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EAST HEIGHTS Several Heights residents excel in karate competition Earl and Leu Hagfces originally from Hamilton and now residing in Mount Albert organized a Karate Club in Newmark et last September school is above the New market Fire Hall and ses sions are Monday and Thursday evening Juniors years and under work out between and At the Hamilton on Saturday Dec at the Hamilton Kiwanis Club an interclub tourna ment and demonstration for eastern clubs held Earl Hughes his black belt an to yellow belts market Seniors receiving yellow belts from Newmarket were Stewart and from East Bill and REV HERBERT Grace Church It is possible for us to keep Christmas and lose Christ We miss everything when we miss Him A little girl summarized the situation very well after attending her first Sunday School Christ mas party Arriving home she told her mother It was a nice party but mother Jesus never did come A newspaper asked seven people to define the real spirit of Christmas One person thought Christmas is symbolized by bills that will be due on Jan 1 Five persons felt it meant a dinner gifts and toys Only one person thought that Christmas had to do with the message of peace on earth and good will toward men Even the latter perhaps did not relate peace and good will to Jesus Christ in any vital way In simplest terms Christmas is Christs birthday In Bible terms And she Mary shall bring forth a son and you shall call bis name Jesus for He shall save His people from their sons Matthew 121 That was the Angels message to Joseph Jesus birth was unique for we are told that Mary was found with child of the Holy Spirit When God thus stooped to become man He did a new thing in the earth a thing so astounding it is one of the great mysteries of the ages By a special creative act of the Holy Spirit our Lord received His human body yet without a tinge of our skin Holy and pure He came to redeem a fallen world This is what Christmas is all about Its the story of a wonderful Birth a wonderful a wonderful Gift I like Kenneth Taylors paraphras ing of Cor God for His Son His Gift too wonderful for words Socrates four centuries before Christ had reasoned that maybe God could forgive sins but he didnt see how The message answers that question Stepping down an invisible stairway from a throne to a manger In Bethlehem Christ en tered the arena of human existence that He might meet the greatest need of our fallen race namely the of tins and transformation of life Of course the manger is but the first of Christs redemption The cross toffiD are vitally part of it A clergyman preparing a Christmas fell in bis study and dreamed that he was in a world in which Jesus had never come walked out on the streets out no church spires pointed to Heaven He summoned by a weeping child to visit her dying mother but on arriving he found that all the New Testament with its promises of Heaven had disappeared Ivil bowed his bead and wept in bitter despair for he could offer hep no hope beyond the Suddenly lie was awakened with a start by the choir practicing the familiar Christmas Joy filled his soul as be realized as never before the of Christs coming Indeed Gods Gift is too won derful for words This year first be thoughtful about Christmas then be thankful Will Christmas for be a HOLY WAY or a DAY PART TIM EVENING FOR REGION OF YORK in SENECA COLLEGE OF APPLIED ARTS AMD EAST ONTARIO Attend the church of your choice