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About The Hermiston herald. (Hermiston, Or.) 19??-1984 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 20, 1919)
Merry Christmas IF YOU IT ANY Fifteen Hundred Dollars Worth of Ford Parts Christmas the Glad Day for All the World VERY country and every people have their own special holi days, both national and reli- I gious, but Christmas is a day ■ forali countries and all people. It is ■ the world’s holiday. ■ It is a day of gladness, as it should ■ be, for it commemorates the birth of ■ him who brought to the world the ■ greatest gladness it has ever known or I will ever know, though it were to last I for countless aeons to come. I So universal is the application of I the celebration of Christmas that all I men are included In it, whether they I be of high or lowly station, rich or I poor in the goods of the world. I It is a time for kindly deeds, for charity, for gifts and all that goes to make life gentler and sweeter. The I hardest heart can scarcely escape its softening influence, the most sordid miser must struggle to resist Its promptings to generosity. At first the day was a day observed ) professed Christians only ; now it • observed by both those who profess themselves Christians and those who make no such professions. Its warmth envelops all. This being true—and no one will dis- pute it—the meaning of Christmas trows ever clearer to us. Its meaning ‘beyond all that we have already said I it. Christmas means that, ultimate- ■Z. the whole world will become one vast brotherhood. And it is entirely logical that this should be the real meaning of Christ- mas, because that was the reason Christ came upon the earth whose birth is celebrated by Christmas. It was tc make all men brothers that he lived and taught and toiled; it was to sc- complish this that he gave himself up voluntarily to a cruel death on the tempts to dispute the miracles he per formed, but these attempts have also failed. There Is no question now in the mind of any historian worthy of the name that Christ performed all the miracles that are related of him in the Gospels. He undoubtedly healed the sick—the leprous, the palsied and the others. He turned the water Into wine; he fed the multitude on a few loaves and fishes. He raised the dead. Men may differ, as indeed they do, as to whether or not Christ was the divine son of God, but even those who in the face of every proof reject this claim still regard him as the purest, the noblest and the greatest man that ever walked this earth. Every man does not worship him as God. but no man defames him. He is the vision and the hope of all men. When, In mockery, they crowned him king with the cruel thorns, little they thought that he would rule a world at last—a world in which all races vie with one another to render him their homage. Now comes again in the swing of the years another Christmas day. May it be a glad and a merry one for all our readers. party clothes tor the whole family, extra special cooking and preparation for guests. “Then wc set about doing these things. At first it goes well and we enthuse. The common, everyday affairs interfere and complicate matters. “At the beginning of Christmas week —with many frills deleted—we find ourselves growing tired, awfully tired. But we see that it's impossible then to stop and rest. That’s where the strain begins. We feel compelled to finish what we’ve started and to carry the program through to the last item of buying, making, packing and shipping. "Unexpected demands interrupt. Then the strain begins to tell on our nerves. Perhaps we don't say anything for fear of spoiling Christmas for the others, but in our hearts we wish man kind had kept Christmas free from this sort of thing. “When Christmas day comes we are too weary to bother about the true meaning of it all or to take very keen tnings which our present physical and mental strain forbids. Throughout the rest of the year. If any one felt In clined to send a regular gift to a friend or relative, that could be done very easily and the recipient would know It was a voluntary, not a com pulsory, remembrance." “It's a great idea,” said the brown eyed woman’s husband, cheerfully. “A bit of real affection In place of some of the monstrosities now exchanged would be a great improvement.” “You can make fun If you want to,” she replied, "but when the world wakes up to the real meaning of Christ mas—and the war I believe has helped to wake It op—you’ll pee the effect spread over the entire year. Then the first of January won't be asso ciated with bills and pills, but with the genuine eagerness to live the next 12 months better than those preced- “In the meantime,” sighed her hus band dramatically, "I hope you haven’t bought me another smoking jacket” "That reminds me !” said the woman with the brown eyes. T haven't time to be sitting here talking. And It won’t be any of your affair until tomorrow morning, anyway.” — Chicago Dally News. 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Pupils should be made by GRACE ARNOLD HE woman with hrown eyes was gazing medita tively out of the window at the people hurrying through the fall- Ing snow with their Christmas bundles. "You are thinking?” her husband suggest- that mere saving does no good Gazing Meditatively Out of the Window, to see pleasure In the results of our back- breaking work, much less to go out and hear beautiful music and uplifting ser- mons.” "I've always wondered why women cross. attempt so much." “Because everybody does. And if It is a wonderful thing that he was “About Christ one poor. lone, sensible woman sits r in a stable, that he was son of a mas. that’s all. down and flatly refuses to kill herelf carpenter, that he never had a dollar undone the things that working for Christmas, her family ali" " his name, that he had no home friends will think she is a quittera after he left Nazareth, that he was a Merely social slacker." wanderer on the face of the earth with “Not this time, my dear, “Well.” suggested her husband, "Why place whereon to lay his head, and about everybody In the world. not let the rich people have all the Tat now, 2,000 years after his death, “No one could call you fuss and feathers, and let those in 8 power is over the world as the minded !" medium circumstances realize they er of the Roman empire never “People have the right spirit about can't keep up that pace?” "They are so full IL" she explained. "You don't understand." said the It Is a marvelous thing about Christ of good will toward men that they try woman with the brown eyes; “M long the trouble I at as the years and centuries in- to do too much—»hat s — ___ - as rich folks do it. those less able will sease since his death, the more real You see, most of us and our strain to do likewise. That's why the ne becomes in the thoughts of men wealthy people will have to see the and the better he Is understood. arles and moderate strength- trend and Institute a change. .There have been attempts to prove “I've noticed It __ “In place of so many mere ‘presents’ at he was n myth. But there never “We want to give to eversbod" we must give such things an love, cour ; as an attempt at anything that failed want our homes superscrupulous'z age. kindness and generous impulses— 80 dismally. There have been at- We plan festivities which require "0 Pow goo unless that which ia saved la used to create more wealth. To that end they should be shown that there la a great difference between money which Is merely stored up In a little Iron bank at home and that which is taken to a real bank and Is put out Into the In dust rial world to earn an interest In re turn. In some of our large schools there are school savings banks estab lished. These exist not only In ele mentary but In hich schools, but In very few cases are any attempts made to teach the pupils the functions of a bank and where the interest comes from. A man arrested In San Francisco on I. W. W charges Tered War Savings Stamps In evidence to disprove It was a good plea. < harges. the postoffice will The Neu) Coating f .r U!J ¡ loert YANIZE Sanitary Floor I , coating produced to make ing of the you can paint and tar nidi in c - ditta overnight with a bowtil-i 11 floors new. It is a blend- nd permanent colors, so that ocrati on. 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