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Volume 8 December 23, 1910. Number 51 
Dec 23 — Dec. 30. 
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To our readers one and all we ex- 
tend the greetings of the season! 
All Christian nations celebrate 
Christmas, but no two celebrate it 
precisely alike. The legend varies 
greatly as to its structure; its pat- 
ron saint, usually a man, is some- 
times a woman. In Russia it is old 
Dame Babonea who distributes the 
gifts on her way to Bethlehem in 
search for the Wise Men and the 
Christ Child, while in sunny Italy it 
is Mother Goose who does Santa 
Claus’s bidding. But whether the 
patron saint be the legendary char- 
acter seeking the Babe in the man- 
ger or the jolly individual who go- 
es about scattering gladness and 
gsood cheer, the custom of remember- 
ing others with gifts is an essential 
feature of the observance every- 
where, and the varying legends, 
when traced far enough, always 
come back to the Christ Child. We 
observe the day best when in our 
giving we reproduce the same spirit 
that promoted the patron saints of 
the different legends. 
Che Spirit of Christmas 
I am thinking of you today, because it is Christmas, and 
I wish you happiness. And tomorrow, because it will be the 
day after Christmas, I shall still wish you happiness; and so on, 
clear through the year. I may not be able to tell you about it 
every day, because I may be far away; or because both of us 
may be very busy; or perhaps because I cannot even afford to 
pay the postage on so many letters, or find time to write them. 
But that makes no difference. The thought and the wish will 
be there just the same. In my work and the business of life, 
I mean to try not to be unfair to you or injure you in any 
way. In my pleasure, if we can be together, I would like to 
share the fun with you. Whatever joy or success comes to 
you will make me glad. Without pretense, and in plain words, 
good will to you is what I mean—the spirit of Christmas. 
—Henry Van Dyke. 
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Christmas Luery Day 
Onee, long ago, the story runs, the heavens were opened 
and angels sang, ‘‘Peace on earth; good will to men’’ 
Listen! Messengers of God, true-hearted men and women, 
are singing the same song now in many a quiet place all over 
the earth. 
One child of God, they say, on that first Christan night | 
looked up into his mother’ s face and brought a message of 
eternal love. 
A greater thing is true! The same light of the eternal 
voodness shines in a myriad homes today. It shines not on 
one day alone; it rises for loving hearts afresh every morning. 
One good man, they say, just faithful and friendly, gave 
his life once for all, centuries ago, for his brothers. 
We believe more than this! In every land the brave, hon- 
orable, high-minded, modest, and free,—lovers of truth, lovers 
of men, fearless of death, are living with glad hearts the good 
life: ‘‘Kach for all and all for each’’. There are more of them 
every day. 
Once, they say, God walked on the earth. Men talked 
with God. . 
The truth is greater than this! Wherever love is, there 
God is. When love or duty or truth speaks to any man, there 
the living spirit of the universe is with him and speaks to him. 
One day in the year, they tell us, the world may enter into 
joy. Let men put away care and fear and be children again. 
Let them all cease from strife for a day and be brothers. 
A new law rises out of the old! Cease from war and strife 
altogether: Live in peace with all men: Have no enemies: Act 
at all times as children of God: Treat men each day as we 
gladly treat men on Christmas; trust the beautiful laws of the 
universe; turn on the power of the Good Will and see what 
will happen! 
—Charles F. Dole. 
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