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"The Duck Pond"
CHILLICOTHE BUSINESS COLLEGE
Chillicothe Missouri
December
1941

Dr. Forrest C. Alien,
Lawrence, Kansas,

Dear Friend:
Christmas greetings again!

And let it not be "a merry Christmas" but "A Happy Christmas"
this year.

 

Get the difference?

Was it not "happiness" rather than "merriment" which Jesus
brought to a troubled world? And was it not love, happiness and
devotion he sought in the home of Mary, Martha and Lazarus? And
was it not happiness that he brought into that humble Judean home
a little less than two thousand years ago?

Yes, this is a serious Christmas which we face this year but
let it not be a Christmas "black-out". We should make it, must
make it "A Happy Christmas". Won't you help make it so?

Our local minister made a statement last Sunday which has
haunted me all week -- it was this, referring to our Christmas
service this coming Sunday:

“IT MAY BE DIFFERENT NEXT YEAR. WE MAY
NOT HAVE SUCH A CHRISTMAS THEN AS NOW."

Doesn't this put one to thinking? Doesn't it make you shud-
der? I tell you, this war situation comes mighty close home to me
with my one and only son just past eighteen. He's coming home this
week end from his first year away at college. How anxious I am

to see him and be with him. Yes, the girls are coming home, too.

They also will add a lot to our Christmas, but Christmas this year
is going to find Allen III foremost in my thoughts, going to find
that bond of father and son drawn much closer, going to give him
and me a greater appreciation one for the other. With the whole
family, though, here in the Moore household, Christmas this year