... Thousands of desolate hearths reflect the desolation of the forests aud the fields, and happy is it, therefore, that Christmas merriment and Christmas charity should now timeously enter upon the scene. Tbe hallowed associations of our Saviour's birth could not ...

... FOR CHRISTMAS. —•— . Raphael Tuck and Sons, art and book publishers renown, have this year a rema assortment of Christmas and cards, Christmas auto static dars, books, for boys and Royal Christmas cards c v b Hudson Sails the Atlantic, be sent out by ...

... CHRISTMAS. Though tbe great day of this holy season will have passed ere the words we are writing can come before our readers it is not too late to offer to these friends and acquaintances, old and new, the congratulations usual at this time. The duty ...

... CHRISTMAS FRIDAY, DEC. 24, 1948 A PARTY of shepherds watched over their Hocks while the earth was asleep. The night was still, and one star shone out more brilliantly than the others over the shepherd scene, for its rays had not, as yet, become dimmed ...

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... CHRISTMAS CDC Bat!) Chronicle and Herald THURSDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1937. IT is nearly a hundred years since Charles Dickens wrote his Christmas Carol which, like so many other classics of our language, is known to the older generation through a book, and ...

... CHRISTMAS. THURSDAY, Dec. 20 1877. Better too early than too late. are still nearly a week before Christmas, but as the great Festival will have passed ere we again unfold our weekly broadsheet to the eyes of kind and indulgent readers, we must not miss ...

... iaxations with greater gusto. England was merry England, when Old Christmas brought his sports again. Twss Christmas broached the mightiest ale, 'Twas Christmas told the merriest tale; Christmas gambol oft could cheer The poor man's heart through half the ...

... CHRISTMAS. THURSDAY, Dec. 22, 1881. Another year has gone, and we have again to offer our readers the greetings the Christmas season. It would be better, perhaps, if we did so without a homily, but a Christmas homily is a custom with us, and old customs ...

... CHRISTMAS. gat*. THURSDAY, Dec. 20, Christmas has come to us again with his old burden of joy and sorrow the joy of familiar faces gathered round hospitable boards, the sorrow of the familiar faces which are missing, and the remembered voices which are ...

... But Christmas ought bring back to reckon new scale and with new standard, What is Christmas worth to the moral life of a nation through its vindication true sentiment, its revival of pure emotion, and its annual quickening of imagination? Christmas ought ...

... CHRISTMAS. THURSDAY, Dec. 26, 1889, If pleasure were the aim and end of all. And Life, called, to be the final bound Of existence— If it were. Bat it it not. is pleasant, donbt, albeit not always good for us, to hear whst the poet calls the thrilling ...