again 70
the message of peace and good will
Anger and malice never gave a man
happiness nothing but forgiveness
and charity can do that. eg4
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nIH A.
Young people frequently look up-I
on aged people with pity, and think
Of them as deprived Of most things
that make life agreeable. Yet, as !.
rule, old people cling to life as
earnestly as any others, and that
too, not merely as shrinking from
that which lies beyond death. but
for the mere pleasure of living.
They are cut off, to be sure, from
some sources of pleasure which they
have had, but others are open TO
them. The ambition is less keen and
the cares of life bring less anxiety
than they once did. There is even
a certain satisfaction In receiving
that respect for age which is paid
to them by younger people. in ac-
cordance with an impulse that is as
universal as 1t is noble. $50.
To youth, hope makes the future
bright--brighter often than events
will make it; to the old, memory
makes the whole past, stripped of
its gloomier picture and filled with
pleasant pictures, part of the un-
changing present. w
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Some Christmas Thoughts.
The Christmas bell as 1t rings o'er
this old world Of ours Is trying with
all its might to sing. "The Heart OF
the Eternal is most wonderfully
kind" So kind. 1t folds itself into
the wee form Of d babe and rests