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PICKED up my Bible and read in the second
chapter of St. Luke:
"And she brought forth her firstborn son. and wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in a manger; because there was no room for them in the inn."
In those few words is contained the most significant story
"Are there no
reacla passage from the 67th Psalm country? Is religious teaching some-
officialdom restricting the freedom less when the department is It is easy enough to develop working properly. The censor- them if you know what ink is of British life. A render of the ship has three legitimate pur- being used. During the last war London press, recently arrived in poses namely, to stop spies every censorship tried to pro- 100###00000050*********@*****.***@*****.***@********** | England, might come to the con- from sending information, to duce a'universal developer which
clusion that Britain had ceased to stop other information which would show up all kinds of secretin the history of the world.
would be useful to our enemies, writing, as the charcoal in a gasi be a democracy and Was now
and to interfere with enemy mask will stop all the very poí-birth of Jesus of Nazareth in the stable at Rethlehem.
We are about to celebrate the 1,939th anniversary of the. governed by a dictatorial bureau- trade and finance. Its misuse sonous gases.
for other purposes can be pro-
Age-long custom has made Christmas-time an occasion for Perhaps we have found such a rejoicing and good will among men. It is the feast of, the Re- Yet if he asked himself how he vented if Parliament does its developer, but I am not very deemer of Mankind. had come to such a conclusion, he duty in protecting our rights. optimistic about it. If not, we
And while we rejoice we might young boys who come to me from would surely think it significant
A lot of quite innocent people have still got a number of first-take pains to read again the story of preparatory schools. Either they rew send-information which must-be-rate chemists who have not been the birth of Christ as recorded in the sent Bibilcal teaching-or-they- "that he had been led to it by read-
stopped. For example, if a called up for National Service. Holy Bible.
positively know nothing about the ing the public press. Was there woman in a seaport writes to
Do you read your Bible?
Bible at all. ever a purely authoritarian State sister in Holland that she cannot
INALLY we have: FI
A fainous general declared recently "The Bible to them is a penance and underground trade that never a day passed without his not a pleasure. It has been a matter which permitted such free discus-sleep for the noise of the trains, with the enemy. The Germans reading a passage of either the Old of astonishment to me that scores of
this means that the port is being
or New Testament. The remark boys who have come into my charge sion of grievances? Is there any used on a large scale, perhaps will soon be in desperate need orcusioned some astonishment, be-since the war are quite unaware of mention in German press of the for sending troops abroad; and of many raw materials. They cause for some reason or other even the big dramatic stories of the suppression of newa or of the the letter must be held up.
may be able to buy some of lering and religion do not seem Old Testament the call of Samuel, character of German propaganda?
You may be sure that your these from their neighbours; ifto go togelher, although in paint of the tra Ruth, the story of David, of Samson, the beautiful fact some of the most God-feuring character of Is anyone in Germany, in print, or foreign friends aron't Nazi they can make the manufactured men have been soldiers.
and the Nemesis that waited on goods to pay for them. in public speech, permitted to agents, but the nation can't take But some materials, like rub. Commons embarks on the questions
Every day before the House of Nebuchadnez Bibles in the homes chances in wartime. Things will criticise the administration or to be much easier if the Govern- ber, can only come by routes and debates of the hour the Chaplain of the well-nurtured youth of the suggest desirable reform?
ment tell us in full detail what controlled by the British Navy.God be merciful to us and bless thing that is postponed to a later day It is remarkable evidence of kinds of things we must not Synthetic rubber cannot replace ust and cause His face to shine upon in the modern 'prep."?"
it for all purposes, and can only"
A country parson visiting London, Great Britain's retention of the write.
And at the coronation of our Kings, staying at П leading commercial Then there are the not-quite- be made by men and machines the newly crowned Sovereign is hotel in the City of London for the democratic attitude that, though so-innocent people who try to and from materials which would given a Bible by the Primate with week-end, said, a little sadly: newa about military matters and get things past the censor.
"1 had reason to ask if there was a For otherwise be used for making the words. "Our Gracious King, we foreign policy is obstinately cen-example, when there was
explosives. So the Nazis will try present you with this Book, the most Bible in the hotel, and although the valuable thing that this world staff looked everywhere they could sored, there is no restraint what-shortage of fat in 1917 a woman to get rubber by every possible affords. Here is wisdom; this is the not find one."
royal law; these are the lively oracles
On the other hand, a member of soever on general comment except wrote in Germany, that there means,
hins lately been It will be supposed to be for of God,"
Parliament who were big queues waiting to see that imposed by the critics on a music-hall star called G. R. cycle tyres or goloshes in neutral
prominent in the House, confessed: themselves, New orders and re-Ease!
"My Bible is the first of my bedside countries, and there will be large In the course of the past few days books. I try, even after the most gulations are frankly discussed. And last come the real spies. fortunes for those who supply I have spoken to many and various prolonged session, to read a chapter
people of all sorts and conditions for two. Complaints against hardship are They can't send cipher messages
about the Bible,
"I open it at random but almost freely
ventilated. The press
beginning QVAXL, but they can
TRADING with the There was a London man-about- 'always 7 fnd some verses which active in giving expression to what fuse apparently harmless invoices
enemy can only be own. He had lived a carefree life. farrest attention, which are helpful He had been self-indulgent, One and of guidance. There is more the people are thinking, and Mom.148 codes if they are in a com- checked by carefully examining evening after a wild party he was philosophy in the Old Testament than
mercial office.
all commercial documents going arrested for a motoring offence in all the other books of the world bera of Parliament are alert in Or they can have a prearranged abroad, and in the case of some and the courts sent him to Wormwood asking questions in the House and code. "The cat had seven kit commodities by abolishing pri-Scrubs for two months.
And a few other reactions, For the first week the only litera- extracting answers and explanatens" means that seven trans- vate foreign trade altogether, asture allowed in his cell was a copy The porter at the block of flats
live: port last week, was done in 1914-18.
of the Bible. tions from Ministers, which in ports left
amn Spiritualist. I am aware "Aunt Lottie is not so well” Honest traders will agree to nible to prisoners was a subtle form nothing to do with Christian teaching "I thought that the Issue of the of the after life. My belief has their turn, are reported in the
means that there are four battle- such measures only if they are
of punishment," he said. "But that as such." papers.
ships in the harbour, and "Aunt sure that the regulations will be was before I began to read the The result is that public opinion, Lottie is up again" means that used only for national ends, and Book I had hated na mucil at school as although, porters are not supposed "But I read the Bible, because, anxious to back up the Government they have put out to sea. that those who are found guilty because of the way in which we were
did Caesar's "Gallie War" and only to have either imagination or much in regard to all restrictions which
Aunt Flora stands for three of trading with the enemy will forced to read those things us disci-culture, I And it is the greatest rend- battleships, and so on. This sort be treated as severely as any pline.
ing in the world. Every story that has are necessary in war, in exerting of thing is hard to check, until other traitors.
"But in my call I began to realise ever been told is to be found in much. censoless pressure on it to remove some one notices that the cat
fresher beauty of the more exciting form in the Bible." A censorship is necessary, but the newer, abuses ur rectify mistakes. Errors. has kittens every month, or that It will be extremely and deserv- Genesis. And the Spirit of God Bible, even from the second verse of
A-Mother's Advice
SUNDAY school teacher: of course, seem inevitable. The in- the writer has seventeen aunts! edly unpopular unless its duties moved upon the face of the waters,
"I am surprised at your- "Even when the time came that I dispensable bureaucrat exceeds and THIS kind of code only are explained to the people, its was allowed some lighter reading question. Of course I read the Bible, works for routing in- work supervised by Parliament, found myself turning to the Bible, and I make my class learn passages the justifiable limits of his far-formation such as troop move and workers in it who exceed Naw when I feel a little lonely and by heart because it la good for them,
menta, A spy can also use in their duties are transferred to depressed and things are not going "And I give them illustrated texts. reaching powers. But never be visible ink. One can write be- jabe where they are no longer a well, I often pleit up the Bible and every Sunday for their scrapbooks so that they may always be reminded yond a certain point. Tho people tween the lines of an ordinary nuisance to their fellow-citizens. read some pasange, 1 Uke."
of what they ought to itnow," are not silenced. The publle will letter, using a colourless solution If these things are done, I bo
None In The Homes? ||
A labourer remaking the road close is not ignored. Great as are the which shows up when treated lieve that the public will accept house-master at one of our big public or, in fact, anything at all except the
'to where I live? Then there was the' case of a
"I have no time to read the Bible, sacrifices and the losses of freedom with the right chomical.
the necessity for the consorship schools. He said: which war involves the democratic A great many kinds of in-"ag they, have accepted tho need
football resulta and the pool papers.. sanctions are still operative.
visible inks are known, and some for black-outs,
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