Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 75, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 December 1914 — Letters to Santa Claus [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Letters to Santa Claus

Christmas Ideas.

Christmas will be worthily hept by us In proportion as our hearts glow with Chrletllhe feelings, estrangements should melt tn the warmth of Christmas gratitude to God. Let It be a sweet, forgiving time—a time for the doing of blessed charities. Because Christmas stands for the child, as the father of the man, and for the cradle, as the one point where futurity Is vulnerable, It will yet usher In the golden age. Co produce an Ideal world wc need only o-' thfr i-a Christmas that lasts all the year. If Christ bad never been born there would bare been no Christmas, and where now Is holy light would abide a great shadow, and where now Is sweet and sacred Joy would be sadness and tears. If Christ bad never been born the world would have bereft Itself of the love and the light of God. Cbe birth of 3esus means the establishment of the reign of Justice and conscience, and you and I cannot realize the benefits of this divine season until we have become like little children In humility and gentleness and received the will and the love of God as they have teen made known to us tn the Master’s gospel Christ must be born tn each heart In order that we may have a true Christmas. Hre we rejoicing In the gifts of human lore ? Shall we be unmindful of Tstm who Is the “unspeakable gift ?” Cum not the Christ ot God away from the heart’s Inn ; banish film not to the manger, Beaven’s gift Is now offered without money and without price. Receive film with glad welcome. Christmas Is every one’s day. Childhood can have no monopoly ot ft. though Bls child life Inspired ft. Christians are not Its sole possessors, while they are Its only true Interpreters. Youth cannot claim the whole of It even while Its exuberance gives ft Its chief natural emphasis. Cbere are currents beneath the surface motion Into which the plummet meditation must plunge to note their existence and determine their direction.