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The Sphinx Backs This "Christmas Lark'

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By LES ARMOUR

London, proper competitive spirit and "Hahl" morted the Gargoyle. HANK

heaven,'

* strives to dislodge the man in “Of course there aren't any. the next job up and to acquire That's just why thi whole Bald the Fear- a house with ́ ́ mors nolacion Christmas lark is a big fraud. somo Gargoyle, flush toilots than Jones at the Nobody really expects this nice "that It only lasts for one next desk.

stuff to come to pass in reality. day of the year.

Then, once a year you fill Not practical. Economically him full of this goodwill- unsound. Politically unsound. toward-men twaddle.

T

the

thing

"Have you any idea what

Just there to make you feel would happen if his Christ- **This is all very nice so long good. We can afford it once a mas hokum went on all the as you only do one day in the year, I suppose..................

year But what if we started "But, pa year around ?"

was saying. Just Aho nime try it on tho Russons. Next George, the cast-iron lion having goodwill

toenth of February from Trafalgar Square, eyed twenty-Arst of June? him carefully. He didn't "Why, the whole dashed world "Peace on earth, hahi Armed really want to atart the would

be filled with potted Gargoyle off again. But raniums, turlan ties and woolly boy Santa Clause, and nobody the challenge was too hard would have time to do anything to resist.

useful, like malding lead pipe.

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you know, there won't be anybody to turn the other cheek.

trace on earth for a little while, maybe.

Goergo was getting confused. All this had him stumped. "I deb sow," he said at last. "I'm just a cast-iron lion, not very bright, but I figure there's something in all this just the sme.

"But, wait,

here comes Sphinx from the Embankment. Maybe he knows."

Sphinxes," said the Gargoyle firmly, "don't talk. Everybody that. Even half-wit

tho

"No," he said. 'Well," said the Gargoyle, thumping his wing against the stone

roof of his Whitehall The next thing you'd know, ministry with a resounding flap, we'd all be going around turning "I'll tell you.

the other chock and that sort of "The whole of the country larky!" would _ច bankrupt for one

GOOTE thing. The citizen, sullably in that bad?" doctrinated from birth, works

"Try it sometime," said the knows with tolerable vigour all the Gargoyle acidly, "Ask the lions year round-driven forward by polliicians about it. A half-wit "Ab" said George, "but this idea. The other guy never turns is an English Sphinx. Ha-talks

to me sometimes.".

the sober desire to earn money

#

suspected a trap. "Is

the other cheek.

**

The Sphinx sat down on the

should I

* It OR the Russians for "Once a year he goes off his instance lifted a paw in mild head and starts giving it away George -pots of geraniums for Aunt protest, "Can't recall amy root. "Good evening, gentlenen," Maud and terrifying tartan ties Biblical passages Boying that he said slowly, for Uncle Albert, not to mention goodwill had anything to do santenen will do," said the toy A-bomb sets for little Jack, with what the other guy (If you "All the year round the must add nasty words like that citizen lo imbued with the to your vocabulary) does."

DON'T FORGET THE CHRIST IN

CHRISTMAS

Says The Rev. P. B. (“Tubby”) Clayton

CH

"Gent]

we're

Gargoyle, rather coldly.

"You're just the man Looking for!" sand George. brightening. "The Gargoyle here saye.

"I know

what the Gargoyle

says, I could hear him half a mile away. He really should be more careful. If the Ministry of Works gets to hear that we talk, there'll be trouble,

wait.

Just

угол

"But I think he's missed the point. I've been around' for quite

while now SCAT A tow civilisations COFTHE and BO Egyptians, Greeks, Romans, that kind of thing-and I think there' is something to this Christmas de the enll's it." what" snapped the Gargoyle. "you

you've gone

mern

CRAZE Ln pour old ager"

Sphinx

Founder of Toc H and Chaplain to the Queen NHRISTMAS is a time of and secondly to present their

celebration. And so it gifts.

If we have forgotten whal should be. But the meaning Christmas really stands for, let

quite. That tales of this festival has become us to remember that scenettle deing you see. Even for a The old enigmatic partially lost in the world of of bearly 2,000 years ago. There mile had crept back on to his commercialism. The accent in ob manger and crib now, but

Laco. there are the Christian churches.

"But if you really want me to today is, for the most part, The first ect of worship took phikeophise, I think maybe it's on eating, drinking, making

place 备

stable.

Today, we ce

rather like this: You would all merry and handing around con worship in comfortable, agree that it's right to give presents, rather than on

often beautiful buildings.

water to thirsty dogs and that What glorifying God in thanks for

more thrilling for

shoot up it's wrong to

old His greatest gift-His Son, Christina than to go to church ladies?"

** Jesus.

In the catacombs, Christ mas was celebrated as early the 1st century A.D.

as

*

at Choisianas to join in prayer: and song, glorifying God and wishing peace to men of good- They nodded with puzzled will When is the wish to make looks out their faces. "But an offering to present a gift of

The Sphinx went on:

for the furthering or it wouldn't be eight to give

The traditional presence of money

God's work-stronger than at water bo specific thirsty dog

bo

the ox and ass about the Christmas, when everyone is if the doy happened to manger and the Adoration rich in heart, if not in pocket. suffering from some disease so that it might die if it drank of the Magi and the Nativity

water? And it would be right to shoot up an old lady if that wero the way to stop her fron begin

bundred machine-

Star are preserved in draw- The first duty ings on the walls. Yet, in

the early church, there is no

This year before you

-

mention of gifts having distribute your peuschts go to people?" demi

nodded again and look-

been distributed. Christmas church first. Remember, Christ- od even more bewildered. Was essentially a religious mas is, first and foremost, the #I can see you're wondering day commemorating the anniversary of the birth.

Well, of what all this is about. birth of Our Lord. The celebrate that event is to offer other

Christ. And the

best

way to let's get back to tuning the cheek and showing giving and receiving of your devotions in your parish Christian charity and promoting presents became a practice church, That should be the first goodwill. only when Christmas Day duly of every Christian on was combined with the Christmas Day. pagan winter festival.

In 303 A.D., about cheek

like

suppose philosophers would

always The early Christians taught express the problem by saying

ethical that

principles us the essentials of Christmas fnvolve factual ecosiderations. to worship and odore. Some even But what it means is that The first Christmas peld with their lives for this there's no use turning the other

Vilces

against somebody Most people will have aecis 20,000 Christians are, thought 40 Adolph Hitler. If that simply

have

perished as

as they assembled Lande you, in a world where it paintings depicting the first to cammemorate the Nativity, won't matter much any me Christmas. The scene. -is familiar

a stable with

when the Emperor Diocletian whether anyone turns the other birmed, the town of Bithynia cheek or not. anmals in the background and

Let us take out example from the central Dgures of Mary and

the

The first thought

"That doesn't make the prio- most/ciple wrong. It just means that there are some situations where the application does more harm than good.

"The principles are si sort of

the Child Jesus, However, the those early Christians, who kept picture is not complete without the anniversary of Our Lord's

birth even under three other figures-he three

adverse circumstances, " wilso

men who saw the bright star and followed it until 14" marked the place of Jesu's birth in Bethichem.

You all. know the

Do remember, that although wolf you los towards which

"We're supposed be working. These men

were so pro- the three wise men presented the And it seems to be a jolly good foundly affected by what was first gifts, prosenta: were not thing to remind murselves of the happening, that they were enger generally distributed until later weet: mnow in a while,

tale,

Your

to offer up seme kind of thanks, centuries. Christmas is kept as a "And if polted geraniums and They made the journey to the church tomat, because it is the terrible tartan ties and Inn, and presented their gold, anniversary of the birth of toy Santa Clauses help to remind frackincense,

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**But we must pack this up, given, in a senso, as on offering So go to church on Christmas ran afraid. He morning room and of thanksgiving.

Day and glorify God. - Christmas the willzone will be a little upset But remember the wito men will mean much more to you, if it they find us gone on Christinna came first to adore and to praise, you do,

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