The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1954-12-17
THE GLORIOUS SEASON is WITH US AGAIN.

IT.,
and fully prepared to live up to it. In childhood when
always the receiving end seemed that Christ
would Now it arrives too for comfort
However, there is nothing like it, and it is glorious
good for everyone easily like the greatest
thing in the Christian religion Its spirit penetrates into
nearly every heart and makes people the better for it. Peo
pie who seldom think of others, if they don't
change altogether and spread goodness and joy Thereby
hearts lighter and relieved of some of the burdens
brought on by LIES daily grind.
After all the pass too quickly; roll toward
the end before we have learned too much about the
of living We awake fully responsibilities
and duties before time has left too few to fulfill
purpose life We upon the years. and sud
denly take note of the fact that from time to time the
old friends and companions who stood beside and made
life the happier and better for have quietly slipped
away We begin to feel alone fes because there
few friendly sails left Many Of the others
under foreign flags
So Christmas is good time not only retrospecton
but for trospecton We must look back too much for
look within ourselves and discover how may avoid
the mistakes that made others unhappy well ourselves
We must find means of spreading good cheer encourage
ment comfort and inspiration where it is most needed
would doto do away with Christmas and Santa
Claus More than any other thing it lifts world
love- good will and human sympathy Upon the emotions it
revves it builds love-love that is unselfsh
that sacrificing And sacrcia love the only enduring
love-
once heard an man newly married couple that
marriage might De success Tor them tney could rene1n
Der that meant sacrifice He meant that one could not
always have his way in everything and continue happily
married Well speaking for who has stayed married for
25 this this writer cannot look back the
years and find many sacrifices necessary He doesn't
always have much of neghbors but that
because he doesn't usually work hard, much
Truly have had better luck and have done
work but there others who do not have SO much
Many do not want much, many want but above
ALL only they happy who content themselves with
what they havewh their station life and blessed is he
who doesn't the good fortune the fruits of the long
labor of his felloWman.
The things must give up to stay married not
really sacrifices ALL for married life offers many other
compensaons that through the years view trivial
the little things looked major inconvenience
On looking back on rs years of marriage good mate
how easy it wonder whyt many people
will not stay together ten years five years. or even one
year.
of the responsibilities and duties attendant upon
marriage There too young people who are victims
my child than had it, If there
goodntentoned motive astray this one of the most
widely abused From starting out with good dea the dot
ing ndugent parent reaches state of mind where he
gives the child than he needs lets him learn
how to work. sets precept example to guide him
life will sensible and reasonable to him; product
results which expects complete living out of life without
having put anything back into it. When two such
young people get together when such person is
party the marriage contract it is usually rough
homes broken families many of whose children grow up
with distorted view of e with the inability to make
of their e let alone being able to make themselves
part anohers life and to be helpful to themselves to
others, or to the world.
Christmas is good time to remember that seldom
sacrifice enough for good 1t is time to measure
deficiencies and will usually find might have done
better by others through the year is TIN time to per
fortunate the direct responsibility of tightening their
burdens. #8a
Far better than Thanksgiving, is Christmas
taking stock of blessings How easy is to
that have been fortunate indeed when our
lot with the lot of Others when think of the grief that
has been visited upon Others yet has been spared when
blessings and observe how unfortunate lot
of mighty good people might have been through the year.
then indeed how properly constituted person
feet appalled, and humbled how anyone not be willing
share how overlook opportunity to do good
For confronting day and day out is undenabe fact
Christmas supreme symbol Of duty and responsibility
and reminder of Gods goodness to most all of us all
through the year.
That which given with pride and ostentaon rather
an ambition than bounty. - Seneca