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6 THE LIBERAL: Richmond Hill, Thursday, A Talking and Singing Doll to be drawn a for FRIDAY, DECEMBER 21, 8 p.m. E at the Richmond Hill Hardware 3 fl 3 24 Yonge Street South Proceeds for needy family at Christmas Draw to be made by Reeve Wm. Neal and proceeds to be distributed at his discretion annnmnmmm Enwmmmmmmaanxamxaamawmaasmamxfi kmhanmmwamammmxmmmmmmummnmm3 For Christmas Gifts That Are Different Open every evening until Christmas Closed December 26 and 27 f mummwmxxmxxmwmmfi MERRY CHRISTMAS GOOD NEW YEAR KIWI “mic:th Christmas Dance? ON CHRISTMAS NIGHT, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 25 ins crummy DRAW STAN TROYER SPONSORED BY VELLORE JUNIOR FARMERS ISOBEL HEWITT BEST WISHES MUSIC BY WEIR’S ORCHESTRA THE GARDEN TRACTOR MAN AT VELLORE HALL FOR A VERY AND A VERY FROM 'l‘he/Héfiday Season affords us the opportunity to express our appreci- ation to our many friends for their good will and thougfitfulness during the past year. And with this "appreciation goes out wish for a memorable Christmasâ€" one that will be abundant with good cheer and good health followed by a New Year ofgcontentment and good fortune. H. J. MILLS LIMITED ADMISSION 75c . 20, Jas. Pollard Manager & Director RICHMOND HILL 1951 fllBy Rev. C. G. Higginson Richmond Hill United Church By Rev. C. G. Higginson ways. He surprises the world by the manner and the form of His arriving. They all were looking for a king To slay their foes and lift them high; :Thou cam’st, a little baby thing That made a woman cr_y. _ “flak-“$3M the worfd fol- lowed its own designs, not knowing that a new age was dawning, In Bethlehem .. ____.°. 7,, was making a. new arrival in human life. God's great de- sign was unveiled through a Babe born where only the poorest begin life. He came, the lowly One, that He might raise us to the heights. He made Himself poor that we might be rich. He became a child, that all the sons of men might become children of God. In the Christ Child God Himself has entered our world and our lives. This is the un- fading wonder, this the un- dimmed splendour, that God Himself should plan sugh sur- prises for our world! Stars rise and set, that star shines on: Songs fail, but still that music beats Through all the ages come and gone, In lane and field and city streets. And we who catch the Christ- mas gleam, Watching with children on the hill, We know, we know it Is no dream â€" He stands among us still! By Rev. E. E. Kent Thornhill Unite». Church The happiest season of all the year, Christmas, is with us once again. ‘Homes are filled with excitement as dec- orations are put up and child- ren happily anticipate the day when Christmas has arrived. The stores are filled with har- assed shoppers, and the mail bags are filled with renewals of friendship. Unfortunately Christmas has become too commercialized and Christ has been taken out of Christmas. The true meaning of Christ- Christmas Message The Marvel of Christmas mas is found in what happen- ed among the Judean hills nearly 2,000 years ago, when all the hopes and all the fears of all the years were born in Bethlehem that night. “For unto you is born . - . a Sav- ious, which is Christ, the King”. A writer in Maclean’s in 1945 had this to say about our modern way of keeping Christmas, we have taken Christmas, the first Christian festival, and made it into‘ something little better than a pagan feast. We have taken the poverty and humility of the manger and made them in- to saturnalia of goods and dis- play of riches. In the decline of Christmas from its true meaning may be seen the de- cline in our civilization to its present state, when it lies so truncated and shattered that we turn our eyes away and try to forget in our own feast- ing”. When Christmas is sep- arated from its source it loses its persistent vitality. It is a religious festival primarily. This Child of Bethlehem grew to manhood and the challenge of his life and work is ever before us. He is “Im- annuel, God with us”. To life he gave a new depth and meaning. He was the friend of man â€"â€" the poor, the lowly and the outcast. His way of life is the path of brotherli- ness and sacrifice. The very root of our troubles i our fail- ure to practice what he taught. The Angelic message 0f peace on earth shall become V- r-..-- . a reality 755 men of goodw11 devotedly follow the Prince of Peace. The Church bells ring once. more, calling men and women to worship. This Christmas Sunday let us wend our way to our own Church and sing once again the joyous carols and hear the message of love and peace. May we find for ourselves the spring of Christ- mas vitality and worship Him. A very Happy Christmas to all. The Holy Season of Advent, the four weeks immediately preceding Feast of the Nat- ivity of Christ, are meant to recall the thousands of years Christmas Message By Rev. Frederick McGinn, St. Mary’s Catholic Church that elapsed between the Fall lives because of our First Parents and the coming of the Redeemer. The Church wishes that we pre- pare ourselves for the worthy observance of Our Lord’s Birthday. If in the Old Dis- pensation, this element of pre- paratiOn was a necessary por- tion of the Divine plan, then for us who are much more fa»- voured, it is likewise indis- pensable. Consequently, then, let us be very sure that we are doing something to prepare lour minds and hearts for a ltruly Christian festival. ‘ of the wrong emphasis at Christmas, as well as at other times. Have we not been turning more and more from Christ to Santa? At this time of world alarm, anxiety and uncertainty, let us “BRING BACK CHRIST TO CHRISTMAS” and hear Him say, “My peace I give un- to you. Not as the world gi- veth give I unto you.” A very happy Christmas, and may the blessing of the Christ of Christmas be upon you and yours throughout the coming year. As an aid to your method of preparation you might keep before your minds the great truth that the Incarnation Is the central fact of human his- tory, that God the Son, the Second Divine Person of the Blessed Trinity, should be- come a man in order to redeem and save us; that He should take on or assume our human nature in order to attract us to Himself â€" this constitutes ‘the greatest revelation of God ‘to man, the act unique and su- preme in the world’s history, the event upon which your personal and eternal destiny hinges. In the words of St. Paul, “Let this mind be in you,” as you prepare for Christmas. Christmastime can be Very exacting. The hustle and wor- ry of the world may tend to distract and confuse. But if, in your daily prayers, you ask for more light to see and un- derstand the true and spirit- ual significance of the Feast, then it is unlikely that you will become submerged in the purely material preparations‘ so prevalent at this time. And, ‘on Christmas morning, when you bring to the crib of your Infant King a mind that un- derstands and appreciates, a heart that loves, and a will to |keep His Law. then you can expect a measure of peace and joy beyond your expectations. It is my earnest and sincere wish that you receive these blessings, and that they may remain with you to gladden and brighten the days of the New Year that lies ahead. Christmas Message By Rev. S. W. Hirtle Richmond Hill Presbyterian The Babe of Bethlehem will inspire our love, for Christmas is His Festival, and we shall honour Him before and above all others. The appeal of the Babe is universal even/though there is much that is grossly materialistic and thoroughly pagan in our present day cele« bration of the birth of the Prince of Peace; but at least childhood receives attention; and we speak 0f the Holy Child, we sing His Praises, and we worship Him. But we must not forget that] Christmas brings us more than an infant. After all the baby Jesus occupies a small place in the Scriptures of the New Testament. * It is the man', Christ Jesus who fills its pages. Yes, we bid you come, we welcOme you to Bethlehem, but we must also urge you to 1 go to Nazareth, to Capernaum, to Calvary. Christmas speaks of God’s gift of the Child, hut we must go farther for the angel’s message proclaims “Unto you is born a Saviour.” The message of Christmas, therefore, is much deeper than the stories of a. Babe, of Shepherds and of Wise Men. Not until we come to and acâ€" cept Calvary can We really know the full meaning of Christmas. Bring Back Christ To Christmas By Rev. Wm. F. Wrixon, Rector of St. Mary's Anglican Church, Richmond Hill I welcome, and am grate- ful for, the opportunity to send out through this valuab- le paper, a. Christmas mess- ‘age to all who read its pages. . So many voices are calling: us to be glad and grateful at this Holy Season that surely we cannot resist even if we would. We should be glad and grateful as we think of it as the season that brought {God’s love to the world. If we could only see and feel what a tremendous difference that revelation has made to everything, and how it has changed the whole complex- ion of our human life and fill- ed it with a glory and a pos- sibility undreamed of before, ‘would not our Christmas song this year have a wonderful new joy and g‘ladness in it? We have been missing quite too much of that note in our us “BRING BACK CHRIST TO CHRISTMAS” and hear Him say, “My peace I give un- to you. Not as the world gi- veth give I unto you.” A very happy Christmas, and may the blessing of the Christ of Christmas be upon you and yours throughout the coming year. Christmas Message By Rev. S.A.R. Wood Trinity Anglican, Thornhill I wonder how many readers of the Liberal will remember a bit of childish verse, the very first, I believe, which I ever learned. It went like this, Hang up the baby’s stocking, Be sure you don’t forget. The dear little dimpled darl- mg Has never seen Christmas yet. Everyone who reads this will have seen many Christâ€" mases, and there is a sad thought in mind that for many it is becoming a little boring. The same old rush. The same old turkey. The same old giving and receiving of gifts. The same old Christ- mas Carols, dinned into our ears for two solid weeks. The thrill and mystery of Santa ‘Claus 'and beautifully wrap- ‘ped presents palls a little as we get older. There is not as much fun in eating a huge Christmas dinner which we know will leave us stodgy for the next couple of days even if it doesn’t make us definite- |ly Do you perhaps wonder why men and women have been do- ing these silly thing's for two‘ thousand years? Yes and lc'mger than that, for the Per- sians were doing the same things a thousand years be- fore Christ. If Christmas is the spending of more money than We can afford on gifts which we wish we did not haVe to give, and the spoiling of our families and ourselves with all sorts of things we don’t need, and too much to eat and drink, and the sing- ing of a few catchy tunes be- ‘cguse most people like them land they remind us of happy days gone by then we are mad lto go on. But Christmas is NOT these things at all. Christmas is the lovely thought of Jesus God coming to live with us, and looking to us, helpless as he is, for shelter and care. Christmas is the welling love in our hearts for that Baby of Bethlehem, and for all other helpless or unfortunate crea- tures. Christmas is the time for us to become again small boys and girls, knowing as we did then that God loves us, that life is good, and that pe- ople are kind. Knowing that we can be full of kindliness, friendliness, generosity, sym- pathy and love, and that we are only truly happy when these characteristics dominate our lives -â€" as in fact they do at Christmas time. Christmas is the time to kneel humbly and with full hearts before the Newborn King. Christmas is Christ. May your Christmas be full of this holy joy. At the annual meeting of Em- pire L.0.B.A. No. 894 held re- cently, the following officers were, elected and installed for the en- suing year. Worthy Mistress, Sister Jean Waters; deputy mistress, Sister Annie Craig; junior deputy misâ€" tress, S/ister Dorothy Bovaird; chaplain, Sister Mary Joyce; sec- retary, Sister Gertrude Lever; fin- ancial secretary, Sister Betty White; treasurer, Sister Mable Fen- wick; guardian, Sister E. Zuefelt; Director of Ceremonies, Sister J. Pirrie; Senior Lecturer. Sister L. Leece; Jr. Lecturer, Sister Lila Howard; pianist, Sister Myrta Ev- ans; Inner Guard, Sister Bella Shields; Outer Guard, Bro. John Leece. - L. O. B. A. No. 894 Elects ’52 Executive The election and installation was conducted by Past Mistress E. Zue- felt, assisted by P.M. Sister 1138.- ton; W.M. Sister Curtis and Sis- ter Webster of Lady North York Lodge, Willowdale. Admissionâ€"$4.50 per person Dancing every Saturday-â€" Admissionâ€"$2.00 per person \X/ITH CONFIDENC AT Yerex Electric Phone 242-J We have them on hand in our Om canonical 0mm mku ll easy for you bvbuy‘c lomoul‘fl'l I'MrigcmlorN . loot-o fol Icahn 0n nfiisaotoron 920 what. Thny'ro Inbound . . . and yum all-ad! A Gift to please gl_| Illa lmhily , Our store will be open until o’clock every evening from now until Christmas. How’s Your Supply, Of Counter Check Books? 23 Markham Rd., Phone 21W TELEVISION PERKINS HOME AND FARM EQUIPMENT INTERNAFI‘ONIM. H ARV ESM‘R JOB PR1. ITING DEPARTMENT The Liberal BUY Richmond Hill