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sareswes saves Presiden. . a Gee ter eed THE GREAT JOY. . Dyson Hague 4 ule Baby Boy is born, Nine- teen hundred and twenty-four years pass. The history-crowded centuries come and go. After Nearly two thousand years, His birthday comes again. It rings' with songs It scintilistes with merriment. Myriads Jon myriads on voices utter words of cheer. Myriads on myriads of faces glisten with a curious rapture. Myriads on myriads of hands open to gcatter gifts. A world awakens to find itself genial and generous; mellow with tenderness, softened by love. In the widespreading joy there is a chorus of gladness, a clasping of bands that sounds over the oceans and reaches all lands. Think of it, you philosophers! A Baby 1s born long, long ago, and the world is excited to-day. Explain it, ye skeptics! In lands a thousand and tem thousand miles away are festival celebrations. Bebold it, ye critics, and wonder! The great world of the Occident is celebrating the birth of a little Oriental child in ® unison of songs and gifts and greetings of goodwill, Ome loves to think of the incarnation story: the stupendous news that flashed as the angels swept into the sky, the splen- Sif dour of the encircling hosts of an- od under a barber chalr. It is possible to drive a car and wourt a gal, but it takes team work. Conservatism is just a proper re- 'Spect for the side that's buttered. © Few men like to pet cats un . they are made Into sealskin coats. A jais band is a comfort on the A cynic is ope who trades faith or doubt and foolishly calls it wie The uplift's big job is to elevate. r thoughts without depressing our "lsoul in this great big world. Jus a onDd_ss dora; gels. One loves to hear the start- ling words: "Behold I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all peaple; for uato you is born this day a Saviour." Men's hearts still Hagef on the sweetness of the adjectives. It is GOOD tid- ings, the gladdest, the happiest news to mortal ears. It is GREAT joy; ilimitable, transcendant, life pene- trative, age-permanent. It's uni versal; to ALL people, for every And above all, it's personal: I bring YOU glad tidings of great joy. And it's so real. Because it told of the birth of & baby, it is ever sweet 'to chil- dren. It touches every. mother and father hedrt. It binds in bonds of love the members of the family, and brings ever gweet caressings and merry shouts. Because it was a babe born in poverty, it has ever deen a gospel for the poor; and men think at Christmas as never other times of the feelings of the lonely, and the sad, ajd hear with sympathy the claims of the ill-clad and the starving. Because it was One who gave up so much to come to us, Christmas has been cele- brated by an outh of unselfish kindness, ' And becdgse it is the birthday af the Incarnate God of Love there circles round the world in ever-wid- ening circles the glad : "Unto to us, a Son is given;™ aad love itself out without stint for the cheerless and {he Christiess, the unhappy and the Ring it out through the balls lof a myriad churches. Re-echo its music in the carols of a myriad choirs. Preach it, y& preachers; teach it," ye teachers; publish it, ye powers of the press, till the very | strangers within our gatgs-in this Canada of ours shall hear the won- drous story, and leara with amasé- ment that for them alto The Child was born, for them also, God's Son 5 « Yea, on and on the 13 Hi > ] ; k ¢ is : i f : Foi, I : i § % £3 ; | i : ! o 5 i oS "" i i | HE ge : #2 i i Fg 128s s Naas THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG while they plead with the multitudes to "enter the ark." But judgment days have been so often predicted without fulMiilment that they have become a standing joke with all but 8 few fanatics. Willlam Miller coh- vinced thousands that the world would come to an ead in 1843 but his many imitators have been much less successful. There will be some who, on February 6th and five 'years from now, will array themselves in white and flowing ascension and like the Millerites will attempt the long flight to heaven from tree tops at the appointed time. But agaipst these fow will be millions who will take no such risk with their bones and bedsheets, Civilized humanity. welcomes the solace and assurance given it in the theories of science that the earth will remain habitable for gome bil- lions of years yet or until the sun goes cold, It is a consoling thought for this generation. But between those, who are completely assured by sclence, and those, who are al- ready sewing their worldly goods in the hem of their ascension robes, are many who will give no further thought to the new doomsday pro- phecies than that the world isn't naughty enough to deserve such severe punishment by an impatient Providence, nor good enough to merit the millenium at such an early date. There can hardly be & millentum when there is so much charity among the sinners and so much in- tolerance and hatred among the re- formers. "To err is human" is grossly overworked as an alibi, and yet it is only a relatively small part of the population that knows the tagte of prison soup. The dooms- day preachers ave either doing the world a grave onjustice or paying it the supreme compliment, but wheth- er injustice or compliment the world will little note fit, FOR THOSE WHO DARE. Solomon once remarked that "there is nothing mew under the sun," and then proceeded to cobtra- diet himself. From that day to this there have been many with less wis. dom who have believed as Solomon preached, but unlike Solomon have meekly surrendered to their beller. That man is doomed to failure and mediocrity who believes that every- thing that can be done has been done by those hefore him, and legion are the doomed. Strickland Gillilan, poet and hum- orist, writing recently im a periodi- cal of national circulation, congratu- lates the ambitious on the little com- petition they meet in life. He rea- sons that it is comparatively easy to gain eminence because of the small number of entrants in the race. They are few in-number who have no ambition to gain either fame, for- tune or power, but innumerable are those who, though possessed of the ambition, are persuaded that oppor- tunity is dead and that "there is nothing mew under the sun." De- luded souls! Lack of confidence in themselves has left them dut of the racé to the advantage of others, per- haps less capable but surely more farseeing. This year a man received $1,000,- 000 in royalties on a simple toy in- vented by him, another made mil- lions on an ice cream confection, an- other - gained immortality from his pen. Is there any better proof that That 0 By James W. Baten, M.D, The Meal. Big When the Christmas frighten you ordinarily. There is an appetiger, perhaps some fish, fowl, four vegetables, nuts, tea or coffee. Of course there are cases where three or hundreds of thousands eat just such & meal, if only once in the year, ally digest it? Well, just think over things for a minute, "home" or with old tried friends. You are away from all cares or worries, or at least have allowed Way. The food is inviting and cooked exactly to your taste. There is much food being pre- pared that likely the meal hour is Just a bit late also. There is plenty of chatting, re- calling of old times, or former holl- day occasions, Everything is there digestion simply responds to it. There is no hurry about the meal in any way, and the periods between the courses may be of some length. It you have a story to tel you are not rehearsing it in your mind be- fore you tell it. It comes away from you with ease and surety. Thé stories from the other folks likewise fall on your sympathetic ears. What then is the big factor in this ability fo eat so much? The condition of your stomach? The condition of your mind is really the big factor. It is not only free from worries and cares *Lich actually retard the flow of gastric juice and digestion it. self, but the congenial company, the happy; ogeasion, the fond to extra effort, and thus give diges- tion a flying start on its work. And a good start has half the bate tle won. td { ODD FACTS ABOUT | YOURSELF By vALE S. NATHANSON, A. University of Pennsylvania ---- Fear of Falling Eo Another suicide ig featured in the dally columns. A man leaps 'to his death from the fifteenth floor of an office building. A few days later a similar suicide seem to work in groups. Several persons have leaped from ries, | actually stimulate the gastric jufee; is reported. They |} ne -------- Hl i a soup, |} | | | | the bridge at Niagara Falls. These were not ordinari suicides and no reasons could be assigned for them. | Then what is the cause, you ask? . | Many persons cannot stagad great heights. As they ascend a tower or a building they find themselves grow dizzy. Breathing is difficult. They! are paralysed with fear and some are | gripped with a strong impulse to opportunity is more alive than ever? | leap. Every new day brings new oppor- tunities for the men and women who recognize in the new day the time to do "something new under the sun." 4 ~~ EB if fi i g i ¥ if Since our happiness in life is not the result of one individual ogeur- rénce, but rather a reflection of all our experiences, it is interesting for us and very important to know just what our fears are and thus to avoid placing ourselves in situations where we find ourselves defenceless against our bodily reactions. From a famous doctor's contribution on fear, I am quoting #ases in 'the words of the persons themselves regarding thefr fear of high -places. These people are sormal people like you and me and yet these fears acect them. 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