The Gisborne Standard AND COOK COUNTY GAZETTE Published every Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday Morning.
Tuesday, December 24, 1889. A MERRY CHRISTMAS.
Be just and fear not; Let all the ends thou alm’st at be thy country’s, Thy God's, and truth's.
To-morrow the birth of the world’s Saviour will be commemorated throughout Christendom, and from thousands of pulpits will be delivered the message “ Peace on earth and goodwill towards men.” The season is popularly supposed to be one of forgiving and being forgiven. Men’s hearts are believed to soften under its influence, and men’s purse strings to loosen beneath its all powerful “open sesame.” We confess that our mind makes us wander from the beaten path, and we cannot see why there should be any exception; why it is not as necessary that the virtues trumpeted forth at Christmas time should be exercised during the remaining 364 days in the year. Nor can we understand why there should be so much extravagance perpetuated under the guise of generosity. Certainly the time appears to be approaching when the great mass of humanity will not merely be thought of and cared for at Christmas time, when those who toil from year to year will be less dependent on the crumbs from the rich man’s table. Happily in these colonies there is so seldom any actual want that there is the greater reason to be thankful at our lot, and it is to be hoped that the great questions which earnest men are now trying to solve in the old world may never so seriously afflict the colonies.
Though we cannot disguise our contempt for much of the “gush" that always wells forth at this particular season, we sincerely wish that unalloyed joy may be the good fortune of all, and that not only may there be a merry Christmas, but that, in the highest sense of the expression, substantial blessings may flow in its train,
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Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume III, Issue 395, 24 December 1889, Page 2
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321The Gisborne Standard AND COOK COUNTY GAZETTE Published every Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday Morning. Tuesday, December 24, 1889. A MERRY CHRISTMAS. Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume III, Issue 395, 24 December 1889, Page 2
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