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THE RIDING WESTERN WIND.......................CHARLES J. NORTH
THE CHRISTMAS GHOST OF

SAN FRANCISCO

CHRISTMAS ENCHANTMENT

IMPERIAL VALLEY, THE WONDERFUL....EMMY MATT RUSH
SPRUCE WOODS (Verse)....

VAGABONDS (Verse)

A GLIMPSE THROUGH THE OPEN DOOR..ISABELLE D. HULL
EDITOR'S NOTE BOOK...

EXPEDIENCY (Verse)

Issued monthly by the Overland Publishing Company, Overland Building, 257-259 Minna Street, San Francisco, Calif. B. G. Barnett, President and General Manager; H. Gille, Vice-President; C. Van Der Zwaal, Secretary and Treasurer. Twenty cents a copy; $2.00 per year.

Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office, San Francisco, Calif., under Act of March 3, 1879.

Copyright 1921 by Overland Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

NOTICE. Contributions to the Overland Monthly should be typewritten, accompanied by full return postage, and with the author's name and address plainly written in upper corner of first page. Manuscript should never be rolled.

The Publishers of the Overland Monthly will not be responsible for the preservation or mail miscarriage of unsolicited contributions and photographs.

Christmas Bells

By DAVID EVANS

Rector of All Saints Church, Palo Alto, Calif.

The happy bells acclaim the birth
Of One the world had waited long,
And once again the Angel's song
Rains joyous staves upon the earth.

The huddled sheep, the tranquil fold,
The manger crib, the Holy Child,
The Virgin mother meek and mild,
The frankincense and myrrh and gold,

Brought by the Magi from afar!-
One more with reverent love we list
The lore of God's Evangelist,

And track again the Pilot Star.

Ring out, O bells, your merry chime!
But mingling with your riot here
Echoes of phantom music clear
Come rippling o'er the Falls of Time.

And lo! in Memory's crystal well
The dear familiar faces rise,
Mirrored before my wistful eyes,
And look the love they may not tell.

O dearest birthday of the year,

The very bells for joy do swoon!
Your music weaves a magic rune,
For other, other, bells I hear.

By courtesy of the author we are permitted to print the above poem, which was taken from his book of carols, "The Bravest Are the Belgians," a book which realized large returns for the Belgian Relief Fund.-Editor.

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Christian Faith is a grand Cathedral,

with divinely pictured windows.

Standing without you see no glory,

nor can you possibly imagine any;

Standing within, every ray of light

reveals a harmony of unspeakable glory.

-Hawthorne

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