THE GLOBE. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1882. "A MERRY CHRISTMAS."

Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2717, 23 December 1882, Page 2

THE GLOBE. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1882. "A MERRY CHRISTMAS."

Fob the next twenty-four hours the words which head this article -will be freely need, for the season of goodwill and peace has once more come round. Try how one will it is most difficult to shake off the Traditions of Christmas in the old land. To many of us the Christmas of England, with its concomitants of frost and snow, rendering Christmas cheer more welcome, is hut a tradition. Our Christmases have beea spent nnder the bine skies and glowing heat of the Younger Britain of the Sonth. Thus it is that a groat doal of the glamor which at Home hangs arancd this season ia absent here. Still, though parted from Home by oceans, the Briton never loses his distinctive nationality. Thongh we celebrate the groat Christian festival with the thermometer at an abnormally high temperature it is none the less welcome. And there is one thing which renders Christmas in the colonies moro enjoyable, even under it changed conditions, than at home. Here we are certain that all alike, rich and poor, will have the opportunity and the means of joining in, so that it becomes far more general than in England. The poor whom wo always have with us, those weak brothren who have fallen in the race, are not forgotten, nay even the evil doer on this one day in the year, and for a brief space regains the position he has lost, and once more forms part of the great brotherhood. This is truly celebrating the inauguration of a reign of peace and love of goodwill towards men in a propeir spirit, and we trust that here it will never be omitted but that the more prosperous will remember their less fortunate brethren, the widow, the aged, and the orphan. It is a season when for once we Ought to lay aside the hard matter of fact business feelings which predominate at other times, and it is to be hoped that appeals made on behalf of the various institutions will be promptly and heartily responded to, and that the inmates may, with all of us, spend indeed "AMebet Chbistmass."