Christmas Bells

Dear are the sounds of the Christmas chimes In tlie land of the ivied towers, And they weieome the dearest of festival times In tliH West&rB world of ours ! Bright on the holly and mistletoe bongh The Engllsh nrelight falls. And bright ure the wreathed evergreens now That gladden our own home walls. And hark 1 the firat sweet note that tells The welcome cf the Christmas bells. They are ringing to-night through the Norway firs, And across the Swedish fells, And the Cuban palin-tree dreamily utlrs To the sound of those Christmas bells ! They ring where the Iiídian Ganges rolls lts flood through the rice-fields wide : They swell the far hymns of the Laps and Toles To the praise of the Crucified. Sweeter than tones of the ocean's shells. Mingle the chimes oí the Christmas bells. The years come not back that have eireled away With the past of the Eastern land, When He plucked the corn on the Sabbat!) day And healed the withered hand ; Bnt the bells shall join in a joyous chime For the One who walked the sea, And ringagain for the better time Of the Christ at is to be: Then ring! for the earth's best promise dwells In ye, O joyous prophet bells. ilanc-Jieeter Enterprise : "Whoever jnakee two care of corn or tivo blades of grass 'to grow upon a spot of ground where onïy one grew before ie a benefactor of mankind. So says Swift with a truO and a wise philosophy. And we think that he who builde up and maintains a live local newepaper in a villaige where tliere was none before, is a benefactor of mankind and ought to be appreciated." .