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to heUavt th* the Russian peo pin have for America other feeling thu admiration, respect and love. For we fad them when they ware starring and thefir gratitude haa pot a mw household word in the Russian lan guage? Ahra, the native pronunciation eC A. B. A. , the Initials which symboi laed the American Relief Administra tion. Trotsky may say that "punMh meat and revenge await the American bourgeoisie from the European prole tariat," bat the Russian proletariat g? on crying "Ahra" Just the same. This feeding of Russia was the big gest piece of pore philanthropy In all history. It is Impossible to bell ere that it will not have its effect on the future. And now It Is said that this win ter will again see 8,000,000 starring children in Rus sia, In spite of the official Soviet pro* nouncement that the famine was at an end and of the -^export by the Soviet govern ment of millions of bushels of Rue i/^?sss$4S3C o By JOHN DICKIN80N 8HERMAN HE spirit of Christmas A. D. 1923 In the United States of America Is the same as it was In 1922 and as It has been for many a year. Celebration of the anniversary of the birth of Christ Is universal and does not differ except in unim portant details from Bangor to San Diego and from Seattle to Miami ? over more than three million square miles of territory and among more than one hundred and five million people. Tea; even In Plymouth, Mass., and In Jamestown, Va., Is Christmas Day of 1923 celebrated in the same way ? which fact in Itself shows how in three hundred years a fringe of scattered colonies along the Atlantic has grown into a close-knit and homogeneous na tion. For time was when the Christ mas that wag celebrated in Virginia was anathema In Massachusetts and the Cavalier pitied and derided the ?ober-mlnded Pilgrim and the bigoted Puritan. The Virginia settlers bothered them selves not at all over religion. They brought the established church of Eng land and all Its observances with them as a matter of course. Their great purpose was to extend the life and power of England in the New World and to cut into the power and posses sions of the Spaniard. So the P. F. V.'s celebrated Christmas at James town according to home traditions as faithfully as the conditions allowed. And as the great religious festival of that church was Christmas, the Vir ginians made much of the day. More over, they were just the sort of folk to enjoy It? many of them were gentle men's and soldiers' sons, accustomed to pleasure and joility rather than to itlljlous meditation and the saying of souls. \ The Pilgrims, on the other hand, had separated from the Church of England, had discarded all that sa vored of ceremonial and had rejected the social and joyous side of Christmas for the serious and religious side. They came to the New World to worship In peace after their own fashion; they cared little for place or wealth and nothing for how the rest of the world worshiped. What social joyousness of the holiday season that survived in them was gradually bulit up around Thanksgiving day. r.i The Puritans differed from both the Cavaliers and the Pilgrims. They had not separated from the Church of Eng land, as had the Pilgrims, but had brought the church with them to re form it. Like the Pilgrims, they had discarded all ceremonial observances and those of Christmas were especial ly distasteful to them. The Puritans, unlike the Pilgrims, were determined to make all the New World worship according to the Puritan Idea. They developed a government that was In effect an autocratic theocracy In which church and state were one. ( They uever went so far as to abolish Christ mas day? as did Oliver Cromwell and his Roundheads In England by act of | Mother for Christmas, ' Santa's Big Present | |HIS is the best Christmas ever!" exclaimed little John, aged live. "The best Christmas everf* 1 cried Jane, his twin. "Why, It's Jwit a million Christmases rolled Into one. How do you suppose Santa Claus ever thought up anything so grandr / The twins were truly in ..'V V 1A t'_ . ' i , ,1*. V * " -? ''<? , ,7 ' -'l.T'; V k parliament December 24, 1652, for sev en years ? but they practically Ignored Christmas and made ^Thanksgiving their day of rejoicing. ' So Father Christmas, Santa Clans, Saint Nicholas and Kris Krlngle came to the American people by way of Virginia ? and the Jolly Dutch burgh ers of New York. And how great the change three hundred years hath wrought ! America may still have the ?well-known and Justly famous "Puri tan conscience," but state has noth ing to do with church and Christmas day Is a holiday of national observ ance, with the same meaning to all the people. * ? e ? ? ? \ ?" Who has not loved a little child, he know* not Christmas Day ? ' \ Most Important, perhaps, of all phases of Christmas celebration Is the fact that millions of people are think ing of the same thing at the same time. Religion, which, as the word shows, should be a ligament binding menr together, seems actually to have been one of the greatest dividing forces in the world. But the Christmas cra dle has a humanizing appeal that pulls all men closer together. Each year back I travel? At leaat for one night ? And enjoy with the children. In fancy, this sight. If peace abides with us,' Good will toward men, . Tls because we are children With child's faith again. We catch a glimpse of the universal brotherhood of man at Christmas, when the fingers of children pull fam ilies, citizens, communities, nations closer together with the same Impulse ? to make the world happier with a "Merry Christmas !" Little hands, how they tug at the heartstrings!' The miracle of Christmas ? the God In the Child,' the Child in the God ? for the moment at least makes the whole world kin. >? ? ? o ? ? ? ? A photograph reproduced herewith shows Bishop Shlpman blessing a' 1922 Christmas ship on Its departure for the stricken areas of the Near East. To many a child over there Santa Claus Is spelled "America." And though the handful of Russians who have grasped the powers of govern ment may wish America ill It is dlffi ? V ' S And who wouldn't be? For until this morning they had been motherless. Yes, they had never known a mother. And now, at dawn, when they stole down Into the sitting room tQ look at their stockings hung on the mantle, there on the bear skin before the hearth just as Santa had left her. sat | a beautiful, golden-haired, blue-eyed doll? No, a mother. Her dress was of softest topaz color and all trailing and soft, just as a mother's should be. On one of her pretty white fingers a big diamond gleamed In the firelight - k ,-t#V - .;} s O * ? 'I ? slan grain. And MaJ. Gen. Henry T. Allen, 1 who commanded American forces on the Rhine, declares that a minimum of 2,000,000 children In Ger- i many must be fed for 141 dftys at a cost of nearly six million dollars. Truly the" Santa Clans whose name Is spelled "America" will be a busy Saint. I * * ? * * * '# ' An old-time feature of the Christmas celebration In England bids fair to make a belated appearance lxv this country ? the singing of Christmas carols, some of which go back tp time* before the memory of man. Of course the singing of carols has always had a place In church services in this coun try ? almost everyone knowS several by heart. But the new Mea Is that these Christmas carols shall be sung at com munity gatherings and even upon the streets ? set programs by trained sing ers. Denver seems to have taken the lead last year and to have mad* a great success of the singing of carols. Over 3,000 singers carried the message ( of good cheer in song to every part of the city. "God Rest You, Merry Gentlemen," the carol reproduced herewith, dateB back at least to the Seventeenth cen tury. In quaint verses it recites the j New Testament story of the birth of ; Jesus and has been sung the world over by English-speaking peoples. The seventh and last stanza Is this: Now to the Lord sing pralaea. All you within thla place. And with true love and brotherhood Bach other now embrace; Thla holy tide ot Chrlatmaa All other doth efface. n O tidings, etc. Thomas Hardy, the famous English novelist. In his "Under the Greenwood Tree," has a chapter devoted to Christ- ! mas caroling as practiced by the hum- ' bier peasants. He gives the following \ words as part of an ancient and time worn carol transmitted orally from fa ther to son through the generations.* Remember Adam'a (all O thou Man: Remember Adam'a faF From heaven to hell. Remember Adam'a (all How ho hath condemn'd all In hell perpetual There (or to dwell. i In Bethlehem He waa born, O thou Han: In Bethlehem He waa born For mankind'8 sake. In Bethlehem He waa born Chrlatmaa day f the morn; Our Savior thought no acorn Our faults to take. V i . / \ t and under It was a plain gold band Father seemed as happy as ths twins, about this Christmas mother. "Santa is a wise old bird," he said. But the Christmas mother did not answer him at all. She was burled under the embraces of the twins. And, anyway, she wasn't father's Christmas present. The Christmas card pinned to her sleeve said plain as day ? "A mother for Jane and John, Merry Christmas from Santa Clans." ?Ethel Cook Eliot. (fe ma. Western Nawesaaar Uatao I WITH THE s - I HIGH SCHOOL I CLASSICS V I By MARGARET BOYD 1 (? by l(unr?t Boyi) ". , . wm u the pulM and water waa Mewed to the children Shadraeh, Ma Shao^and ^bednego." ? Ivanhoe. ? Friar Tuck here refers to. on? of the earliest recorded bits of dietetic re ?earch. More than twenty-?lx centu riaa ago, Nebuchadnezzar, ldng rf Babylonia, directed that the moe* promising children among the captives that he had brought home with him from Jerusalem should be given a three-year course in the learning of tha Chaldeans. In order that the student* should have the benefit of the best food available, he ordered that they be fed with food from his own table ? showing that the subject of the proper nutri tion of school children Is not so new as we sometimes Imagine Four of tha Jewish captives thought the king's diet a poor one, and secured permission to live upon what they thought a better diet. At the end of the three years the four had made greater progress In their studies than any of their fellows, and were In better physical condition than any of those who had eaten tha prescribed diet Interesting as this experiment was, it by/io means settled the question as to what constitutes a correct diet * Some decades ago. Volt, working on tha subject of metabolism, proved that for every gram of protein eaten there must result a production of 4.1 calo ries of heat; for every gram of fat. a production of 9.3 calories of heat ; and ao on. At once the enthusiasts thought the diet question settled for all time. All you needed to do, they said, was to determine how many calories of heat you needed per day, and then eat enough to produce that many calories. An egg would produce 100 calories of heat and an apple would produce 100 calories ? you could eat either. Then somebody discovered that the diet must be balanced ? so much protein, so much fat, and so much starch. Still later, some one discovered a vitamin ? they have found four of them np to dat?> ? and proved that one could not hope to remain In good health unless the food eaten contained enough vitamins. Just at present the correct diet seems to be back where it was a quarter cen tury ago ? we eat more lettuce and less cold slaw, more spinach and less dande lion and pokeweed, more citrus fruit and less home preserved fruit Juices ? but the essential values are the same. In view of our present voluminous writings on the subject of diet. It la Interesting to turn back to the times of Socrates and find out what that philosopher thought a proper diet for a genuine and healthy people. Ha made the basis of such a diet bread and cakes of wheat and barley, and added "something to- relish their food: salt, no doubt, and olives and cheese, together with the country fare of boiled onions and cabbage We shall also set before them a dessert, I Inn aglne, of figs and peas and beans; and they may roast myrtleberries and beechnuts at the fire, taking wine with their fruit la moderation." ? * ? "With Km lit# of a generous monarch ... pertehed all tha projacta which hla ambition" and hlr ganaroaity had formed."? Ivanhoa. Hugo says of laadera of man that "while themselves advancing, they cause their aatellltaa to progress, and It la an entire aolar ayatem moving on wards." Oar familiar solar ayatem la made op ef the sun and Its satellites, the star* and planets. Soma of the planets have satellite! of their own; hot tha entire ayatem la dependent upon the son. which, we are told, la Itself dependant upon a greater ran In outer spaces. Ours la not the only aolar ayatem; there are neighboring ones sll around It If onr sun should be suddenly de stroyed, there would be a period of chaos. When order emerged again from chaos, there would be a new cen ter of onr aolar ayatem and a rear rangement of the atara and planets. So It wee whan Richard died. All the group that he had gathered about him waa thrown Into chaoa. From this chaos emerged a new governing group, with a new king for Ita center. With Richard perished all the proj ects which his ambition and hla gen eroalty had formed ? both projacta for the good of the country and projects for the advancement and happlnaaa of hla favorite knights. Herein lies the bitterness of death, that a man cannot hope to have hla plana and projects carried out by hla successor. Bach man haa his own Interests, his own satellite or satellites, and his own way of doing things. Try aa hard as he may, he cannot de a piece of work in the en act manner apd spirit of his predacea? sor. Nor can he often accompUah work with the aame corpa of people that hit predecessor found serviceable. The commonly heard statement that soma one can always be found to take one's place la rarely true of Isadora. No ana could take Rlchard'a place after hla death. Another became king, tt la true, and the country continued Ita existence; but the destiny of the eo? try, and especially the deattaty of Rich ard's knights, wsa inevitably changed lor hla death. I anovED unroui motNATKNUi. (Br tm*' p. * ^ Teacher ?t Kncilab WWe ta the Mc~? HUi Institute of Chlcafo.) <A Itll Nwiwiw ?Ww ? LESSON FOR DECEMBER 16 WORLD-WIDE MISSION?" USSSON TEXT? Apt* M:M? "fejLDBN TEXT^'l am not atoned of tha frosp?l of Christ for It is the ??.r ??? " "MBuSfTOrtSSSji'M W ? ^JUNIOR TOPIC ? Paul Croi", **>? ""intermediate and senior top "totno reowufiiro adult topic Paul's Aim and Methods. The Gospel having broken the con fines of the Jewish city and country, the middle wall of partition being abolished, the time dune for it to leap across the Aegean sea and begin lta conquest of another continent Chris tianity thus ceased to be an oriental religion and through the centuries has been mainly occidental. I. Call to Macedonia (Acts 16:9-11). 1. The vision (v. 9). Being hemmed In on all sides, a vision was given to Paul of a man of Macedonia pleading for help. This made plain to him the closed doors about him. The Spirit as definitely leads In the closing of some doors as in" the opening of oth ers. In finding the divine Will we should look both ways. Before there can, be any great forward movement there must be a vision. The great achievements of men are the products of vlslonB. "" 2. The Advanue (w. 10, 11). As soon as the divine way was known they moved forward therein. VlslonB must be quickly translated Into ag gressive actions or else they are blot ted from our skies. They neither questioned the wisdom of God nor de layed action. This Is characteristic of all of God's true servants. With a straight course Paul moved out of his own country to the strategic center of t new continent II. The First Convert in Europe (Acts 16:12-15). - !, The missionaries first went to phlllp pl and spent several days In studying conditions there. The Jewish element In this city was comparatively insig nificant, so much so that they could not have a synagogue. Therefore, the devout people were accustomed to wor ship by the riverside. To this humble gathering Paul caue and preached to the women assembled there. A certain woman from Thysftlra^ a proselyte, believed his message and, was bap tised. The work of the Lord thus had a very humble beginning, but it was destined to transform Ml Europe and the world. The Bteps in Lydla'i conversion are worthy of note for they are typical. 1. Attendance at the Place of Wor ship (v. IS). Usually those whom God Is calling are found at the place of prayer. Lydla was seeking the heav enly light God sends many an In quirer to the prayer meeting. 2. Listening to the Preaching of the Word of God (w. 13, 14). It is highly Important that at every prayer meet ing the Word of God shall be spoken, so that the Inquirer after God may find the light. v _ u 3. Her Heart Was Opened by the Lord (v. 14). Only the Lord can con vert a soul. It is our business to preach the Word of God and It Is God's business to open the heart of the Inquirer. No one is ever converted against his will.- , 4. She Was ( Baptized (v. 15). Every one whose heart the Lord has opened desires to confess Him In baptism. 5. Her Household Believed Also (v. 15). This was as it should be. Real conversion cannot be concealed. 6. Practiced Hospitality (v. 15). Those who have experienced God's saving grace are at once disposed to have part In His work by rendering aid to His ministers. III. Paul Preaching In Rome (Acts 28:30, 81). Paul continued his labors In widen ing his testimony to the world amongst thrilling experiences. In spite of beat ings, shipwrecks and imprisonments, we find him near the close of his life |n the* Imperial capltol city. Though a prisoner he continues to preach the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ In the provldance of God. he had liberty to preach the Gospel to all who came to him. IV. Paul's Aim in Preaching the Gospel Was World-Wide (Rom. 15: 16-21). ' , His heart's transcendent desire was to so preach the Gospel that the Gen tiles might become obedieot^to the faith. In order that this might be ac complished he pushed cat into unex plored regions, so that the light of the Gospel might shine Into the dark ness of the heathen world. May we follow his example, for there is much work to be done. 0 'i ???????? Prayer. Bring your plans, your purposes to God's throne. Test them by pilaylng about them. Do nothing large or new ?nothing small nor old, either ? for that matter ? till you have asked there. In the silence of the secret place, "Lord, what wouldest Thou have me ta dot"? Alexander Maclaren. f 1 t Worry Is Net Faith. Worry Is not faith. It Is doubting God, who has promised to supply ill par nee? In Christ Jewsfc? -Record- ti rhrimtirnn Work. K Raw, Sore TWt Emma Qmkkty When you Apply ? little Muaterole 1 And MuSteroie won't blister like the ?' ^-fashioned mustard plaster. ttrtad it on *tth your fingers. It neMtrateatotheaore spot .with a gentle ftngte. loosens the congestion and drawi Mtthe aoreneas and pain. Klusfcerole is a ckan, white ointment made with oil of mustard. It is fine for crick relief from aore throat, bronchitis tonsillitis, croup, stiff neck, asthma, - neuralgia, headache, congestion, pleu rtay, rheumatism, lumbago, pains am] aches of the back or joints, sprains, sore H handy lor instant use. t, || ?(Kara: Muaterole la now m*de in milder form for babies and amall children. Aak for Chlldr?n'? Muituolt. 1' Btttn Am m muutard pl^ir Avoid & Relieve GO?OS INFLUENZA MALARIA BY TAKING tlflNTERSMlTw If ChillTonic ft It ? RtBflMl General Invigorating Tonic ? ' "FLORIDA FARMS ~ M acres; SB acres In cultivation; <iark. sandy loom ooll. Good 5 -room house (painted) two borna; pear, peach and plum trees; Vt'mile from school and church. 3 miles to village ?tore* and boat transportation. 5 miles to station. Dally mall. One and one-half 1 hoora by auto to Jackoonvllle. Price: taoo down, balance 1900 can stand at lone aa ? % Interest Is paid. Other bargains. S E. BTRODB. GREEN COVE SPRINGS. 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Don't wonder whether you can dy? er tint successfully, because perfect / homo dyeing is guaranteed with "Dia mond Dyes" even If you have never dyed before. Druggists have all colors. Directions In each package.? Adver tisement He Is not only Idle who does noth ing, but he is Idle who might be bet ter employed. Clothes don't make the man, but nevertheless, everybody notices bow yon are dressed. Sure Relief FOR INDIGESTION m iw?gP9 > BEUrANS . . Jot water Sure Relief ^Urcrwiroi Bell-ansi 125jAND 75jBftCM6ES EVERYWHERE! Use for cuts, barns, ?ores and wounds. Prevents infection. Cfotnses and bests. ? Vaseline hglUMOI CARBOUTED PCTROLCUM JELLY ?AMNFACTDUK COMPAir NnT?k ?. ,r. . - v- ?
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