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THE STAR

NEW YEAR'S EVE

NEW YEAR'S EVE --

December 1

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December 31st

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NEW YEAR'S DAY →

101:

NEW YEAR'S DAY -

January 1st. 1952

SPECIAL TEA DANCE

4.30

6:30 pm

NEW YEAR'S DAY -

January 1st, 1942 USUAL DINNER DANCE

January 1st. 9.2

DINNER with Classical

Music

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Reservations at respective Reception Offices.

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OF BETHLEHEM

A MYSTERY

OR more than a thou be bilmas body as that seen gation of facts and dates the tradition. At one time It would have been an ex- satul years The most in 1705 by Edmund Halley. fails to identify it as the the astronomers toyed with ceptionally brilliant spectacle; it

would have intensive

investigu He predicted that it would Star of Bethlehem.

the notion of its having long enough to have guided the remained visible by scientist, astron return every 65 to 75 years

been a conjunction of two three Wise Mon on their jour- meys and historius alike, and the accuracy of his

The most careful calcula planets. A pair of planets, per: and it would inter have has put succeeded in soly- forecast has been proved on tins the not crable a visit the argued, brought into burned itself out. ng satisfartorily and con several occasion. Halley's hy Hadley's Comel to lie when viewed from the It tallies also with the biblical

for fixed as having occurred us earth. clusively one of the great- Comet Was seen,

might have been tradition of divine guidance, be- associated example, in 1835 and in a date within the arbitrary brilliant

enough

be Caluse

two whirling suns, Christ's

Career birth visible by day as well as meet Even still more conclusive by night. Especially might sky

mysteries with Christmas.

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1910.

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specific time. is the fact that the exact this be the case if one of chances of such a clash occur. possible in decide with any relatively simple matter for path of the comet is known. them

ring at the time of Christ's birth. Certainly the identity of the the astronomers to calculate it could not have been the Evening Star, and the mat argued, are too remote to merit

were Venus, the

without Providential aid, it is Star which guided the Wise finckwards in an attempt to Star of Bothiekem because brilliant

in planet Men to Bethlehem nearly show that this comet was the Wise Men came from Beavens. 2,000 years ago,

visible in 1966, 1581, 1407, the East.

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As far back as the seventeent century this theory was being

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of molten

appearances have coincided The kanown pathi of with historical events, and Hulley's Comet is such that investigated, though the planet ENORMOUS brilliance would this fart has strengthened this orb, would have followed Venus diff not figure in the re- result from the impact. for the traditio that this them, and not led them, if search. Johann Kelper. the the suns would meet sa forcibly phenomenon ES the one by some mischance in the mous

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German astronomer, That they would become masses associated with other great which ushered in the irth celestial time-fable

metal and flaming fost elulak d that happenings in world history, of the Saviour.

gases. The spiertour of a star appeared ut the first time 01 the Incarnation the created in this number would bat } ! was there one

Christmas.

planets Jupiler and Saturn ap- be fully in keeping with the im- quite like the star which t

pe red to have been in conjune- portance of the occasion,

on when seen from the earth. Could this deal appearance ac- mant for the Star of Bethlehem?

the field where "shepherds. watchi their Bocks by

Again, the Wise men travelled for several months, night."

lait the periodient &iJ- OTHER factors, however, Popular opinion has complicate and upset this pearances of the comet are usually classed this herald apparently straightforward of short duration.

Christ's coming as theory. Though the com't comet. And for a long time certainly made

themselves appearance some time near astromes

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What, then, was the Star?

There are several other means

MODERN

TAC

leaned strongly towards the the beginning of the possible but by no

The orb's streaming brilliance would show the Wise Men that no ordinary event was herald- ed.

This explanation is in tuo, with the present belief that the Stor of Bethlehem was not a ericntists while Lemporary phenomenon, not

comet, planet or fixed star. It that the joint

had never been seen before, und planets would mastitute a pheno- after

was never witnessed awe, are unconvinced with the again. As the effects of derlined, Impact validity of Kelper's

View that it was the same t'hristian era. close investi- conclusive explanation of menon likely to be regardent with life, it its comparatively

SPIRIT OF CHRISTMAS

IN THE PETROL

PETROL ERA

(Our Own Correspondent)

RANDMAMMA probably rented for one silver dollar-at three farmers would 'pool' their

received her first the corner of Greenwich Christmas card about the

Vesey streets

relate their

short

the the

theory terrific Their enlculations, carried out star either burned out or became with Tur more accurate in- struments than the German as-

tronomer

PLAT

imagined

cool again.

Today's astronomers have not

and conclusively catalo- fully- TIOS-

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sible show that Saturn and gued this herald of the first Christmas. They ате mure Jupiter, though much closer to agreed than ever before on its gether than usual. did not ap- origin, but there are still some

pear exactly together at The mysteries surrounding it. dale of Christ's birth They

were separated by several de-

grees as seen from this earth.

As to the possibility of the Star being a fixed star, and not

Even if

ETAILED, reliable records of the sunr are ten, here is no

modern. the and

astronomers are emphatu denial.

to obtain complete dala possiblity of such a star's flar- able

abou! 1 heavenly body only ing up to such brilliance is ad- when they have this knowledge. mítled, the time factor upsets

theory

and and coverts invité twenty or more of their neighbours to help them Hush the game. Then, at year 1859. It was actually Another great change that nightfall, both huntsmen and a comet, science again gives an biblical reference to its colour. in 1846 that the originator came over country Christinases marksmen would

in grandmamma's young days successes to the ladies before of the Christmas card - was their sudden eruption into roaring Yule log fro. Henry Cole commission- a blaze of festive light. This re-

What of Britain's Christmas in ed his friend and well-known sulled from the arrival-in 1861

True, many hunts that artist, 4. C. florsley,

of the first oil cargo to reach 1951? 10

famous in grandpapa's any design him a special greet subsequent

Britain from America, and the were

advent

the young days have long since been Christ's birth. It must be of ings card for a few close paraffin lamp.

disbanded. Nor may modern membered that friends.

farmers find time to spend all

But, for

Society

whether

was

or

רולוג

linking it

with But they have been able to re- state definitely that the Star of

the light from Bethlehem was not a meteorite,

These lamps turned the state- Boxing Day rudging their neigh-even the nearest fixed star takes that it was an exceptional fea- Out- ture of the heavens, and that it cannot be accounted for by any year or

field of miracles, it is of the known movements of the two,

ly homes of England into truly bours' land with a gun under years to reach the earth.

side the their

The Yule

log has nut

sure magnificent spectacles at Christ quite

impossible.

for planets. largely been ousted by anthracite practically this practice was mastide; the great Georgian "elegant"

central scintillated like fairy or

heating and the Science to admit the coincidence "ostentatious," mansions

have

which is implled by classing the Meteoriles, of course, are by Then Queen Victoria and Prince palaces as from their Innumer- stately homes of England

noticeably

fixed in Star of Bethlehem fewer

no means uncommon, and their Albert gave the lead by ordering able windows the soft radiance become cards for the

of the oil lamps streamed out.

And while dancing star. Its sudden expansion to appearance has coincided with Royal Family's

remains as popular as ever, much abnormal brightness would have Christmas in quite recent years. own use. Society hesitated no

of the strict punctilio of ninety had to take place when the world One fell in Lincolnshire, Eng- longer: Christmas cards by the

the was very young Indeed. thousands began to appear

years ago is missing from the shops.

ball.

to be

Flattering

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And on

number.

£1.9

land, during Christmas. Week

in 1021, and lit up the whole district of Holbeach with 3

bilnding light. All biblical

Strand refutes the biblical teaching that ledge

the night of the But beneath the veneer of The Christmas tree's history Chrisanas ball, when the ladies change, the essential atmosphere goes too far back into antiquity looked their loveliest

Astronomical and historical data, in their of Christmas remains. The carol

however, indicate that the Star precisely defined. Cer- gracious crinoline gowns, grand singers will be making their SCIENCE has a much more of Bethlehem was in quite a tainly, it is of Germanic origin. mamma found this new lighting rounds and the church bells Some credit its introduction to most agreeable-flatteringly kind

satisfactory explanation for different category. kind ringing out in joyous celebration the "birth star of Christ, and it an early missionary, St Boniface; to her carefully-

y-tended com- just as they did when others say

ig a theory which in no way But, despite all their know- • that its originator plexion and yet bright enough to mamma was

a girl.

and facilities, modern was Mantin Luther, and in 1608, pick out the highlights of her will hang from children's bed- the Star, was a divine symbol scientists agree that only divine a Strasbourg merchant wrote of jewels and hair. She know that posts-and the mistletoe dangle especially created for the influence explains the Star's ap- seeing such a tree in a home in she looked her best as granpapa from the light over the front occasion. that city.

pearance at the date which has led her to the floor for the porch. And if cars instead of Christmas minuet...

Astronomers nowadays strong the most outstanding and signi- since come to be accepted as Undoubtedly, was Prince

carriages are speeding to family trysts, these trysts have become ly believe that it was fleant in the history of the Albert who introduced into Grandpapa himself generally vastly easier to keep.

star, brought into being by the Britain the custom of illuminat- had one other important Christ- ing the tree with candles. It is mas appointment-the Boxing

The Although we are living in the cling of two suns long gone

Impact of

To this extent, the Star of exactly 100 years ago since the Day meet of the hunt. Nor was Petrol rather than the Paraffin similar bodies, travelling at first Christmas trees were sold this the only traditional Boxing era-itself at one time such a speed incomprehensible to the Bethlehem is a mystery still. in New York, where, in 1881, a Day sporting occasion. This day novel experience for our grand- layman, would create a star Catskills woodman, Mark Core, was also the date of countless parents we have kept the spirit with all the characteristics of hawiced them from a pitch Farmers' Shoots, when two or of Christmas intact.

the Star of Bethlehem.

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