Alpine View resident Ellie Waller took this photo of the sunrise on Christmas morning.
Again Christmas with all its delightful associations approaches, fostering domestic harmony and repeating the glorious gospel of peace on earth and goodwill.
No other period of the year is so potent as this in healing the wounds of friendship and warming the heart toward others.
Let us endeavor, then, to make the best use of Christmas, and to join in the general spirit of love and goodwill.
All periods that knit hearts more closely together are most worthy of human observance.
Let the tables smoke with festive cheer, and hall and cottage ring with joyous greeting. The absent will return to gladden those at home, and the dead will be lovingly remembered. For those who cannot be present, whom necessity or distance has parted from us, there will be kindly messages, even to the ends of the earth, borne by the swift mail or swifter telegraph.
Let us rejoice that it is not in the power of time or space to sever us from those we love. Affection will make the absent present.
Above all, on this day beyond every other, let the poor be amply provided for, that they may partake of the general rejoicing, and if all the remaining days of their years be wretched, let them be happy on this, the day of days, when as tradition tells, the Prince of Peace was born, to bring a message of love from heaven to earth.
George Smith
The Genoa Weekly Courier
Dec. 24, 1897
