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“FRIDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1913.

The New Hazelton children were all remembered
by Santa Claus this year. The Christmas spirit
has'a strong hold upon the adult population and
probably o one of the greatest pleasures of the sea-

The |
Coming
- Year

son is selecting the gifts for the!

little ones. The last few days were
busy ones in all the stores and there
is hardly anything left in the way
of Christmas novelties, It was @
good season all round and augurs well for the
rapidly approaching year. The Qmineca Herald
trusts that the year 1914 will be the happiest,
the most prosperous, and the biggest year the
present generation has ‘yet lived, and that the
individual will share these things in proportion to
his efforts to bring about this ideal condition.

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H™ could Joseph know that a new
star had swung into space from out
the Eternal Vastness, to stand above
that cosy place in a manger just intend- -
ed for a cradle ? 2
How could Joseph know that the God
of Abraham, of Isaac and of Jacob, was
in his own warm arms, and that, EVEN
THEN, the wise men were at the door
to fall at His feet with their gifts; and -
that, EVEN THEN, the strange sounds
‘that are making the oxen prick up their
ears, are carols of angels floating round ©
and round that cave ?
- How could Joseph know that -God -
would in very truth dwell among men,
and that too, as the most dependent, the .
most tender and intimate,’ and warmly
human of all men?,
- How could Joseph, who thought ‘of
God as the Lord of Hosts, mighty and
_ lifted: up, know that divinity could’ be
‘eradled in the arms of human mother-
hood.
Neither did the inn- “keeper know.
Every corner of the inn was ‘crowded -
that night: The whole ‘city ‘was .astir
- with quite unusual events. The Roman
Governor had come. to settle about the ~
- eensus and the taxation-roll. ‘The village.
elders had hurried.to show him what poor
honor they might. _ His retinue had taken _

‘at Bethlehem.

for ‘Peace on- Earth. ”
ed deeper into.each others faces and be- |

ue up 5 all the room: in the j ‘{inn,: and there was >
‘not a man in: the’ village’ ‘but would have =~

~ slept in the streets rather than: have had.

one of these Romans: give up his room...
For these were men of importance, and -

were bent upon a matter of great mo-— -
It is not to be wondered at, that —

ment.
none gave attention to yon other little
group that crept in, weary and footsore,
at sunset, and found what shelter was

eft. :
“Men of those days were like ourselves, _

preoceupied’ with what has always been
recognized as the momentous questions—

questions of finance, taxation, world-em-

pire—and singularly careless as to where
the children are to be born. The world
lost the honor of providing a place where
the Redeemer might be born, because it
was very busy over important affairs.
Yet at His birth-hour two systems

_ were brought face to face within the
limits of one little village.

The Roman empire, with all that it

stood for—strength, organizing ability,
entrenched by the power of its own ~

might-—filled the imaginations of men,
as its splendid retinue filled the rooms
That incarnation of
worldly power crowded out the incarna-
tion of Love, and: left but meagre room

for Christ.

-To-day, the Roman legions are scat-

tered, and grass grows upon their mighty —

roads; and to-day Christ has found room
for himself in the imaginations of men.

Men are growing ashamed of the vulgar-,

ity of physical force and have yearned
Men have look-

gun to believe’ that love ‘is fairer and
stronger than hate. -The world is finding

room for Him whom once it crowded out.‘

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