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ALL LIT UP FOR CHRISTMAS - Typical of the beautifully decorated houses seen
around Brussels during the holiday season is this, the Turnberry St. house of Mr. &
Mrs. Jack Bryans. Christmas lights were up all over the village this week as
families welcomed loved ones home for the holidays.
(Photo by Langlois)
Morris discusses nursery
Morris Township Council met
on Saturday with all members
present and Reeve Wm. Elston
presiding.
Robert Charters, chairman of
East Wawanosh Recreation,
Parks and Commu nity Centre
Board was present and discussed
plans of the board with council
and Wm. Stevenson brought
information concerning a
proposed nursery centre at
Belgrave School.
On motion of Jas. Mair and
Thos. M iller council granted
$25.00 to the Canadian Mental
Health Association, Ontario
Division.
A resolution from the town of
Seaforth concerning lack of
provincial support for waste
disposal received council's
endorsation.
Council authorized payments of
rebates of taxes of $9.07 on N%
Lot 5, Con. 7 and $3.60 on Plan 5,
Lots 1, 2, 3.
News of Cianbrook
Correspondent
Mrs. M. Engel
Wilfred Strickler received word
Friday morning of the sudden
death of his mother, Mrs.Rachel
Shireman of Bright, Ontario. She
was 81 years of age.
Miss Janet Veitch of London is
spending the holidays with her
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Clare
Veitch.
An old favorite
One of the most popular
Christmas candies is the
popcorn ball: round and
delicious, although some-
times a real challenge to
the teeth.
But such Christmas
sweets are fun to make.
Get together with the kids
and try it. Here are all the
ingredients you need.
POPCORN BALLS
11/2 cups of popcorn
4 tablespoons of butter
or oleomargarine
1/2 cup of water
1 cup of sugar
% c up of corn syrup
1 teaspoon of salt
1 teaspoon of vanilla
First, of course,, make
the popcorn. The mount
of unpopped popcorn in-
dicated will make about
seven cups of popped corn,
anywhere from 12 to 15
popcorn balls, Set the pop-
corn aside for a second in
a large bowl.
In a saucepan, mix the
butter (or oleomargarine) ,
water, sugar, corn syrup
and salt with the popped
corn. Cook this over a
medium heat until (via
your own testing method)
a few drops form a hard
ball when dropped into
cold water. Remove from
heat.
Then stir in the vanilla,
pouring it in a thin stream
over the popped corn and
stirring constantly to mix
well. Shape the popcorn
into balls with buttered
hands and set the balls
down on waxed paper to
cool for awhile.
Soon the popcorn balls
will be ready for consump-
tion.
By merely straightening
a paper clip, you can cre-
ate a tree decoration. Push
one hooked end of a paper
clip into the popcorn ball
for a hanger. The other
end can hang from the
tree branches.
Red, green and yellow
cellophane paper is per-
fect for making party fa-
vors or surprise treats out
of the popcorn balls. Mere-
ly cut out a , piece of the
cellophane in a square
which wraps nicely around
the entire ball, then tie
one end with colorful rib-
bon.
for coming to the Huron Men's
Chapel in Auburn in 1974
OUR LAST GREAT SERVICE IN 1 974
Sunday, December 29
Canadian secretary of the Andes Evangelical Mission held speaking
engagements in South America during July and August 1974. Presently head of
Christian Missions Education Services and a lecturer in Missions at Emmanuel
Bible College. Now Rev. Shillington is minister of Kitchener M.B. Church where
Dr. Frank Peters was minister.
THE McMILLAN FAMILY
All Welcome
EVIL PREVAILS WHEN GOOD MEN DO NOTHING
14—THE BRUSSELS 008-T i DECEMBER 25, 1914
A Christmas heresy
A Christmas cartoon showed a little hut bathed in
a halo of light. The mother bent over her child in a
manger. Shepherds approached from the fields, wise
men from the deserts, and the night sky was filled
with angels.
And the father came rushing out, shouting, "It's a
girl!"
It's almost unimaginable. In this age of
enlightened theology, a number of broad-minded
Christie% have managed to convince themselves
that God might indeed be female as well as male. or
perhaps neither, or perhaps both. But to conceive of
the Christ, the Messiah, as a woman? How
ridiculous!
After all, you say, if Chrisil had been a woman,
there would probably have been no great preaching
journeys through Palestine, no going out in the boats
with the fishermen, no driving the money-changers
out of the temple. There would probably have been
no trial, and no crucifixion. The great
world-changing ministry of Jesus might have been
restricted to a single small town, an association with
other women, perhaps a generation or two of
children. Jesus a woman? Hah! Heresy!
If the thought of a female Christ horrifies you,
maybe the heresy is yours.Certainly, the Bible says
that Jesus was male. The heresy may be that
because of Hebrew social standards God had no
choice but to send a male Messiah. That makes God
subject to human customs. It denies the limitless
power of God.
Surely the real message of Christmas is not what
did happen, but what can happen. What could be
more absurd than one child, one unsophisticated
carpenter's son in a t roublesome little backwater of
the Roman Empire setting out to change the world,
even challenging death on a cross. if anything should
be considered impossible, that should be . Even for
God.
But that's what happened.
Christmas says to all of us, then and now, "With
God, even the impossible is possible."
(Contributed)