The Wingham Advance-Times, 1944-12-07, Page 19
With Which Is Amalgamated The qorrie Vidette and WroXeter News.
IT'S CHRISTMAS . . . CHRISTMAS! Holly on the door and, a candled wraith in the
window, stockings by the fireplace, carols in the dark, and the jeweled Christmas tree
glittering through the night. What would Christmas be without them?
windows . . . the caissons`creaking on the frozen, rutted roads, their horses steaming in the
falling snow . . a little voice that said ".loyeux Noel, Soldat Canadien" "Silent Night"
alternating with "K-K-K-Katy" from the Y-hut ... and over all, the great Star of Christ-
mas shining clear above the fitful lightning that marked our lines .
That was a Christmas far away—a Christmas "Somewhere in France".. A time for memor-
ies is lonely boys thought of home.
This year once more our boys are spending Christmastime in the battered towns of France
and Belgium, sleeping in the same billets, perhaps walking the same roads their •fathers
trod. Like their dads before them they'll be hoping that next Christmas will see them
home again.
The answer is . . it would still be Christmas.
For Christmas isn't symbols . . Christmas is something that happens to people. It swells
app, overflows, bursts forth from the heart of every human being. It goes far beyond the
traditional forms of our Canadian observance... adopts a hundred different forms all over
the world and, transcends them all.
Can you ever forget that Christmas . . . the candlelight shining through the estatninet
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