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THE CHINA MAIL CHRISTMAS SUPPLEMENT THURSDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1974.****

The Message Of Bow Bells

Next to the chiming of Big Ben, the Rounds of Bow Bella aro perhaps best known. They have been recorded, and are aften heard throughout the world in the broadcasts of the

Told By-

REV. F.C.

BAKER

Dear Editor:

Yes, Virginia, There Is

A Santa Claus

no

You in fairies!

And What Is Christmas?

The one completely inexplicable thing that has happened In all

might

get

the work's history.

I am eight years old. Some of my your papa tu hire men to watch

And this greatest and most in- in our human fluential little friends zay there is

event in all the chimneys on Christ-story is also the one wo can least Santa Claus,

Papa 1011

TI.B.C., although the bells, and the walls and the steeple re-Sun, it's 18 you see it in. Themas eve to catch Santa Claus, understand. the church to which they be main. leng, were shattered by bomb- inge.

VIRGINIA O'HANLON,

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would

-Asks-

KATHLEEN NORRIS

but even if they did not gea

If we could get away from our. What Ho said was true, and that Please fill me the truths Hire Santa Claus coming down, what selves for awhile, look upon our that truth of His, so dificult, so Those churches which suffer-a Santa Class?

lives objectively, as it from an unacceptable to our human waya z Nobody that prove?

other planet, how trivial all the of thinking, verslats on and ong ed more severely than St.

Meca Santa Claus, but that is other events would seem-the and will not die. We cannot live Mary-ic-Bow дго generally

no sign that there is no Santu wars, territorial changes, scienti.it, it is too hard and high and St. Mary-le-Bow. Cheapside

Virginia, your London-the Church of Bow classified as "destroyed chur

little frlonde Claus. The most real things in ne discoveries, the heroes and the dazzling for us, but we know that

it is true. cher" which, as material build-

Wo know that love fulfills the Bella-is the most famous

We know that we should Church in the City. Ita hisinge, they are. But a church are wrong. They have been the world are those that nei-geniuses, the criminals and the

affected by the scepticism of ather children nor men can see. warriors.

One story is not necessarily destroyed be- acoptical age. They do not be- Did you ever see fairies dans above all the rest. One story them that hate us. We know

would shine out law.

forgive our enemies, da, good to teric associations are, in gen.

cauke its fabric in blown to leve except they 800. They cing on the lawn? Of course eral interest second to none, pieces. If its mission for three churches already have church continues, that church is not comprehensible by their they are not there.

a think that nothing can be which not. but that's no proof that greater than human hearts can that we should not have two encompass, and so regarded by coats, that our less fortunato Nobody millions of human hearts as pa neighbour should have one. Wa stood upon the present site.

lives, and St. Mary-le-Bow lives little minds. All minds, Vir- can conceive or imagine all the believable. There was a Norman charch on today as surely as the sound ginta. whether they be men's wanders there are unseen and

or children's, are little. of 1089, of which the erypt and of its bells survive. A chapel

In unaccable in the world. three pillars remain. Then, was formed on the site of the this great universe of ours man there was a medieval church | former ventry and has a cat- is a mere insect, an ant, în his which was destroyed in the ing accommodation for 100 per-intellect, as compared with the Great Fire of London 1666, and [-sonk. Dedicated by the Bishop houndless world about him, us rattle and see what makes the aimply expressed an extraordin*, |not live it, and as the Christ

built by Str of Lendon In the third was

1944, it now measured by the intelligence Christopher Wren between 1671 serves the religious activities of capable of grasping the whele and 1682. Jutting out from the parish, till the church is re- of truth and knowledge. the tower today, can be seen a built, small balcony which was con- structed by Wren to com- memorate a former Royal Stand constructed in 1327 for King|

In Older Times

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Ing.

Claus?

died the death of a troubled world, on this sad and common criminal. And yet His shadowed Christmas. But we can name and His story go thunder: bring the true Christmas into our ing down through the ages, and hearts and into our homes. For no other name, of leader or King, givehers. Friendliness." Giving Thank stands beside it.

поба Saints have Kindness. We all

these

Yet it is true. It is true that know that we should feed the here was a baby born in a farungry, clothe the naked, com

fort the sorrowing. And that wa away land, neatly two thousand know that if we had done all years ago, and that his people this there never could have been were simple labourers, carpentera slums, crime, poverty, ignorance,

Wa know it, but we can You tear apart the baby's and fishermen, and that He very war

theory of the fatherhood of

moses come and go, and we al noise, inside, but there is a veil God and the sonship of man, and most forget to connect His story covering the unseen world tald down certain lows that

with them at all. which not the strongest man entirely opposed to the common- This Christmas, give Him' H1- Have all the trimmings; Yes, Virginia, there is

nog even the united strength of sense of the day-as of this day, share. 26

ata strange the presents, the amusements, the Few Residents.

Santa Claus. He exista as cer- all the strongest men that ever too-and that Ho

lived, could tear apart. Only things, cured the lame and the feast, the family gathering. But tainly as love and generosity faith, fancy, poetry, love, roterious plenty of food, pardoned based in this staggering miracle,

blind. fed the hungry on a mys; remember

that Christmas Eas There are few residents and devotion exist, and you Edward III, from which the within the parish, but St. Mary-know that they abound and give anco can push aside, that cur sinners with royal generosity. and give it a litle thought. joustings, pageants and tourna le-Bow ministers chiefly to to your life its highest beauty tain and view and picture the This man never wrote a line, If you do, many things must ments in Cheapside could be those who are earning their and Joy. Alas, how dreary supernal beauty and glory be never had an influential friend, follow that finding of the Child

HIB yond. Is it all real? Ah, Vir. was deserted in safely witnessed by Royal per-daily bread in the City. A ser- would be the world if there ginia, in all this world there need by His frightened compan. I can do little to help the great hour of who came at Christmas. You and sonage of those days.

mon is given every Thursday were no Santa Claus! It would nothing else real and abid-fons. and at mid-day to help these City be as dreary as if there were workers to realise there is

no Virginias. There would be meaning to life and to encour- no childlike faith then, no poe- age them to live and to see the try, no romance to make toler-

Santa No life through able this existence. We should God he lives, and he lives for-followed him, men, thousands of things so pitifully, and the ruch interpretation of Christianity.

have no enjoyment, except in Sunday, or week-end worship, sense and night. The eternal ever! A thousand years from thom, have died defending His and hurry, the fear and crowd can become conventional, as can light with which childhood filis ten thousand years from now, spoke in a votee like his, and no that touch all our lives now, we

now, Virginia; nay, ten times law. but no other human ever ing, the anxiety and also the observance of festivals the world would be extinguish he will continue to make gind other man ever could claim one forget thern, Christmas buka. like Christmas, but those who cd.

half, or one tenth or one thou

e-grown

strangely away from attend the mid-day Services

Bandth of the fame that is His Christ. And yet at the very core Let those who say they would of Thursday's celebration ther belfeve if they could see one of lies the forco-the never-to-be- His miracles consider this: that fathomed force of Ela example. It seems to me strange that in there is no human miracle that

the knowledge stupendous

of this mysterious compares with the cart aside if we are to realise site of the damaged church may miracle that is this day this week element working among, this just this just Christmas. Just unsilenced volce saying "Forelve: That life is worth living, and to be puddled with rain or the the whole world rejoicing that achieve happiness. It is the grimy snow of the City. The

He was born, great

vet mankind can business 、 and work of the real church, also, lives on, bekon

music and regard other things as more

tili Church to teach the principles cause it is the

shaken with indestructible glowing with thousands of can-Important, other facts is more of Christianity na laid down by spirit of good men and women ales, great hearts revelling In clearly proven.

What science says today Christ Himself, and to help men who strive to enhance pence and generosity and brotherhood, be

Him.

often Because of a selenco

contradicts to to practise these good-will in daily life, men and cause of to IL in this spirit, and this and women

alone, that can give to our tron- principles in their daily lives.. women who are the salt of the young carpenter who died nearly morrow; today's great discovery 4go, died in tomorrow's Joko. But fothing bied world peace and good-will. By means of recordings, Bow earth and the hope for a better two thousand years

under a cloud, died alone, and makes out-of-date the simple What often passes for Christ- Bella will, no doubt, be heard world.

left only a few frightened friends words that were said so long a ianity has been ineffective be on air this Christmas, though May this be the message con-

Ask and cause it is, with many, little no bells hang in the tower, veyed to: the minds of a who to remember Him after His death. to so unimportant up

What is the answer? Who can bewildered fishermen. more than a label. This "play- though the altar of St. Mary hear those ghostly bells of St.augh off this stupefying fact! you shall receive. The Kingdom Ing at Christianity" must be le:Bow is obliterated and the' Mary-le-Bow this Christmas. The only possible answer is that of heaven is within you."

olden times, when the In noise of the traffle was not 80 great an it ls today. Bow Bells could be heard at Highgate, four miles away. Anyone who lived within reach of the sound of Bow Bells was entitled to be enlled a "Cockney," and it is probable that Dick Whittington heard the sound of Bow Bells, when he was abmewhere near Highgate. The tenor. Bell was made in 1699. It weighed 53 ewt, and fragments of this great bell, with the date 1699 moulded on one of the pieces when the bell was cast, have survived the bombing. Origin- ally, there were six bells, but the peal

increased twelve in 1881. The whole peal weighed eleven tons, but when the Church Was gutted by humbs in May 1941, the bells fell from the Tower and were smashed. Though considerable damage was done to the church,

wos

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have to forego their mid-day Not believe in Santa Clausti

the heart of childhood.

Reprinted from the New York meal. This means that Christ- You might as well not belleve Sun, Christmas, 1897,

anity is a practical matter for them,

and that the living church is not the material build. ing. but the living. Spirit of Christ in the human heart.

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