THOUGHTS FOR ’XMAS
No Christmas giving, however lavish, is truly generous unless, it includes some from whom there can be no return of gifts.
The advent of the Babe of Bethlehem is at the foundation of Christmastide, hence the season is for ever sanctified to childhood and its innocent pleasures. The oldest and wisest do well to inherit the children’s blessing. ' From that day to this a new glory has shone on all common scenes, a new dignity has been understood in all common tasks, a new joy has filled the common heart that has been opened to the Prince of Peace, the Savious of the world. — W. L. Watkinson.
Thei true keeping of Christmas is the realisation of the great love that brought us salvation and left us the example of a divine life; that we should repeat it, with God’s help, in all our relations to God and to our fellowmen. —Cunningham Geikie. We never know when a great event may be happening. Next morning the noise and bustle broke out again in the inn yard l ; the citizens of Bethlehem went about their work; the registration proceeded; and in the meantime the greatest in the history of the world had taken place.—James Stalker. !
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3734, 24 December 1927, Page 4
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206THOUGHTS FOR ’XMAS Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3734, 24 December 1927, Page 4
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