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SCE PRO NVNNINVVEEVEK popeaolmee eee ®esKe 4 7 7% 2 le 9 W. E.N. SINCLAIR, K.C., MPP. Ontario Liberal Leader and Member for South Ontario. | | | | fl me 1 | | | | Dr. T. E. KAISER, M.P. SIERDRZ LINO LINQNE LRN ONL NLD RNP VIVTVINNNLD PMNOL VOCED Greetings to the People of Ontario Riding In so far as may seem fitting, | desire to extend to the people of Ontario Rid- ing, the greetings of Parliament upon this, the Diamond Jubilee Christmas of the Dominion of Canada. With a grate- ful heart | join with you in ackowledg- ing the many bountiful gifts of Provi- dence with which we have been blessed. BEES ASSIS BEES BBA ISSM VIII pm A 2K Es Laurl | wish the people of Oshawa and Vicinity a Merry Christmas, as 1927 with all its record of de- velopment is passing, and P= Our continued freedom from calam- ities should still serve to remind us that our lot has been truly cast in a pleasant land. May the spirit of patience, hope, good- will and tolerance which animated our fathers, continue to guide us towards the destiny of being a happy, contented and prosperous people oR Wc RR, Ce, ER WT LY Ada, @, " Jolly old St. Nicholas who has nade up his mind to be particularly kind to children in Ea te n On- tario this Christmas. for 1928 a continuance of that Prosperity happily so apparent to- all since PL ON - EG 2 SO000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000COCOOOC YODLE 2LICCC The Christmas Carol The Christmas Carol, x 8% 4 many months ago. we are terms, made a strong appeal 1 the people and could scarcely fail of having a very helpful religious haps it is the kind of religion and effect and influence. Those whe of religious feeling that we do no listened to them and helped te have quite enough of in this our and asceticism, of prophetic fer- sing them got a new idea of re day. Certainly I believe it would vor and childish simplicity. was ligion as of something every-day he a very wholesome thing if at its originator. It had quite a few and friendly that had to do with the Christmas time at least we years of development in the land the common life of the common forgot all about the problems and of its hirth before it spread over people, difficulties and peplexities an into other parts of the continent, For instance, it has meant elaborated philosophies of our re- and especially - into England, something to the English people ligious faith and though of it in where it became quite a national that for so many years at the the terms of the simpler thines mstitution. Christmas time they were singing that the old carols talk about, There was a definite idea and such songs as that very early and the angels' song and the manger purpose back of the Christmas surely most charming of the ting- cradle and the smile of the little SUEDE SO MRRREL IIE DIR RE LIRR 6) carol as first instituted. In a day lish carols that begins: Child. After all, the religion that % when religion was at a low ebb God rest you merry, gentlemen, you and I need ought sometimes : and all the services of the Church Let nothing you dismay, to be the homely, every day and kind of religion that the whol: told, had its birthplace in Italy, (Christmas story suggests, and pe" and St. strange blending of mirthfulness A Merry Christmas and A Happy New Year to all T. E. 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Reckoned in a worldly sense It was a babe's first fitful ery To All-- Dr. W.H. Gifford Regent Block King St. E. Phone 1780 : aT @ Ep p---- IROL IRENE IRENE rR RRR RR TRY TP pap p---- bE Season's Greetings Luke Burial Co. 67 King St. E. Phone 2105 OSHAWA SRB OBB OBB OBEN LISI UBEIERS » BR 6 O33 IBIBO IIBMS By C. M. Millar By the toll of Earthly Treasure Scattered with a) lavish hand Man is strangely apt to measure Christmas Spirit in the Land. But to those whom circumstances Favor with but scanty store Come perchance the self same fancies Locked behind a hidden door. Jewels of a brighter lustre Than the hands of men have wrought Gems that marvellously cluster By the wondrous power of Thought. May express the merest little Of a large munificence, So when some supernal vision Takes the place of Mortal sight Shall we learn with true precision How to value gifts aright. 3 AT BETHLEHEM By Thomas Curtis Clark. At Bethlehem, while people thronged, A low sob charmed the night. About, a winter stillness reigned; That caught the pilgrims' ear; They could not know that time hegan As they were listening near. O Wonder of the centuries That Love could come to earth In fullness, as a Mother hailed A lowly baby's birth And greater wonder of the years, That men could turn away, Refuse to see the glory shed Above the pilgrim way! There still light Upon that little town That shal'l not pass from mortal sight So long as stars look down. abides a wondrous TUREEE DS ELL INL M0 ID INL DIRE LIE Mill Street PAHADPPY x NEWRVEATR May the Good Ship of 1928 Bring You an Ocean Full of Health Wealth and Happiness Oshawa Laundry & Dry Cleaning Co. Phone 2520 BB UII PEAS PSG LISI OIIIZCIDBBL ISIS IIE ORB B33: 3S BB OBIS BHA 3 SWRI LIMK FUDD WOES DDD WNL ICDL WIL PDN WNL LNT SK G. D. CONANT Extending Christmas Greetings To All Conant & Annis Simcoe Street South Phone 4 A. F. 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