Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 April 1895 — CHRISTMAS IN THE FOREST. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

CHRISTMAS IN THE FOREST.

It is Christmas in the forest, where softly falling snow Seems to touch with benediction the waiting earth below. The long, slim fingers of the wind upon the barren trees

Play Nature’s Allelulia in a multitude of keys. And bird and beast they wake alike to join a common note And swell the reverent carol which wells up from Nature’s throat.

There is worship in the woods, though the patho be yet untrod, When all the world goes joying at the birthday of its God. —Eve H. Brodlique.