tenderness,--

"_Beautiful friendship tried by sun and wind
Durable from the daily dust of life._"

After all, Christmas-living is the best kind of Christmas-giving.

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A SHORT CHRISTMAS SERMON




KEEPING CHRISTMAS

ROMANS, xiv, 6: _He that regardeth the day, regardeth it unto
the Lord._

It is a good thing to observe Christmas day. The mere marking of times
and seasons, when men agree to stop work and make merry together, is
a wise and wholesome custom. It helps one to feel the supremacy of the
common life over the individual life. It reminds a man to set his own
little watch, now and then, by the great clock of humanity which runs
on sun time.

But there is a better thing than the observance of Christmas day, and