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Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 19374, 24 December 1932, Page 12

-h "b -h *-b * »i« -I- •> *** * * •?• »?* 4" 4* 4* 4* 4« 4* 4" ❖4"4*4* 4* 4*4* 4*4* 4* 4» 4*4* 4»4» 4' >h 4 t 4« 4« 4» * DEAR ONES, t 4* To-day, the coast-line of the Auckland Peninsula is outlined in 4! * the deepest scarlet of the pohutukawa. The warmest of reds is % 4» smiling in the warmest sunshine. On Christmas Eve, it seems, .the * 4! best thing to do is to smile and make others smile. So we have 4 ‘f part of New Zealand decked to cheer the folk who need cheering, and *> laugh with those who laugh with you and me, because it is the easiest 4j 4* and pleasantest thing in all the world to do. especially at Christmas 4 % time. * Perhaps some little Circlian is saying, “But Peter Pan is praising * 4* the North when we know that Timaru is the happiest place that is.” 4 4* —Yes, God has not ringed our coast with warm colours, but He has 4 * painted every soul with the warmth of the red Christmas Tree, and $ 4* every face may wear the clear brightness of His sparkling summer aii, 4 4* And this is what I feel, “There is Beauty and there is Joy in everything 4 % to-day.” 4 *> What fun there has been in the chosing of presents! What * problems have worried the owners of small purses whose hearts have 4 % been so big that they have wanted to give away whole warehouses of 4 * presents! Perhaps some of us have had such small purses that we *:♦ have been unable to give anything to those we love, and because of 4 % that we have felt a little sad. Dear Circlians, there is no one so poor 4 * that he cannot give at least one thing that everyone prizes; there is | *> no one who cannot, if he wishes, give to the whole World a face that 4 * sends to whoever needs it, a gold-mine of cheerful love. 4 * When you get your presents to-morrow, I know you will be glad; 4 4* but I hope you will be glad because someone has been so full of cheer- 4 ful love that he could not keep it all to himself. That doll is beautiful; 4 £ but not as beautiful as the thought that filled Mother’s mind when 4 * she bought it. That bicycle may be useful; but all the bicycles in the ♦£ World could never be as useful to you as the pains that both Father 4 % and Mother have spent to make you just the happy, cheerful, loving 4 4* Circlians, I know .you to be. ♦t* One last little thought I’ll leave with you. Perhaps the 4 4J Christmas Ship, when it sails to-night with our loads of “Sunshine.” 4 4* will do for sick-a-beds and orphans some little portion of the good 4 *> that the Love and Care of Mother and 4 4! Father have done for you. f 4 *£ The very Merriest and Happiest I 4 *• Christmas to you all— / '-- /V L j 4 4* ■ * FROM YOUR <•-- J 4* ♦♦♦ • *

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