The Signal, 1934-12-20, Page 64 -Thursday, December loth, 1934
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THIS CHRISTMAS SEASON
-Noting more appreciated than choler Flowers for tilt tOCa/lou.
We will bare a large stock to demote from both in Cflt rtawere
and powering Amts.
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We carry the largest stoct%aimideoT tiff
your a c.::e to call and nee the display even If you do not purchase
(ou.c cud took the stock over before you decide on anything e1>c
GoneEC• STEWART
Florist,Ph106 a�Ooderich, Ontariog�
TitCPUIVICTitterMITMEIy
-Na done I egotism Is a world dan-
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of Maras must weft
ger."-Viscount Cecil.
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C. & B. CATSUP Large 14 -oz. bottle 15c
RICH RED TOMATO JUICE 5 101/2 -oz. tins 25o
AYI.MER No. 4 Sieve PEAS 2 tin! !Ss
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ROYAL YORK COFFEE 1-1b. tin 39c
HILLCREBT SHORTENING 2 1-1b. Prints 25c
LARGE MEATY PRUNES 2 lbs. 25c
DERBY CHEESE .. Spreads or slices ... 2 1/2-1b. pkgs. 25c
MAPLE LEAF SALMON ..1/2-1b. tin 19c ....1 -Ib. tin 35c
AYLMER GOLDEN BANTAM CORN 2 tins 25c
McLAREN'S JELLY POWDERS 5 pkgs. 25c
QUEEN OLIVES .large 19 -os. bottle 25c
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a e3 " CHRISTMAS
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THE SIGNAL'
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By A. W. B.
We never get tired of studying the!
Brat Christmas, going W Bethlehem
"to see this thing that Ma come to
pass," the Wise Men bringing their
gifts and homage, the shepherds their
adoration. We talk and sing of the
story and try to egtimatr li! _d?T+tA 40
itld mankind. Literstere i•-tldi-.I *-
counts of how Chrtrtvus was spent
through the ages. Worship, heating,
merrymaking, musical veieitaaaiue rani
a beneficent ministry to the poor -all
have been practised and observed.
Lights and shadows are thrown on the
screen of Chrlatmaa In other years as
they pass before ua. We have spate
only to make mention of a few. Take
a note written on Christman Day, 11196,
as found in Mr. Peps' Diary. That
alnlaid% Sent lRm4a�, ,.. - . ,
with his famous notebook on that day.
He wrote: "To church in the morning,
and saw a wedding 1n the church,
which I have not seen for many a day,
and the young people so merry one
with somber: And strange to ape
what delight we .married people have
to w•e throe poor fools decoyed into
our condition, every nun and woman
gaslug anti smiling at them."
Five .years before be intimated. did
e.-11Vpys, that ble eblefest thought
(so he writes in his Diary) was to
WI -good wife for Tom (hie brother),
"there being one offered by the
Joyces, a cousin with 3110 pounds in
ready money." But a month later
after some negotiation be dismissed
the matter as inadvisable. as consid-
ering what he had to leave Tom in his
will be ought to hare a wife with
more money than this Joyce girl, and
so he desired them to think no more
about it.
msoteLhaws Fucked the.apheist-..
mart spirit and fey wedding joy en
that Christmas Day in 1068. He evi-
dently was apt to look on marriage
only In terms of a commercial trans-
action, or the way to social superior-
Ity.
It is a wander that titrYtntas Day
is not picked upon oftener as a wed-
ding day. Perhaps the main reason is
that a wedding and Christmas would
make two great festive days in a year,
and why crowd all the good celebra-
tions Into one day when the year of-
fers so many days for joyful transfor-
mation?
Recently I bare read John Wesley's
Diary in the four volumes, a most in-
teresting and profitable pastime for all
Lamers of books. 1 was tntera rted as
to how be passed his Cbr110o1.ses. He
had eighty-seven of than. Many were
spent in old London and under very
different conditions from ours. His
own bent of mind and puritanic way of
looking at things determined largely
the soberness with which be viewed
any celebration. The call to worship
at such times was to him the insist-
ent thing. We would expect that of
the Bevereoed John. We can imagine
bow the muse would work mightily
upon his brother _Charles, who gave as
that great Christmas hymn, 'Hark.
the herald angels sing," at Christmas
time. John was evidently keen to
preach on Christmas Day and that
was how the day was largely spent,
year after year, in preaching, and In
those meetings in fellowship and pray-
er of hie hearers to apply and clinch
the troth. There is an entry in his
Diary on Christmas Day, 1778, which
is characteristic of other Christmases
GODERICH, ONT.
In hie bop I14 that la *only noticing.
"Orr service began at four a.m.. as
motel, la the New Chapel (London). I
"Vented Mr. Richardson to read pray-
er* at West street chapel. but be did
not cams; a0 1 read payers mortal,
and preached shad xtll!_►if)01ed aacra-
esent to severed handed YpP1r
.- (Th1i
was later is the morning.) In the
afternoon 1 preaotmd at the New
Chapel, meemenghly tatted ie scary
corner; Midi 11 the evening at St. Sap.
ohtrres. orae of the largest parish
churches b London it was warm
enough. Ming sutf.'leutly filled; yet I
felt DO weaAaeas, but Wes stronger
after 1 had preached my fourth ser-
mon thea I was after the Bat." This
W414 a aarrelioua record for a nun
over aaMlaWalles AarlZ..t>t .�
wo.ld hardly lave time fora Christ-
mas dlaasr, esti as for pulling crack-
ers (It tiro were such things in b10
day) or dietelbutIng gifts -maybe he
reserved hose for the pulpit ; for he
knew how tib explode to tine purpose
and Nbow the Greatest Gift of all.
There le the retlectlun of a mad
Christmas sawn in the autobiography
of Mariana Il*rningham. which 1
Love At *id down. The author of
that b.suditl young peoples hymen,
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Sunday Afternoon
By ISABEL HAMII/PON
Oodertch, Ont.
Be strong in the Lord, and In the pones
of His might.
Flght the good aght with all thy might;
Run the straight rave through lhd'a
good grace;
Lift up thine eyea, and seek His face.
Causi tate :iw.o ; �••L1C
Lean, and His mercy will provide.
Faint not, nor tear ; His arms as bear ;
He ttangeth not, and thou art deer;
Only believe, and thou shaft see
That O brIet la all in all to thee.
-J. S. B. Mooed'.
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°`(live ui leer, so 6611
we may trot grow weary 1n the battle
of life. Amen.
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Lemon Tema-T.ste el a t irtstiol.
Lassen Paawge--1 John 8:1 -it.
Guides Text -1 Joint 1:1.
This chapter discusses Line, Faith,
Victory.
-The love of God, oh' what it is
none but lila loved ones know."
The love of all who love God L a
consequence of G'od's love to them and
will be seen in the keeping of His
commandments.
All love In tele heart 1s a creation;
and wbom God loves, 1n them He cre-
ates love to Him. There 10 always an
twelimilisa to love those who we believe
love ftp. If you believe God lovas you,
It le a sure effect that you will try to
love Him; it 1a a part of the ordla*ry
constitution of our nature. 1t 1s so
wonderful a.thing that the great Ood
should indeed love a poor miserable
ginner that whenever It L really
brought bone to the heart sad con-
science it awakens heavenly affections.
Many have a general sense of the love
of God, but they cannot believe that
11e, personally, loves them; and yet
until this is done nothing 1s done. You
will not love God until you are quite
sore that God specially and individual-
ly loves you.
"Hoek to His dear. loving arms would
I flee,
When 1 remember that Jesus loves
"Just aa I an. young, $frons and f>ras►
To be the beet that I can W.--
For tree* sad righteou snesa eel ilhee,
(1 Jesse Quist, 1 .ewe."
tells bow in ber young girlhood, one
Christmas, ber mother died. She said
that mother was so much more to ber
and the other four chiklren of the fait -t
fly than rather that again and again
she had sobbed out this beseeching
prayer: 's0 Irord, if you must have
one, please take our father to heaven,
-And Thine ills bar deaf"mother." -dad
at last is desperation she cried, "0
Lord, let me all die wheu mother dies,
11 ate apt."
That mother died and Marianne
remissions says the Christmas Eve
of that dying occasion burnt Itself in-
to her wool. "To this day I do not
know how to bear the sounds of
tlsristarin bells and c-arol-singers. 1
stood abate la a dark room. my broth-
ers sad eaters having been sent to
bed, promos my hot tear -stained face
against tlbe window -pace. and peering
out tats the darkness at the singers.
While they cant. 'Hark, the herald
angelic dog,' I felt as if all the light of
my life went out, ami that the Babe
of Bethlehem could never be anything
to me arida; and when the bells rang
oqt their merry peal I hated them
and shrank from their sounds as 1f
they were bizwa"
This note helps us to feel very keen-
ly for those who are called upon, In
what 1s generally thought of as the
happiest seenon of the year, to go
through a palatal and shadowed
Chrlstmaa Vnpgt4. swab 111. as
Miss Farms( .cm did. that the mean-
ing and bear'Cet Chale ntsa It te give
deegaot sal lf�eat �Mte ated jiog to
offset aD the tirvaf au-
Peraelt one other reMtehie to ether
Christmases aid bet kb. a personal
one. Perhaps the hapl"st Christmas
bite writer ever spent wee in Huron
county some sine or tea years ago. It
was made happy by three gltta They
were simple gifts. Bot it was what
was behind each gift that made tbem
no precious to me. One was a large
orange, given to me at a Christmas
tree of a Sunday school when a big-
hearted dtissen did what be bad done
for years -glean the children of the ,faith should overcome the world. W
local Sunday school a beautiful aped- IWheatWheat mom had given himself up to the wor-
men of this fruit, his own personal
,provision for their happiness. Being
chairman of the happy event, he
handed nt• one drat. That orange
talked to me, not of snnklesed Cali-
fornia or Florida, but of the minable*
in the heart of a grey -beaded old man
fol only by deriving sap sad nsu1'iM-
ment from the Vine. lava is Aswt
the Itee of the believing soul sad
through faith In Ulm comes victory
over the world, the flesh, and the devil.
(l`a•udenaed from 1Le Hermon Bible).
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WORLD I IRMONS
Why 1 An Going Bank to lily Fluid;
To West Ciba
(By ttev. J. D. Modlcott, M.A.)
I as going back to China because 1
have seen • picture of great need
When :1 that came home on furlough,
my zealous uncle, paries Endicott,
urged me to go out to 8•akatcbewan
and meet witb the fall Presbyteries.
On wy gay through Winnipeg a friend
remarked, "You're ping to South Sask-
atchewan to talk mission? You'll be
lucky if they don't aai you for some-
thing." I was expecting a very di►
heartening time. But, strange to say,
the effect wee just the opposite. I
was tbrllked by the heroism and quiet
dlsaal13 at UM 7111e94e.4 waiter vt.,!Ir
rejoiced to see what good will and love
could do, in • country having tine beee-
fit of good scientific communication.
For several days we drove through
country that had been dried out and
eaten up by grasshoppers. Yet I telt
like congratulating the people because
they lived in a "so-called Christian
country." Everywhere I beard of car-
loads of supplies coming front helping
contntnnitiew throughout Canelo.
where did I see men and novelties tla
roadsides la the last agonia of OWration, or mothers+ offering to sell their
little children so that they might keep
body and soul together for a little
longer. China, In her need, has be-
come my neighbor. Cbristiauity, to
me, merino that I must search out for
my own life the implication of the
simple and direct lnalght of Jesus be -
bind the word... "And all ye are bretb-
tea " -------
The multitudes of China fascinate
use. I think they must be like the
multitudes on which Jesus looked
with compeswlon. When I was asked to
consider taking the pastorate of a dif-
ficult but Inspiring church in a Cana-
dian city, the thought that came to my
mind was. "In Mite city there are over
Wo hundred churches." Then came
the picture of the miles and miles of
trey -tiled roofs which can be sees
from my attic study in the top of •
blgh mission building, and the thought
of the teeming, struggling life beneath
them.
My mind reverted to the menage
that came to Jonah. "And should not
I have pity on (Nineveh, that great
city ; wherein •re more than sllmeore
thousand persons that cannot discern
between their right hand and tbelr
left?"
I am going back to China because 1
hare made many Chinese friends. They
write and tell me they want me to come
back. I think they are sincere when
they say they went my help.
As i turn my steps toward China f
have a sense ot loyalty to my com-
rades who died in France and Flanders.
The voice of John Weirs. still calla
to all who would keep idles the fano
of Meath= Is • world 01 greed said
]tris:
"Take rep our quarrel with the foe...
U ye break faith. we shall not sleep."
W know now t'h•t "tbe foe" 1s the
trptrit of greed and selfishness, the will
to exptolt the weak. and grind the
faces of the poor. We can see clearly
that the spirit which begets wars can
be found under the proud fiats of
all the Powers. In China we are In
the front line trencher. of the straggle
against exploitation and aggrandise-
ment. Mr. Oldham, of the internation-
al Mlastonary Council, has said re-
cently : "Te rise of Comm*nlsm is
a powerful reminder that unless Chr1s-
tianity can emceed In bridging the
wide chasm between the mentality of
the privileged and secure end fife men-
tality of those -the majority -who are
continually menaced by lnseenrity and
want. It cannot hope to become a world
religion."
That Me (ktu wt has a special me* -
sage of hope and asanrrnte to fife de-
pressed and d4lnherfted people of the
world dM seem to he a supreme eon-
Tbe Victory of Faith.. -It In ac•know- vktlon of the ('torch's Master. In
ledged by everybody that the world is returning to (Mina 1 feel that 1 am
And how are we to know that we love
God? By loving what Gal commands
-that is, by putting our wills In a line
with ills will; by siting Him our
hearts, by loving what He commands
is accepted by 'Him as love for Hlm-
seit
This is the victory that ovsrrwaa•th
tate world, even our faith. Faith le
the living priaclpte by which the soul
drinks In life from the heavenly foun-
tain of life.
God did not leave Himself without a
witness on earth. H. would not so
forsake mankind as that there should
not be • dngle eye of faith to look up
to ]aim *moos all the nations, that
there should not be a tangle altar, a
abgle heart, from which prayer and
thasicadving and praise should OMNI
lo heaven. When the whole world w**
turning away from Him to enwrap it-
self In Its own natural darkness, He
called Abraham to be the father of
them that bellere and prom1ed that
from him In the course of ages should
spring One through faith in whom all
the nation.) of the earth were to be
blessed. Thus did God ordain that
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Folks!
.hip of the creature, of the earth
and its fruits, of the Haab and its lusts.
God said, I will light np the light of
faith in the heart of Abraham. Faith
0 mill the light of the believing heart,
and It Is a practical principle. If we
look thoughtfully through the history
Met prompts him to do gracious of our chttreh, or even of the world,
things to make dhrlstraas dear to little we shall find that this, under one shape
ones. Another gift was a box of apples or other. has ever been the main prin-
presented to me by a neighbor boy. He etpie and .spring of all greet and mag -
had appreciated the attention i had nanlmoue action. even faith.
shown him and wanted to make some
return. Yon should (rave *seen the
shine on thole apples; every one had
been carefully 'alerted and beaotltnl-
ly nollebad-_They were No.,,1,q in a
unique sense. .And then the cardboard
container -be had ( eered the brown
surface with dowered paper until it was
a thing of beauty. It was a lovely
gift. I thought of David refusing to
drink of the costly water brought to
him by affectionate comrades from the
well at Bethlehem. and I couldn't for
a time bring tatyulf to tet my teeth In
one of that rare boxllrl. I wanted
to look at them and show them to my
friends.
Then the Chinese laundry man that
Chrletptaa gave me some illy bathe to
coax into flower as we set them in
stones and water. As he shyly said, he
wanted to make me thla Christmas
gift an a Mend to a friend. He
warned' my heart by Indicating. that
be "liken vas." Thane throe things
helped to make a wonderful Christmas
Mr me. - -.
K INGSBRItlGE
KINTIMIRIDOT, 'Dec. 1R. -A very
merry Christmas to all'
Rea. Father McCardle, Mr. and Yrs.
Thos. Garrey, Mr. John and Miss Mary
Garvey, Mestere Eugene and Mark
Dalton attended the ordination cere-
monies at Sandwich last Sunday, when
Rev. Frclwin Ganey wan ordained a
pried. Father Garvey will slim ida
firm solemn mans In Kingrtrldge
churrh next Ruud*y at 10.30 a.m. We
extend aur cwngratnlatfons to Mr. and
Mrs. G*rvey aol family and to the
whole Klnmr0rtdge pariah, that another
Nan ha+ been rslsod to the dignity of
the priesthood and 1. privileged to of-
fer the holy sacrifice of the mase.
M 1 Ns Gertrude 'Foley, R24.. of Lon-
don. in vending a while at her horse
here, and her Mater, Miss Mary Foley,
of (toderlr•b, •pent fhrnday at home.
Mr. M. 7, O'Connor. who has been
confined to his room for the last two
weeks..0 pow *os to be amend again.
'her.- liatklet' hlsrlier1. el=as.--' -
rick's parish. London. officiated here
ow llnwday ilr lbw sob ea•a al .Rai...
Father Meeerifile.
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GODERICH
a place of conflict ; but It la not felt by
everybody that there M an inestimable
advantage to ibis: that the condition*
of human lilaGouldlba.tJsoee el4eep
filet. And yet, if we reflect, we shall
not, f think. mnrmur that our lot
should he cant in a world where there is
every need for the patting forth of our
enemies, for sorely It 1a by fife stimu-
lating influence. of various oppositions
that our power. will ripen and develop.
The trouble is we mistake the nature
of the conflict. The world, we nay, 1*
a great arena of conte*t. It 1* tree,
and there are many fore. There 1a
poverty. there in Ignorance. there le
obscurity. there is weakness. The
apostle tells n* none of these constitute
the real foe. The true enemy le not In
the world, nor in the things that are
In the world. but rather that it Is in
the world within the heart. And the
only thing that can oeenr* victory there
le faith. ram, bringe vte•t(ry and tree
life for "fie that bath the Ron hate
life."
The mama of gaining thin faith are
principally three: reading the Scrip?
tures, prayer. and a partaking of the
Lord's Rapper. Faith will come by
reading, as of nM time it reme by hear -
Ing, and when we have time become
(0mdllar with Chrlat. have learned to
love film and to know that He tent
only wan, bat in now. a living object of
onr love we will cone more and more
to Tot our affection. on thing* above.
A true ('hrittian M one who lives a
doable life; the ordinary life which all
men live and an Inner. Newt lite wh$eh
In hid with (hrt.t in Clod. Tht. life 1a
Me scene. an to *peak. of hit greatest
joys and sorrow*, and (7Ji't In the
sharer of both. He :a the Head. and
each true believer one of lids members
He la the Vine, and we are His branches
and we are strong. h.althy and frnit-
knllsdws
giving evldene of this troth in a prac-
tical and realistic way. Both Me
ernment in China. and (atinee.e so-
la general, w,N•oms all the agen-
cies of edneatton that Inaplre the
youth with thane Meals which will
create a so -operative society. in the
work that lies before me f feel that
there in opportunity to make a contri-
hntion of hope and amenenc. to some
of the depr•es*ed and disinherited
people of the world. -(From the
Church Record and Missionary Re-
view).
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view).
A City
Residence • • •
for a day. a weak or longer --
from • eangls room with bath to
tate roost sumptuous hwuseksep-
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v'er and dine-.Rordleg every
osevseleece, luxury sad attasd-
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eo4tion some-enaacelhad ,s *-
toot service -that, briefly. is the
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