THOUGHT FOR THE DAY.
At Christmas how many families whose members have boon disponed and scattered, far and wide, in the restless struggles of life, aro re-united and meet onco again in that, happy state of companionship and good-will which is a source of such pure and unalloyed delight, and one so incompatible wall the cares and sorrows of tho world, that tho religious belief of the most civilised nations, and tho rude traditions of tho roughest savages alike number it among the first joys of a future condition of existerco provided for the blest and happy I How many old recollections, and how many dormant sympathies does Christmas time awaken 1
—Dickens.
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Press, Volume XLIX, Issue 14857, 24 December 1913, Page 9
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