December 4, 2008
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The true meaning of Christmas
in the immortal words of Jacob Marley…….”It is required of every man that the spirit within him should walk abroad among his fellow-men, and travel far and wide; and if that spirit goes not forth in life, it is condemned to do so after death. It is doomed to wander through the world and witness what it cannot share, but might have shared on earth, and turned to happiness!”
“Oh! captive, bound, and double-ironed, not to know, that ages of incessant labour, by immortal creatures, for this earth must pass into eternity before the good of which it is susceptible is all developed. Not to know that any Christian spirit working kindly in its little sphere, whatever it may be, will find its mortal life too short for its vast means of usefulness. Not to know that no space of regret can make amends for one life’s opportunity misused! Yet such was I! Oh! such was I!”
“Mankind was my business. The common welfare was my business; charity, mercy, forbearance, and benevolence, were, all, my business. The dealings of my trade were but a drop of water in the comprehensive ocean of my business!”
“At this time of the rolling year I suffer most. Why did I walk through crowds of fellow-beings with my eyes turned down, and never raise them to that blessed Star which led the Wise Men to a poor abode! Were there no poor homes to which its light would have conducted me!”
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He said it all didn’t he!
@ugotafriend - My favorite Christmas movie of all time. I have five different versions and I can recite the story by heart and tell where each recording differs from the others and from the book. Now if that isn’t a mind full of trivia I don’t know what is. Since my men are gone to work and I am home alone I though that I would indulge myself until they come home. I should be sewing but here I am on the computer. What a slouch.