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’?‘ sold December evening a little girl stood shiverâ€" all her heart and gradually their love for each other increased until # m ing on the doorstep of a handsome residence. Her _ they each found a fuller happiness on earth than is the share of h P dress was ragged and torn and her poor little feet _ most mortais. ~I and hands had no protection or covering whatsoâ€" And this is a tale of Christmas for the divine Providence had a 5;\1 se ever. She lay couched on the doorstep in a miserâ€" _ led these two lonely ones unto each other on Christmas Eve. ‘_;f.e,"?;- able heap, and none of the passersby paid the slightest attention "al." >‘ to ber, uh. * Inside the residence, in a warm, cosy sitting room, a lonely, wWHY THE CHIMES RANG. ul : , _ widow sat mourning for her only child. ‘This was Christmas Eve In a faraway country where few people have ever travelled w c and two years ago she had received the sad tidings of his death. _ stood a wonderful church. The churh stood on a high hill in the B He had died bravely fighting in the Great War, and his mother _ city. The people went to the church on Sunday and on Christmas 8i loved to retrospect upon the happy days of his childhood when _ eve, looking like ants all going the same way. Lk little hands and feet had done their best to render her happy. The entrance had stome columnms and dark passages. The The widow mused upon this peaceful scene for a while and then knelt down and prayed to God that she might have the little waif for her own, to guard and care for and verily in the days to come God answered her prayer, for little Gertrude grew to love her with She bathed the poor chilled little body in warm water, and after a brisk rubbing with a towel wrapped the child well up in a blanket and carried her up to bed. The child was too weak to protest and the widow managed to feed her with some hot gruel before she went off to sleep. Her dreams were all of wondrous palaces of gold, for she was never to know the shadow of care again. Before retiring the widow opened her window wide and gazed out into the night. The night was clear and starry and a golden moon was gliding softly across the dark expanse of blue. To her amazement she nearly stumbled over a bundle of rags which lay hunched up on the doorstep. She lowered the flickering fiame in order to discover what it might be and was surprised to find a poor little waif of seven or eight soundly sleeping, in spite of the cold. Touched by pity, the lady wrapped the child in her shawl and lifting the waif in her arms brought her into the house. The slow hours wore on oblivious to the sorrow or suffering of the world. The lady of the house took her lamp at midnight and wrapping a shawl about her went to see what the weather scene and had wandered about the streets until at last overcome by fa‘tigueAand_oold she had sought shelter on a friendly doorstep. the doorâ€"step, was also alone in the world. A few hours ago reâ€" turning home to her miserable sheiter after selling her papers on her crossing she had found her sick grandmother dead. Exposure and overwork had killed the poor weak body at last. Gertrude, horrified at this strange cold death had fled from the mournful !.thutttnde.fortlu!mthemuoltheponr-"'lfloa Dec, 14, 1922 A Child‘s Christmas Tale iverâ€" _ all her heart and gradually their love for each other increased until As they looked all they saw was the figure of little brother, Her _ they each found a fuller happiness on earth than is the share of _ who had crept softly to the altar and laid the silver piece there. feet _ most mortais. atsoâ€" And this is a tale of Christmas for the divine Providence had hermeagom= iserâ€" _ led these two lonely ones unto each other on Christmas Eve. n i en e e e e As they listened, sweetly and clearly came the music of the chimes. Aiter the gifts were placed on the altar, the choir began to sing. Suddenly the organist stopped playing and everyone looked at the minister as he stood with his hand raised. The church was beautiful that evet{ing and Pedro felt the ground tremble when the organ played. After the service the people took their gifts to the altar. But the chimes did not ring. It was hard for Pedro to stay but he choked back the tears as he heard little brother‘s footsteps going farther away. A number of miles from the city lived two little boys. They know little about the chimes but they had heard of the service on Christmas eve. They planned to go to the church. Pedro said. ‘"‘We might be able to see the Christ child. 1 have heard he comes to biess the service. It was the custom of the people, rich and poor, to bring gifts on Christmas eve. They placed them on the altar. When the greatest and best gift was placed on the altar, the music of the chimes could be heard. * They had not been heard for many years. There was an old man living in the town who said that his mother had heard the chimes when she was a little girl. ‘This was the last time the chimes had been heard. bells. They were in the tower. There was ivy growing all round it. It was so high that only on a fair day could one see the top. The bells had always hung in the tower. the marble altar. The organ was in a far corner of the room. When the organ was played it could be heard for miles around. People closed their windows and doors and got ready for a thunder The entrance had stone columnms and dark passages. The main door was so large that one could see from the doorway to But the strangest thing about the church was the chime of YOUNG CANADA 16 And here, buried as it were in the depths of the Northland woods, far removed from the sound of church belis and close felâ€" lowship of men, one still feels that happy, contentedâ€"like infection that Christmas brings. It is good to live and be contented with your lot and look forward to the coming year with the same spirit that this day of days brings to one. And now I lean back in the old rocking chair and the fiickering, spluttering fireplace awakens memories. And my thoughts drift back towards civilization and crowded cities and I remember that on this the 25th day of December, the world that we know of becomes a veritable brotherhood of man, on this day at least the disparity in class distinction is wiped away in a common emotion of goodâ€"will. It stirs up our dormant feelings, it makes us forâ€" get our cares and troubles for this one day at least we are happy. Why cannot we live more days in the year in the same spirit, why confine all our goodness, charitable inclinations and good will to one day? Humanity is strangely ignorant of its simplest emotions. In a vague way we know that happiness and pleasure comes from our consciousness of doing right, but we don‘t always live up to this precept, excepting perhaps this one day of the year. Who knows but from the well spring of this most memorable time that brotherhood of man may arise to glorify in truth that old, old saying, ‘‘Peace on earth, good will to men." like trail of three otter and a mink. I had seen and enjoyed nature in her true shape. jays, the antics of the scclding squirrels Underfoot the snow scrunched and squeaked, signifyng it was just cold enough for a comfortable ramble, and so I visited the deer "yard" and was glad to see the woives had not yet molested them, their crissâ€"cross runways along which I surprised several who peered at one with h:'e,pntheticcyu&ndthznnlhdinmthedeepududeolm cedars. 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