THE KING COUNTRY CHRONICLE. THURSDAY, DEC. 24, 1908.

King Country Chronicle, Volume III, Issue 118, 24 December 1908, Page 2

THE KING COUNTRY CHRONICLE. THURSDAY, DEC. 24, 1908.

"A merry to Christmas to all!" The greeting is timeworn and familiar, but it is none the less welcome, and, in extending best wishes to our readers we do so sincerely, and trust that each and all will experience a truly enjoyable Christmastide. .Peace and goodwill is a sentiment which has come to us down the ages as the fit and proper spirit to rule the Christmas season, and custom has for centuries decreed that one season in the year shall be devoted to conviviality and festivity. In justice to mankind it must be said peace and are exercised more generally throughout the Western world at Christmas than at any other period. This is the third occasion upon which we have been able to extend greetings to our public and each recurring Christmas finds such public greater and the district considerably further ahead in the march of progress. There are manythings still left undone, but this is the wrong time to rufer to them. We are all human and are humanly endeavouring to assisst in the development of ourselves and our surroundings. Averagely, we are all aiming at the same goal, and though the methods of each are different we still have sufficient sympathetic understanding to unbend to Christmas*greetings and meet on a common ground. Throughout the Empire, from the King on his throne to the humblest of his subjects the "Merry Christmas" calls up a sentiment and a feeling of fraternity which can be roused in no other way [and at no other season. Peace and goodwill reign supreme and a elimpse is afforded of the ideal/to which man will doubtless attain eventually. A world of perennial Christmas would mean something different to our present conditions and is worth striving for. At present we only'have it once a year and perhaps value it more in consequence. Again, "A Christmas to All!"