HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1965-12-16, Page 22A picture of Christmas
Some will turn to their bibles
Others will enjoy their gifts
The true spirit of Christmas combines both these thoughts. We hope that your Christmas combines these as well.
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In the Spirit
of Christmas
Don and Doris Wilson wish to
thank their many customers
during the past year and would
like to wish you all a Blessed
and Holy Christmas and a
Happy New Year. Glory to God
in the highest and on earth
peace, goodwill toward men.
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Wilson's
Jewelry
Fr' 235-2882 Exeter
238-2385
BRUCE
REFRIGERATION
Bruce Emerson Thompson
CLOSED Month of January
Main Street GRAND BEND
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THE ANGLICAN
CHURCH OF CANADA
Trivitt Memorial, Exeter
The Rev. .1. Philip Gandon,
Rector
Robert Cameron, Organist
CHRISTMAS 1965
Christmas Eve:
11:30 p.m.—The Midnight
Eucharist of Christmas
Christmas Day:
9:03 a.m.—Holy Communion
t said)
10:03 a.m.—Informal Family
Service
Sunday, Dec. 26
8:00 a.m.—Holy Communion
11:15 a.m.—Service of Lessons
and Carols
EVANGELICAL UNITED
BRETHREN CHURCH
DASHWOOD
Minister:
Rev. M. J. James, B.A., B.D.
Organist: Mrs. K. McCrae
Sunday, December 26
10:00 a.m.—Morning Worship
11:10 a.m.—Sunday School
BETHEL
REFORMED CHURCH
Huron Street East
Rev. H. Heeg
Friday. Dec. 24th at 8:00 p.m.
Christmas Eve Vesper Service
All Welcome
Christmas Day
1:00 p.m.—Worship. English
Sermon: "For Unto You is
Born This Day a Saviour"
2:00 p.m.—Sunday School Christ-
mas Program
Sunday, December 26
10:00 a.m.—English. Sermon:
"You Shall Be My People"
2:00 p.m.—English. Sermon:
"This Child is Set for the
Fall and Rising of Many"
ZION CHURCH
Evangelical United
Brethren
CR ED ITON
Minister:
Rev. H. G. Zurbrigg, B.A., B.D.
Sunday, December 26
THE CHRISTMAS SERVICE
10:00 a.m.—Morning Worship
Sermon:
"The Wonder Of It All"
11:15 a.m.—Sunday School
CHRISTIAN
REFORMED CHURCH
Rev. Medenclorp
Christmas Day
10:00 a.m.—Worship Service
English
Sunday, December
10:00 a.m.—Worship Service
(English)
2:15 p.m.--Worship Service
(Duteh)
6:15 p.M.—Back to God Hour
CIILO (680 EC.)
'JAMES STREET
UNITED CHURCH
Rev. S. E. Lewis, M.A., B.D.
Minister
Mr. Lawrence Wein, A.W.C.M.
Organist and Choirmaster
10 a..m.—SUND.AY SCHOOL
All Departments
11 a.m.—MORNECG SERVICE
Three Christmas Numbers
by the Junior Choir
Sermon: "Walking By The
Light Of The Star"
How the spirit of Christmas
may remain with us through
the year.
Nursery for babies and Jun-
ior Congregation for children
4. 5 and 6 years.
Welcom e
MAIN STREET
United Church of Canada
Minister:
Rev. R. S. Hiltz, BA., M.Th.
Organist: Bonnie McCrae
10:00 a.m.—Sunday School
11:15 a.m.—Sermon: "The Phi-
losophy of Christmas"
Junior Choir
Nursery
Thurs., 8:00 p.m.—Pageant.
Social Hour
CAVEN PRESBYTERIAN
CHURCH
Main at Hill St., Exeter
Minister:
Rev. John C. Boyne,
B.A., B.D.
Organist: Mrs. Murray Keys
Sunday, December 26
10:00 a.m.—SUNDAY SCHOOL
11:15 a.m.--CHURCH SERVICE
You are invited to worship
with us.
Nursery available for pre-
school children.
EXETER PENTECOSTAL
TABERNACLE
55 Main St.
Sunday Services
Rev. L. Talbot. former
pastor, in charge
9:45 a.m.—Bible School
11:00 a.m.—Worship
7:30 p.m.—Worship
Tues., 8 p.in,—Prayer and Bible
Study; Y.P.C.A.
EMMANUEL
BAPTIST CHURCH
In Bethel Reformed Church
Huron St. E.
Pastor:
W. Stephenson, B.A., B.Th.
21:20 a.m.—Worship Service
"Christ the Reconciler"
Sunday School for the
then
1:30 p.m.—Evening Service
"The Gift was Taken Away"
We-J. S p.m —Prd'‘.cr Service.
We welcome you to
worm') with us.
night Mass that night.
Charles Wesley, brother of
John Wesley, wrote, "Hark! The
Herald Angels Sing!" in 1739.
Phillips Brooks, a noted Boston
clergyman, wrote "0 Little Town
of Bethlehem" in 1868.
Though not a carol, Handel's
noble "Messiah" is a Christmas
Fire safety
is important
Householders were urged to-
day by the Canadian Under-
wr iter s' Association to take
sensible precautions and help
prevent fire which each holiday
season takes a tragic toll in lives.
As fire safety precautions, the
Association suggested that spe-
cial care be given the Christmas
tree, which when dry, can burst
into flames if a spark comes in
contact with it. It also urged care
in the kitchen when meals are
being prepared on the kitchen
range and recommended that the
use of lighted candies as Christ-
mas decorations be avoided.
GIR1STIPS
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"Unto you a.
Child is
born." And the
message of
the manger is
ever new,
and newly present
at this
holy season,
to lift
our spirits and,
bring us joy.
.544/te did ekteameu.
Christmas is only two days away. you and your fam-
ily are making preparations to Spread good will and
cheer.
What about the millions of children in underprivileged
countries who won't have a Christmas, who'll spend the
day in pain, hunger and sorrow? liaVe, you included them
on Your Christmas list?
Doubtless you've said at past Christmases, as you
eyed a gift-surrounded tree with the smell of turkey in
the room. "How fortunate we are!" Perhaps you've even
had a feeling of guilt, knowing that the world has many
children who need your help.
All of us should add a name to our gift list this
Christmas. It may be one of the organizations listed
below who help those unfortunates. It may be the name
of a similar agency supported by your church or fraternal
group.
In any case, you'll probablyfind that this one addition
signifies a deeper meaning of Christmas than all of the
other names combined.
This Christmas, share Christmas.
The Times-Advocate has no way of knowing whichof
the agencies listed below provides the most significant
assistance to the world's unfortunates. We do believe,
however, that each of them, in their own way, will use
your donation, large or small, to help those who really
need it. They are listed alphabetically, not in order of
preference and they don't include all of the agencies doing
excellent work. But if you're not supporting any other,
make a contribution to one of these. You'll have a merrier
Christmas.
CARE of Canada
116 O'Connor Street
OTTAWA, Ontario
The Canadian Save the
Children Fund,
68 Hayter Street,
TORONTO 2, Ontario
National UNICEF Committee,
280 Bloor Street West,
TORONTO 5, Ontario
CARE helps
feed hungry
In its 20th year of service,
CARE is helping to feed more
than 37,000,000 hungry people
on four continents.
To victims of war and disaster, '
CARE brings food for survival.
To victims of the ancient cycle
of poverty, disease and ignor-
ance, CARE brings food as a
tool for building progress. School
lunches turn listless children
into alert pupils. Daily milk saves
pre-school youngsters from per-
manent physical and mental dam-
age. Family and hospital meals
give health and energy to the
sick and undernourished of all
ages. Food-for-work projects
yield economic improvements.
Donations of farm abundance
are the mainstay of this vast en-
deavor.
But the lifeblood of CARE's
work is still the individual donor
who acts out of compassion and
good will, to help others less
fortunate, For millions of the
hungry, the CARE donor is the
only source of hope. It is the
donor's name and address, pre-
sented with the CARE package,
that gives it warm meaning.
Packages made possible by con-
tributions from Canadians are
marked with a green Maple Leaf,
signifying it is a gift from some-
one in canada who cares. To com-
plete CARE's 1965-66 feeding
plans will require 6,000,000 food
packages, at a dollar per package.
Contributions may be addressed
simply to "CARE of, Canada,
Ottawa".
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PEACE
LUTHERAN CHURCH
Andrew and George Streets
Pastor: William A. Gatz
Christmas Day
8:30 a.m.—Communion Service
Sunday, December 26
9:15 a.m.—Divine Service
10:30 a.m.—Sunday School
10:30 a.m.—Bible Class
ZION
LUTHERAN CHURCH
DASHWOOD
Pastor: Rev. William Gatz
Christmas Eve
8:00 p.m.—Sunday School Christ-
mas Program
Christmas Day
10:00 a.m.—Communion Service
Sunday, December 26
9:45 a.m.—Sunday School
10:00 a.m.—Bible Class
11:00 a.m.—Divine Service
Churches of the Lutheran Hour
Christmas caroling is almost
as old as Christmas itself—
though not in the form we know it,
An early historian wrote that
in the Second Century the bishop
of Rome urged his people to sing
"in celebration of our Lord."
Christmas hymns go back to the
Fifth Century, when most of them
were written in Latin.
St. Francis of Assisi is re-
garded as the father of caroling
as we know it, according to World
Book Encyclopedia. In 1223, St.
Francis placed a creche (minia-
ture Nativity scene), inahermit-
age in Grecchio, Italy.
After this many churches be-
gan displaying a Nativity scene
at Christmas, and soon the peo-
ple began acting out the Christ-
mas story. The actors composed
carols to sing with their Nativity
plays and after the plays they
would stroll down the street,
singing. In that way, street carol-
ing was born,
Joseph Mohr, a pastor in Ob-
erndorf, Austria, composed
((Stile Nacht," or ',Silent Night"
on Christmas Eve, 1818. Franz
Gruber, the local schoolmaster
and organist, composed the music
the same day, and the hymn was
sung for the first time at Mid-
tradition. It first was performed
in Dublin in 1742. "Joy to the
World," written in the early 18th
Century by Isaac Watts, was set
to the music of a segment of the
"Messiah." "While Shepherds
Watched Their Flocks by Night,"
written in 1703 by Nahum Tate,
was set to music taken from
"Siroe," an opera by Handel.
No one knows who wrote "The
First Noel." It first appeared
in print in 1833 in a book called
"Christmas Carols Ancient and
Modern," and is believed to be
very old.
The author of "God Rest Ye
Merry, Gentlemen," also is un-
known, but he lived before Shake-
speare.
So if you should go caroling
this Christmas season, think of
other carolers of years gone by,
of the people of Charles Dickens'
time in their beaver hats and cut-
away coats, of English villagers
in hose and jerkin, of good St.
Francis, and of the priests of
the time of the Christian Roman
Empire who, before caroling as
we know it existed, sang" in cele-
bration of our Lord."
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