In the rush of the merry morning,
When the red burns through the gray,
And the wintry world lies waiting
For the glory of the day;
Then we hear a fitful rushing
Just without upon the stair,
See two white phantoms coming,
Catch the gleam of sunny hair.

Are they Christmas fairies Stealing
Rows of little socks to fill?

Are they angels floating hither
With their message of good-will?

What sweet spell are these elves weaving,
As like larks they chirpand sing?

Are these palms of peace from heaven
That these lovely spirits bring?

MORNING.

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CHRISTMAS, 1924

How shall we come to the Christmas of 1924? Shall it be
with despair in our hearts of the final triumph of good over
evil, or dare we, despite the voices of the present and the dark
fears for the future, declare our faith in the words of Browning's
innocent child, and say,

“God's in His heaven;
All's right with the world?”

The answer is simple. Leave Him out of His heaven and
out of His world, and Christmas, with its “glorious song of old,"”

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is little less than a mockery. But hold to the faith that has
Stayed and steadied unnumbered multitudes of earth's finest
spirits in days when those about them were saying, ‘‘Where is
now thy God?” and you will greet the dawn of the new Christmas
with a deep and satisfying peace.

Here is an optimism that will hail the coming Christmas not
because it ignores the facts, an optimism that knows that, though
mighty empires have come and gone, and darkness settled over
many a nation like an impenetrable gloom, the world has steadily,
if sl8wly, rolled out of darkness into light. This is not the only
era in human history when civilization has seemed to be drifting

Rosy feet upon the threshold,
Eager faces peeping through,
With the first red ray of sunshine,

Chanting cherubs come in view;
Mistletoe and gleaming holly,
Symbols of a blessed day,
In their chubby hands they carry,
Streaming all along the way.

Well we know them, never weary

Of this innocent surprise;

Waiting, watching, listening always
With full hearts and tender eyes,

While our little household angels,
White and golden in the sun,

Greet us with the sweet old welcome,—
“Merry Christmas, every one!”

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toward the rocks, with no watcher at the bow and no hand on
the helm,

Would any of us like to go back to the days when man was
emerging from his arboreal life? Do we pine for the civilization
of Babylon or Egypt, or Rome, with the world mostly slaves?
Have we made no progress even through nights of French Revo-
lutions and Russian horrors? Look back over human history
and trace the upward climb, and mark the larger world into
which humanity has come since that first Christmas day, and
despair will give place to hope, and the song of Browning's little
maid will not seem so mad a dream

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