The Educator (Volume 45) - IAMPETH

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THE EDUCATOR
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KEEPING CHRISTMAS
Are You Willing?
To stoop down and consider the needs
and desires of little children;
To remember the weakness and loneliness
old;
of people who are growing
To stop asking how many of your
friends love you, and ask yourself
if you love them enough;
To bear in mind the things that other
people have to bear in their hearts;
To try to understand what those who
live in the same house with you
really want, without waiting for
them to tell you;
To trim your lamp so
give more light and
that
less
it will
smoke,
and carry it in front so that your
shadow will fall behind you;
To make a grave for your ugly
thoughts, and a garden fpr your
kindly
open
feelings, with the gate
Are you willing to do these things
even for a day?
Then you can keep Christmas.
—Henry Van Dyke.
GREETINGS
The names of those sheltered in
the inn at Bethlehem that first Christmas
are unknown today. They were
no doubt, of the wealthier class and
as is most generally the case,
thought of their own comforts first,
for none offered shelter to the Galilean
wayfarer and his distressed
wife.
The name of that wayfarer, the
mother and the One born in the manger
only have come down through
the ages, and as a result homage is
paid each year by the world in the
beautiful holiday—Christmas.
The approach of Christmas brings
a wave of good cheer. We take an
added interest in those around us and
are happy when we can make others
happy. It is a beautiful custom and
most people greet their friends with
"Merry Christmas" and so we extend
to you a very MERRY CHRISTMAS.
THE EDITOR.
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