THE Mount Ida Chronicle. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1870.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume II, Issue 97, 23 December 1870, Page 2

THE Mount Ida Chronicle. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1870.

|) one and allof oui roaji.ers;- -Before another issue of the l' Chronicled will be published Christ/;be! again in our midst', with ail jts dear recollections and time-honored associafioiis. " 4 Who; amoiur us at tbis "season of the year can fail torrcconjure l up before him the i history, as it were, _of his life from infancy to the present .time. The days of boyhood, when was bright and full of hope, [•jirh;en tbei :boy longed to be the jman, .unconscious tlishjvifch the des ( ired elevation would .cornel all (the cares 'and pf'life. How was, even Christinas looked* forward delight,andieypriali ,img^it^'c^ 9i ;:{jDlxi®ren long Separated rfiKtm.i.their.; would tjieeif again femirf and srtrat the ;fea. the good cheer : .of : /Old - T^ugland,"'and joy and merryjbe the 'the-day. All would be merry, -for- Christ'irias Day—the anniversary of the ; iiii'tiatiori 'of 'that ei'a which was'iinaugurated by angels' song, " Peacei on earth." In these days with most of us', bright and happy as was the then present, the future appeared to discover no 1 dark spots to mar-the happiness of "the fleeting moments. hopes 'an^ 7 aiitici|SAtidns of many of us have been fulfilled we4nus£ iiu 'dividual breast to determine. Though' Christmas is, and should be, from the very nature of the covenant entered into bj; the Creator with the creature, a season—of joy and thanksgiving throughout all Christian countries, :thero must be some to whom the . very mention of minth would" seem"to'be a . perfect laree almost a : n, .insiilt; Is .it not the fact that, sinre ; the ; .l<\st anniversary of ; this- auspicious day, many have been bereft by tliei.; unsparing hand of death-\of relatives and friends whom they dearly loved, and who now, rest in the dull, cold, cold grave until the day when the sound of, the V; Tr; ( um T pet shall wake them from their last long sleep. Are there not also others whose > fondest hbp£s afa d an,ti;ci pation s- h avebeen disappointed?' and who have been f;feduc6d from wealth, lifehlth,' aM ri ed#K 'fort tii j^ect/ the. dep.tbs, of 1 ; tho a|pysß of 'de^air.^, .jtgTvi a ■■ JP.Q l Pent ; to.. Europe,! aqd k to, mind the fearful war. which has, within the last_few ( months, ravagedoEranee} "caused v! t'he^blood of two great nations to flow in rivers—which has |ent t(i their last account tens of thousands Jipndreds of. thousands of' heroes, erfcatriig, were, a. new nation if widowsandbpphfms, and rendering one of Jhe finesf countries m Europe a devastated >viijie;rnesß.. Hl&yr.topj i: have itbei mightyifallen in the greaV struigle to which we l have referred ( whoj the .previous anniversary ofdh'nstiM^day'one of,.the mostipmyerr! tul monarchs in the nir theianguage"of Avon's bard,;"jmigb.t: have stpod against: the thronM, expatriated, a'-prisoner 1 in the' hands; of enemies, .with " none, so " poor ; as dp hiai.urevereiice." Can it be expected that this - happy ; dfiy "p6'hearts of such as we ; tempted to ; 'portray could be able tohito; the of. ; £hmtma§,i. and "receive the^|ual'.s^utation ! :in.,^he / 'spintr itv wjiieh .received 'JS T pi to them the -words^A ; M^rryChristmas,„ conveying,, as. they . do? love and-^oodVellbwship which each- C 1 iristihn sho ul d entertain towards his neighbor and fellow man," 'w v 6u ; M'"appear a bitter mockery. There" are,, however, 5 are -to j rnaiiy, many; our, small. the salutation. ch.ee,rfully< Hand- To 'these we taijdres.s ourselves uin ..-all; sincerity and in ; ; |j a Merry Chbist- . Year. . who Svoiild. s'irink' tVoivV"tlie thousrlit of l! .- e.-=•.> j io' 'Hi JU ■ fjpyv 0,1"' "i liTit. i"iL t>nlt:,ip,. ;o.<-iwte.. siou|Jwe daiiioiviy express a hopji will, go mit|gate> their

and assuage their grief that, ere ano* ther revolution of the year again brings with it Christmas and its merrymakings, they will be fully able to accept the salutation as it should be accepted, and enter into the mirth and spirit of the season with their minds comforted and their feelings chastened by sorrow, r but unsubdued and still sustained by Jiope