The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1920-01-03
,ition and prompts us to action.

bition and prompts us to action.
The person that grasps every OPP
portunity that comes to them find un-
bounded pleasure in the doing, for
that is where all pappiness lies, in
doing ones duty and doing well,
which implies a life of usefulness and
of worth to the world. Such not lost
opportunities, but those that are lost,
are beyond reprieve and mus come to
naught-we regret them, but we can
not recover them.
The ~scorching of the bleak winds
which are tossing the branches of the
trees in the forests, is but the sum-
mons of great and small, to listen to
the funeral kneel of the dying year,
which shortly will be numbered with
the past. But yet there are fond
memories that make it dear to u
hearts; we saw at spring time the
birth of flowers, and we watched with
pleasure, the growth of the fields and
we heard the gentle ripping of the
little rills, as they danced on their
way to the larger streams, and as
they watered and nourished along
their paths the growth and heritage
of the valleys.
But all has not been to our liking.
and some were rioting in the lux
uries and blessings that came to
them, others were being thrown into
the path of devastation, and going
down the great sweep of destruction
and on into eternity, but through all
that it has been our lot to expert
ence, we have considered it our duty
which is a pleasure, to praise an all
wise Providence through whom we
are able to go from one good unto
another.
As WI move on toward the dying
days of the year we shall hear the
joyful message ringing and re-echo-
ing throughout the land, and in our
hearts: peace on Earth-Good Will
Toward Men" Nearly two thousand
years ago this beautiful message was
delivered to the people of the Uni
verse, at the birth of Jesus Christ.
the Savior of Mankind, and it has
gone ringing down the ages, spread
ing and spreading like ripples that
follow a stones descent into the W.T.
ter, until it has stretched from the
little stable in Bethlehem and
reached the smallest hamlet on the
globe.
Has its influence been for good ?
He must be a skeptic who denies the
betterment of humanity through the
propagation of this gentle gospel
The approach of Christmas finds US
all full of the beneicent spirit of that
other message-"It is better to give
than to receive"
To give, not in the sordid sense
that expects a return, but because
the giving will bring happiness to q
fellow creature and engender gooc
will.
AS we draw our chairs around GU
tiresides and as we lift from the man,
tie the great notebook of Father
Time, we find there are many vacant
chairs, and we read the names as We
turn the pages of the old book, o.
many dear friends who revealed il
our merriment last year, but who will
be silent this year when we call thei
names.
What shall we say? We can onl,
revere their memory, we a but re
joice in the thought of the possibili
ty of those who have lived usefu
lives being called to a higher reward
We are also taught that life is fleet
ing, that mankind, like the days anc
years, are dying, the lost ~opportuni
ty dies with the years, but worth anC
good deeds survive the individual, ant
live forever.