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Wo mhy not climb tho heavenly steepe
To brlns the Lord Christ down.
I Christmas Romccoming
life"
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One of the great featuree of Cbrfstmae le
tbc home meeting. Row many hundreds of
thousands who have been separated through
out the year will now be gathered together
once more under the old home roof l It Is
well that ft should be so. It warms the heart
to read of the trafns to the north and the
trains to the south, cast and west being filled
2R with people going home for their Christmas
holidays. “I am told," said Gladstone once,
3* "that the 6traln of our commercial life has
loosened even the bonds that unite the fam
ily, that In tbc struggle for existence the par
ents forget the child and the child forgets the
parents. Cttell, I read the other day that some
hundreds of thousands of people were leav
ing London to spend their Christmas holi
days at home. Chat Is a pleasing and prac
tical refutation of much of this pessimism."
It Is. If the parents did not thfnh of the
children they would not have them home, and
If the boys and girls did not think of the
parents they would not go home. Blood Is a
great deal thicker than water, and nothing will
alter It. Go home for Christmas l
Christmas and the Children.
' Once a year at least we are nil chil
dren together. Imagine, if you can, a
-world from which childhood should be
absent If in any star nuioug those
sweeping plnncts over our heads there
Is one wholly Inhabited by grownup
folk tbnt must be a quiet and grave
pluce, a place to shun, a place of lone
some dignity, robbed of motive and of
charm.
Onr homes exist for the children.
They afford us our best reason for the
Incessant toll, .which is less a curse to
the race than n blessing. Their In
sistent claims on our cure cannot be
put aside. Their joyful irresponsibility
is in contrast to our continual sense of
obligation. Like the birds and the
flowers, they bring song and bloom into
our lives, and their dependence on us
is as simple, their faith ns sincere, ns
ours ought to bo on the great All Fn-
■ ther.
When Christmas comes their little
cups are full to the brim. Such small
things please them, too—the doll, the
train of cars, the toy elephant, tbc pic
ture book. When we do not spoil them
by defrauding them of their share In
the giving as well as In the receiving,
how much pleasure they take In choos
ing their presents; what wonderful
Ideas they have of the possibilities of
a dollar; how they select the biggest
and most beautiful things without a
thought of the costl Money Is nothing
to a child. He has not yet entered
upon that sordid pbnse of being when
expense obtrudes Itself like a genie of
evil In the garden of roses. A child's
heart Is as large ns heaven. A child's
love Is as wide as a child’s life. At
Christmas we all dwell for a little
while under the beautiful scepter of
the Child in the Midst—Margaret E.
Songster.
An Ancient Christmas Hymn.
Oil, come, all ye faithful,
Joyful and triumphant!
To Bethlehem hasten now with one ao-
cord.
Come and behold him
Born the King of angels—
Oh, como. let us adore him, Christ the
Lord I
Sins, chorus of angels;
Sing In exultation!
Jesu, forever be thy name adored.
Word of the Father
Now In flesh appearing.
Oh, come, let us adore him, Christ the
Lord!
—From the Latin.
Tho Christmas Angel.
Here comes tho Christmas angel,
So gentle and so calm.
Ab softly ns tho fnlllng flakes
Ha comes with flute and psalm.
All In a cloud of glory,
As once upon tho plain
To shepherd boys In Jewry,
He brings good notvs again.
He is the young folks' Christmas.
He makes their eyes grow bright
With words of hope and tender thought
And visions of delight.
Hall to the Christmas angel I
All peace oh earth he brings.
He gathers all the youths and maids
Beneath his shining wings.
—Rose Terry Cooke.
; FOR THE CHRISTMAS SEASON.
To live content with small
means; to seek elegance rutber
than luxury and refinement rath
er than fashion; to think quietly,
talk gently, act frankly; to bear
all cheerfully, do all bravely,
await occasion, hurry never—In
a word, to let the spiritual, uu-
blddeu and unconscious grow up
through the common—this la to
be my symphony.—Chauiting.
Peace on Earth.
Pence? Yes; that Is after all and
'above all our Chrlstmns gift. To make
joy for others, to behold their Joy, to
rejoice In It, is the Joy unspeakable
And why? Because It' la godlike and
divine.' Even so the Father Joys In
our Joy, and the Son perfects his Joy
In completing ours. Pence Is the prod
uct of passing out of the human Into
the divine element uud activity. No
man Is peaceful who enunot share, in
some faint way at least. In the ex
periences of his Father and his God
That Is the only real absorption Into
the divine, the perfection of which
heathen philosophy hns dreamed us
Its highest goal, but which tho gospel
alone bus brought to light and made
accessible and attainable.
How much onr Chrlstmns Sundny
hns In store for us! May we all In
deed realize Its richest treasures and
feast our souls upon them. May It be
the happiest of happy Christmas dnys
that comes once more to us. As we
hear our children slug, may It be the
echo of the angel’s song, and ns we
unite with them in praising Christ the
Lord may his pence outer Into our
hearts and abide there forevermora.
Cbe Christmas Spirit
Christmas! One dayspring of cheerfulness and freedom
from cankering care and selfishness and envy in a year of toil
and strife and consuming unrest. Christmas, marvelous boon
to humanity, springing legitimately from the brief, eventful
life of the carpenter’s Son, is a fixed institution. The twen
tieth century could not spare it if it would; wouldn’t if it
could. The Christmas spirit is everywhere pervading the world
for this brief, blessed day. leveling ranks, silencing selfish
ness, dwarfing care, ignoring toil, forgetting oreed and cult
and birth and environment, it makes peace and good will not
only possible, but inevitable. The gifts it bears are the spon
taneous fruit of the omnipotent, all pervading spirit of Christ
mas—a wellspring in the desert, a sunbeam on a wintry day, a
single exception to a steadfast rule. The spirit of Christmas
never cloys. We cannot have too muoh of it. Morning, noon
and night, for breakfast, dinner and supper, the first thing on
awaking and the last thing on going to sleep, every hour of
every day of every week of every month of the year we want
the spirit of Christmas, for it is the spirit of ministration, of
giving, of servioe, of doing for others.
“Not to be ministered unto, but to minister”—this motto
lived out on every day of the year would dispel the sorrows of
the world, smooth out its wrinkles, abolish its poverty, soothe
its pain, comfort its heartaches, heal its diseases, make it a
heaven. This is what is typified by every Christmas tree and
every gift it bears, by every bulging little stocking that hangs
in the ohimney corner, by every wreath of holly, by every
greeting and merry wish.
To brink ths Lord Christ down.
In vain ws search ths lowest Jeeps,
For him no depths can drown.
Nor holy bread nor blood of graps
Tho lineaments restore
Of him \ro know In outward shape
And In the flesh no moro.
He cometh not a Elba to relsn.
Tbs world's long be
The weary centuries ■
Ths clouds of heaven for him.
Death conn, life goes; ths asking ays
And esr are answerless.
Tho grave Is dumb; tho hollow sky;
Is sad with sllentness.
The letter fails, tits systems fall, j
. And ovary symbol wanes.
The Spirit overbrooding all, >
Etoriml love remains.
In joy of Inward poaco or sense
Of sorrow ovor sin
Ho Is his own best evidence.
His witness is within
No table old nor mythic loro
Nor dream of bards or soars,
No dead tacts stranded on the shore
Of tho oblivious years.
But warm, sweat, tender, even yet
A present help Is he,
And faith has stilt its Olivet
And love Us Oalllso.
—Whittier.
STEVENSON'S CHRISTMAS
SERMON.
To be honest; to bo kind; to
earn a little nud to spend a llttlo
less; to make upon the whole a
family bapplcr for his presence;
to renounce when that shall bp
necessary and not to be embit
tered; to keep a few friends, but
these without capitulation—above
all, on the samo grim condition,
to keep friends with himself—
here is a task for all that a man
has of fortitude and delicacy.
Ho has an ambitious soul who
would ask more; be bus a hope
ful spirit wbo should look la such
au cuterprlse to bo successful.
There is Indeed ouo element in
human destiny tbat not blindness
Itself can controvert Whatever
else we are intended to do, we
are uot Intended to succeed; fail
ure is the fate allotted. It Is so
In every art and study; It Is so
above nil In the continent art of
living well. Here is a pleasant
thought for the year's end or for
the end of life: Only self decep
tion will be satlsfled, and there
be no despair for the de-
rer.
A Christmas Hymn,
Sing, Christmas belts!
Say to tho earth this Is the morn
Whereon our SsvIour-KIng Is bora.
Sing to alt men—the bond, the free,
The rich, the poor, tho high, the tow,
Tho little child that sports In gles.
The sged folk that tottering go—
Proclaim tho morn
That Christ Is born.
That aaveth them and saveth me.
Sing, angel host!
Sing of the star that God hsa placed
Above the manger In the east.
Slag of the glories of the night.
The virgin's swoet humanity,
Tho Baba with kingly robes bedlght.
Sing to all men, where'er they ha,
This Christmas morn.
For Christ Is born
That saveth them and saveth ms.
Sing, sons of earth!
O ransomed seed of Adam, sing!
God ilveth, and wo have a King.
Tho aurso Is gone; the bonds are free.
By Bethlohem's star that brightly beamed,
By all the heavsnly signs that be,
Wo know that lsraol Is redeemed;
That on this morn
Tlio Christ Is born
That saveth you and saveth ma,
Sing, O my heart!
Sing thou In rapture this dear morn
Whcroon the blessed Prince Is born.
And as thy songs shall be of love,
So let my deeds be charity.
By the dear Lord that reigns above,
By him that died upon tho tree,
By this fair morn
Wheroon Is born
Tho Christ that saveth all and ms
Lonely on Christmas
Christmas Is a homing season. The
wanderer times his roamings so they
draw him to tho family board for the
great birthday.
Tho first Christmas away from home
Is a sorry one, and the bride who must
decide between spending tho day with
bis or her family has need of mnch
grace to make the break tn favor of
him.
Because the borne ties are so Btrong
ut the holidays Christmas day brings
some of tho loneliest hours of the year
to those with whom home is only a
memory. '*-
It Is not a pleasant thought thnt there
Is no ono wbo cores whether our Chrlst
mns be happy or not. It Is a thought
thnt once allowed to root brings bitter
ness of soul. Instead of wnterlng lone
liness with tears smother it with kind
thought for others.
Do not sit moping the day away; dls
tract yourself; force content; go into
the highways and byways for company
rather thnn sit nlone.
You may not have money to spend;
you may feur rebuffs from advances to
comparative strangers, but there is
scarcely one among our acquaintances
with whom wo cannot como Into close
Chrlstmns touch If the desire be with
in us.
The thing Is to have the Christmas
spirit so strong within us tbnt It soars
above unhappy environments.
As Dr. von Dyke hns put It In bis
“Chrlstmns Prnyer For Louely Folks:'
Lord God of the solitary.
Look upon me In my loneliness.
Since I may not keep this Christmas In
the home
Bend It Into my heart.
Have Christmas In the heart, and
the dreaded day will he passed, not In
sadness mid loneliness, hut with , In
ward comfort to sweeten It into for
gelfnlness of a hnpp'er Christmas loop
since gone
4SI
will be opened just as soon as
twenty-five students
are enrolled.
A five months’ term will be taught in Cairo,
which is sufficient time to complete a course.
School will be in session five days and nights each
week. Three complete courses of study, the same
as in all our colleges, will be taught, as f
Book-keeping and Banking
Shorthand and Typewriting
Civil Service
Individual Instruction
Positions Secured
Special Christmas offer to the first twenty-five to
enroll
If you are interested in taking a course, call at
once on Alton H. Perry, Field Manager, Central
Hotel, for special Cnristmas offer, or write
Southern Business College,
CAIRO, GEORGIA