Bisbee daily review., 1915-12-19

E power back of evolution--re-
 form ye, for the kingdom Of heaven is at hand! So We may gird to every task Of reform with new hope and fresh enthusiasm and ring our Christmas bells again.--Rev Dr. R. Heber Newton.
 RT may be that in every gift with
 which at this blessed Christmas tide we gladden. our children's
 hearts we are the Magi again of fering treasure to the Holy Child We may make it so. But richer gifts than these will be required. Our endurance shall be our gift Co him who gave him self Is there toll for us, that we may honor him? Is there self deniall Are there holy consecration and humble service, that shall make the world at last a spotless sacrifice to him who purchased IF
 ~O we keep Christmas because of ~ It's good tidings of great joy. O The season of it's occurrence is
 our ripest time. The north wind and the snow iu that wind have made us what We are. It drove us to the hearth to the sacred fires of the inner circle, to the building of the key stone in the arch of our civilization, the home of the Christian man.-Rey. Dr. s. F. Cadman.
 ~AODAY all institutions are be-
 ginning Co initiate the wise
 men from the east, who
 brought to the Divine Child their gold and aromatic spices, their frankincense and treasure Christs estimate of the value of childhood mas conquered the world. His thought of childhood is the very heart and genius of Christian civilzation-Rey. Dr. Newell Dwight Hills.
 R ~ ORNING, noon and night for EARH breakfast, dinner and sup, 1WN per, the first thing on awak-
 ing and the last thing on gO- ing to sleep, every hour of every day of every week of every month of the year we want the spirit of Christmas, for 1t Is the spirit of ministration, of giving, of service, of doing for others Rev. Dr. Francis E. Clark.
 a ND did you ever think what a N peculiarly blessed sound in the "A ears of those watching shep-
 herds of the valley of Bethle- hem was the announcement of tDe angels, Christ has comef' Ever since the gate of paradise was shut against our first parents his advent had been looked forward to as the hope of a lost world.
 A TILL there Is call for strenuous &N endeavor and constant fight NJ against evils without and with
 in as though God would re- mind us that this is not our rest that the true holiday (holy day, as 1t used 10 be writteul is above at his right land-Rev. Dr. r. $. Henson.
 The First Christmas Tree.
 "The Christmas tree was introduced into England aud thence into America ! by the Germans said a dealer in toys. T am going to sell Christmas trees this year, and recently have been trying to find out who the man was who first exploited the tree outside of its Ger man motherland. l want 10 use this in- formation in am advertisement, but I have not completed my researches 1 yet ] have got as far back as the time of Henry VIII. l have copied in my notebook an account of a Christmas tree that was trimmed and set up be fore that king. The dealer then read aloud the following paragraph, point ing out, as he proceeded the quaint ness and charm of the old spelling
 "Agaynste the MI dave, OF the dave of the Epiphanie. at uighte before the banket in the Hall of Richemonde, was a pageaunt devised like a mountayne glisteringe by night, as tho it had bene all of golde and set with stones; on tho top of which mountayne was a tree of golde the braunches and bOwes frysed with golde, spredynge on every side over the mouutayne with roses and pomegarnettes. The wiche mountaynC | was with vices lscrews brought uT towards the kynge and out of the | same came a ladye apparelled fin cloth of golde, and the chyldren of honoi | called the henchmen, which were fresl l disguised and danced a morice before | the Kynge; and that done, re-entered the mountayne; and then 1t was draw en backe. the wassail or bnnket brought fin, and SO brake up Chris l mns"