The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1923-12-07

running on the Joys OF Christmas in the nome
joys which have no end. For, aside from It's othet
manifold aspects, Christmas Day is pre-eminentiy
a holiday of the home and the family. And It's
symbol Is the Christmas tree, as its basic IDEA Is
the Christmas cradle in Bethlehem. And the sot-
tening influence of Christmas in the home radiates
its influence everywhere until he is n queer man
indeed who does not wish in all sincerity his neigh
Dor n Merry Christmas"
Yes; Christmas time Is a veritable contagion OF
happiness overlooking into merrimenr. Childhood
thrills at the thought Of it. Youth halls 1t with
delight. Maturity gives 1t welcome. Old age
grows young again in its joys. Our social instincts
have fair play for once. Hospitality comes INTO
its own. 1t is a beautiful season. Writes Shake
speare:
Some say that ever 'galnst that season comes.
Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated,
The bird OF dawning sinseth all night long-
And then they say no spirit dare stir abroad;
No fairy takes. no witch hath power TO charm.
SO hallowed and 90 gracious Is the time
Another picture-that of q great turkey ranch
in California-sets our mouths TO watering for
the Christmas dinner. And why not? Inc man
or woman or child who doesn't await 1t with
eagerness is not normal and should be put In soil
tary confinement for the day. Nature gave us the
ioy Of satisfying a healthy appetite and 1t is nots
hard to believe that the good old dame created the
turkey especially for Christmas-and Thanksgiv-
ing. If anyone dare deny that cooking is a fine
art in the presence of the Christmas turkey-oh.
what's the use!
Great is the good cheer Of Christmas time.
But there is more to it than the Christmas tree
and the Christmas feast. And liz our heart OF
hearts we all know it-every one OF US. That
Is why all the world celebrates the day. The
spirit of the day is kindness, gentleness. forgive
ness. federation. This spirit appeals to all or US.
II could not appeal to- US II we did not DeiieVe IN
our capacity to respond to 1t. Century by century
the gospel of JESUS of Nazareth has forced home
these points. says Prof. Hartley Burr ALEXANDER
In Mature and Human Nature:
First. refuge for the weak. aims to the poor.
rreadon for the slave; Their chivalry. ana LII tnat
fine devotion to the caus3 OF the hetpIess an ~
hapless which. through the spread OF Chrls,ianity,
brought a ray Of illumination into the oaroarism
of the Dark Ages; and finally. unoer II '
our own years. tie recognltion Q l me an nd women
and children, Z all humanity. to participation IA
the Great hone Of n ,nkind. These Things nave
been affirmed by Christianity from ,his animation
which has put into democracy a spiritual power
and a living forc'.
Tho World war tore away the foundations or
49, norce,,s' and "stript us of our suffciences."
put the world has %ttempte to supersede the
Cosnel with various articles OF reason and logic.
Who shall say that man does not believe IN ana
wont goodness and beauty and feel the dearth OF
Them, Who shall say that the salvation or a cha'
otto world is not THE Golden Ruie'-the sptrit
of christmas extended to every day or the year!
sovs VIII Irwin In Christ or Mars
7, all the Christian sects. combining WIZ ons
.rnther and with Judaism on this single issue
~ c,ort the wor, OF educating their sons ano
dauphters In the illusioh and immoranty o. wal
we should within a year marx "a e"AA"'s "