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To all our readers, old and new, we extend warm greetings at this happy season. We appreciate the fact that many have been reading “The Liberal” for half a century and more â€"- possibly some few since it was first published in 1878 We wish We might send each one a personal greeting but that would prove a very large task. The message of this column is the best that we can do. hoping that you will accept it in the same spirit. There is so much good about Christmas that we cannot but feel that the world would be a sadder place without it. There is, for instance, the Christmas spirit, so indefinable yet so very real. The spirit that makes friends out of acquaintances; that leads neighbours who haven’t spoken to each other for months to say smilingly, “Merry Christmas i”; that prompts all manner of kindly deeds which somehow never get done at any other time. , Then there is the Christmas home- coming. We don’t know which pagan emperor or dignitary, if any, started this idea, but it’s beautiful just the same. We love our children to come home for Christmas. So do millions of other parents. And the children expect to come. They look forward to it all the THE LIBERAL, Richmond Hill, Ontario, Christmas Means More Than Observing Christmas Day . . . CHRISTMAS MEANS . . . To forget what you have done for other people and remember what others have done for you. CHRISTMAS MEANS . . . CHRISTMAS MEANS . . . To remember that the only good reason for your existence is not what you get out of life but what you are going to give to life. CHRISTMAS MEANS . . . To be willing to stoop down and consider the needs and desires of little children. CHRISTMAS MEANS . CHRISTMAS MEANS . . . _People have a way of saying that they would enjoy having a good old- fashioned Christmas again. What do they mean exactly? To some it means a picturesque snowfall starting on Christmas Eve, soft and silent. To oth- ers it is a trip to grandfather’s farm. gay with holly and a crackling fire, with all the family gathered from far and near. Again it may be a towering Christmas tree with all the glittering decorations made by the family at home and the tree itself straight from the family wood lot. But the really best old-fashioned Christmas, true to the traditions of every land, may well be the giving of gifts out of human compassion. The season is a time of good will toward men, and surely one of its best expres- sion is the giving of. help to the needy. Christmas is a tithe to think if others, particularly the unfortunate, Give a special generous thought at this Now we gather greens for the holi- day, the greens of old legend and per- ennial meaning. Some of us go to the florist, some to the corner store, and those most fortunate of all go directly to the woodland. Wherever we go we come back with something evergreen, whether it is pine or spruce, fir or hem- lock, whether it is a few boughs or a wreath or a tree. Perhaps we come back with sprays of running pine or ground cedar, and thus reach back to real be- ginnings, for they are old even in terms of geologic time. But all evergreens are old, both in time and human custom. And they have a legendry about them that marks any winter, for they represented hope and faith even before the Christian era. They were symbols of the enduring year and the returning seasons when men still lived in fear of the winter An Independent Weekly: Established 1878 \â€"â€"â€"/ Subscription Rate $3.50 per year; to United States $4.50; 10c single copy Member Audit Bureau of Circulations Member Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association J. E. SMITH, Editor and Publisher MONA ROBERTSON. Associate Editor "Authorized as second class mail, Post Office Department, Ottawa" 'I'he To ignore what the world owes you and to think of what you owe the world To remember the weakness and loneliness of people who are grow- ing old. To stop asking how much your Old Fashioned Chrislms Chrisimas Again Enduring Symbol Thursday, December 24, 1959 year. And when December arrives the great migration begins. Surely. some- thing that helps keep families together like this is something to be cherished by us all. A And the presents! Who can estim- ate the good that accrues from at least an annual thought of sacrifice for oth- ers? And what can measure the joy, the sheer unadulterated bliss, that comes year by year to millions upon millions of fathers and mothers, boys and girls, as they scheme and plan and concoct and devise how to make each other happy ? Most important of course, is the remembrance of the coming of the Son of God to this old world to redeem it from sin and make it like Eden again. He may not have been born on Decem- ber 25th, but does that really matter? What should concern us is that His cem- ing was the greatest event in history and that the story of how He came is the most beautiful ever told. And it seems to us that anything that makes millions of busy, self-seeking, material- istic people think about Bethlehem again, that focuses their thoughts for a little while upon God’s sublime and infinite sacrifice, cannot but be to every- body’s good. uWev are sure that you agree with us as we wish you one and all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!” friends like you and ask yourself whether you love them enough. CHRISTMAS MEANS . . . To try to understand what those who live in the same house really want, without waiting for them to tell you. CHRISTMAS MEANS . . . I make a grave for your ug‘ly 1: oughts and a garden for your kindly thoughts, with the gate open. CHRISTMAS MEANS . . . To be willing to believe that love is the strongest thing in the world â€"-â€"- stronger than hate, stronger than evil, stronger than death -â€" and that the Blessed Life which began in Bethlehem nineteen hun- dred and sixty years ago, is the image and brightness of Eternal Love. Christmas season to the many worth- while charities which invite your sup- port. Extend a helping hand to your Church, or your local Service Clubs in their special welfare work which faces increasing demands at this time of year. Giving is the real key to real Christmas joy and happiness. There are many such worthy agencies in Richmond Hill and district doing a worthwhile Christian community service. They merit the generous support of our citizens. When joy and festivity are the or- der of the day it seems fitting and pro- per that hundreds of the more fortun- ate are happy to contribute from their means, small or large, to the less for- .tunate. To have a share in bringing com- fort for the present and hope for the future to those in dire need is in the spirit of the old-fashioned Christmas. May it never be out of date. solstice. The darkness, the encroaching night, in those remote times, was driv- en back with boughs of evergreen, so that the solstice passed safely and day- light’s span began to lengthen once more. And when a new faith was born, with a Child in a manger, the old sym- bols and beliefs took on a‘new and more profound meaning. The evergreen be- came symbolic not only of the solstice but of the soul itself. of spiritual as well as temporal continuity. So we gather the greens and pay passing obeisance to the solstice while we prepare for the festival of peace and hope when .faith itself is renewed. The solstice is only a date on the calendar now, with no fear attending. But the Festival of the Birth is known through- out the world. a holy day of belief made manifest; and among its enduring sym- bols is the evergreen. ‘ “We Wish You All A Very Merry Christmas” ,mcuunofls (Wishing You A Happy Christ- mas) (By Jane Fort Manning) Three more days ‘till Christ- mas.” The major part of the pre- parations are over, we hope, and by Thursday evening may we all be able to sing “Calm on the Listening Ear of Night" with 131 sense of peace and tranquil- .ty. In our day when the buying‘ and selling of things is as im- portant to our economy as trap- ping for furs and hunting for meat was in our pioneer past, most of us at one time or an- other moan and groan at the commercialism of Christmas. But last night, when I hap- pened to have to ride from the west to the east end of Toronto, and from Steele's Ave. to Lake- shore Road and saw the thous- ands of colored lights and decor- ations, and then came up Yonge Street to our brightly lighted Richmond Hill and its bustling throng, I thought how wonderful it is that all these people are able to buy all this frivolity and gayety. Most of us have known times when cash or credit was hard to come by. Long may our prosperity _last. But Christmas is primarily a state of the heart and not of the pocketbook. As ever and always those remembered Christmases are the ones Where special acts of love have shown through. Early Canada When one reads of early Canâ€" adian Christmases how simple by our standards are their joys. For like the birth of Jesus, the trappings and the surroundings are incidental. I think of the Christmas Champlain rejoiced because his small colony had an ample sup- ply of onions. Onions would pre- vent scurvy oaused heretofore by the strictly salt meat glet: There were the Christmases when the family cf Nellie Mc- Clung rejoiced because it was not bitterly cold enough in the west yet to have to bring the old kitchen stove into the living room for extra heat. - ~., There were the long sleigh rides taken at the Christmas season by our forefathers to get together with their families in by Elizabeth Kelson “It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas”, went the words of a Christmas song. Everywhere I go, the signs of Christmas show. I guess the time won’t be so very long. The windows of the stores begin to sparkle with tinsel and with silver bells; the children run and shout. whenever school’s let out, they’ll soon be singing out their glad Noels. It’s never just another celebration: it’s more than just a Christmas tree: it’s Peace. Good Will on Earth, the Blessed Saviour’s birth; the Holy One who died for you and met r Yes. “It’s beginning to Ibok a lot like Christmas” in every city and town. In eVery department store, the gifts are piled galore, and people are just walking up and down. We’ll hear words again, like Merry Christ- mas, Hello, old friend, it’s good to see you now. There’s a jolly card to cheer, this special time of year, and frowns are wiped from every single brow. And don’t forget the meaning of this Christmas, remember those who have the greatest need. If you have two, give one, it’s really lots of fun to know when you have done a kindly deed. And as this greatest day of love approach- es, you’ll hear the music of the carols ring. So with one a heart and v01ce, may the people all rejoice, and gladly gaiyfhéir homage to'a King. ONE YEAR'S SUBSCRIPTION 1'0" 19 512-4 yaea/eing THE CHRISTMAS CONCERT (By Jane Fort Manning) rera this vast country. To taste and feel the joyousness and conviv- iality of Christmas before the long win-tgr set in. - There were the early Christ- mas dinners featuring venison, partridges. wild turkey. possi‘ 2y salmon or Whitefish, home made bread and butter, onions, pump- kins, maple sugar, and the ever present pies. There were the United Empire Loyalists: twenty-five thousand, who settled in Ontario in the late eighteenth century and brought with them the tradition of an English Christmas. The German settlers who brought with them the custom of having a Christmas tree. Other nationalities came through the years; Dutch. Czeck, Polish, Italian. etc., adding their 1 ~ditions and absorbing those already here. Canada Born Christmas Day How many of us realize it was on Christmas Day 1866 that our Dominion of Canada was born? The British North Ameri- ca Act, under which Canada ev- en now functions and claims her privileges. was finished Christ- mas Eve after sixteen stalwart and tru: men from Canada had worked out and framed the docu- ment that would cement the far flung young colonies. It vras pro- claimed on Christmas Day. What a wonderful land we have this Christmas 1959! But let us not forget that though our forefathers were not prevented from seeking freedom of oppor- tunity in a new land, nearly 2,000,000 refugees in the world today, waifs of World War II are not free, often because of their health records, to do so today. Perhaps we can through our personal interest in the problem help some of them ev- entually find a home in Canada during this coming World Refu- gee Year: ,,!_.£L -0 “Lu:a§mufl 5c: 1 \«GA . May the spirit of Christmas not cease with the opening of our gifts, the eating of our boun- tiful dinners, and the singing of “Peace on Earth, Good-Will to men." 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