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PAGE SIX THE OSHAWA DAILY TIMES, CHRISTMAS, 1928 : f f f f f f f ! Mnistmas Cheers" CC MAY THIS CHRISTMAS BE A HAPPY ONE AND THE NEW YEAR BRING THE REALIZATION OF YOUR GREATEST AMBITION TER Hydro-Electric Power Commission of Ontario 26 KING ST, WEST PHONE 233 TES If it is done with heat, you can do it better with Gas. "the birth of the To the Citizens of Oshawa As the years roll by and Christmas comes and goes Oshawa and its eitizenship has reason to be merry and enter into the festivities of Christmas time with good heart. Progress of events ercates difficulties for Oshawa like every other eity, town or hamlet. Despite these difficulties Oshawa always con- tinues to go forward and its citizens enjoy a standard of living for whieh they ean well be grateful. Oshawa has had no serious catastrophe during the past year and advancement has been evident from every angle. I join with the eitizens of Oshawa in wishing everyone a very merry Christmas and a happy New Year. Yours faithfully, Robert D. Preston, Mayor. THE MANAGEMENT AND ENTIRE STAFF EXTEND CHRISTMAS GREETINGS and BEST WISHES FOR 1929 Ontario Motor Sales | 99 SIMCOE ST. S. PHONE 900 Songs of the Angels Poetry of the New Testament which is rich in inspiration and beautiful truths. In the New Testament there is a considerable amount of poetry which Is overlooked, This poetry is of the same kind as the poetry of the Old Testament and is rich in inspiration and beautiful truths, "much of it prophetic of good times "yet to come to this earth, The new dispensation was intro- duced, according to the Gospel of Luke, by angelic appearances make ing annunciations, Gabriel," the arch-angel, comes first to Zacharias the priest, and brings him a Divine message while he is ministering in the holy place of the temple, at the golden altar of incense, He was alone in that darkened room, lighted only hy the holy lamps, enveloped in the clouds of incense that he was offering, In that solemn hour the angel Gab- riel comes from the immediate pre- sence of God to bring him the glad tidings of the birth and ministry of the herald of the Messinh, This is the angel's message: "Fear not, Zacharias: Because thy supplication is heard, And thy wife Elizabeth shall bear thee a son, And thou shalt eall his name John, And thou shalt have joy and glad- Ness; many shall birth, For he shall be great in the sight of the Lord, He shall drink no wine nor strong drink; And he shall be filled with the Holy Spirit, Even from his mother's womb, And rejoice at his "And many of the children of Israel Shall he turn unto the Lord their God, And he shall go before his face In the spirit and power of Elijah, To turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, And the disobedient (to walk) in the wisdom of the just; To make ready for the Lord a peo ple prepared (for him)." (Luke 1:13:17.) The fear that sprang up in the heart of Zacharias when Gabriel appeared was stilled by the first word, Gabriel also announces to Mary Messiah, The Blessed Virgin was residing in Na- zareth of Galilee; betrothed to Jo- seph of the royal line of David, the heir to the Messianic promises of the Old Testament. The time for marriage had not yet come. God had a higher appointment for her to fulfil as the virgin mother of the Messiah. Mary seems to have heen dis- turbed by the coming of the angel His salutation and its mysterious language must have filled her with surprise and excited her emotions to the utmost. The angel soothes her fears, and delivers the message from God, as follows: "Fear not, Mary: thou hast found grace with God. And behold, thou shalt conceive in thy womb, and bring forth a son, And shalt call His name Jesus. He shall be great. And shall be called the Son of the Most High: And the Lord God shall give unto Him The throne of his father David: And He will reign over the house of Jacob forever; And of His kingdom there will be no end" (Luke 1:30-33.) A third annunciation is reported in the Gospel of Luke. Shepherds were watching their flocks at night on the hillsides near Bethlehem "The glory of the Lord shone round about them." (Luke 2:9.) Out of the midst of the heavenly light an angel of the Lord ap- peared and stood by them. He made the annunciation of the birth of the Messiah: "Be mot afraid For behold, I bring you good tid ings of great joy Which shall be to all the people: For a Saviour is born unto you today, Who is Messiah, Lord, in the city of David: And this is the sign uate you: Ye shall find a Babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, And lying in a manger." (Lake 2:10:12) Once more we say "A Meny Christmas and a Happy New Year," not because of habit but because we really are filled with the season's spint. To all the citizens of Oshawa and the surrounding country, | wish a joyous Christmas time and an abundantly prosperous and happy New Year. This song of the angel is imme- diately followed by a refrain in two lines sung by a heavenly shat, "a multitude of the heavenly host": "Glory to God in the highest, And on earth peace, goodwill to- ward men," (Luke 2:14.) This song of the angel begins, also the other songs, with calming the fears of the agitated shepherds. The message is for them as repre- sentatives of Bethlehem, the an- client shepherd city whence David had gone forth to be the shepherd of Israel, But the glad tidings were for all the people; and it was thelr high calling to take up the ungelic message and proclaim it as the first messengers, to Bethlehem, Jerusalem, and the cities of Judah, that the Messiah had come, The Messiah now born in Beth- lehem, lying as a babe in the man- ger, wrapped in swaddling clothes, was Lord and Saviour, The Messinh was born in the eity of David, but not in the palace of David, He was born of the royal line, but of a house that had been dethroned, and that had now so long lived in obscurity that the heir attracted little, if any, atten- tion, But the promises of God are sure, even if long delayed as to their realization. This Babe is the son and heir of David, and a hea- venly proclamation, and chorus of angels assure them that he is the Lord, the long-expected Messiah, He is to be a Saviour, This is an attribute of the Messiah through- out, He was usually looked for as a national Saviour, to subdue all enemies, and reign on the throne of David as King and Lord, The deeper meaning of \Saviour" these shepherds could hapdly understand as yet, 8 18 a proclama- tion of peace to the world, It was one of the [chief features of the Messiah's work, to establish peace, all men shall own the sway of the Prince of Peace, He who was once the Babe of Bethlehem and Whose advent to the world we celebrate at this joyous season, Then will the song of the angels find an echo in. all hearts and throughout the earth there will be peace and goodwill." --8, A, WAR CRY, Congress has been in session only two days and yet 6,000 bills have been presented, No wonder it gets choked, --Buffalo Courier-Express, The only difference between a chef and a cook is that a cook docs. n't use fourteen spices to hide what he's done~Kitchener Record, Ih J Christmas | 928 New Year 1929 $55 Schofield Woollen Co. CENTRE STREET, OSHAWA _ Season's Greetings I J WE EXTEND HEARTIEST WISHES AND THE SEASON'S GREETINGS TO OUR EMPLOYEES AND THE CITIZENS OF OSHAWA THE CHRISTMAS CAROL "I hear the bells of Christmas Day Their old, familiar carols play And wild and sweet The words repeat Of peace on earth, men." good-will to And as sweet to the human ear are the words of the carol sung beneath the frost-flowered window or in the open space where throngs gather around the community Christmas tree on Christmas Eve. "Songs of Joy," which is the Eng- lish interpretation of the Italian "carolare," from which the word "carol" is derived,-have so important a part to play in the Yuletide fes- tivities that their message is anti- cipated as cagerly as the chimes of the cathedral towers, Although the carol had its origin as far back as the ninth century, it fell to the lot of St. Francis of Assisi to popularize the Christmas carol, Southern Europe at that time was suffering much from heresy, and the very life of the church was threatened, St, Francis realized that an appeal must be made to the imagination of the people if they were to he brought back to God, With a little church in a village near Paris for a setting, the good saint prepared a model of the holy scene at Bethlehem, including the humble stable equipment, the ox and the ass, The story of the: birth of the Christ Child was told to the people crowding the church, and the carols were sung by the priests, So impressed were the worshippers that through succeeding years the custom of constructing a cradle and singing carols became a feature in many churches, MINCE PIE HISTORIC Mother is stirring the mincemeat, steaming on the clectric range, and Aunt Rebecca is seceding raisins for the plum pudding, while: the kit chen is fragrant with the oils and spices. In far-away Eng- land chefs who cater to the app tites of those who dwell in palaces and the humble wife of the cot tager alike are preparing mince pies and plum puddings. Despite the odor or antiquity of their origin, no culinary creation has been conceived to supplant etiher the mince pie or the plum pudding In the days of Queen Elizabeth these Christmas pies were known as "minched" or "shrid" pies. Then it was the high value was placed on the "minched" pie, and often times a member of the family was appointed to a night's vigil to stand guard over the pie, lest it be stolen Tradition says that the spices in the mince pie represent the costly spices brought to Bethlehem by the Wise Men of the East to lay at the feet of the Christ Child. Originally the shape of the mince pie was in the design of a manager, symbolic of the rude manger which cradled the Hold Child. In the curly days of Christmas merrymaking the plum pudding was known as "plum porridge" a 'es THE FIRST YULE TREE Mingling with the great company of folk singing Christmas car Is around the glittering community tree, shedding its radiance over the wide open space on the park on Christmas Eve, one instinctively re calls the legendary story of the first Christmas Tree. It was an eventful Yuletide night in the d m past of AD, 724, that Boniface, a nussionary from England, came upon a group of worshippers gath- ered around an altar erccted be- neath a magnificent oak tree 1 Thor, the god of thunder and of war The worshippers were assembled to witness not only the sacrifice of the most beautiful horse in the community, but a human sacrifice as well. A lad of 12 years was selec ted and fearlessly went forward to the altar. Then as the mallet of the priest was raised to descend upon the head of the hoy, Boni- face intercepted'ihe blow with his staff, surmounted by the Cross of Christ. As the priest's mallet broke m many fragments on the alr, Boniface stepped before the altar and pleaded for the boy and for the Christ he served. So impassioned was his plea that the worshippers of Thor became worshippers otf the true God, and abandoned thar pagan ceremonies. Recognized as a ssabol of the true religion, the great oak under whose spreading branches the altar had been erect- ed became known as the first Christmas tree W. E. N. Sinclair '708 Omtatio Liberal Leader and Member for South Omtano niall lnlotibeiiniiii si prRlgltaaslgreengasgg | | | Geo. Han & Sons WE WISH TO EXPRESS TO OIR CUSTOMERS OUR SINCERE AP- PRECIATION OF THEIR CONFID- ENCE AND PATRONAGE DURING THE LAST TWENTY YEARS AND TO WISH THEM ALL A Happy Christmas and Prosperous New Year Tee Oshawa Dairy GEO. HART & SONS 434 SIMCOE ST. 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