The Gisborne Standard AND COOK COUNTY GAZETTE Published every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday Morning. Thursday, December 25, 1890. A MERRY CHRISTMAS!

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume IV, Issue 549, 25 December 1890, Page 2

The Gisborne Standard AND COOK COUNTY GAZETTE Published every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday Morning.

Thursday, December 25, 1890. A MERRY CHRISTMAS!

Be just and fear not; Lot all the ends thou aim’st at be thy country’s, Thy God’s, and truth’s.

Another Christmas has been entered upon, with its renewed memories of the past, joys of the present, and hopes for the future. May the great lesson which is again conveyed to Christendom make a deep impression on the minds of all. The season is one when each and all should feel something much deeper than a mere sentimental appeal to their fancy. They should feel that they are “ acting with the living present,” make the season one of a truly festive character, and trust that the impressions given may not be only of an evanescent nature. One bright feature about the present Christmas, if our memory serves us aright, is that it is the most free we have had for years from anything to mar the enjoyment. In the old world everything seems in a quiescent state : our foreign relations give no present cause for apprehension, and affairs at home are very quiet; the labor troubles appear to have at least temporarily subsided, but there are indications that a great deal of good work in the elevation of the masses is being accomplished. Neither at home nor abroad, nor in the colonies, is there proof that things are not much better than when the Christmas bells of 1889 pealed out. True, there are some specks which now seem great, but which will soon crumble away, as will also the sickening accusations about the “ Darkest Africa " journey. These are but petty things (be their merits or demerits what they may) when compared with two dangers which appear now to have passed away —the one of famine in Ireland, and the other of grave international troubles over the partition of Africa. A great

and lasting peace is now promised, and the prospect is such that all petty troubles that cannot be removed, can, at least, well be banished from om minds, in the joy of finding all other things having such a promising aspect. In the colonies there is happily little distress, and the comforts which even the humblest of the people can enjoy, should make us devoutly hope for that time which is gradually drawing nigh when much of the social misery of the old world will be no longer felt. One must be of a very pessimistic nature if he cannot discern very hopeful signs of the future. With our readers, and all others, we would cordially exchange the. compliments of the season, and to use the stereotyped, but none the less dear, bld phrase, we wish them A MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR.