The Pensacola journal., 1922-12-25
BY sYRAN MACK.
Merry Christmas to all my friends

| Merry Christmas to all my friends
and to my enemies, if I have any.
Time was when I prided myself
| upon my enemies, but youth does
! many foolish things, and in this
i scheme of life we all have to be young
| for a period
| 1t is only for a period, however. and
| the old boys who deIusion themselves
! into believing they are young. merely
| because they are acting foolish. don't
realize what others think of them
| Instead of wishing you, one and all,
| Merry Christmas, rather would 1
ask for YOU joyous and happy Christ
| mas. One can be merry and have no
| joy and no happiness, and being
merry, in a great many times, means
being foolish.
| But being joyful is the greatest
| blessing of a1l-for one can be full of
| joy and not be happy. On the other
! hand, one can be happy and never ex-
; perience the joys of life that comes
| with a consciousness of ones respon-
tsibility under the divine order of things
and knowledge of ones own efforts
| to carry on in this plan.
| By daily trying to live and work
as God would have us do, we can
/ experience the joys of life, and it is.
well on this Christmas morning to
pause for a while and take stock of
ourselves, our acts and our mental ac-
| tivities.
1t is possible for all Of us to ex-
perience the joys of life today, and.
as I mentioned in the beginning, may
/ You be both joyous and happy We
| cannot be HAPPY Chen those near and
dear to US are Q and in trouble and
| unprovided for, big it is happiness and
Joy that wish for you, just the same.
I cannot understand why there is
as much distress in the world today,
why some little children have every
oprtunity to live in good. wholesome
environment with everything done
for their betterment and welfare, and
other little children-iust as precious
and dear to their mothers and to The
One who's birth We celebrate today
have to begin life with an almost un-
surmountable handicap.
know that the world Is getting
better. I know that some day this in
equally will come to an end, but as
long as it is here, my heart goes out
to these on Christmas morning
Would to God that the time were here
when each little life that comes into
being would live and grow into grand
useful womanhood and manhood.
+ 7 rather suspect that I have few
readers down this far in the column
today, but I am writing it just as the
thoughts come to me. Newspapers
don't have a very large part in the
minds of people on. Christmas morning.
so I won't feel bad about the lack Of
readers.
However, il per chance. some faith
full soul has Travelled along with me.
may I suggest that you hasten down
to the city hall and see the distribu-
ton of gifts by the St. Nicholas Girl
to the children who would otherwise
their hearts.
For a while it looked like We were
not going to have enough funds for
the st. Nicholas Girl, but it finally
came in, lust as knew it would come,
for Pensacola people are generous to
an extreme. We have our faults but
a lack of sympath thy for those less for
tunate is not one Of them
The young ladies who inaugurated |
the ST. Nicholas Girl work in Pensa- |
cola in connection with the Pensacola !
Journal have been the means OF thous- !
ands of children being happy and |
glad on Christmas day when they |
would otherwise have been sad.