Along The Road To Christmas

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 303, 23 December 1939, Page 2 (Supplement)

Along The Road To Christmas

From. Your Club Captain. To Yoti

Dear Boys and Girls—

A Merry Christmas to you! How many times will you hear those words before Monday? They'll be sung in songs, laughed across the streets; youll see th.e m written above doorways where Santa stands, jolly and red-govyned, waiting to know all your wishes; you'll see them written in gilt and glittering frost on cards . . . but no matter where you see them or hear them, boys and girls, they cannot be more sincerely said than I am saying them now. I am hoping that this Christmas tide will bring you all the things you most desire — happiness, laughter and goodwill. Perhaps the older ones among you will feel that this Christmas cannot be quite the same as others. It Ca,l ii 'i'- | i' 1 W '" y ° y nla^e i' so - Christmas has gone on for nearly two thousand years. When you really think about it, what does ii mean? It means the time of goodwill—real goodwill—when everyone tries to do as much for friends and neighbours as possible. We give gifts, leave our doors open as sign of hospitality, we sow good wishes everywhere. In other countries they leave a lighted candle in the window to guide the stranger symbol of the homeless Christ Child—over the snow to warmth and' shelter. It is a notable thing that no matter how terrible the times—and there have been some very tragic periods in history—the spirit of Christmas shines as brightly as ever. It is one candle which will never be blown out. It is the spirit of Christmas, its peace and goodwill, that we must foster. All the gifts, the pretty customs, the trees and tinsel and stars, are but the wrappings on the outside of the oackage. And in the package is the real secret of human happiness and peace. So, because of this, because we know that hospitality and generosity and thoughtfulness are the answer to the woud s problem, lets make this Christmas the most sincere of all. No matter whether we are quite grown up or the tiniest Sunbeam of all . . . we can do our best to make this * Christmas kind and generous and cheerful. \\ forgetting-— Crry Christmas from Wend >' and Tootles and Tink.. not