The Springdale news., 1915-12-17
MERRY

~ - - ~ ~ ~ HRISTS coming inaugurated
 among men new era of good
 will, and as consequence
 thrones are tottering, chains are loosening, prison doors are opening and practical Christian beneficence is flooding the world with sunshine and fills it with songs of gadness.-Rev. Dr. r. s. Henson.
 Y FIBRE is that glad tidings." that
 gospel of great joy" of which
 4 the angel spake to the wonder
 ing shepherds-tAisa announce. ment of Gods love for man and mans sonship 10 God. And these glad tid- ings'' are for all people so the angel said. There is lot a single soul to whom the tidinss of Christmas come that is not assured of the love of the almighty and infinite Father.
 ~ EFORM ye, then-so sounds the voice of the Eternal Spirit, the IN power back of eyolutiOn-re-
 form ye, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand So we may gird ourselves to every task of reform with new hope and fresh enthusiasm and ring our Christmas kels asain-Rev Dr. k. Heber Newton
 TT may be that i'll every gift with
 which at this blessed Christmas
 tide we gladden. our ehildrens
 hearts we are the Magi again of fering treasure to the Holy Child We may make if so. But richer gifts than these will be required. our endurance shall be our gift to him who gave him self. Is there toil for Us. that we may honor him? Is there self denial? Are there holy conservation and humble service, that shall make the world at last a spotless sacrifice to him who purchased it?
 ~O we keep Christmas because of - .ts good tidinss of great joy o The season of ifs occurrence k
 our ripest time fhe north wind and the snow i'll that wind have made us what We are It drove Us to the hearth, 10 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.-Rev. Dr S F. Cadman.
 ~ ODAY all institutions are be
 ginning to initiate the wise
 men from the east. who
 brought 10 the Divine Child their gold and aromatic spices their frankincense and treasure Ghrist's estimate of the value of childhood has conquered the world His thought of childhood is the very heart and genius of Christian eiyilizatien.ZRev Dr Newell Dwight Hills.
 R RO ORNENG, noon and night. for NH breakfast. dinner and sup AVA per, the first thing oH awak
 ing and the last thing on go- ing to sleep, every hour of every day of every week 0f every month of thc year we want the spirit of Christmas for fl Is tue spirit Of ministration. of giving. of service, of doing for others Rev pr Francis F. Clark
 A ND did you ever think what N peculiarly blessed sound in the "A ears of those watching shep-
 herds of the valley If RethIe- hem was the aunouncement of the angels, Christ has coMe5a Ever since the gate of paradise WIS shut against our first parents lis advent had been looked forward to as the hope of lost world
 ~ TILL there is call for strenuous > endeavor and constant fight " against evils without and with
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