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sod YOU ALL A Happy and HEW a ever nay other in North York combined and is to bo the Leading County NORTH YORK INTELLIGENCER AND ADVERTISER t Ire to Ho pan Stat Merry ALLS WATSONS Jewelry A of the Many TO BE FOUND AT ft For Mother or For Father or Carpet Sweeper Machine Double Roasting Pans Double Boilers Tea Kettles Nickel Tea Kettles Preserve Kettles Cake and Bread Boxes Butter Knives Forks Sugar Shells Salt Collars Leather Grips Bit of Irons Suit Razor Razor Strop Pocket Pair Mitts Pockot Book Pack of Cards Mouth Organs Skates Hockey Sticks Pair Shin Pads Carpenters- Tools Boxing Gloves Curling Stones Sleigh Bells on Shaft or or Oil Heaters FOR THE Toy Iron Drays Dump Carts Irons Brooms Dust Pans Knife fork and Spoons Cup Saucer and Plate Toy Carpet Sweepers Skates Hockey Sticks Pucks Mouth Or gans Flags Jack Knives Pair of Warm Leather Mitts Toy Pistols and Caps BATH ROOM FIXTURES in Soap Dishes Towel Bars Brush Holders Sponge Racks etc make very useful presents STOVES PUTTY PAINTS OILS AND FURNACES PLUMBING AND TINSMI THING PHONE NEWMARKET ONT me if SPECIAL ATTENTION SAVINGS FIELD Newmarket Out Friday Dec 35 Better Hops SERMON DELIVERED AT THE FRIENDS CHURCH NEWMARKET LAST SUNDAY MORNING BY REV I For the law made nothing perfect but the bringing in of a better did t by tho which we draw nigh unto THIN the hum heart there Is Implanted a desire to know Yet knowledge of his to the most advanced meagre was this knowledge upon Jehovah hated all It is the IhijiUr a in Die Desire and the hope hut who loved them but Ma Christmas maimed man Hods attitude No was He Jehovah the Divine hut our Father and Friend id we as trusting children may look and Bay Behold wliat manner love the Fa the hath bestowed upon us Love that wilt not let me go I rest my weary soul on thee thee hack the I owe That i Thine ocean depth its flow- May richer tiller he The bringing in of a better hope not only gave man a higher concep tion of the Divine Being but a truer- of his relation to his fellow If God were the universal Father all men were brothers The Jews thought friends were to be lov ed but enemies hated and wrongs avenged Willi the better hope a new order of things for Jesus taught his followers to love till not only friends hut enemies Hut I say unto prophet He that from God was God Not an inferior God not a second but God in the most supreme sense of the word Do not have too low an I estimate of Jesus Christ Why should not the Divine Being dwell ilk do good to bless them pray for Ir fully in Mi- cheek also tabernacle Hi lad cloud over the merer- j cut before the Children a cloudy pillar This hunian the Hi vine Being would not prevent him filling immensity of space To dis pute this would be to limit the nearly gone and I take this opportunity thanking my many customers for their patronage of past and soliciting any future orders ftt all times will have my careful attention Wishing Ail A Perry and A Happy and Prosperous F WILLIS that thai would that men should do to you do ye also to them likewise It is true this higher thought flow to germinate ft took a mi iclc to convince Peter that the he redemptio their navies hut this worldlias seen the last great war War may still he looked upon by some as ne cessary but it Is no longer the chief amusements of kings and the first thought of nations If war were de clared between two strong nations the rest of Christendom would arise and ask What need for this ter of our fellowmen The world of industry needs customers and will not allow the spoiling of he mar kets The silken chain of commerce holds the nations of earth togeiher by Christ true Christian looks on all brothers He may live with- theology that ha tains are the feet of him that good tidings that pub lished good the Southern palms ye brother and has a claim i How much the Christian the of Thy Cod saitl child is horn ven and the upon his should shall be called mighty Cod The of into all the Gospel With the there comes things Look at the haunts of unfortunate remember the of The Prim Peace The evangelists and apostles say that Christ was a human manifesta tion of God If the opening chapter of Johns Gospel is to be considered thority Christ God In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the loving people made of the Not only is there work in foreign fields but many in our own land need the comforting uplifting power of Christ Bowed down by sorrow or crushed By sin they need the God All things were made by and without him was not any thing made that was made- And the Word was made flesh and among us Taking this clear scriptural Christ a thousand times in Bethlehem be born If Hes not born in thee thy soul is still forlorn It is this abiding Christ we need is not merely a Christ of history not some theory of the atonement but the personal enthronement of the Christ in our hearts as ruler our should Who givetji us the vi our Lord Jesus Christ as are the blessings ti to this world througl greater still shall he those- yet to come It shall march uplifting power shall bless gospel all 1 God It shall belt the earth and scatter its blessings until none shall say to his neighbor thou the Lord for shall know Him from the least to the greatest Dark has been the night of sin hut courage brother the morning dawn- eth the morning of that glorious day when sin and all its dire conse quences shall be driven from tjie shall shall he no more thence an infant of days an old man that hath not filled his days for the child shall die an hundred years old And they shall build houses and inhabit them and they shall plant vineyards and eat the fruit of them They not build and another inhab it they shall not plant and an other eat for as the days of a tree are the days of my people and mine elect shall long work of their hands They I shall not labour in vain nor bring forth for I At this glad Christmas time I bid j vou cheer for the better hope is last making all tilings perfect in Wednesday afternoon Mr George the world unto himself Do wo not sometimes get this statement to- versed in our thoughts Often have we sung My God is reconciled etc That in human theology Divine re velation puts it the other way all things are of God reconciled us unto himself by Jesus Christ First of all then the better hope shows us clearly the great love of God for God His love towards us that while we were yet sinners Christ died for us Yes God loved us with a love death and mightier than ie trouble they used to say Come let j met with us go and look on Marys son He was working There was power in the face of One bo pure and gentle and there is in Christ a Panacea for all the care and troubles ol lite Peace I leave with you my peace I give unto you not as the world give I unto you Let not your heart be troubled let it bo afraid The peace that Christ can give the- great need of the world Thai of which the apostle And the peace of God which all understanding hope through the thru accident school and tie he was standing at the time gave way precipitating him and Mr Fred McKay to the ground about feet Mr Mc Kay escaped unhurt while Mr sustained a broken leg The nature of the break considered to be quite serious may mean amputation of the For the Era Christmas Day Christmas is approaching Everywhere we hear Plans for others pleasure For the day is near Loved ones are invited To appear that day Leaving them alone Gathering each Christ With delighted cheer Bringing others witi Oh what toil and labor For a week before All too quickly vanish In one busy hour Telling after dinner What has taken place What to each has happened In lifes earnest race Of their disappointments And hopes realized Pome things lost and others Gained more highly prized Scenes of pleasure noting rehearse With a glad Do the groups converse Sometimes all are talking Difficult to hear Tongues an- all the fashion Smile at from th skies Such delightful meetings Welcome then this Christmas Bringing loved ones Lome Where you are expected Christmas Eve In Bethlehem the central spot Madonnas come to celebrate the glory of the first Madonna Precisely at midnight the pontifical mass is the figure Christ is brought in basket and de posited upon th high altar and tho procession forms accompany it to the crypt As the long chanting procession winds through the dimly lighted church there is something solemn about the and as the sacred image passes var ious acts of worship are performed by the devout attendants On the pro- moves through the roughhewn and dimly lit passage- from the Eatdn Church to the grotto of the Nativity When the procession richly robed ecclesiastics reaches the silver star set in the pavement the priests pause and stand It a group about the bas ket which is deposited upon the stir Around this star is the flic est Here he was burn of a virgin for this fa the spot upon which tradition he actual birth of There impressive narrative of the birth of Jesus as found in the Gospels is slowly recited and when the passage ii And she brought forth her firstborn Son and wrapped him in swaddling clothes and laid him in fi manger because there was no room for them in the inn- is read the fig- reverently picked up from the and carried over to the opposite side the grotto where it is put a rockcut manger This concludes service London Sphere Christmas Reveries and let good Christmas I heart not in unison v at this happy Christir stars glitter and the j and the lights throw long bright rays on the snowy path and the mo thers face is pressed to tlie pane to catch the first glimpse of loved longabsent ones Joy to the mother they are here I and thy aged learer to earth for thee I eve the wondrous Santa to the children with thee Mohammed the Greek Ch of the grotto of the Nativity to tie La drums trumpets with all and discordant blasts and wonderful Christmas Tree with its bright lights gay colors and my sterious packages some of m contain the longwisedfor skates or huge jackknives It is all all the color the rose the rainbow that spans their young lives Not all the agony in the manger all the wonder the story of the Star jof Bethlehem of the owing and guiding of the vise men to the lowly cradle of the coming King not all the sad beauty of the old old story the we not all spite of In the district the first successful attempt v to produce tea in Ceylon In introduced into Canada by the Tea Co The excellence of this brand is respon sible for the commercial success o Lb Tea in this country youthful Christ being carried from the of St Helena to the sacred grotto of Nativity where the traditional spot of Christs birth is marked by a silver star set in the rocky pavement service begins at 10 oclock in It opens with the chanting of psalms without any The patriarch usually officiates in the grotto but on this occasion he is re presented by the Latin Bishop The Interior of the church is most pictur esque for there are only a few chairs for foreign visitors while the bulk of the congregation is made up of the women in their blue dresses with red frontlets wear ing peaked caps when married flat- raps covered by veils when single As they enter the church they at first kneel down and then sit upon the ground in true oriental fashion In the dimly lighted church says one Who has seen the service these varicolored figures with like these ren of a larger grow its deep and tender meaning the gifts and merrymaking are all dear to us children in heart as we are- Christmas most truly belongs to the children It celebrates the event the Christ child to whom the wise- men brought gifts and the shepherds came and worshipped Would that every child in this land of abundance might receive the little portion neces sary to fill the heart with joy and chase the and tears away Is takes so little to open the founts joy child it would seem so small a portion might fall to the lot of counting- and others what disappointing Christmas it will be to than Cannot we be thoughtful one another and share our blessings with those less favored and thus make our Christmas more truly happy for ourselves and merry for many Where in all is greater longing dearer expectation by flash like ARCHIVES OF ONTARIO- TORONTO