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THE SIGNIFICANCE OF CHRISTMAS

BY THE VERY REV. W. R. INGE, D.D. Formerly Dean of St Paul's, London

Superstitious

Should Have A Busy Time By Philip Pago

THE superstitious should have a Asbury

timo (ab :* - Christmas.

Rites, customs, and legends of Christmas time come from many innds across the centurion. Some of them are of pagan origin, and the Puritans of the 17th century, who were wont to ancor at Christmas, much as the sour or the superior do today, and to call it not Yuletide but "Fool-tide”, had some reason in banning the festival altogether.

The mistake the Puritana made was it not recognising that a heathen custom can become Christianised and: embodied Into the religion of, tha: day,

as a form of symbolism. often,

A Christian Satur very Beautiful A

malin need not necessarily be a con- tradiction in terms.

But the majority of the season's superstitions, long obsolete or surviy- ing only in the remotest districts, are non-religious. They Bro Me and harmless, and those

who take pleasure in plunging into the uptrit of the past may do so without making themselves more ridiculous than they would do by a visit to a palmist

TEN TO MIDNIGHT

WITH modem

Ένα,

any

civilisation. tlio necessity for some of them has vanished. It is to be hoped, for instance, that no one will feel impelled to wear, between the hours

ΟΙ ten

and

midnight on Christ- the man

"something next skin double-sown with thread" lo ward oft vermin during the coming year. Nor would it be advisable to trust in the legend that the number of happy months in 1949 depends on the number of mince-pies consumed on Christmas for twelve such ples would Day, Jeopardiso the chances of all save those of the strongest. digestions seeing even a happy January

Other superstitions that weighed heavily on the Middle Ages, and in some cases continued to the dawn of nineteenth century. are Jess embarrassing.

Here are some of them; I the

the

fire burns brightly on Christmas Day, the new year will be prosperous if. It burns badly, 1- fortune will ensue.

neighbour, a live Never give a

Christmas present. An economical but unlikely form of gift.

THE two most popular fes- a donkey into church on December sation has really committed suicide, the sermon by the Boy, and that another Dark Age is upon 26, and tivals of the Christian year Bishop. At St. Paul's a sermon by, a us. are Harvest Thanksgiving chorister survived. After paying a and Christmas. The former is compliment to my excellent friend The last Dark Age lasted about the sixth to the not recognised by the Church at the Bishop of London" and "your 600 years from

worthy Dean," the boy proceeded: twelfth century. "This world has all, because our harvest comes wears to me quite a short time its nights," said St. Bernard, "and coonomical in the slack season of the Jewish

since Was one of you boys." they have not been few." agricultural year, and though Religion in those days was not sour- we keep the Jewish agricultural faced. feasts, we have quite forgotten

come in our slack season.

J

We all enjoy Dickens's "Christmas

Sharing A Culture

Fruit trees beaten on Christman's Day will bear well 'Thresh the garden with a fall and

shirt early on

why we keep them, since they, Carol," but we feel that it is n European war is a civil war; for wearing only a

hundred years old. Good temper A the nations of Europe we alChristmas morning, and you will and generous charity are very well, sharers in the same culture, the have a heavy gruss crop Also,

"servants' traditions, and the same religion. probably, a heavy doctor's bill, There Le no reason to suppose but, oddly enough, the

If you cat no beans on Christmas that Christ was born in midwinter, ball" and the "tenants' dinner" do "Sirs, ye are brethren; why do ye not flourish in a time of greater

The behaviour of many people is not, but there was a popular festival of social equality, and we no longer wrong one to another!" Why indecat night, you will behave like an ass.

were un-

a rival, the Unconquerable Mithras, show our gratitude to our Maker by which his worshippers willing to give up. When the Church eating and drinking conquered the Empire in the fourth than is good for us. century, the pagana would not die be early Victorian for their faith, because they had no. we wished it,

Intention of giving it up.

Religious Meaning

I am old enough to remember the Ukely, however, to be altered by the much more Boer War. and The drivelling consumption of beans.

seemed to carry We could not jingoism which

LOVE CHARMS . now, oven Mall before it at that time, Arthur Bryant, in his excellent history of the first ten years of our war with A mas season will see spirits,

NYONE born during the Christ-

from the Crumbs

Christinaa O shows how we thought|

France, exactly the same as dinner table can be used as love. To this day, southern Europe, so

thought about Ger-

charms. far as it is religious, is more than

8 for the relligious meaning of the we recently

many, and with almost equal halt pagan, much more so than their festival, we all remember, with justice. But the French are now service-books. There are any num- very bitter feelings, the words of ber of Madonnas, with different at the angels song: "Glory to God in very pacific. tributes; and the Greek peasant the highest, pad on earth peace, good

The birth of I believe myself still puts a small, coin in the mouth will towards men."

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that our only.

Water turns to wine at midnight on Christmas Eve. But it is not wise to rely on this for the season's orgies it one's collar is` empty. ›

If you steal something on Christ- of fact, occur hope is to accept Christ as "the Way, mas Day without being caught, you

of his dead, to pay Charon, who Christaps of peace/As Milion Bang:- the Truth and the Lifo.“ IL Lam-not-can-steal-safely_for_n. Year

:

did, in

Doing ferries souls across the Styx-hot

a time o "fries soles across the sticks," as a "No war or battle sound was heard mistaken--and I am not the only schoolboy wrote it.

the world around" There had been one who thinks as I do thoughtful a long period of devastating civil and intellectual men and At Paphos, - once the capital of wars, ending in exhaustion, of beginning return to

to the essentials of Christianity, Panagia Aphrodi Elso, the took advantage. Blessed Virgin Aphrodite. Aphrodite

to

The Yule log is a protection against ascertained the views of orthodoxy,

but on the gas stove and central

But the hundreds of thousands who will essay roast turkey and plur French his

pudding on Christmas Day will care

Cyprus, there is a church dedicated which the astuto Emperor Augustus: Perhaps to the amys to religion are bobgoblina, who hate it. I have not away of Uykut. As where are for this wisdom as little os did those

to

of

an earthly

or Venus, the Queen of Cyprus, It looked like the beginning of a torian, Ozanam, says: was a very charming goddess, but millennium."But wisest Fate saya two doctrines her best friends never claimed that No; This must not, yet be so. The nursed in the schools of secularism, who exhorted Balaum's Ass, who with sublime disregard of she was a virgin. The portrait of babe yet lies in smiling infancy, promises an

paradise at ther

in Christmas the anachronism appears

French revels, the composite saint in the church That on the bitter cross must redeem end of a flowery path, and has legends. In ancient looks middle-agod and quite res- our.loss."'

given us a premature hell at the the priests chanted fo the beast: pectable.

end of B

Bwave of blood; The other,

"Amen, Amen, thou honoured Ass, Nearly two thousand years have inspired by Christianity, points to

Sated to the full with grass, passed, and wisest Fate still says the victory of spirit over flesh, and

Amen, Amen, shalt thou reply, No. The unspeakable crime, folly by carrying the conflict into the

And disregard antiquity." and anachronisma of war still goes on. hearts of men, shows us the only Many think that this time elvill- way of peace to the nations."

Jolly Festival

HRISTMAS has always been a Jolly festival. Neither Homan Catholics nor all Protestants mako much of it.. Presents in the Latin countries pre usually New Year gifts. The Roundheads .of. the seventeenth century were so much shocked at the way it was observed that Parilament ordained that December 25 should be a fast day. About the same time the citizens of Norwich petitioned Parliament for leave to pull down their "vast and useless" cathedral. Fortunately, this was a little too strong. even for Presbyterians.

2. The Christmas tree li said to have been introduced by that

unap preciated blessing, the excellent Prince Consort, whom Queen Victoria wished tö ́ ́eanörise Albert the Good. But before the Reformation there were some queer Christmas customs, such as bringing

Perhaps they were right.

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