... I Christmas, O\c1l more the wheel of Time brings round Christmas, and with it a slight cessation of the daily struggle. The unanimity with which all classes devote themselves to festivity and social pleasures is a welcome sign, amid much that has an opposite ...

... CHRISTMAS DECORATIONS AND CHRISTMAS FARE. Every Christian country regards Christmas as an event when not only the spiritual manna should be more plentifully distributed, but also that the period, established as a festival, when kindred meet together, ...

... Christmas I Lsst Christmas, after a short supple. mental session, the cabinet or Lord Palmerston retired to the country to pass the holidays with every prospect of a brilliant and successful session of parliament before them. The rebellion in India haid ...

... believe. Peter had , been pantaloon at our house for years, And he continued to be engaged for Christmas long after he was past his a work. But a Christmas came when even long and faith- , ful services would no longer balance Peter's infirmity, which ...

... CHRISTMAS JOYS AND CHRISTMAS . WANTS. The brigbtest time of all the year is close upon US. *Itis coming to us so far in a genial calmness of atrnosgphere that will gladden many poor way- fareri tbroughlife,whomight nothave wherewith to comfort themselves ...

... CHRISTMAS 1857 AND CHRISTMAS 1858. .. ^ . . . . . .. . . - I 1 One of the most natural, and not the least profit- e able uses to which the present season may be put, is I ! that of taking the opportunity it affords, by comparing d each Christmas with ...

... CHRISTMAS WORK & CHRISTMNIAS 2 - WATS. { sca BREAKFASTS FOR THE POOR. A Mhe For several years past a number of influentialI ofgentlemen have formed a committee for the purpose IL List of giving a6 substantial Christmnas breakfast to thie!L ter poorer ...

... CHRISTMAS CARDS AND CKRISTPJAS NUMPEfRS. itt the production of these annual gifts w-e hail thought that designers hail exaaustel ti!e resources of art ; bue year after year fresh islscus show that the worlds of nature and of imagination ihave new beauities ...

... direction to the Christmas sentiment. At present their is no such sentiment ; at least, there is none to be traced in the Christmas publications. Taken as a whole, these are but ordinary stuff. No great writer n )w uses the Christmas cnn ial as a vehicle ...

... wizard on it ? The Christmas umbrella, the Christmas knife, fork, and spoon; the Christmas smoking-mixture, Christmas mantles and millinery, Christmas coat anud hats ;, Christmas teas, coffees, hams and fitches ...

... to our humble history ef the Merry Christmas Holy.tide Of ail the old festivals that of Christmas excites the strongest, warmest, and dearest associations. The first foot- steps we find of.the observation of Christmas Day are in the second century, about ...

... CHRISTMAS. With footstep slow, in furry r, a,, yclad, His brows enwreathed wiLhholly never Old Christmas comes, to close the wair.ed year. And aye the shepherd's heart to make right Iad Who, when liiit teeming flocks are homeward had. To blazing hearth ...