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January 26, 1924 
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Pastoral Parson and His Country Folks 
By Rev. George B. Gilbert 
Christmas Over. —Yes, Christmas has 
come and gone again, and such a good 
Christmas as we did have. “The best; we 
have ever had,"’ was what Mrs. Parson 
said of it. How good everybody was to 
us! The people who had come down to 
church to visit us remembered the chil¬ 
dren anil the people and the Parson’s, 
family in a wonderful way. We searched 
through all that section for any needy 
ones. We got four school teachers to help 
us, and one rural delivery postman. How 
many country boys are wearing nice 
warm leather mittens, and how many 
girls are wearing nice warm gloves be¬ 
cause of what our good friends sent, the 
Parson will not venture to say. One city 
church school volunteered to furnish the 
presents for all our children in the regu¬ 
lar church schools. Then several church 
schools sent in other boxes, all of which 
we could make good use of. How many 
things there are that the city people are 
through with that can be made of such 
great use in the country ! A girl—quite 
grown up—walked two miles and a half 
to church last Sunday in the bitter cold. 
How comfortable she looked and was in 
a nice brown suit, with a fine long scarf 
with pockets in it. The suit fitted her as 
thought if was made for her. After ser¬ 
vice Sunday, the Parson took her brother 
into the vestry room. There he pulled 
down a coat, made by a New York tailor 
for some city man. Such a nice coat it 
Then after service we had church 
school, while the ladies were setting all 
the good things on the table. Then we 
had dinner. The Parson sat at a table 
with 15 children—14 of them boys. Well, 
the dinner being over, we went back to 
the church and had eight baptisms. Then 
after that we had our Christmas exer¬ 
cises, the children speaking pieces. Then 
we gave out the gifts and the candy all 
round. The boys had stockings and jack- 
knives, and many of the girls had scarfs 
and gloves. These eight children you see 
in this picture each had two stockings 
filled to the brims, the stockings them¬ 
selves being nice and warm and new. 
Then to get the things all together and 
packed up and the church slicked up a bit 
and looked up—well, it was a full day 
all right, and just growing dusk when we 
pulled out of the churchyard. 
New Years. —And last Sunday we had 
our New Year’s down in the old church. 
The night before we had a party in the 
church parish room. My. but it was bit¬ 
ter cold, and how the wind howled out¬ 
side. But we kept warm, all right. The 
Parson turned it right into a dancing 
school and spent the whole evening teach¬ 
ing those twenty-odd boys and girls how 
to do square dances. The few older ones 
present entered liearily into the plan and 
were a great help. The Parson had a 
pail of hot cocoa with him. and this, with 
a couple of loaves of bread, made a good 
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was, and over his sweater it was a perfect 
fit for this growing boy. whose own coat 
was getting outgrown, and can now go to 
his brother. You see the picture of the 
mother and her eight children. The Par¬ 
son spoke to the school of social work 
down in New York City, and one of his 
hearers left $10 with the secretary of the 
school for this family. It means six pairs 
of nice warm mittens and several pairs of 
warm felt boots—you can see the felt 
boots in the picture. These children walk 
three miles each way to church. Such a 
home tree as these children had! And 
then such a day as we had down to 
church. 
Christmas in the Country Church. 
—The Parson must tell you about our 
day in church—what the Parson calls a 
full day in church. We got down to the 
place about half-past nine—no one lives 
in sight of this old church. We opened 
up and went to work on the fires. If two 
floors are connected to the same chimney 
through different pipes, yon must always 
start the two fires at about the same time 
or one will smoke you out. By this time 
some of the children had begun to come, 
and we began rhe trimming. What fun 
it is to get in the trees and put up the tall 
cedars in the corner, and then get up the 
Christmas trees. We always have at 
least two. Then to tie on the candy boxes 
and bunches of candy tied up in Christ¬ 
mas paper napkins. Then we got out the 
presents. The Parson did not even know 
what they were. Didn’t those trees, right 
there in the front of the church, look fine? 
How we had to hustle to get everything 
ready and to sweep up and to prepare the 
altar for the Communion. Then, too, 
dinner must be looked after; we got the 
coffee on, and a great can of beef stew 
the Parson had brought, and we put the 
bread under the big box stove, for when 
we got it out of the Parson’s wagon it was 
frozen solid. . 
'We had such a nice service. George 
was there with his cornet and led the 
singing, and the Parson finished his ser¬ 
mon by reading a Christmas poem. He 
will have to send it in to The R. N.-Y. 
to see if they will print it. He heard a 
girl speak it way down in a one-room 
school and asked her for it. Every verse 
ends: 
“An’ Christmas came to our house and 
never went away,” 
lunch. One woman brought some nice 
cookies. One trouble is that women will 
make too much work over the refresh¬ 
ments at these affairs; then pretty quick 
it looks like a big task to them to have so 
much going on, and the whole thing is 
given up. For Sunday, the Parson takes 
down a big can of beef stew. This makes 
a fine hot dinner. Put in plenty of canned 
tomato and let the stew c-ool over night 
and take off some of the fat, so that it 
will not be too rich. After dinner and 
after Sunday school we stood round the 
old box stove and talked over church af¬ 
fairs of last year, everybody having their 
say. from children to grandmothers, and 
everybody made to feel that they were a 
part of We organization. Next Sunday 
we have our official legal church meeting, 
but everyone will be asked to stay just 
the same, though they cannot all vote. 
Growing Young. —We had a talk 
Sunday about growing young, or at least 
keeping young. We all ought to live 
longer than we do. It is claimed that 
within the generation of those now living 
in one large American city, the average 
age has been increased from 30 to 50 
years There was Moses ; at 40 he was 
a fugitive from justice and apparently a 
failure. Then he undertook the colossal 
task of bringing out a great nation away 
from one of the greatest autocracies the 
world has ever known ; he was about SO. 
At 120 we read his natural force had not 
abated. How can we keep from growing 
old? It does make a great difference 
what our attitude toward life is—how 
we look at things. Someone has said: 
“A man does not gr<?w old till he begins 
to live in the past.” Now, isn’t that 
true? How easy it is when we get the 
other side of 50 to keep thinking how 
things were done when we were children, 
"or when we were young. How easy to 
tell the boys that your father “never 
owned an overcoat till he was 20 years 
old.” which, of course, is really no reason 
why they should not have an overcoat. 
There Jim stands in the barn and Iip has 
to be fed anyway—though he sees mighty 
little grain — and gasoline costs good 
money—how easy to say to the boys: “I 
tell you. when I was a young man, I was 
mighfv glad to get a good horse to go to 
town with.” Times have changed, and 
we have to make the most of it. “The old 
live backward in memory and the youth 
