Are you willing to forgetcwhat you have done for other people and Yo remember what other people have done for you; to ignore what the world owes you and to think what you owe the world; to put your rights in the background and your duties in the middle distance and your chances to do a little more than your duty in the foreground;.to see that -your fellow-men are just cal your fellow-men are just as real as you are, and try to look behind their faces to their hearts, hungry for joy; to close your book of complaints and look around you for place where you can sow a fow seeds of happiness—are you willing to do these things even for a day?
Are you willing to stoop down and consider the needs and the desires of little children; to remem-the, weakness and loneliness of people who are growing old; to stop asking how much your friends Jove you and ask yourself when ther you love them enough; to bear in mind the things that other people /have to bear on their hearts; to try to understand what those who live in the same house with you really jour waiting for them to to trim your lamp so that it will give more light and less smoke, and to carry it in front so that your shadow will fall behind you; to make a grave for your ugly thoughts and a garden for your kindly feelings, with the gate open—are you willing to do these things even for a day? Then you can keep Christmas.
Are you willing to believe that love is the than doath,—and that. the blessed life which began in Bethlehem nineteen hundred years ago is the image and brightness of the Eternal fashion and she is now Urging us You have not hurt me and I do not He magniged a fancy that he wished to" unusual" heights of polite fel that you have exerted any parti- The friend whom he had wrecked were virtue, there is ome I hardly dare t6 Good-bye," Her voice held no touch "No. other pet terrors?
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