"a Merry Christmas," And Not

only a merry, but a hnppy ono to all our ["aders. Some f thein no doubt havo their homes eoveloped in a duik shadow of grief, but may Ue who tempera the wind to the tihoru amb enable them to seo thu silver Hning of the cloud, and to hope lor ths brcaking of a dawu that shall restore peuce to our lojed land, and the abnent if not the dead oaea to their homes.