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Saturday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

December 23, 1939.

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THE

CHILD IS

IVE miles out from Jerusalem, the dis- FIV

tance of Hampstead from Charing Cross, a Child is born.

Christus natus hodie! Christ is born this Christmas Day. Christ is daily born again, as surely as He is daily betrayed and crucified. And in the end the Babe must

win.

Somewhere to-day the Spirit of God will quicken the word of His witnesses and life for someone will start It may hap- afresh, courage and hope will spring anew. pen at any time, anywhere; but where and whenever it happens, the Child is born.

I can remember a night when Christ was born in a New York shelter for down-and-outs, a night when He was born in a London prison, a night when He was born in Glasgow, in a midnight meeting for drunks by the Broomiclaw Quay. Why not? None of these places is any less likely than the stable yard of a Palestine inn.

The man who heard in the Gold Dust Lodge was dead to his family in England but fo-day is alive again: the man who heard in Wandsworth is on a far voyage, a free man cruising the seven seas: the man who heard in a Glasgow slum is gone--but has passed on his gift of life to those who nursed him in hospital. For the

By

Hugh

1

BORN

Child is barn, and the Child lives on even when file seems a lesing battle.

He is born on beds of sickness; He is held, a com- forting burden, in the arms of those who face death in its crucilest guise (deep as this mystery is, I have seen it), and His eyes look up at us through theirs, hushing our grief to wonder.'

It is a fevered world into which He comes, Hered is secking His life, and the crowds He loved cold- shoulder Him. There is no room for Him at their Christmas feasts; they are even a little aggrieved that His birthday should fall on a 'day we once called His own and kept with a semblance of quietness.

That glorious song of old, we sing, came on the midnight clear. But our midnight skies are bright with noon, and to-night the dance bands will "swing" the music of Christmas. Instead of angels bending near, we may catch the beat of wings for which the fingers of searchlights will grope.

Cannot we come away from it all for a while? Come' away from the glare and the blare of it, and let us find a Bethlehemn.

We shall not have far to go, no farther, perhaps, than a quiet reom where we can sit in the firelight with memory, and forget the throb, and the ache, and the loneliness, for joy that a Child is born.

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where meat is

Pensaut families, scarcely seen more than 28 nes in the year, consider they have a one hristmas dinner if there is goed piece of meat of any sort on the abie. Vodka, of course, begins and ends the teast.

POLAND IN Peland

Christmas Eve is a Inst-duy, und tradition says But seven fa dishes should be served at supper; though most families are content with one,

JOJ

LET'S PRETEND

A Christmas Sketch

"LE

ET'S pretend," the biggest girl said. It was a gome, one could zee, and I drew bark a little from the lighted shop window, bright with Christmas decoration, to see how the gome would go. A ragged group of bairns huddled about what must have seemed a scene from Parodise, for here every kind of toy fronted them, the pitiful watchers in the cold and roln without.

The radiance from within shone on wistful, eager fares; for "kleness" st shadowed the ald town, and where there was food, there way

tle meney for certainly less for toys and luxuries.

widew.

IT is not merely because men We shall have to start carly, forget the meaning of Christ- for the traditional feast in. midnight mas night that they obscure it Franc, begins after and overlay it with pomps and Mass on Christmas Eve, that is

"I'm for then," the Isle girt_nol to say, at 1 o'clock on Christmas

so very big ellier, though evidently It is because

kera.ng.

the lapneinted, leader--sa'd-with- human hearts have not opened:

Frenchmen usually begin their

Straw, drewn on the table to call doen. She pointed at

m.nd the straw of the manger, is vertable priness of a doll which, doll, a to take in the greatness of it.

meal with oysters and pate do'

customary table decoration, seated on a miniature chair held the foie gras, following up with the. Every German hausfrau takes pride the

Gosse for the Christmas Day dinner of

horour in the whitejin visiting the fishmonger here, an

Highted Of Mary, the mother of Jesus, tasty boudins blanes, a

Jamily carp from as also preferred to turkey, brimming fresh-water lank. And we know little. We know that usage rade of bread-crumbsung the

"No, you canna have it, Maggle To find the best geuse in Europe) Iden't forget to complimeel her on

Arr: for I chanst it first. You can must go. to Czecho-Slovakia, į she must have, had a concept of and chicken.

her choice, or the Eleper, þ Some families may continue ooking the best method, of course, national dish.

where goose all the year round is the he has one there in the blur. It's Each village has just as bonnie, every bit, though God which transcended that of with turkey

stuffed with is to boll the cap in, beer!

Pare-lenged Dans Andersen goose-ma no san big." her contemporaries;

we truffles and chestnuts, while!

"I'm fur the chiny tereset then." For dessert, a long fruit cake, orender faggot.

girl directing nez charges with a

Mangle Arrol cried breathlessly. know that she was akin to her almonds, raisins, and a buche de stoltes, will appear, supposed to re-

AR Noel, a Christmas cake in the present the manger in wach, the

wall as the blue dell, I'm meanin An we Salle, cousin Elisabeth, could confide form of a Yule log, made of iced Christ Child lay.

she's wantin' the. pram, an I can len' ber my doll to mit Intil't. Hurry up, Јепп/с. It's your turn noo. We've eat a' the her windows to see yet when we've Anished this one."

☆ "I'm fur the box e' doll's furni ture, nald Jennie, also with out- stretched finger. And then I raw with certainly, that what was just then in progress was

game of "Let's pretend," dear to young hearts the wide world over.

and

DENMARK

the traditional

Non-Catholic

►

Czechs, and Slovaks too, like her goose with red cabbage and round suet dumplings suaked in gravy. in her, and tell her something of sponge cake and cream, are the On Christmas Day goose stuffed

HUNGARY her great vision of the father-customary sweet and dessert. with whole apples takes the place

COUTH, In Hungary, Christmas hood of God, tell her of the Champagne is usually drunk of turkey.

throughout the meal, and with

Eve is again the principal Saviour that was coming to dawn breaking the party inishes

feasting night. A fish stew of perch, bless and save the world. with crackers and caps.

To the north, in Denmark, carp, or trout bolled with paprika is

Christmas dinner may appeare customary beginning. the frontier in Belgium, pain to us, but no Dane would dream Over But of nearly all else in regard where the main meal also begins in of departing from

familles Include a hours of Christmas Day. meno. Ile begins with nee dish of name in the meal, but all to Mary we are ignorant. We the early

turkey and the sponge cake Yule 10 cooked with mlik, proceeds with en,oy the traditional sweet dish of sce, for a moment, flashed across we essential

¡nut and poppy seed roll, cooked as at every feast. Eel-;

., and fulenes with apple-pic. а mash with milk and sugar and Pans, on the whole, prefer to dine the page of history, the gem hotels and restaurants on Christmas Up in Norway turkey and goosetorowned with white of ezk For yield pride of place to a sucru..." Christmas Day dinner turkey is win- like atory; we see the mother Eve, thus saving their servants.

accompanied by ning increasing popularity over goose, Few of the townsfolk go to bed on roast rit of park.

pickled raising the babe in her arms to Christmas-Eve; so Christmas Day has home-made sausages and

ITALY in the cus and fishing His quiel. sleep, and show the wondering shepherds; ccome a day of

opy reminiscence. In country districts patridge made from rice, and] and then we see her fade into tricts Christmas Eve dinners end cod fish, are also to be found on the silence and into, obscurity,shortly before 5 a.m. to enable the table.

sters to attend carly morning Mass. emerging only a few times into Their nical ends with a Anal dish of

uming hol black pudding. the blazing radiance surround-

GERMANY ing her son.

IN Germany, feasting begins at Yet it is this trembling picture

clock on Christmas Eve, that holds our imaginations at when families sit down in the light of Christmas-irre candles to boiled Christmas-time. However little carp and horseradish sauce, men may understand of the happenings on that Christmas vision of God as the Father of night, they feel that here is man was translated into terms something greater than them-computable by mankind. selves. Their hearts begin to

is

SWEDEN

the traditional Christinas-time lare

WWERED.

centre-plece in alt

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the

Possessing nothing, they yet in fancy possessed all things, those children of the slums, Icoking in with wistful eves enn the trys, dear and desired, which could never be for them. It was their faste of

Christmas happiness, to choose ench

DOWN in Italy Christmas (cast-

lasts from "he eve of what he or she desired. and then Christmas Eve" until January 6, leaving the lighted windows behind long succession of festivals, church them to go back to those poverty- Įservices, and meals,

stricken hemes, which even in whit PORK in some form, whether it

On Christmas Day familles sit down was now de a round rea ham, a side to fine helpings of minestrone soup,

known as the

Blum- clearance were, with rent increase, of bacon, or a pile of pig's trotters,cllowed by a great bowl of steaming poverty-stricken indeed.

"I'm fur the Teddy." Bately ply's head, pushetit. Roast chicken, and plenty

level of the window-sill, while an with red apple in its open mouth or forms the muin course, icc head's anger eyes linedly reached ve even lesser brother voted for the contre-pred paper in its curs, is the cream and fruit close the feast.

Stuffed restaurant dis-{

Foose austs turkey In "peliafunt" gay with trappings of plays.

Switzerland as the most populat Christmas dish. In

cr'men and geld, hotels and Although a turkey or goose appears estaurants it is preceded by caviare. hasna hind

"An' here's wen Kate, on' Knile oysters, which fatter,

no cho'ce," on the table for Christmas Day din-crayfish, and

a partiran iner, guests cluster round the Julbord, thanks to modern transport, can now

raid, and Katie, auburn-haired, blue- the largest table in the house, on be served fresh in even the most

eyed, anrable, was pushed to the which is displayed maliilude o remote winter sports resorts,

front while things were explained to Euencacies of the nature of hors-

her. And they finish their dinner with . "You chops what your cn in the stantly

mitin it. You're just to pretend. Thos we dolly in the cradle: thon's banne Christmas present fur you. Then when we've all gotten our chake, we'll start again till we've choost everything, and then [] NO alent to the ither windows. My, but ' cloud. I wish I won these ine foks goin' intil the shop to buy Just what they wank".

What is our lesson to-day? Is d'oeuvreplenished until New Year's Christmas puddings made in England!! window, Katlen, you'll not be fur melt a little in compassion for it that only in gentleness and inay. suffering; they forget, even if affection can we reach the pence In Sweden, too, rice porridge makes only for a moment, their solfisk- of that night? "On earth pence," its appearance now.

Both in Norway and Sweden ness, their persccution of others, sang the angels; and on earth!

draughts of Aquavil, a Berce corn their hardness; they get a peace came, as it comes to-day, spirit which brings tears to the eyes glimpse of some holy world intoj to any who will receive it. The of the unaccustomed, accompany e which they have stumblingly road to peace is not easy. Even strayed:

Mary, travelling the long, rough! road from Nazareth to

least.

RUSSIA

CROSS the Wallie in Russia goose stuffed with chestnuts

There in that dark stable, with Bethlehem, could not have found the principal Christman dish for

animals the gentle

shifting it enay; but hor vision sustained quietly in their rude stalls her.

We can see the light of amongst the straw, the mother's that journey and follow it,

the richer families. This was pre ceded by a clear roup with which we served a "pirog," a long, le half- filled with cabbage and meat.

Footnote. Actually, our OLUTI famous Christmas dish should never be called turkey at all. It is a Central Americast game bird, and when it was first in- troduced into Englanif someone erroneously thought it came from Turkey. It has never been able to live down its wrong name.

Ralph

Izzard

"I've not had a chanst. I'm wantin' then wing wi' the monkey sittin int." rhouted à neweemer. "No, I krn I canco ha balth; but weo. Peter here, he'll tak' the monkey, PLEASE Tum To Page 9,