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Christmas Dells.
(:lad Christmas hell.. ring out your chime
To celebrate that morn sublime
When Christ, our Saviour, carne to earth.
A little child, of lowly birth.
O Christmas bells, )otic music ring '
Herald the birthday of our King.
Ring bells, though in a. minor .train.
Leve's sacrifice is not in vain.
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Un the night before Christmas your heart will be sad
-If you know that you've failed to make somebody. glad
With a gift,. or a letter, or a token of love,
And you'll think, though too late, what you'd give just to prove
That you care as you'd have them believe that you care :
And you'll gaze in the fire with a long, empty stare,
And resolve that next Christmas you will not forget
The hearts that are bowed and the eves that are wet..
Next Christmas ! Ah, yes, if it found us the same,
The vow you make now might be more than a name :
Ilut maybe the eves that now sparkle so bright
May be closed by next \-uletide forever in night.
So. do it today —the deed that you .feel
In ynur heart to be best for humanity's Neal
Yelp the weary today with the loads that they bear.
For, maybe, next year they will not need your care.
- he Prexbweri.n
Christmas Fells
I hear.l the hells on Christmas Day
Their old familiar carols play,
And wild and sweet the words repeat
Of peace on earth, good will to erten
And thought how, as the day had come,
The belfries of all Christendom
Had rolled along the unbroken song
Of peace on earth, good -will to men !
Till, ringing, singing on its way,
The world revolved front night to day,
A voice, a chime, a chant subrlitue.
Of peace on earth, Rood -will to sten '
Then from each black, accursed month
The cannon thundered in the SAkft,
And with the sound the carols drowned
Of peace on earth, good -will to men !
It was as if an earthquake rent
The hearthstones of a continent,
And made forlorn the households hot n
Of peace on earth, good -will to men !
And in despair I bowed my head ;
"There is no peace on earth," I said :
"For hate is strong and mocks the song'
Of peace on earth, good -wall to men."
Then pealed the bells more loud and deep
"God is not dead ! nor doth He sleep !
The Wrong shall fail, the Right prevail,
With peace on earth, good -will to men !"
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Ring fall and far, the world around '
Let Lo,e supreme onr live. adorn.
For Christ the King of Love is horn
king. happy hell., ring loud and clear '
Take from our hearts all thought of fear
Ring in the time when wan shall cease.
.and God shall send us perfect peace
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LIGHT THROUGH THE DARKNESS.
"The tale the shepherds told fits the world we know. a world
which has God in it. and yet in which even God works under the
limitations of humanity. — Sureness and patience. -sureness because it' is
God patience because it is a child."
Surely these words contain for us a message sorely needed today.
When our vaunted civilization seems to have collapsed. and the flower
of civilized nations to have fallen back into the condition of savages. we
need some assurance that Christianity has not failed. that God still rules.
It is His way to work through man: and though man's mistakes. his faults
and sins impede his progress. and even. at times. seem to hurl him
backward, yet because God is in His world there must be progress.
In the midst of the turmoil of these months. through all the confusion
of thought and feeling. there have been hopeful signs. War is viewed.
not with exultation, but with horror and dismay. even with feelings of
humiliation. The rejoicing over news of victory is overshadowed by
grief for the awful pie which has been paid ; the prospect of ultimate
triumph brings no desire to trample on the vanquished, but only to see
them deprived of the power they have so abused. That such fellings.
not common in the past to nations at war. are now so prevalent bids us
hope that mankind's progress is not a myth. that his civilization is more
than a veneer. that there has been a real growth in human hearts of the
principles of the Man of Nazareth.
And so at this Christmas time we turn with chastened and humble
spirits. yet with trust. to the Star of the East. praying to be guided through
the dimness and.d e nightsett s fleet of the Child of Bethlehem
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No room for Him, the inn coutd not receive Hint,
Already filled with comers of the day :
As hearts. ton full of sura do not believe Him.
.and es-ertnore the Christ is turned away.
If He should come to u. on Christmas morning.
To he our guest and free onr hearts from sin.
Would we extend'a welcome and adore Hint,
Or say there is no room within our inn
Beware. beware, 0 heart that's filled with pleasure
Von have no room for Christ, your Lord, to stay :
Keep room for Him while yet the day is early,
He need not then at night be turned array.
(e pear the Angels 'Aiwa
it came upon the midnight clear,
That glorious song of old,
From angels bending near the earth
To touch their harps of gold :
"Peace on the earth. good-wi11 to men,
From heaven's all -gracious King !"
The world in solemn stillness lay
To hear the angels sing.
Still through the cloven skies they come,
With peaceful wings unfurled,
And still their heavenly music floats
O'er all the weary world ;
Above its sad and lowly plains
They bend on hovering wing.
And ever o'er its Babel sonrtrks.
The blessed angels sing.
Vet with the woes of sin and strife
The world has suffered long :
Beneath the angel -strain have rolled
Two thousand years of wrong
And man, at war with man, hears not
The love -song which they bring :
O hush the noise, ye men of strife,
And hear the angels sing !
For lo ! the days are hastening on
14 prophet -bards fo told,
W with the ever-cii ling years
Comes round the ageofgold :
When peace shall over all the earth
its ancient splendors fling,
And the whole world give back the song.
Which now the angels sing.
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