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THE NEW BERN MIRROR, NEW BERN, N. C.
Friday, December 4, 19M
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Buds
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MAMIE MILLER
tb« little mother erown
0»ce again to see her baby
and to claim him for her
own.
He didn’t guess die meaning of
his visit Christmas Day
Or he never would have
arrttten that he couldn’t get
away.
W will make their heart
strings httm
With a tune of perfect gtad-
ness--lf you’ll tell them
that you’ll come.
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AH service ranks the same
with God.—Robert Browning.
“Stand ye In the ways, and
see, and ask for the old paths,
where Is the good way, and walk
therein, and ye shall find rest
for your souls.’’--Jer. 6:16.
A legend that goes back 500
years or more tells us an old
man, Joseph, and his bride
were in a cherry garden. When
she tells him of the visits by
the angots, Joseph becomes su
spicious and reftises to pl*
cherries for his wife.
Upon Mary’s request, the
branches of the tree bmd over
graciously for her. Joseph is
stricken with remorse, and asks
forgiveness. There are many
carols about the cherry tree.
And here’s another legend.
A little shepherd girl of Bedi-
lohem followed after the shep
herds, who h^ received the
angels’ message and were
journeying to the maj^r. All
the shepherds took gifts, but the
little shepherd girl had no gift
to give.
Suddenly there appeared an
angel in a glow, and scattered
white roses in her path. The
little girl gathered them up,
and presented them to the
little Lord Jesus.
Charles Folden, a German
professor at Harvard, pro
vided a Christmas tree for his
son each year, beginning In
1832. The first Christmas tree
In a church was provided by a
pastor, Henry Schwan, In 1851,
at Cleveland, Ohio.
The following are nationally
known Christmas trees: a tall
tree at Pasadena, Calif (1909);
The Tree Light, Madison Square
Park In New York (1912); The
Children’s Christmas Tree, In
dependence Square, Phila
delphia (ISIS); Christmas Tree
Lane, a mile-loig avenue In
Altadena, bordered by glgtmtlc,
graceful deodar cedars whose
branches spread 40 to 50 feet
(1920); The “National Living
Christmas Tree’’ at the White
House, lighted each jrear by
the President since 1924.
This week, for our Buds and
Blossoms poem, we bring you
“On Going Home ForChrist-
mas’’ by Edgar A. Guest.
He little knew the sorrow that
was In his vacant chair;
Are you going home for Christ
mas? Have you written
you’ll be there?
Going home to kiss the moth
er and to show her that you
care?
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Going home to greet the father
In a way to make him glad?
If you’re not I hope there’ll
never come a time you’ll
wish you had.
Just pause and write a letter--
ms WEEKEMD
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He never guessed they’d miss
him, or he’d surely have
been ttiere;
He couldn’t see his father, seat
ed sorrowful and dumb.
Or he never would have
wrilten that he thought he
couldn’t come.
He little knew the gladness that
his presence would have
made,
And the joy M would have
given, or he never would
have stayed.
He didn’t know how hungry had
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