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Underwear, Half Hose, Gloves,
and Shoes for Everybody
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The
MEANING of
CHRISTMAS
By REV. T. B. GREGORY
But for its great days, incarnating
and flashing forth the ideal, human
ity would have no more history' than
a flock of sheep.
Such days are the monuments of
mental and spiritual achievement, the
eternal reminders of the only true
progress—the process that ever en
ables us to perceive and admire the
moral sublime.
Conspicuously' radiant among these
gala days is the Christmas, standing
as it does for the nativity of One who
all theological quibbling aside, was
the living embodiment of the most
beautiful and at the same time, the
most helpful manhood that this world
ha3 ever seen.
The one who is foremost in our
thoughts at this time was pre-emi-1
nently hopeful. From the harp over
which he sw'ept his hand there came
no pesimistic strain, no note of des
pair.
He gave us the gospel, the “Glad
Tidings.” To all his word was “Be
not afraid.” The Supreme in whose
embrace he ever rested, like the babe
in mother’s arms, was supreme love, j
Hence that other word of his, which
he was so fond of repeating to the
multitude. “Let not your hearts be |
troubled.”
Religion, so-called, is responsible
for a vast amount of mental misery.
It has crazed many a mind, broken
many a heart, driven conutless thou
sands into the throes of despair, but
let it be remembered that the Beau
tiful One who is commemorated in j
the Christmas season authorized no |
man, or combination of men, to speak
in his word the name of gloom.
lie was born in Bethlehem, grew up
up to be the most uncompromising
optimist that ever walked the ways
of earth. Wherever he went, along
with him went gladness, and from
his radiant presence despair fled as
the darkness flees before the rising
sun.
He was like the wonderful river in
the sea, warming and encouraging all
that he touched. The Gulf Stream of
humanity, he put new life and cour
age and joy into the cheerless, sor
row world to which he came.
And he was able to do this because
he was so gloriously hopeful, so
stanchly committed to the belief in
the best.
Looking up he saw, instead of the
“black, bottomless eyesocket” the liv
ing, loving glance of the “Father,”
whose “eternal goodness” would never
do him harm.
Looking ahead, this man saw no
spooks or bogies, no devils or fiends
in the way. The path was clear, and
over it hung no dark clouds of im
pending disaster.
If Jesus had written a poem we
may be sure that it would have been
very similar to Whittier’s:
I know not where his islands lift
Their fronded palms in air;
I only know I cannot drift
Beyond his love and care.
And so beside the silent sea
I wait the muffled oar;
No harm can come from him to me,
On ocean or on shore.
Now it is just this sort of spirit
that every one should feel within the
soul at this Christmas time—the
spirit of a brave trustfulness, of a
rock-ribbed confidence and hope.
Be not afraid of anything. To be
afraid is to be a sham, a cringing
menial, a nobody; while to be able to
believe in the best and to trust that,
no matter what our evil genius may
suggest to the contrary, the light
awaits us on ahead, is to be a hero
and a conqueror, a friend and helper
to all mankind.
It is well, then, that in obedience
to the old custom we should throw
about the Christmas season the parti
colored mantle of joy and wreathe it
with the heart’s most exurberant
gladness.
It would be a shame not to be glad,
and not try to make everybody else
glad, on Christmas day!
On Christmas day to be a cynic and
to curl the lip of scorn at sight of
the rosy festivities about us, would
be an unpardonable crime, the very
abyss of the mean and contemptible.
It is a part of the unwritten law of
every healthful heart that when
Christmas comes we are to “put our
best foot forward” cast all care to
the winds and be as full of gladness
and good will as an egg is of meat.
And right here in this unconquer
able optimism we find the only true
| and genuine Christianity. The one
whose birth the Christmas signalizes
came to replace tears by smiles, sor
| row by happiness, worry by confi
idence and despair by the “hope that
maketh not ashamed” and in his name
I wish you all a “Merry Christmas!”
not merely an abundance of turkey
and plum pudding, but an extra abun
dance of “good will to men,” with no
lack of the disposition and resolve to
make everything else as happy as
yourselves.
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EDITOR SAYS DENTISTS
DO NOT FIGHT FAIR
The editor of an exchange publish
es the following account of his ex
perience with a dentist.
“This scribe has had occasion to
fight several rounds with dentists
ever and anon, and we got the worst
of it every round. The doct did not
fight fair and no dentist ever does.
He pays no attention to Marquis of
Huckelberry rules. He clinches a fel
low up in a chair with a curb bit,
which does not even permit of profan
ity or any other brand of conversa
tion, and then he uses all kinds of
knockout drops and dope, and comes
at a fellow with a boring device of
the devil that makes a million revo
lutions a minute and feels like a tun
neling machine going through a ran
ge of mountains. He undertook to
kill our nerve in the last round, not
realizing what a stupendous job it is
to massacre the nerve of an editor,
but by getting a Japanese strangle
hold on the nerve he finally succeed
ed in throwing it to the ground and
beating it to death with a club.
And now we are nerveless, and sup
pose any old delinquent subscriber or
politician can come in here and call
us a liar or any other old thing. We
have been in Journalism for quite a
while and no man ever made us take
water yet, not, at least in irrigation
doses, but there are two things we ,
are afraid of, and will own up to it,
and those are a woman and a den-1
tist.
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A CHRISTMAS
BLESSING
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By Rev. I)r. Howard Duffield
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May the Blessing of the
Light that shown at Midnight
come to the hearts that are
shadowed and the homes that
are dark
May the Blessing of the
Song of the Angels come to
the multitudes who strive and
bleed upon the fields of battle
and to all who wage the hard
warfare of lief.
May the Blessing of the
Good Word to the Shepherds
come to everyone who is hum
bly and honestly laboring to
do a share of their world’s
work.
May the Blessings of the
Manger Cradle come to that
innumerable company against
whom the doors of hope and
peace and rest are shut.
May the blessing of the
Holy Child come to everyone
who has forgotten that Thou
O God, art his Father, and
that all men are brothers.
May the blessing of the
Guiding Star come to those
who wander in the night and
cannot find the homeward
way.
May the blessing of the
Stable come upon all hearts,
wakening a kindly sense of
kindred with every living thing
that walks the field and for
est, or wings the air, or passes
along the paths of the seas.
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should be made to produce some
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BLACK ROCK, ARKANSAS