DECEMBER TWENTY-FIRST
We greet the joy that Christmas brings;
But, where the heart of childhood sings,
There all the months are full of cheer
And Christmas-tide lasts all the year.
Francis McKinnon Morton
DECEMBER TWENTY-SECOND
Not believe in Santa Claus! You might as well
not believe in Fairies! You might get your Papa
to hire men to watch in all the chimneys on
Christmas Eve to catch Santa Claus, but even if they did
not see Santa Claus coming down, what would that
prove? Nobody sees Santa Claus but that is no sign
that there is no Santa Claus. The most real things
in the world are those that neither children nor men
can see. Nobody can conceive nor imagine all the
wonders that are unseen and unseeable in the world.
From New York "Sun" of Sept. 21, 1897
DECEMBER TWENTY-THIRD
You once told me that in the school of God the
wisest man never gets beyond the Infant Class; I
thought it a strange idea at first but now I know it is
true. For, in the matter of the Eternities, a man's
only hope of learning is to remain in the Infant Class.
Children invariably have the ear of God first. They
have been in His company last.
From "The Finest Baby in the World"
DECEMBER TWENTY-FOURTH
To you this night is born a child
Of Mary, chosen mother mild,
This little child of lowly birth
Shall be the joy of all your earth.
Luther
DECEMBER TWENTY-FIFTH
For unto you is born this day, a Saviour, which is
Christ the Lord. And suddenly there was with the
angel a multitude of the heavenly hosts praising
God and saying, "Glory to God in the highest, and
on earth peace, good-will toward men."
Luke ii. 11, 13, 14