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iorthewoxid Illusion monsoon Lesson who 1mm After the angel had told the shep herds about the birth of and they said to one another hot lu now go even unto Bethlehem and Ice lhll thing which the Lord hath resus the and th am tbld th made known unto us Luke 215 By NEWMAN CAMPBELL H15 lnloduction to todays the Rev Dr Wilbur 1h writes in Peloubcis Sclcct otes We believe this is the time in those assignments at passage on activity in one thesgariy New Testament arches has been combined th the Christmas storyand it very good selection He suggests also that the anger classes teachers may it rather difficult to intro uee the subject of the church at tloeh with the nativity narrn ve there is connection how ver In the angelic announce to the shepherds the hrase Good tidings of at which shall be to all people missionary message and account of the church at Ant gt represents in fulfillment of announcement of the angel at time of Jesuss birth And there were in the same try where lliary gave birth her Son shepherds abiding in field keeping watch over elr flock by night And lo the gel of the Lord came upon em and the glory of the Lord one around about the and ey were sore allaid Luke And the angel said unto them ear not for behold bring you tidings of great joy which be to all people For unto is brn this day in the city Davidllethlehem Saviour lcb is Christ the Lord And this shall be sign unto Ye shall find the Babe upped in swaddling clothes in manger And suddenly there was with the Idol mu itude of the More host pro ing God and say Glory God in the highest Ind on on peace good will vard men Luke 22101 The Rev Dr asks Why did tc nngel as the sage They wer palace nor to the Ieligious lead ers of Jomaiengo the kinfolk of Mary in New nor to any wellknown and wellcducated persons No do the message because they to it And an on may have been the fact was the Son of self was shcph Now we must am from the beautiful story the birth of Christ to the of lnlioch which to quote ill from the Rev Dr Wilbur Smiths Peloubets Not was blessed in situation and Natures rich est and most us gifts but was also celebrate for its wick ed preeminenceuiid the awful corruption which then spread the cities the world The lesson bags with ref erence to that erly period of persecution so rgorously car ried out by Snultl Tarsus and described in the zpening verses of Acts whichscattared nbroad many of to followers of the Lord Jesus Now they with were scat tered abroad up the persecu tion that arose Lbout Stephen travelled as far Phenics and Cyprus and Alfich preaching the word to nomlui Jews only ONTBIBUTED SERMON What Christmas Avenue United Church Barrie Christmas my Christmas The words fill the air They to us over the radio They avel from one to another by and by letter The words out through the sleet and ow of the north and are heard the falling orange blossoms the south They peal out from ty church bells and are heard quiet country lanes Merry lmas From the fishing of Nova Scotia lo the cou es of British Columbia From grauaries of the prairies to vineyards of the Niagara pen the greetings are poured rth again and again Perhaps the strangest fact we va in the world is Christmas is more mystErious than tele on or the mystic for of the hydrogen bomb the miraculous healing power the wonder drugs it is of more portthari the ten last sensa discoveries in the realm of cc and dare say of more meat than the nextten dis venia that may startle the arid Here we are normal folk ebroting the birthday of an scare young Carpenter who ed nearly 2000 years ago In honor we decorate our stores holly and ribbon make our es bright with tinsel and can spend throughour generl untold millions of dollars all this7 Why the stockings up Why lhe evergreens with wrinkling lights Why much hilarious giving 15 it ply because of Carpenterof agob No Of course not But Carpenter became file Sav of the world Through Him Salvation Without llim life ould be empty indeed What en does Christmas mean HAPPY HOLY EOLV AY What touching scene in Beth that scene is the Stable eph Mary and the Baby Jes fhere you have family hristmas is peculiarly ome Festival From thousand towns villages and harm or children will hasten back to homes rrns am club bags adcd with gifts and cars with filled know that in many any mm MINISTER rm our on SPAIN Trinidad homes Christina will be bimply holiday but iioiher homes it will be Holy lay because the true meaning silent be over looked Parent and children alike will mmmber that the coming of the Mid Jesus His life death and resurrection hold the secret bellial this day When Jesus becomes lie Head of our homes when realize that He is the silent Lisrnemo our every conversation then we as par ents and childzea strive to live to please and honor Him then our homes heme like unto the very gates 0i heaven TIME OF GElEROSITY Why all this pving at Christlt mas One can easily become pessimistic nhd say that Christ mas hds become commercialized and you vouldlx rig Yet there isstnething odbe bind all this expenditure Never at an eher time of the so wide open sngenerous ets are packed dences and are visited gifts give sung steak nus extend We experience but once this tidal wave oi thinking hers and Jenna When noism fol mo manger lowers began Luke 218 punt Mp1s Stephen traveled to word Melon eonvnrtodmnny to the ClimbLit 113921 Smithsays One unden lies the entire 165th is And some of them was men of Cyprus and Cyrene which when they were come to Antioch spake unto the Grecians preach ing the Lord Jesus Christ And the band of the bard was with them and great number be lieved and tinned unto the LordActe 11 ML flben tidings oi those things come unto the are of the church which was in Jerusalem and they sent forth Barnabas that he should go as for as Anti och Who when he came and had seen the grace of God was glad and exhorted them all thai wrth purpose of heart they would eleaveunlo the LordFor he was ii good man and full of the Holy Ghost and of faith and much people was added unto the lard Then departed Barnabas to Tarsus for to seek Paul And when he had found him he ht him unto Antioch where it came to pass that whole year they assembled themselves with the church and taught much people And the dis elples were called Christians first in AntiochActs 112226 Prophets from Jerusalem came to Antioch and one named Agabus foretold that there would be famine throughout all the world which really came to pass Then the disciples ry man according to his ability de termined to send relief unto the brethren which dwelt in Judaea which also they did andsentil to the elders by the hands Barnabas and SaulActs 11 2730 In his Truth for the Class to Carry Away Dr Wilbur from It came from Godwho so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son and His Son in turn gave His life at Calvary Our Christian belief is that God loveth cheerful giver The cup of cold water given in His name is not forgotten TIME OF RECONSECRATION If Christ is to be iruly meaningful and not just big pagan jolly feast day then our lives should be better each Christ mas The Christian life is growing lite God so loved the world that He gave His only be gotten Son that whosoever believ eth in Him should not perish but have everlasting life There is such thing as perishing Whatshall it profit man if he gain the whole world and lose his own soul Jesus came into this world to seek and to save that which is lost We can get lost by living too much in and for this world And hence Christ mas comoshncc year to re call us to time of reconsecra tion Christ calls tome and all to the proud tolthe profane ya and to His own God has come He must also come in our lives Though Christ thousand times in Bethlehem be born And not within thyself thy soul And whe will be forlornl PlPrimo MinistenSirGrant dies federation was suddenly in Thursday night in Gre The nature of his illness not disclosed Physicians Adams of the new West ordered him to Barbados in rest partly sons beards suave amrns come and by His coming we have peacealld Joy ever lasting life Men in at time beganlospreadtboGospeltoafl they met Thisls the task at the church and the Christians season is the opportune time of all the year for speaking to oth ers about the hard Players Present Church Pageant pageant will be presented by the Players Guild olHam ilton at St Tnomas Anglican Church Shanty Bay Sunday Tbe pageant called Noel will be part of union service be tween Shanty Bay Zion United Church and St Thomas Zion United student minister Ber ry Bartmann willbe directing the pageant and narrating Players Gulldeill be handling the lighting and cosme and also present from Hamilton will beMisa Helen MacDonald who willhe playing the violin Mr Bartmann who is going into the specialized ministry of religious theatre and broad casting trained with Players The Barrie deformed Church new pastor Sunday Dec native of the Netherlands Rev Cornelis Boos The installation of Mr Boas into the ministry oftho church tool place three days earlier Upon the completion of his theological training in the the first stop beingliu Mich igan the centre of ed Church on this continent Here Mr lions and his wife got acquainted with the lang uage the character and the methods of the denomination His first charge in Canada came in 1954 when he became pastor of the First Mfonned Church in Brockville The Boas have two children Conroy Gerald and Trudy Ami The Barrie Reformed Church VIENNA Reuters tiny Austrian village seems to be con demned to die simply because it has been bypassed by the modern age liinterhornbach at the foot of liochvogel Mountain is probably the only village in the country without telephone communica tio it also has no proper road and in winter its people have to force path more than four miles through deep snow to the nearest village to get doctor or supplies mountain stream divides into tw ections the 12500 acres com The only source of income to the population is what the people can win tram pastures and mead ow Thrinhabitznls aro moun taio farmers who for generéfions have worked hard to make the land more fertile But not even potatoes will growthere let alone corn little cattle breeding can be done and each farmer has no more than three cows onepig and few chickens Eventhe 515 acres of erest belonging to village far too small to pro vide extra income Hinterhornbacb now has only 75 inhabitants and the death rate has exceeded the birth rate in the last seven yearn in 1952 the village had 93 in habitants but the last wedding was four years ago and the only youth of marrying age hasnot been able to find bride willing to move to the remote paris Nine of the villages 25 ho es scattered over the hillside are de sorted and five of them several hundred years old have fallen to ruins ANOTHER MISSILE 5113 NEWPORT NEWS Va AP The Polaris missile submarine Robert Leefirst atomicpow the Thames River He and an unidentified woman suffered minor injuries Photo ered vessel built in the southern statesst into the James River Friday by huescber in mm SATURDAY ozcmixn b1153 mm camoucs sat Credit Be Given When It Is Due Let iccnqucriug general visit the home town and Cllh when my had tilt they told Pbenlce north of Palatine gym thebnthru everyo they me saying which and Antioch preaching the And all they the Jenljonly end tt NEW New shrimp colored hopes have been added 10 the large wihdowlol Central Unileds Salim The window few out on Ross Street CHAIRS COMMITTEE Chairman for the new build ing committee at Central Unlt ed Chlucb was named at board meeting Wednesday evening Lorne Jackson the chairman and his committee will conceit irate their efforts on complet ing the preliminary plans for adding new fellowship ball and Sundoy school room by next spring VOLUNTEER LABOR large fire place built partly by volunteer labor has been dom pleted in Central Unitedl church parlor The fire place coupled with the proposed new tiled floor will add fresh ap pearance to the room and producing many heard its first sermon by it Netherlands Mr Bolts and his wife immignted to Tiny Village Seems condemned Has No Phones 0r Proper Road award winning plays Hebas been with Zion United three months Noel starts at pm Reformed Church Hear New Pastor America Reform REV BONS m5organired November 11 1959 with membership 0d 50 all of Dutloh origin For the time being services are heldrin the Odd Fellows Temple minday afternoons It 230 p111 ThiIiEEn children attended the oneclass elementary school this year but only five will be left in five yearsf time The older people of iiinterhorn bach stick to their land and homes But the yolmger genera tion is breaking with tradition and moving to neighboring vil lages or the nearest town Reutte wherefmaking money is for CBS THE BARRIE REFORMED CHURCH Rev carnelian awn Pastor Sunday £130 pun sanvtca or volume savour scnool ron CHILDREN In The onorsnmws pawns Collier Strut You ARE wnncoihni FIRST Jinn science How Do We Welcome Chlllt olics will to as much confetti as anybody else Bring on the basebaliror football summons and Catholic will flock out to watch them play Put on banquet for celebrated author or inventor or summon or humanitarha and Catholics will gladly the fee Catholics alwayl try to give credit when credit is due but they hold principle which all famous people would do well to reflect on No celebrity should take to himself the credit for his sue cem He should attribute ltto God Why to Just think for minute Heres Marconi in vendor of the radio end Cath olic He had dazzling skill in at least this one branch of He worked bud and long He made life more plelunt for all of us it look like he deserves the credit But due be Where did he get his scientifianind From God Where did he get the strength to work so hard From God who gave him healthy body God could have vtrlckcn him with deadly dis use or taken his life with an accidental bullet orin bun drcd other ways before he had invented the radio Well give Marconi credit for using the mind God gave him and for working with the healthy body God gave him but when all is laid and done Marconi owes hi moccss to God King Herod once made spellbinding speech to his peo ple Acts 122173 it is the voice of god and not of man the people cried Straightway Herod was put to death because he had not given the honor to God lust common sense you say Yes but for Catholics it is sup eraturn virtue They call it humility Sixteen Churches Raise 0300000 Through Sector Venture The last meeting the line kohslmeoe Sector was held on December in St Jnmca Ang llcna Church Gravenlinrst Six teen churches participated in this years interdenomination al sector venture and every church gave enthusiastic reports at the meeting of substantial increases in budget church at tendence interest and devotion on the part of church members The visitation was held on Sunday November 22 at Which approximately 5600 calls were made in churches of three de Quebec Heads Polio Cases OTTAWA CP Quebec with 1009 out of 1712 reported cases in Canada was the prova hardest hit by paralytic polio mum during use Apart from suffering so per cent oi the reported cases all Quebeoers died of the disease Polio deaths totalled 1663 Last year Quebec had 76 cases and five deaths The figures in the years last weekly report by the health dc partihents epidemiology division covering the period up to Dec showed increues 244 cases and 75 deaths at the correspond ing period last year in the week ended Dec 11 the department rep rte 11 new cases six of them in Alberta three in British Columbia and two in Quebec All provinces and theYukon amd Northwest Territories re ported paralytic pollo cases this year Last year Prince Edward island Nova Scotia and the Tar ritaries were free of polio Only Nova Scotia was free of polio deaths in 1959 Ontario was the second hardest hit province with 196 cases up froln on last year and 21 deaths up from six in 1958 Newfoundland ranked third with 140 cases against four in 1958 and 11 deaths against none year ago souvenirs 4is rssrurul in each service we or range all details are on ecirted promptly and on obtrusivelyyet with the proper ammmi oi profes sional dclibnretion to en sure thoroqu and Ippro prints direction regard less of lime or circum etancee isIECKLEY Funeral Home so wordy new BAPTIST CH Clapperton at Worshy Ste Minister new con Farmer in ChnkLDlresWhlxluii SUN1JA DECEMBER 20 1959 08¢ aJn Subjeot sown snvrooiv Anthem range enema vsm an SHALL roan ms max nominations covering the area of Midland Orillla and Hunt ville 1400 visitors participat ed in the effort $300000 was raised by these chumha of which approximately onethird was an increase over last years budgets The total expenses for the churches involved were less than $4000 This years sector director was the Rev Ole Hoiesen of Trinity United Church Graven hurrt and the counsellor who is appointed by the Canadian Council of Churches was the Rev Askew of Holy Trinity Church Thornhiil Rev Ar thur Vemll of Severe Bridge United Church was appointed the new Director for 1960 From small beginnings in Canada in 1955 the sectorpro iect has grown into one of the most remarkable ecumenical movements of the midccntury Last year about 700 churches took part all over Canada This year there were over 1200 churches of many denomina tions involved The sector is sponsored by the Canadian Council of Churches ADD TO YORK BOARD TORONTO CP Election of three more members to the board of governors of York Uni versity was announced Friday They are Dr Ray Fletcher ment of medicine University of Toronto William Cranfield Har ris president of Harris and Part ners Limited and John Daniel Leitch president oi or onto ElevatorrrLimited and of Upper Lakes and St Lawrence Trens portahon Limited The Joy of others is largel Faruharson head of the depart cr new posmoa Roberts 48yearold laxative of Winnipng was narn ed general secretarytreasurer of the Canadian Postal Em ployed Association in Sep tember lio succeeded whitebousc who was elected the first lulleime president of the Civil Service Federation of Canada llir Roberts was previously notional secretary of the CPEA lie entered the postal service in 1931 Photo Retail Fed llsks Tax Reduction TORONTO CF Tho Coun lian Retail Federation has writ ten to Finance Minister Fleming and told him it wont ask for tax reductions this year The lettersigned by Nelson general manager say the federations board of direc tors met recently and placed much Emphasis on the import pane of balanced budget which they believe to be goal which you are anxious to attain Accordingly the board had do cided to forego any recommend ations involving tax reduction despite the fact that such reduc tions in several fields seem to them to be most desirable The federation the national or sociatlon of Canadas retailers has crossvcountry membership of individual inns and of 50 asso ciations Colour ode muck me wane Photo Finishing Lem with IE5 COWPER Dunlop St 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