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THE TAFT TRIBUNE. TAFT. TEXAS.
SPIRIT OF
CHRISTMAS
Tfc* I
hunt * Llghtnlr
and sell
You can't
feel so feood 1
bat what
will males you
feel better.
hi.T aunt, in the evening, foiKing wnri
.jIP imsty, kindly woman and !he o'd
captain. hut not fcuitwing whet she
She wrote her nightly letter to
Jim or Lizzie. with « walloped Mas
for the hoy, it ml went early to bed. She
rose early and Joined the old people
at breakfast. Then she aired tier
room. «nd inside her bed. and by that
tinte the little closed car whs the
door, with Torrens at the wheel. Close-
ly veiled, although she was really in-
different to staring eyes and snapping
cameras, she slipped into the car sad
In George’s face- I know why you
want t<> fake Tommy away from It
a1!t 1 know that Gibbs tins expected
,,.'weV|. been together for three days
now .toe. we’ve sal for hours, with
,„v hand in ids -not saying a word."
■«he feme back to the fireploc-. -toe
had risen, too. and was wilcMw her
with a distressed fare- s'hl> ii"ti
hands on his vfcnnlder*. and looked
with wild appeal into his eyes
■ujoe»* shy- M’J-ml **«*«>»* ^awl-
l»,jv "I Ite awnfct* st Forking nsv
brains---and there's n.rt»‘<v «*rel
They can't find enybody e-«e: Hut.
,7oc; if he did do St—if his father, m
that cool, smiting way of h's--”
•■t.o-.k bent. Ellen'" -tee staid blunt-
ly *Tm surprised at you. flihb* I*
ZJa*- JO rter-eod « »»0 Bo* •» **
Tk«* row! frewwa* »> emta*
HeUkell’t Ointment
__
The largest darx In the world, In
London, has a water tret 9fiB6 feel
Wag «nd iSO «*et wS*L
JOSSELYN’S WIFE
By KATHLEEN NORRIS
Cepyliftu b» t»lh!«a Non*
CHAPTER XIII—Continued
-IS-
rgo that we finally have these fuels
(p go oil," Hynn aumrnarlzrd. “Yoii
^ VI T father quarrel about your
re'lslloo- i|> "ith this Indy, your fa
thfif ptriki - you, and you threaten to
kill him You leave the house in nn
-r. and-- I beg your par-inn?’
* ..j wi} 11.at what J said could not be
construed Into a threat to kill him,"
<J!!)h» protested.
■•y,,u uvnn that you phrnred It. ‘I'll
kill you If you sny tlmt iigain'?“
'TVs. I—I don't (lilhk Unit Is quite
the same thing. one might he a
lliren', Mr. Hynn. and the other more
lit *--«<!!. more of a boast, or of a—
« al’clterr that should prove effective."
George Interposed mildly.
.'1 f,,Ryan said dryly. “Well!"
he resum' d, after a pause, "you leave
the house In anger, and on foot. A
few hour-i Inter, presumably between
the hours of tone and ten o'clock,
jN>mel'"'l> f-u i.'Ilar with Ilia pou-- en-
ter, the rn< » your father Is silling
tn; does not alarm him enough to
ejiise lido to leave Ills rent ; goe* to
the (uhle-draw'-r where he keeps tils
plsioi: hikes It out. and deliberately
kills him Afterward throwing tl e
j.lrtiil Into a basket seventeen feet
awi.v Wo ve cross ipK-s:Inned the
mai l', I • von eon easily see that no
uM-nl i'1
|y alarming him. More than that, he
disliked their coming and going, and
turned around, and walked
around, and walked
"Von
back ?"
I turned
hnclt “
"Reaching home—*
"Heacliing borne at utiout one
o'elock, 1 think. I Hit hy the lire In
m.v wife's bedroom for awhile, and
, she woke me up. We t-;, ] « abort con
1 vernation. and I told her Hint I pro-
posed to leave my fallo-r'a house the
next morning. Then I went to bed."
"Ooh moment, Mr. Josselyn. On
that wink hack—n long wulk, you
know, for a man alone In the dark,
you must have passed through sev-
eral villages. Didn't It occur to you
to s'op somewhere else for food?”
"I don't remember thinking of food.”
"Yet you thought of food when you
reached ihe 'Wayside Inn’?"
Gibbs was silent.
"How do you account for the fact
that you did that?"
"I changed my mind. I suppose."
"KxU'.'fly. You changed jour mind.
Hut do you know what caused you to
cbnnge your mind?"
Again (iltibs did nor speak.
"! cutiiii believe that to a man In
vour excited eunilltl<>ti the mere sight
of the winoon he loved dining tliere
| of large tmlld, would remain In the
house; the others would reLurn In the
morning.
4*
'V
CHAPTER XIV
| After the quiet funeral, xvben the
! Josselyn family hud run the gauntlet
of a hundred repo ter* and photog-
raphers, and were back In (be "VIIlino
dell’ Orto" again. Joe came upstulrs
to lind ills sister. It vvua two o'clock
and a low faille had been drawn be-
fore the fire and spread with ten
things.
"Come In, Joe," his sister said,
when he knocked. "And will you have
some tea?" she added, with a shadow
of her old smile. "I know you didn't
have uny lunch, like the rest of on."
"How do you feel, dear?" he usked,
taking the offered cup.
"OU-—fine!" She blinked hack the
too ready tears, ar d eon!rolled the
trembling of her mouth. “T-t-tlrlng
day I” she added, unsteadily.
"Awful day. Listen. Sis.” Joe’s tone
suddenly changed and became 'Inil, "I
j w ant to talk to you about something I
Where's Gibbs? lias tie had anything
I to eat?"
"Why, If was for Gibbs that I asked
| them to tiring (his up," Kllen tin-
1 swered. "Hut before It came George
j had called him away. There’s so
much to attend to—so many different
things. Jisj, did you hear anything
with another man might cause a do- | ril,ir" about "»• Bridgeport position?"
elded change of mind," the district at-1 "Well. that's what 1 meant to speak
making a i
to you about, Ellen. I had a letter
turner said, thoughtfullv, .. -
Merle* of hard little marks with Ids j frmn »«■ M>ow Men waring, yester
pencil on tlie blotter before him, and ; ^il-v Ihevll give :t to me. ..i »1'- j dropped
finally raising Ida bend n look Gibbs w,n!e'! Tf "‘Ttt
"might in 'he eyes. "Hut I wish, for f 1 coul,ln * «0' 1 gtt ther* un,U
i you run «•«»!:>■ w*‘ u’.ht srnii>r.it in tin* eyp«. nut i wisa, r«*r ; ”
mid do that without instant- j your own sake, Mr. Josselyn. that you j tomorrow morning
. ... . ......... «........... „„„ ..........,M.i "You are going, then. Joe?
sighed, rubbed Ms
"I ihink so.” He
hair boyishly with Ills hand. "I saw
Harriet," he added suddenly, “find I
think she’s natlshed to have It fids
Mr. I -itProp was a k!ng about
never did In hie life before, *«d her*
you are skipping your meals, lying
awake nights, and getting hysterical!
My <} ■ d, His, you'll do him much
more harm than good this way,"
"Yes, I know!" Ellen said quickly.
"Hut, Joe. she added, “I keep thinking
that that Ityan will ask me- ask me
outright what f think, and what can
I say? I enn't—"
"Now, listen Ellen," he Interrupt-d
firmly. “In the first place, he never
will n*k you wlmt you think, lie’ll
simply ask you what you did. or wild,
or heard said; he may not put yon oil
Hie stand at all. Now Just calm
down. Take tilings easy. And yon
let ns have Tommy. Llrsle adore*
the kid we both do. And tie'll lie
out of the way of the whole thing. Get
me ?”
“I get you I" she smiled, a little
sadly, as she returned Ms kiss. "And
you may be married (('night?"
“YVUI lie!"
"It seems so strange, Joe." She
went with him to the door of her
room. "Not what I thought my little
brother's wedding duy would he!" she
said.
"Nor I." be answered gravely. She
thought he looked all a boy as he
walked away, and turned at the stair-
head to wave Ms hand to her.
A few minutes later Gibbs came up.
and Ellen lighted the flume under the
spirit lamp, and mnde Mm fresh tea
He looked tired and III, but he smiled
ill her gratefully as she gave Mm the
smoking cup.
There was a knock (it the door, but
he did not seem to hear it. He had
his handsome head against
the chair back, and closed hi* dark,
shadow rimmed eyes. "It will seem
good to get ->ut of this, and get the
little scouf again, and go off out of
the range of newspapers and cameras, >
Won't It?" he asked. “I was thinking ,
we might take the roadster and go i
('£>. IHI. Wuorn Nswapspsr Union.)
I T CHIUSTMA8 bo morry, nnd
withal.
I And feast thy poor n«l«h-
l,or» the great with tho
■mall.
So wrote the poet Tun tier
runny years ago, but the
suggestion Is Just a.> perti-
nent today an It was then.
If anything, we need to be
reminded of our duty to our fellow-
man more today than our fathers did
more today, Indeed, than ever be-
fore. TM* is true because the nped
for brotherhood Is even more patent
than at any other period of the history
of the world.
We live In an age when we think
solely of ourselves and our Immediate
families and we should have brought
to our attention the fact that we owe
a debt to our neighbor and tlmt that
debt must be paid. The story W to.d
of a rich man who prayed—
Oh, I/Otd Mens m« and my wife.
My son, John, and hi* wife;
rH four
And no more!
W'e Mush for shu.ue that there could
be found one who is *<> narrow, .vet I
am assured that such people exist to-
day. There are those who, when they
have satisfied the needs of their own,
assume a self-satisfied air and say
that they have done their whole duty.
Approach HU"h a person and remind
him of the need of u friend or a neigh-
I I,or and he will ask the time-worn
I question: “Am I my brother's keeper?
I Haven’t I enough to do to look after
;;iv (,wrt family ?" The teachings of
Jesus Christ answer the first question
!n the affirmative (and the hitter in
of th«
HmuL No#*.
Throat, Sta«B-
mE BowbIb
or otktr la*
tornol Orgw.
Backad by
more than half
_ a century of
successful service in the
American home.
Your Nearest Dealer Car*
riea Pe-ru-na
' Tablet* or Liquid
ould find some one to confirm this
rather extraordinary story. Eight
would have questioned any one who I miles," he added, musingly; "well, a
enrre In. We know that y,lr>tol was in j man In condition irdglu walk that far.
• i,„ ,p . ver because vour wife «'ivv It and decide riot to cot anything, and
•I . ; i.. "filing. 1?. del a back—i used to wain "ice m>- , ' , . , , ,. , , -
, *, is .■«-> I |2~!; rtSLT Sn£**3 iSS^'S.’SStSrr'-iS
, . 1 i fiLTiifn, Othi»8 find 'Jommy, mvuta here { jn ^rpafur coiumfiutlnient—
dead Si- I fa*’ enrnfcelfih.^ keeping t m , (ni, nmi everywhere— j . n,ou shall love they neighbor as thy-
"hen I’ve been a disappointment an , An„||lpr kn„„k at rhe door. Gibb* J s„|f- and H-„ ,,..,!r.ltion of ' neighbor"
n troul»!o to jou u.i. bo 1.1 o hfl.,n] this onp. nnri turned question- ...
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Ellen's color rushed tip, the vision ; fh (‘},)d answered Cain when he
<hs
Vflu tit’.-' ” with > «»* lr ^'rf*
unr?1 Rftcr Ujn find ,
j,,wr. f/, h<»d. i-i't-nln,- fh** rf»n»nnj!dF!it- j mure thing
{pi- . r,*-fv.!•*■.» »‘u- »•>!•. and ! if*nru
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* ■; ■vveri! n« T i-.lTI.’* j
fl.iU! " !
. “I u f*n? first f<> th*' rhih ;
I •>
.; ri f',,» i,t ?lo kini; riiri'r,
t'-r *\ loi
; # 11 • 1 * * •:>' Tf* ‘h'H nn hour ;
t>ii . , .it > _ „ wmrre * am. Hut I got this J°h
Whh't K.wtvr* sbrugr “OD8 I fl,r"ut'h .......— 1
h»* askod. In
.......... f >u did not t«»ll your wife j
tq anew w»:at tin y wpr«‘: ,‘asr night what you had hood?”
•* ‘ —1 r! had noth- i ' That I had «*** n mv fathor'a wife j
n»j» ?,.*f own j dining with i*i t i>*-r? No.”
“Why dld.i t you tell her, Mr,
If nT
•YVlie It did not occur to me to do j „S(> you g„ Hridgeport?
so. 1 never have dl--uK:("d (be mat- i ..y,,, • rousing himself from
ter with her." ; his |,roddlng, "And, Ellen, I
"Tell me lust what you mean by j
‘the i. .'Her"'"
’Tl"- -the anything that concerned
n.v s!,.j jr.-ido r. I suppose.’' j
quarrel with your father, •
threaten to kill him, leave Ms house, :
this very man, and then do not ,
......................... Gibb*
to yOU u!I. So III go to ,Ma nrul tnrmwl nil.
Hridgeport.
Ellen looked with pity at the cloud-
ed face; Joe seemed so young so She went to the door. Gibbs
much a hoy to face these grave j . oQ(> ,vMsp(,r,.,| „.„r() of protest
1 realities. | |,„rr,,r- ,ind got to his feet, the
, color draining from his face. He saw
| Georges grave face, and another face
1,11 or two In the background. in the
I foreground, their eyes sweeping the
' room quickly, were two blue-coated
officers.
, -s, any one who needs our help. Ter
toward It. ' r|t„riai ,,r nther limitations do not ap (
"Stay where you are!” Ellen com- j p|(. w|1(,n ,|ie rast, (>f one In need is |
! before uh.
There is no geographical limitation |
! when we are extending the hand of
| assistance t" one who needs our help:
ton*
It V
CQ« i
» S tf:
on trip aftu.
V»fill 's-ifd tVjttt
r.- ;;iiy p|g(it o'ii'ts’ik. MD<1 WSiaPT
dfr.f*.*'
i l J had nothing to eat?"
And did y1 cI drink with ;
r? Go on. p.ease. Jest a" the j
<f i."
;).j f \v (svrj; fJl!N >VlV ‘ITl-
t ((», -.'pi ups -t from the talk
my f *!<t "
rpmrrel?"
qr rr‘*i, ye*. T dblti t eat"
I may | ,ve eaten S'oaelhlhg. ,
I am t."t sut" I went out-—”
Meat Gnu- was this?" ;
Nine o’clock. I should say. Get- j
a,,u!d remember that, because ;
. , ..... ■ ■ k 4; me some •
ai ((to .Pf ore.iS'fast on
ol.-Giving ’’
•-■',>, !!! i,.u get h"' I of him?'' Hynn
asked one of lot O' 0 In as undertone,
was » inonc-nt's Interruption
"Ah
cHruv’T
«'Y4-n» >
“f t
R if .
V !' h
If
”rn
ny<w»h
In
;*•
<h;-ric
V
FonRiflur th?s frt'Mh f'vldpftc** cvf Mrs.
'I'j.oiruts ,T(;sR**lytT.H rpJnllonsiiip v.’irh
j I'ej.per of aaft;; lent Importance to toil
vour wife? Didn't it occur to you that
here was an absolute ri-iutatmn of
: your father's suaph lons; suspicions
] that you knew were shared by your
I wife?”
"No, I don’t remember thinking
I 11 it." Gibbs asserted doggedly,
j “You didn't say to yourself: ‘Here
! *fi an , v.isv for me- and more than
nn ereuse!’ Yon didn’t say ’my dear,
t" show you how InnoccDt 1 am in this
whole affair, Lillian—or whatever you
eai! her—and pepper were dining tm
gether tlits very evening!'"
"I have told you that ! did not men-
tion it to my wife," Gibbs answered.
"t should like to call your attention
to the fact that Mr. J. sselyn was nn- !
willing to bring bis stepmother's name
Into this discussion a fe-.v minutes 1
ngo," George said quietly. “Tlmt
would seem to me to Indicate ihat
• Imre had been no prearrangement be-
tw«.*if*n ttiofn.”
JCxru'fiy," Iiyan Raid, with n sharp
lock. “Thank you—i think that is all.
Oh, one moment. When you prune
home from this walk, you approached
CHAPTER XV
The Spirit of Christmas.
The trial of Thomas Gibbs Josaeiyn j
for the murder of his father was
naturally the journalistic tidbit of the
day. The social wlamlins of the fam-
ily, the mystery surrounding I he mur-
der, the odd relationship of flic man
and Use two women, all these thing's
were incalculably valuable to city ed-
itors everywhere.
Presently the will of the murdered
man wos filed* and caused its own
sensation. After the bequests t«* serv-
ants and charities, and the Rifts to
old friends, the widow was to have
ti^r handsome allowance, payable an-
; less she remarried, throughout her life, ! wh|frevcr {llyrr. ls found one or more
j besides her country home at Wheatley ( wfini w(i CQn (|in(J should) assist,
i Hills, and all it contained. To the son j (hf>n, neigt,burliness must begin.
1 certain books and specified silver and ; A wlni„„,r once approached one of
jewels were bequeathed, and a mod- j h[s par|Rhioners with the request for
crate sum was to be held in trust for j ^ conlril)Utlon for the purpose of do-
ttle little grandson. I inK Christian work abroad. The par- .
All thf rest went to the (laughter In- ; (jcu,ar hp ),aq i,j mind was China. |
law. More than tlmt, should Lillian J T[l)? nmn that he was willing j
lo help his neighbors but did not
think he was called upon to help those
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I will he married, and
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given a lump
fortune to •
Thf re witii h «>•««»• *'■ 7 *” j “ • *........... . - .
murmuring. Then Ryan said: house hy the rear road, crossed
-r,will you go on?" ! the field of the adjoining pr-porty. **-
■ Af,„r tlliil I Marled walking, with- j tered the gate on the tennis court, and
on' <pinking much where I was going,” j so came around the west face "t tue
C" cm sw:-i. "it "its dark, but net ; house, to the front door?
ver, eo'hl I walked a h,ng wav. end! "Yea. sir."
th, n I saw the light* of the 'Wayside | "So that, by ft tenilj edreuit u
U'e -i been there before, last | route, you did not pass the lighted
- —V «n<l j study window'/’1
} “AcrldFntftlly, i did jwst fbfit.
Inn.'
*; ati'er 1 i t 'ii' "n lv'rch
iSti'Od thorp, looking in.
■•why quin t you go straight In, Mr.
Jo-sidyri?” ,
• j know 1 think 1 wnsn t
jure that I waifiod to go In.”
“You *«!k~-wlmt lv» l-’
rr.-rc fhiiii **is»br mi If**?, in
the district attorney
thf*n \iiij vui'llbitf1
**j ;hor tJiifik'ug tti}* 1
hubvGi'J'S went on. "lint they
w . re date r in there end I dhm t
fed much Lire getCng Into a
'Hut you (Tel go
"N, I didn't While I • >s >?»»<*•
Inc there l recogivred
- -frleml* at a ItHK* 'ah'- right near
thf w indow—**
riemis? Who were 'hi s*‘ friends.
Mr. Jiestdyn?”
“That !'d rather not say, reallr,
Gibbs said. In Id* old autocratic man-
ner.
course.
Thao*
revert to Ellen. Ellen heard It all
vaguely: she was not thinking of
money In these days. Site did not
rend the papers that shrieked between
the two oceans that old Thomas Jos-e-
!vn had trusted iter ubyve his v.tfe or
his son.
Lizzie and
she'll go with tue.”
“Married I” she echoed. "Hut. when,
Joe?"
••Well—” He hesitated. "Tonight,
I think."
“Tonight !*'
'•nut dearest boy ' Don’t you have j .-si it. It came ns it relief. She had vis
,o have -t license and things?” j ltd him every day, in his eei! at the
••pve got them. Her mother and j Mtneola Jail, anti what those visits
father Will l e there, and Aunt Elsie, j had cost her. onl.v KMen knew.
; as far away as China.
! "Whom do you consider your neigh-
; hor?" asked the minister. “The man
j whose farm adjoins ice,” was the
i prompt reply. “How far down into
i the earth does your land extend?" j
| was the next question and the farmer J
! Just as promptly- answered: "To the.
The trial was set for the first week j “ "Very well," said the mip-
} of the new year, and to Gibbs and to j ,slpr My, "There Is n man down
| Ellen as well, much as she had dread- t <.. , -v,m >
Sjjjjgg
IkbtrSy of Catrcara
Make* Ii UneaxesM,
For AHMet Purposes
• Mr'm';
"Accidentally, of
you. Mr. Josselyn.”
Again there was the little stir n,
men eiianglng position. Gib!»s nr'(i
-S'.mething t George wen I h“ d"'"k.
live dark." j T will make it my business t*> look
“.tml j np those maHers you called to my M-
.•it going .I'.’” tention, Mr. Ryan." G", rge said. If it
w,,* I.,,-mess like tone "I'll see Mr. 3mm-
Ivn’s man of business—hnd out if
there was anything Irregular, any dis-
dance.” ptttc there. There was "Tie point I .
i ,Ao,till like to make before we end this j
' investigation': Is It possible that Mr
l recognized j Josselyn fell asleep In his "hair, and
'»VOS 6-hot fi* tftM
Tho district attorney n<M*X
thoughtfully. He had scored Koam'y.
throughout the long day, but be was
rasped by the conviction (hat Gibbs
(l(*6r»lacdl hlto.
"I will speak to Corrigan about R_
That would be an Important point, o-
nurse." He glanced «t the (Woner,
and was standing be-
Kvery day she must nerve herself
in China whose land join* yours at J
the center of the earth; he la therefore ,
vour neighbor and needs your help." j
This was a new thought to the slow j
j-iijog church member. He iearned hie j
lesson sad we need to learn the same. '
That's all.
"Out Joe—so quickly!" Ellen mused.
"After nil. perhaps it's the wisest
thing,” she conceded. “EH try to-
morrow to get someone else for Tom-
, „ | thin, despondent, utanunoi-eu. ; Jesus tu p"*1” •
"‘Ij was „nlnK apeak to yon about ! ,mtst breathe the aufroenting morel j pr,,dnce tt perpetnu! Christmas
(hot Si" Why can’t we take Tom- j atmosphere that surrounds the offend- j „ time of peace and Joy and happiness
’ ,„qi have your bands full—" ! era, the httnum who is felt by other ; ittStii)g throuBboot the year.
afresh to enter into the stale, eoltf atr. | only its we do so will we be *h!e to
nrul must puss the elanklfig doors and ; broaden our lives Into the fullness of
the watching eyes. She must nerve j tj,e jjfe of Jesus the Christ,
herself afresh for the sight of him. The application of the teaching of
I thin, despondent, dishonored. Site j jto business and society would
.... - .— $?h»ob:
deathly white, and . . _
t;,-r chair with closed j talk to hint.
my? V
She turned
leaned back In
‘“1 don’t m«in tn«t r hr exclRlmod.
quickly. "Ah. pull yoitrs.-lf together,
dear old girl "’
Ellen nervous, got to her feet; she
began t» walk fthout the room, wring
!ne her hands, and pressing her locked
fingers against her Ups like » person
In pain.
"Ol,. 1 know whstl you've nil been
waiting for—these days!" she said, in
her whisper of anguish. “I’ve seen It
' ‘ ....... | W ‘ t............ •’
ers, the itnnuin woo is felt by other 1 timtiiig througbont tbe year,
lutmstns to be ditngerou*. Site toust I The giving of cheap present* or
and yet not twite of tbe money, however,. iwes not constitute
hideous cloud that pressed «o el ore j i.'hrl*t»m*; a* well expect a bougnet
over him. find the hideous weight on I „f flower* (however lovely 1 to consn-
tbeir hearts that made them both j tot,- summer! The Christmas splrtt,
afraid they would go mad.
Site kept hint supplied with books,
and sometimes made him read aloud
to her. George was often with him,
full of confidence and courage.
Empty as they were, these hours st
(be Jail were Ellen's life. Otherwise
she was hardly conscious that she
i lived at all. She sat by the fire with
rather than the Christmas show, hon-
ors Him whore birth, no let* tbnn 111*
life, was the greater,t Christmas £tft
the’ world has ever received. The
Christmas spirit brings a* into closer
touch with Hint whose very life was
an exemplification of the precept: “it
Is more blessed to give than to re-
ceive’’
As we celebrate tbe anniversary of
tie i-lrth of Jerua let not the going
down of the sun mark the decline of
the Christmas spirit but. as the day*
come and go, and we enter the new ;
year, let a* each one reach out rhe j
loving had to the sick, the uitfortn- j
n a re and the outcast, remembering that ,
Temi* tbe Christ said: “Inasmuch as j
re have done It ttnto the least of one ■
;f these, my brethren, ye have done
at unto Me
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