Yes, Christmas is a marvellous institution." What the merchants would do without it is difficult to imagine. The social calendar would be sadly depleted were holiday gaieties deleted, the children would feel cruelly defrauded, and the rest of us, grumble as we may at the travesties of the Christmas spirit too often foisted upon us would sorely regret its loss; Of genuine sentiment there is all too little in this cynical world and sometime in the midst of this pblesssed season there is bound to come to us some poignant. realization of its real meaning.
Many will find this revelation ju church, others through © the welfare agencies so busy at this time, for others it will come through the joy of little children, or the surprise"of being remembered by some long-silent friend It-is a pity that we cannot renrember what good fellows we all are all through the year, but being creatures of habit it takes a/ special anniversary to stab us: into this realization, and at some moment in the holiday cele brations we feel again a bit of the old thrill which stole over Us as children when the story of the Star and the Babe was told us.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.