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AS TO SANTA CLAUS.
A Reply by North Carolina Minister
To The Idler's Christmas Dis
sertation in Herald and News.
Editor The Herald and News: So'
the "Idler" has been carrying in.
his conscience all these twelve months.
something the "North Carolina
Preacher' said. Well, we preach-!
ers, like the editors, keep on preach
ing, and it often seems the words
are just sounds in the air. The ed
itors preaeh through the columns of
46e papers /and, the preachers in the
pulpit. They vannot tell what ef
feet their words may have for good
or eviL
Now hr is Idler, and I have of
ten wo04iFed who he is. He 'still
remekerg- a little sermon in Ile
Herald and News of last year's
Christmas. Idler writes some good
things, and they come up here into
North Carolina..
He generally says about what he
thinks in a lively spicy way. I dare
say he is helping his town. He may
find some critics, but that is all the
better. That makes men think. Idler
likes to criticize the "North Caro
lina Preacher." Men often object
to what they know is right because
tey do not like to aedept it.
Now Idler agrees with the North
-Carolina Preacher about Christmas
celebration. He sa:7s,. "It is the
birth of a babe we celebrate-the
babe who waxed strong and went
about His Father's business of sav
ing the world, passing through Geth
semane's agony and giving His life a
wiRing saerifice that His blood might
wash out the dark stains of sin."
Idler is right. We are eelebrating
at least we ught to be-the birth
of that wondeVul Babe. His theolo
gY is good, too, in this age when- we
hve a preident who openly de es
the power of that atoning blo,!.
But I do confess "Idler" is like
certain people who lived some ages
ago of whom a prophet said,"How
long halt ye between two opinionsf
if the I.rd be God follow Him, but
iffBail then follow him." If old
-Santa is the Lord then belebrate
fin* but if the Lord then eelebrate
Him. No that precher has not leirn-1
edany better. He still is on the
side of the God who answers (by
fire) .not always down the smoke
stack.
'Now this preacher did not say
parents should teseh 'their children
-Saita 'Claus doc.s not come but t;hat
She is "nil: A thing that is not does
nemove.- He did-' not say . they
shoad teach them "the gifts are in
commemoration of' the birth of the
ChrOlmist-ehild.." 'Wiatche tried to say
is they are the gifts of the Christ
ehild. -Substitute "Christ-child,"
Idler, where you want to put Santa
Claus and your 'theology and ethies
maRI be alright. Is not that a sim
ple process? "Honor to whom hon
or,g "tribuite 'to whom tribut4 is
due." Why steal from the Babe to
honor Sqnta Claus? "Every good
gifti and every perfect gift cometh
d4lvn from above." Is not that. sim-'
pleiitheology f
Aid Idler says Santa Claus "has
brought more happiness to more lit
*tie children, than any body else in
.13 the wold." The , more's the
pity The old imposter. Dr. Cook.
hiad a big fame too but he look,s like
aten een* piece since those Dane
ot through with'-him. Now he wants
gp oft ad hide. Perhaps he kept
inpany up around the pole with
didSanta-and you know about "evil1
wulmunieations."
.~win fact, Idler, don't you think
ye hoe]hd celebrate the coming of the
Babe of Bethlehem rather than the
i,aming of old Santa?
Suppose you give him a birthday
4RI his 'very own and see how much
honor he will get and whether people
:will think "he has brought more hap
piness to more children~ tham anybody
else in all the wdrld."
"North Carolina Preacher."
A SUNSHINE WOBmRR
Ia The 'Shadow of a Great Sorrow
.He Sends Greetings of Good
Cheer.
T~o the South -Carolina Sunshine
Miends and workers' and Miss Shelor,
*ur loved leader, greeting:
Again the spirit of the Yuletime
eames over all the earth-the spmrt
yt Christmas, and gladness and good
cheer. The sun of another year is
ere set, and what .has, the 2;eaping
en9' To some of you the sun of
kappinesa. has shone -on undimmed
iiough all the days of this year;
fihers have striven against .defeat
and disappointment and trial. -Yet
ot*hers still in loss, and pain have1
drunk deep of the bitter cup of sor
sew. I bring you gtings of glad
tidings, in the spirit of this season, 1
ef faith and peace and joy-a merry,
inerry Christmas!
Dng the year that is past the I
shadow of a deep sorrow has come
to my life, that, wreathe and strug
gle and strive I yet seem powerless
to shake off the burden of it. On
some of you sorrow -has lain a hand
burdens grievous to be borne; but
oh can you then know the terrible
power of this blow when we must
know that "Hugh," our pride and
joy is gone up from us just in the
first flush of manhood and prime of
young life. L..e a thunder elap was
the news of his death in an aceident
at the works where the had gone, but
a few short weeks before. We re-i
member his ,bright smile, happy face
and hearty handclasp as he left us
and our hearts are bowed in deep
mourning.
But we have a blessed hope. He
was a good boy and loved -to be in
his church, about his Lord's work.
Many have been the tributes to his
life and worth and promise, until
those of us who -were heser to him
may.rel now at the wide sweep and
breadth -of the young life that is re
vealed to us. A nature of peculiar
gentleness and grace, yet bold and
firm as -the rock if it was a thing of
honor and principle the stake.
How baffling to out shortened. vis
ion the workings of Providenice ap
pear to us now! Oftentimes we can
only stand in chastened faith 'And
humility and awe. We question not
the right" or wisdom n:mor love if
Him -wholoeth all 'thibgs well; for,
does not that great' tender 4hrobbing.
Heart weigh all and suffers efen
when otrs do. And one day, yes soon,
we -will know.and u7nderstand "the
happy young life.had its mission,"
and God needed him in His-fold for
wider fields of usefulness.
"We shall meet but we shall miss
him, ^
There will be one vacant chair,
We will linger to caress'him
When we breathe our evening pray
er.s
A year ago we gathered,
Joy was in his mild blue eye,
But a golden chord is severed,
And our hopes ia ruin die.
We shall meet, but we shall miss
There will be one vacant chair,
We i*ill Jinger to caress him
When we breathe our evening pray
:Onthe. eye of a'new year I waft
greetings of good will, and faith,
ope 'and- -courage. Let us look -up
ma strive on in the work we .are in.
A bright New Yeart
G. Carter Riser.
Chrittmas, 1903.
AST TRAIN PLUNGES.
- OVEE FIVEFOTBN
Three- Persons .Perfah in Wreck on
Rock Tsaki--Forty-fivel Sustain
Trenton, Mo., Dec. 31.-Three sper
ons. were killed and 45 injired to
ay by the derailing and partial
uming of a,westbound R.oek'-Island
assenger train southi of KTrenton
which probably was caused biy spread
~ng rails. While the train was'run
ing at a high rate of'spee4fthe lo
pmotive and tender plunged over a.
ie-foot embankmn:t, draggiiig two
aggage -cars, a mail car, a,.tourist
ar, and a standard sleeping car with
hem. *
- While pssengers in. the wrecked
ars were struggliig to escape from
he debris Are started from the fire
ox. .The splintered cars burned rap
aly and the three slain passengers
were partly burned.' Scores of per -
sns -were, rescued as the flames were
morhing their clothing, 01' burning
heir flesh.
bavid Siegel, 'of Cleveland, Ohio,
was -held by the wreckage for an,
iour while the fire burned within a'
ew f.et of ,him, but was eventually
eseued, although he may lose an arm.U
Heroic Teseues were numerous. Meo
ed women who egaped ~unharmed
-shed into the burning wreekage to
ecue the less fortunate passengets.
The ground was covered with sno'w
td g raw wind was. blowing. The
en collected coats and protected the
omn, and women tore strips from
~heir linen to make bandages for the
rounded.
IN "T3E DARK CORNER."
)fficers Have Cut to Pieces Some :'.)
flliciV Stills 'This Year-Lot of
Likuor Seized.
Greenville, Dec. 30.-A bout 306
licit whiskey distilleries have bezn
t to pieces in the "dark corner'
f Greenville eoutny this year. Thir
-y-one were destroyed this month.
wo hunndred thousand gallons of
eer aed hundreds of gallons of
~vhiskey have -been taken by . the
aiders. The increase in whiskey
usiness in the mountains is causing
larm in the government eireles. Ths
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