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do homage to christ but where had they come from east must mean at least st of the jordan though at that tune east was ta ken to include even arabia the fact that they were magi is not much help however because the term by then was ambiguous throughout the roman empire it had come to designate a band of fraudulent fortunetelling astrolo gers farther east however it meant certain wise disciples of zoroaster a persian prophet and founder of one of the easts many religions who though they were indeed astrologers were highly thought of as scholars and as dis ciples of a noble religion scholars take it that st matth ew referred to the lalter meaning because he obviously spoke of them with respect and did not intend his readers to take them to be frauds or even simple fortune tellers he implies though he does not say that the were men of sub stance and integrity they also take it therefore that east meant somewhere in the direction of persia there however they feel oblig ed to drop their speculations on st matthews text 1 sceptics view and there the sceptics step in sure they say it is strange that st matthew was alone in record mg the appearance of the wise men sureh it is natural chat long after the event stones or the strange and almost miraculous oc currences should have grown up around the birth of christ and it would not have been unusual for someone in st matthews position to have mistaken a harm ess myth for fact the scholars however do not agree with the sceptics the rev edward hayes plumptre profes sor of divinity at kings college london in the last half of the 19th century went into the sub ject thoroughly and became the acknowledged expert on the ims tenons wise men he concluded that st matthew couldn t hac been taken m by a imth because the mths of the pi nod were all clearly dislingui bablc as such thc were huhl lmbroidered fanciful talcs full of miracilou and logic il i urlitie bcide thtm mat hi tnuhtforwar i um jrnishi i i cuiint lands oul i ifpl i- ir h rm rt hi sas ih ar ki i f r tht n in ap uinnr h rt pi l in an o hi r h il r mi t of the nronn of the a l urn i tons iari of llci id i nun wore iu troy id nd m 1 uki tin olh r historian in whop work one would expect to find thi ref erencc probably saw mat the- chronicle before he wrote hi own there is evidence that he endea ourcd to report what matthew had written but what about later tradition which holds that the wise men were three in number that they were oriental kings that their na mes were caspar melchior and balthazar and that they brought frankincense and myrrh prof plumtre and all the schol ars who have followed were scep tical an exhaustive search through the annals of western christian ity did not help very much y the number three may have come by extension from the doctrine of the trinity the names first ap pear in the works of the venerable bede many centuries later in bedes day however at least four other sets of names were current as for the gold frankincense and myrhh of the christmas car ol prof plumtre thought they were symbolic they symbolized christs royalty the bitterness he was to experience and finally his death a similar search through the traditions of the eastern ortho dox church and some evidence from the roman catholic church did however throw more light on the question eastern tradition is much more explicit the wise men were three and they were oriental they were high priests of zoroaster and they were three of twelve who had been waned in a writing that bore the name of seth to expect the birth of a great spiritual king the twelve had been set to stand watch near a great stone in the desert and to watch day and night until a star appeared which would guide them the tradition does not say but since the priests would have been astrologers it u reas onable to suppose that the star would have appeared in an as trological sense star ultimately the star did appear the chosen three were given an army of 7000 men with them they set oul on a twoyear march in the wake of the star on the banks of the euphrates they left behind 6000 men and proceeded with thrrther 1000 to jerusalem there the three went on alone seeking advice from herod and ul timately arriving at bethlehem after consulting with herod they went back to awaitiurther word and it is believed aey set tied where they had left the bulk of their army on the banks of the euphrates when the disciples of christ were sent out into the world to preach the new gospel st thom js headed east in chaldea a partof modern iraq and traditionally the birth place of abraham he encounter ed the magi whom he baptized allegedly they were the first gen tiles to become christians and after the baptism they went forth to preach the gospel this story was passed on by word of mouth and no factual ev idence substantiating it appears until the fourth century when the church leaders in constantinople became interested in the matter they caused a search to be made and bodies of the three were found and brought to constanti nople the churchmen of the time seem to have been satisfied that the identification was sound because the bodies were rebuned in a constantinople church in the same century eustorgi us a clerical diplomat of consider blc repute visited constantinople and when he was appointed bish op of milan received permission to have the bodies taken there the matter seems to have come to the attention of pope julius who made his own enquiries and was apparently also satisfied in any case he inaugurated the feast of the three wise men in 336 a d the bodies remained in milan until 1162 when frederick barbar osa emperor of germany and lat er holj roman emperor threat ened the city they were then tak en to cologne cathedral for safety there the remain to this day tradition incomplete the difficulty about this story is simply thai the contemporary evidence which satisfied pope ju hus and gustorgious died with its possessor in constantinople wes tern tradition is incomplete bee ause neither julius nor eustorgius seems to have madt an careful note of the evidence eaattrn or thodox tradition is mainly verbal the scholars therefore refuse to commit themselves prof plum ptre fur instance was cltarh sciptical on the her hand fustorgnt who undctt itik imm c implicated mi sk n w is noted f ir hs va tit hi is unlikilv t hive been ken n an i h ir i i halton jbftsly mmdms sal op stars buyers in the jersey sale of stars held in connection with the recent ro yal winter fair the second high priced female in the sale that av eraged 1157 00 was from the herd of maurice c beaty milton lindale bijou sadie a three year old sold for 1600 00 to mr lea harsh old lyme connecticut sadie was second in the two year old class at the royal and was one of the most beautiful cows in a show that had many such ani mals her sire is brampton sir bijou radar mr beatys former herd sire that has sired many prize winners in his herd and wop the junior get of sire at the recent royal winter fair the dam of sadie is lindale de sign sadie an excellent cow with several rop records third prize three year old and over at the canadian national exhibition this year mr beaty sold an outstanding cow hut he added another to his herd in the name of enmskillen royal thanks consigned by r- stenger son of enniskillen thanks is an outstanding young dairy cow with a record of over 8000 lbs of milk as a two year old mr beaty paid 700 for this cow she is a daughter of the for mer herd sire at enniskellcn shal omar royal prince 2nd j w wolfe of lorraine farms acton who is establishing one of the good jersey herds in halton purchased dalcraig valiant sally a fne year old cow consigned by d w adamson sod of scots burn ns mr wolfe paid 650 for sally she has two good rec ords and has done considerable winning in the show ring in nova scotia for 650 featherstone bros of oakville sold avonlca records trixie a yearling heifer to b h bull son brampton this heif er is a granddaughter of their grand champion and excellent cow avonlca records susanna who has records up to 857 lbs of fat and is now completing her ninth record ken ella and sons hornby pur chased for 500 from eugene mof fitt of harvey station nb vc ene royal irma a yearling heif er a daughter oucmpburn real ly royal and from campburn re- ta carom a daughter of brampton carom beacon a superior sire that won the senior get of sire at the royal winter fair and the junior get of sire two yejift ago n 1 ifu ha l ha 1 ri n f und hi- ii hiti rue v i hi fi m li in millhta must bi t um d it minn whjt he t ok to hi iru h ri luious mm from th whim lu dccrilnd a mi jim i crtainl priests of j r ind if so they would taken thur mission sinous the might well have wailed 30 ears in chaldea for further word there is no indication in the storv of how long the 12 priests had watched by the rock in the desert but the implication is that it was a very long time another 30 days would not have seemed too much and for st thomas he certainly did meet with success there is no evidence to suggest that he had help from men of considerable authority what more likely than that help did come from the magi of st matthew perhaps of course it was not the original magi he met but their later dis ciples no one can say somehow though the story has the ring of truth only 12 shopping days left be fore christmas and remember the best selections await you in your local stores where you shop with friendly merchants tors ir camp- guard claims ag tor camp- e city of y of york died on or of october iby notified to same to the fore he 17th ss8 after which ill be distribut to the claims iderslgned shall the under liable to any he shall this 16th executor camp- icitors