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Majestic Institute holds Christmas meeting
About 30 members and guests
of the Majestic Women's Institute
met at noon on. Wednesday in the
library for a pot luck dinner of
many kinds of delicious food, The
room and tables were decorated
by the branch directors, Mrs.
Clarence McCirtcheon, Mrs. Wm.
Perrie, and Mrs. Wilbur
Turnbull,
President, Mrs, Cudrnore
conducted a short business ,
session during which it was
decided to hold the first card '
party on January 7.
Mrs. Turnbull introduced Mri.
-Pat Bennett, of Seaforth, who
demonstrated the creation of
many attractive Christmas
decorations and articles, mostly
using simple things found around
the house. Mrs. James
Armstrong expressed the
gratitude of the audience.
Christmas carols were sung,
with Mrs. Doug. Hemingway at
the. piano.
Mrs. •Cudrnore read the
following discourse on the true
meaning of Christrnas, which had
been prepared by Rev. James
Perrie, of Strathroy.
into the realm of the human.
Someone has said that when. God
wantd to give us music, he didn't
hand us a book on Technicalities.
Rather, he wrapped a song in
feathers, set it on a bough, and
bade it sing! So at that first
Christmas, God wrapped his
glory up in the tender loveliness
of a little Child, and offered
himself to the humanity that so
needed him.
The elderly Simeon, the Child
clasped in his arms, is aware that
the Word has become flesh, that
the Divine has entered into
history. He, therefore, exclaims
with prophetic insight, "Mine
eyes have seen Thy salvation."
II
But look deeper into the heart
of Christmas, and you see not
only an unveiling of himself on
the part of God, but what is more,
a measuring rod, a moral and
spiritual barometer for what we
call our civilization! This is a
cosmic Child, and is for the rising
and falling of humanity! It smiles
'our so-called progress in the arts,
sciences and religion,' on the
cheek. It inserts a line of
demarcation between what, is
false' and true, evil and good, in
our makeshift human progress.
Christmas is a Child-Potentate,
set on a throne, meting out
judgment upon the sons of earth.
How almighty the Child is!
It is fitting that we should
frankly face the sterner aspect of
the Christmas Message, lest the
tinsel obscure the reality!,
As Christians, our task is the
basic one of helping to shape the
kind of world in which our
children may safely live and grow
and know happiness. We indulge
• no sentimentality when We Say,
"We must make the world safe
for the' children."
The Child is not only our judge,
but our one 'best hope. This
broken, battered world of ours
can be rebuilt about a Manger
Crib! Regardless of what our
particular nationality, or colour,
or creed may be, the fact remains
that all of us love our Children.
And there is hope for our riddled
humanity in that fact. There is a
power in the tiny fingers of one of
Christ's "little, ones" that can
'reorder our distraught' world
according to the "pattern
revealed in the Mount." The
aged Simeon is, aware of the fact
that the Child is cosmic. It is for
the rise and, falling of the nations:
And then the other thought:
Christmas is an event in which a
Child becomes a sign post and a
road leading and guiding us into
the Kingdom of Life Abundant.
Most likely it was the vivid
realization of this which thrilled
the heart of Simeon. He has been
en the alert, 'on spiritual tiptoe,
waiting for the "consolation of
Israel", And now that salvation
has appeared, he opens wide the
hospitable inn of his own heart to
he Child, exultantly exclaithing
as he does so, "For Mine eyes
have seen Thy salvation."
How this Advent-Child does
need to lay hold on our desperate
weary and saddened hearts! How
t needs to guide our vagrant
footsteps to that Kingdom which
is "righteousness and peace and
joy in the Holy Spirit." One often
hears it said that Christmas is for
the children; but the fact remains
that we adults need it the most. It
were as though the..
Eternal Himself were saying, to
us, Never mind your possible
doubts and speculations with
:egard to the Nativity narratives,
No words of mere man can
possibly be adequate vehicles to
set forth the wondrous Event.
There are depths in it which .'no
human mind, can fully grasp,
Father, consult" your own deep
needs, look into the eyes and
heart of a little child and behold
anew the glory and reality fo
Christmas! A man, sped
a close friend of
overheard to say, "0
may be coldly logical
hearts never.," None of
the Lord of Life stands b
"I tell you truly, unless
and become like children
never get into the realm
at all!" (Matt: 18:3)
led the Santa Claus Parade through town
and uniforms for long pants becaupe .th
reorganized last spring,, had a good turnou
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Christianity is a Christmas Faith
There is an incident tucked
away in the second chapter of
Luke's Gospel That we.commo nly
overlook at Christmas. The
destined Child of God's giving
has come. The caravan of
adoration -- the Shepherds and
Wise Men, the great and humble
of the earth -- has again gone its
way. There comes the, day when
.the parents of Jesus take him to'
the temple of Jerusalem for
consecration. As they stand at the
altar before the priest, an elderly
saint and prophet of God, Simeon
by name, who had been awaiting
the consolation of Isiael, 'joins
them there. Dramatically he takes
the Child in his arms, looks up to
heaven, and makes that sublime
utterance known as the Nunc
Dimitis (Luke 2:29-32). There is a
majestic sweep in the words as
they are spoken:
"Lord, now lettest Thou Thy
servant depart in peace,
For mine eyes have seen Thy
salvation."
For this is not just an ordinary
child that he holds in his arms at
the altar! There is something
portentious about this Life. "The
.Child," cried the aged saint, •
."shall be for the rise and falling
° of many in Israel." This little Life
is to constitute a watershed in
human souls; Men will either
receive this Child unto the
salvation of their souls or reject it
at their peril. One thing is certain
- They cannot ultimately be
indifferent to it.
Let us set down a few of the
ramifications of the Christian Fact
First of all; we note that ,
Christmas is pre.eminently an
event, a startling happening
within history, the actual advent
of the life and love and light of 4 t
God into a world of sin and pain
and woe and death. Its sublime
significance is contained in the
word "Emmanuel " God with us!
How uniquely the Eternal made
his entry into time, and Heavenly
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46,7`HE ll USSELS POO) OitEMBEIt 19, 1973
Grey twp.
okays grant
Grey Council at its December
meeting adopted the following
resolutions:
'—That Moncrieff Ball Club be
given a grant in the amount of
$100 and cheque be made payable
to Ronald McLean.
—That Ross . Engel be
.instructed 'to give the Transpor-
tation Manager of the Huron
County Board of Education a list,
of the bridges under ten ton -load
—That the Huron County
Board of Education be requested
.to have the payments 'of'
Education levy for the year 1974
made in two instalments, namely,
the 30th day of June and the 15th
day of December, 1974:
—That Clifford Bray be
appointed to look after repairs to
the Clark Municipal Drain. .
—That a grant hi the amount of
$700 be given to the Brussels
Recreational Committee.
—That the clerk be authorized
to purchase the Revised. Statutes
of Ontario 1910 from The
Municipal World Limited for
$65.00.
--,-That We meet with' Brussels
Pitt Department for a discussion'
on fire protection for Grey
Township.
t o write
That the
t he
C lerk
Lblestotseti Fire
Department in regards to fire
protection for those residents' On the LiStoWel telephone and the
east to us of such a service,
That the following: be
approached to serve On the Grey
Recreation Corninittee4 Max
Deinatay; Gerald Smith: Robert
itedpath: 'Dan Pearsoit;rdnaid
McLean; Donald Martin and
Barbara Dunbar«
-,That the claim of Luella S.
Winger ter rabbits killed by 460
be denied,
"
The Brussels Legion Pipe Band
Saturday but abandoned their kilts
weather was too cold. The Pipe Band,
of musicians for the parade.
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