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Newspaper
Maurice Times
Location
Maurice, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1917
Page
6
A New York World excerpt quotes T Rev Br Howard Buse AY offering a blessing of light to dark homes and shadowed hearts. It invokes the blessing of the Holy Child, Goia ingster, and the Stable to awaken kindness among all living beings.
George Cashel in Philadelphia Press argues Christmas should center on humble worship and gratitude before feasting. He warns modern celebrations glorify parties and excess, urging self denial and charitable acts as the proper duty in observing the Savior’s birth.
A description of a person who keeps holiday traditions alive by attending simple church services and joining in the readings of Christmas chapters, continuing the spirit of the day despite leaving schooldays and home gatherings behind.
A fragmented verse depicts a tender scene near a manger with mentions of a mother, a child, and distant figures. The tone evokes reverence and yearning as time is called ruthless, yet care surrounds the humble scene.
A Christmas prayer text wishes readers a blessed morning and asks for grace for all mankind. It expresses thanks for Christ’s coming and seeks faithful, noble, industrious and temperate living, with a request for spiritual renewal and peace on earth.
The passage extols Christmas joy and peace, urging kindness and harmony in homes. It reflects on Christ’s incarnation from a humble stable to the heart, highlighting the unspeakable gift and the need for Christ to be born in each heart this season.
A terse, archaic verse celebrating Christmas amid war, invoking Christ’s blessing on all people from halls to hovels. The piece references kneeling shepherds and the Babe divine, urging mercy and peace for weary souls and tempted hearts. The verse blends devotion with wartime hardship and moral appeal.
Fragmentary devotional verse centers on a newborn child in David's town Bethlehem to teach souls with healing. Imagery blends angels, oxen, and adoration while phrases drift into garbled repetition and nonsensical words.
Poetic Victorian plea from New York Tribune urging readers to imitate the Christ Child and seek innocence and guidance. The verse contrasts childlike purity with life’s storms and calls for moral uplift and gospel simplicity.
A Christmastide poem asks for Jesus to share heavenly joy and save mankind. The speaker prays to Jesus to dwell within the heart as a quiet, devout cradle. The piece thanks God for sending his only son and seeks mercy and peace in the new year.
A Philadelphia Press correspondent questions a reference book assertion that Christ was born in 4 B C. A reply notes 532 A D dating by Dioscorus Exigus, Rome's era, and that early Christians placed Christ's birth in Rome's year 150. The proper era begins with January 1 of the 194th Olympiad.
A fragmentary poem asks the watchman to tell of the night and its signs of hope. The traveler contemplates whether dawn brings peace and truth as verses merge hints of radiance, promise, and the birth of a new day. The text is distorted with misspellings and unclear phrasing.
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