THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 14; 1957.
CHRISTMAS
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LEATHER NOVELTIES
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CLOTHES BRUSHES
DICE. BOXES • DRESSING CASES KEY CASES
MANICURE SETS
PASSPORT WALLETS WET PACKS POCKET SETS
SHOE HORNS
SHOE KITS STUD BOXES • TOOL SETS
FOR MEN
Evans Slippers in Burgundy, Blue and Tan.
Jaeger Felt Slippers, Leather sole.
Monteiths Slippers in Red, Tan and Black.
Jaeger all wool socks in Plain and Fancy designs. Coopers stretch nylon Socks in Plain and Fancy designs Travelling Rugs. In Mohair, wool and vicuna, Cashmere
and wool and pure cashmere, pure vicuna.
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T is almost Christmas Eve and the tired
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shop assistants are so dazed that they can hardly distinguished between a doll and a dust bin. The newspapers as usual had urged the people to shop early but there is always the army of forgetful uncles and maiden aunts who have re membered just in time that they had for- gotten all about Slater Susie and cousin John.
The harassed husband sits in his arm chair wonders whether he really did send a Christmas card to his managing director. If to make sure he sends a second card he may look foolish, but if there is no card at all It is even worse,
The fact is that the only people who really understand Christmas are the children. Many years have passed since I was a child but even now I can recall how In Toronto, with the snow deep on the ground, my brother and three sisters would join me in a mad rush to the Christmas tree in the drawing room. And when we saw the wonder of it we just stood and screamed with excitement.
In no time my sisters were stripping or dressing their dolls while my brother and I wore Lnking the mechanical toys apart to see what made them go. And of noon what further exeltements there were when a great turkey was carried in for dinner-not u mere luncheon- and we ate until our very eyes protruded.
Buo what was that in Canáda
where there was always snow at
Christmas, or nearly always. And by Sir Beverley Baxter, MP
in the afternoon u man would
arrive with a horse and eleigh Christ. Yet the passing of the comes a moment when the mind complete with Jingle bella,
centuries does not lessen the fails and when truth can awe and wonder of the Bible be found in the infinite,
story.
only
man
his
I do not believe that Christ was born in a manger was created merely to live because there was no room at -allotted span and then return to the inn. It is always so. The the earth from which ho sprang. world of Caesar is never eager Of all living creatures man Is of ready to acknowledge the supreme and there is an instinct world of the spirit. But the in him (as strong on life itself) angels sang their welcome to the new born Babe and the star of Bethlehem shone bright.
What is more the man would touch his hat father as if we were the Royal Family. Why The realist shrugs his should- did we not know before that ers of the fale. What is this father must be na tich as story of a Babe who was the Hockefeller? Look how he gives Son of God? Was the Babe not old fwenty-five cents to the man born of woman? Why this who brought the sleigh! Twenty- wives tale? five cents Just as If it were nothing!
Thus the realist And the
thrust noterialist
aside the Divinity of Christ,
They will admit His genlus, they will agroo that the Sermon on the Mount Is the greatest political docu-
I sometimes think that the art of life is to pequire know- ledge without losing one's power of being surprised and exclted. Give me a woman who, even ment of all times. But the story when she is grandmother, can of Divine Birth like the story of remember her first long frock, the Resurrection is just a legend her first roses sent by an ad- magnified by the centuries. mirer, and her first grown-up
tears.
How strange that the mature Yet beyond all this we have mind is so sure of itself, su cer
of the tain that the realm of the spirit the spiritual meaning
the imagination Feast, The word Christmas is so exists only in
and the cre and so commer- of tho ignorant familiar to us
forget dulous. Yet when you put the clalised that we almost
of man of worldly wisdom in the that it marks the birthday
to cross the frontiers and search for eternal truths
God gave us His only Son to live, to achieve, to lead and lo identifs Himself with all that is good and enduring,
If you
study. Shakespeare's plays you will discover hundreds of words taken from the Bible. If you listen to an infant crying in the night,
crying for ght, you will also hear Infant crying in the manger.
the the
To attain the heights of wis- dom you must have the faith of tile children, therefore you children should see that little are about you 避意 Christmas Time even if you must go to them for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven and innocence and wisdom.
There was a star that shone over Bethlehem while the shepherds watched their flocits and there came the voice of angels: "Peace on Earth, Good Will to men!" That is the mess- age of Christmas Day. If there is good wili arang men there will be peace, and if there is peace we shall bo 25 the children of God.
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Look on the young and learn from them. They have no doubts, no hatreds and fears, To be worthy of Christ's Kingdom wo too must become like little children.
That is why we wish cach other Д "Happy Christmas" when we see our neighbours across the street, for Christ came to earth to give us the happi- ness of love, and friendship and parenthood just as He came to earth to teach us the sublimity of sacrifice.
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To the extent that mankind has followed Christ's teachinya
It has found peace of mind and spirit. To the extent that man-
dock he is unable to explain the kind has set aside the teachings
miracle of the creation,
of Christ it has found sufter- In the beginning was God it has followed Christ's teach- ing and hopelessness. But where thus says 'Holy Writ in the
ings It has moved into the land
has
| beginning was protoplasm. Baya
selence and from it through the of the spirit which is eternal." long story of time there emerged " The story of Bothlehem is a the fish and the beasis and dramatic one, a story that finally man. "If you grant them held the imagination of mankind these points ask who it was for centuries, yet it is also that created the protoplasm, and arraignment against the selfish- they are dumb. In other words ness of man, The Virgin Mary there is a point when the naite
was heavy with child but there mind can no longer explain the
WEB no one at the irin who mystery of life and its origin, would give her room. No
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It is almost like a man claim- doubt she pleaded but the doors ing that music is created from were closed against her. the strings of a violls or
the
keys of a plano. There was
Thus was born in a manger
music in the skies over Bethle- the Son of God, while the song hem when the angels sang, of the angela fillbd the akits,
There was rule in the wind
and in the crying of the
born child in the manger,
now
What about Christmas of this yent, 19577 Is there room in our hearts for Christ? Let us think The truth is that there comes on these things before we con-
a moment when lògic, in its in- demn this people at the inz long. Ahild' nastance can go no fur='cenfitries ago as being so dlifts. iker. In other words there entroní, dúrrelves.
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