Wednesday, December 24, 1952 THE TRIBUNE, WILLIAMS LAKE, B.C. Page 9
HORSEFLY Beaver Valley school did an intri-|erous and troublesome up Black ‘ ae
[SS cate German folk dance. They were} Creek. A large number of moose and!.§ — = a
; trained by their teacher, James Hllis. | deer are being seen in all areas. é 4 a a
Christmas Comcert [Cima ii tne csesns wor tee Christmas Messages from the Churches:

from Santa Claus. who gave prese
and candy bags to all
Refreshments were ‘then served.

Delights Audience

Laughter, scolding. confusion and
order reigned. backstage in the
Community Hall the night of the
school concert. On stage, in front of

Horsefly Lake, has

winter months.

he childr

H. J. GARDNER & SONS sawmill.
closed for tne

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MR. and MRS. A. M. WEBSTER, |&
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their home in Terrace after visiting
relatives in Winnipeg. They stopped
enroute to visit some of their friends

thé home.
here. Accompanying them to Ter-| ¢

Solos

a large audience, all actors and
tresses
ginia’s Christmas’? and ‘The Miser.

ley, Lillian Dunlop, Marjorie Gard-
ner and Emory Bourelle. A skit about
the ancient Model 'T Ford was par Aiétiaay spirit was much in evidence.
ticularly hilarious. Pupils from the!

THE Sunday School children re-
ceived books from an anonymous
doner. The books are the type that
can- be added to, to make a child’s
library.

A PRE-XMAS dance was held at
the Community Hall Saturday. The

performed perfectly *

were given hy Marjorie Hoek-

WOLVES are getting quite num-

race was Wr. Webster's neice Miss
Myrna McInroy, of Winnipeg.

A. OTSON left fora short holiday
at St. Vital, Manitoba.

MR. and MRS. A. WILLIAMS, and
Mr. EB. Williams have gone on a trip
to the coast.

L. C. HUDGENS is spending a few

weeks in Vancouver for medical
treatment.
WEATHER is continuing mild,

40° above December 21.

THE “CAPTAIN'S ROUNDS”

mention the fact, Christmas
Chureh festival; the
iion of the birth of Christ. The feast

was established by the Church; the is Peace, Peace that passes all un-
prepared a derstanding.

Church fixed its date,
special liturgy for it.

From the beginning of Christian plete,
civilization the observance of Christ- Gifts are like this. There is, too, a
mas was reflected in the lives and condition to the reception of the
the Peace of God — Good Will. God’s
lore of Peace is given to men of Good Will.
Christmas practices tok form. The Good Will.

customs of the people. and in
course of time a whole

Church never frowned on any of

these as long as they were innocent Good and God are the same. God is

and devoid of superstition.

FRED CARDWELL

YOUR B-A OIL DEALER

from z

Such was the
past, but what have the commercial-
izers done to it, Every device is used
to bring the ‘Christmas atmosphere’
in among the cash registers, to ex-

| The Royal Navy tries to assure
that as many as possible of its ships
are in harbour on Christmas Day.
For the unlucky ones on patrol or on

passage — and there are a good

- : 2 ot
many this year in Korea and else-|(T#¢t eee Oe cee on ee
where in the Far East — the best | ‘© Sacred season.

go home every evening in a state of
exhaustion then we have Christmas
gloom instead of Christmas chee:

It becomes part of the Christian's
obligation to try to overcome the
wrong ideas that are fostered by the

that can be expected is “Sunday
routine,” with work reduced to a
minimum. Festi’ ies have to wait
till harbour is reached. For the nayy
in harbour, the big event of the day

is ‘Captain’s Rounds,” when the sHulllation GHEE fons: 46
Commanding Officer of each ship,|COMMercialization of the feast;
attended by his officers, goes the|t'Y to preserve the religious mean-

ing, in spite of all the distracting
influences at work; to try to save
for a saner day, the traditions that
in the past made Christmas a time of
joy enriched by simplicity and holi-
ness.

It is difficult but not impéssible
by any means properly to observe
Christmas in our time, for the won-
drous event has in it such splendour,
such vitality, such overwhelming
goodness, as to shine through all
the gaudy sham with which our
Profiteers have surrounded it.

It is still the great feast of Child-
hood, still the great consoler of the
human heart. Its music and its
story can still grip us, in spite of the

rounds of the whole ship, greeting
his men and being offered hospitality
by them on each of the gaily decorat-
ed mess decks. He is preceded by the
youngest boy in the ship, dressed in
the uniform of the ship’s senior pet-
ty officer, the Master at Arms (or
Police Chief of the ship). Men are
allowed to wear improvised fancy
dress on that day and may even “im-
personate” the captain. The youngest
boy has his hour of glory again on
New Year’s Eve when he “rings out
the Old and rings in the New” —
with 16 bells instead of the tradi-
tional eight which mark the end of-a
|four-hour period at sea.

‘
B

-e Very Kappy Cina to

This is an old, old wish but a sincer.

the management and staff of

Williams Lake Motors Ltd.

way they have beén misused. Amid
all the pretence, all the paganism,
all the selfishness, Christmas stands
out a sure source of divine grace,
a sure source of peace for souls

May everyone find this - peace
hich the world cannot giv

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180°CRLE NEWS

Eighty Children
At School Concert

Here’s wishing all of you a Merry
and Happy Christmas. ~
The Christmas concert was very
well enacted and there were at
least 80 eager little faces to witness
the arrival of Santa. who was quite
surprised at our nice warm weather.
‘The school was well packed.

MRS. KENNEDY left on Friday
for New Westminster where she will
make her future home. She has a
school at Whalley. A new teacher
will take over the 150 schoo) after
the Christmas holidays.

MRS. LUCY ZACKER and daugh-
ter Shirley left for their home near
Regina. She has been at the 150
hotel for two years.

MR. and MRS. KEN McKENZIE
and family left for Yakima, Wash.
on Friday for over the Christmas
holidays. —

THE JIM WONNOP family left
for Vancouver on Saturday for the
Christmas holiday.

MR. and MRS. JACK ROWAT and
family left for their home in Vernon
on Sunday to be gone until after the
New Year.

MRS. BENNETT and son of Van-
couver arrived here Friday to have
their holidays with Mr. Bennett who
is one of the operators at the Re-
peater Station.

MISS MABEL CORNWALL, two
year old daughter of the Hugh Corn-
walls has been in the hospital the
past few days with an ear infection.

meant it to be when Christ is the on earth Peace among men of Good
soul of the feast and the heart of Will.”

Old-fashioned as it may seem to the historic Angelic Message in this
is a form before, still I would ask you
commemora-'please to give it your thought.

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Christmas of the IS Good.

It is possible you have not seen

S| former residents of Horsefiy, were a
, a ys G. J Rev. J. Co! :

em. guests of Jack Wynstra. Mr. andy | Berard Johnson, C.Ss.R. Rev. G. J. Fielder J. Colclough Hy

Mrs, Webster were returning to/” Christmas is truly the day God; “Glory to God in the Highest, and! “And they came with haste, and

;found both Mary, and Joseph, and
th
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e babe lying in a manger.” Luke

Apparently the Christmas rush

began early, The angels had no soon-
er left than the shepeherds set out
with all speed. The Good News com-
pelled them to hurry, run, hasten.

We, too, have a Christmas rush.
But it is quite a different kind of
haste. In ‘any case, motion is one
heritage that the-Nativity has givea
us. For today, the world is on the
move.

Masefield’s line, “Life’s a long
headache in a noisy street.” wasn’t

The Divine Message at Christmas

Naturally, it is above
our understanding, so full, so com-
so all-satisfying; all God’s

Now, we learn that the words| written of Christmas, but it’s a
pretty good description. As H. E.
the Source of all Good, because He|Luccock has put it, “One of the

I have heard the phrase|ironies of our time and religion is

“God is Good,” and no doubt you
have too. So you can see we can now
write the Angelic Message “Glory to
God in the Highest, and on earth
Peace among men of God’s will. Men
of God’s Will! Men living and doing
God’s Will. Yes, that sets the his-
toric Message in a new light. It makes
it a statement of fact as well as a
Message of promise. In other words,
those who are living and doing God’s
will on earth HAVE that perfect
Peace. It is their prerogative. It is
the natural result of their having
Good Will, God’s Will among them.

Now, Good Will arises, not from
our attitude to each other but from
our attitude to God. Conversely, our
attitude to each other arises out of
our attitude to God. Perhaps you
have heard that little verse, “God
made me to know, and love, and
serve Him here on earth, and to be
with Him for evermore in Heaven.”
This is the whole end of man. Man’s
duty is to give Glory to God. That
is Worship, Service. Those of us
who know and use our Lord’s Own
Prayer pray, that God’s Name may
be hallowed, His kingdom come,
and His Will be done on earth as it
is in Heaven. Man is called upon to
give glory as in the Highest.

Now the highest form of Worship

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is Adoration, acknowledging the| th
Greatness, the Goodness, the Love| 0°"
of God. This is indeed giving glory | in

to God in the highest possible way. | th
Joining with the Hosts of Heaven in

their Worship. It is where the seed

that the celebration of the birth of
Christ has become the most frantic
convulsion of commercialism.’

In
any places the Christmas bell most

often run is the one attached to the
cash register.

Yet the words of Luke describing

the haste of the Shepherds can litt
us into a higher and loftier plane.
They open up a different kind of
Christmas than the
have known.
hearts, Christ: will be born this day,
there comes a sense of great urgency,
|the need for quick action, a call to
| hurry.

light in a world of darkness, hope
in a world devoid of hope, peace ia

one we may
For those in whose

For the Christmas story is

land shattered with turmoil.
A searching word for Christmas
one spoken by a leading atomic

scientist, Leo Szillard. “Maybe God

ill work a miracle, if we do not
ake it too hard for him.” How of-
n Jesus found he could do no
ighty work because of unbelief!

Yet we see in this Christmas scene

story of simplicity and tenderness.

For here in this lowly place, this
common dwelling —‘a stable — Ged
came to dwell with us.
not elsewhere is Jesus, Lord and
Saviour.

Here and

Look at the\letters which mari
€ great watershed of history. B.C.
A.D. — which area are you living
? Be. before Christ? — us
ough he never lived? Or are you

living in A.D. — a year of our Lord?
Has Christ really entered into your

Lworla?

of Good-Will

As we gather around our Bethie-
hem to worship our King on this
Festival of His Nativity let the seed
of Good Will be reborn within us. Let
each Christian man and woman
strive to fulfill our destiny. for it
is only by our doing so that the
Peace of God may be experienced
and enjoyed by all on earth.

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to
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tor vehicles,

A Canadian Army order prohibits
erseas soldiers from mailing “mo-
airplanes and motor-
cles’ back home. The order is not
joke. During the Second World

War some troops actually attempted

ship a vehicle to Canada by indi-
idual pieces.

SINCERE

Williams Lake Meat Market

Our heartiest wishes
that you may enjoy o
truly Merry Christmas
and all the good fortune
to make the New Year
a happy one.

one and aff

e one from

OF THE NEW

Pat’s Tir

JOY BE WITH YOU
AT CHRISTMAS

AND THROUGHOUT ALL THE DAYS

Pat Hosey

YEAR TO COMB

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