live the life of unselfishness which shows that we are His followers. He
says: "I am the vine, ye are the branches. Without me ye can do
nothing."

After Christ's death, whenever the disciples took their meal together,
they would think of Christ, and they would forgive one another and
become more gentle and loving. Whenever we see the communion-table
prepared, we also must think of Christ, forgive those who have wronged
us, and try still harder to be unselfish and kind.




THE FIRST CHRISTMAS CAROL


In England on Christmas eve boys and girls and men and women go about
the streets singing Christmas carols, or songs, at the doors of people's
houses, and the people for whom they sing give them tokens of their
good-will. The first verse of one of the oldest and best Christmas
carols is as follows:

"God rest you merry, gentlemen;
Let nothing you dismay,
For Christ was born of Mary
Upon a Christmas Day."

That is a very beautiful carol, but there is one still more beautiful.
It is the one the angels sang the night that Christ was born: