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A veteran of 33 years as a volunteer firefighter with the
Goderich Fire Department, Edward George "Ted" Bissett has
worn the chief's cap for the last four years, The 56 -year-old
Goderich native is known throughout the town through his work
as a routema.n for Andrew's Dairy for' the last 26`years. He
has recently accepted a position as porter at the Ontario Hospital.
.. As chief of the 17.man- volunteer force, he is responsible for fire
protecti$n and -fire safety inspection of .all town property. Like
all firemen, he is on call around the clock to answer any summons
to the scene of a fire. He is responsible to the Fire, Traffic
and Safety committee of town council for the operations of his
de ment, and must submit reports of all fires in the com-
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the. job was augmented by a course in inspection at .the Ontario
Fire College, Gravenhurst. He and his wife, Marion, who make
their home at 88 Picton Street W:, have two married children,
John, in town end Mrs. Jack (Marion) Hinton, of Sarnia, as
well as two grandchildren. "Ted", who has lived in Goderich
all his life, maintained a lively interest in hockey and baseball,
both of which he used to participate in actively. (Staff Photo)
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ED. NOTE - This 'is the fifth in a series of feature articles
designed to acquaint our readers with the persons charged
with the responsibility of conducting town affairs Ina non.elective
capacity. •
By. *tea, Leonard Warr
Victoria Street United
NO ROOM AT•CHRI$TM,As
"the 'tittle inn on the crest
of the hill on the outskirts of
Bethlehem was enjoying a tem.
porarl boom. For once there
was plenty of traffic, on this
secendaary road. It was a day
in .a thousand with everyone on
the move, for men, women and
children were to be registered
for taxation, in the city of the
tribe to which they belonged.
The inn -beeper was not slow
t� -make else of the occasion;
rooms were booked andthe
highest' prices paid; in fact the
public rooms were all being
used for the night,. too.
As the innkeeper and his wife
were preparing their guests'
accounts for the morrow,
another group of travellers
„plodse inn.
earilylt�l manes ges his beast
with its rider, along. Whathope
is there for waters and refresh• -
ments? Can they expect to gat
shelter, and a bed? Their need
is great. Reaching the inn. door
at last the man's heart sinks,
a "Full -up" notice is pinned
to the door. Urgency drives him
on, he finds.the stable boy, only
to receive the same reply, "No
room".
The innkeeper hearing the ar.
gument, cornea' out, for the
twentieth t;.me, to Send the_
travellers away. The innkeeper
is, adamant, but his wife hearing
the urgency of the plea, is
rmoved, to_ suggest_ there is
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it with the cattle in the stable.
What did it matter? The travel.
lens looked poor, there was
nothing to be gained from such
visitors. Perhaps the God of
Mammon gained ,a victory that
night, had Joseph been in a
position to offer a reasonable
fee for a room perhaps there
would have been a different
sequal.
Did the household sleep well
that night? We do not know.
But we do know that during the
ri
night_ the cattle were restless
in �ha stalls, as the sound of
a thud's crying disturbed them;
and that they were stilled again
• by the crooning of a mother
over her firstborn child. As
the •stars rose in the heavens,
one bright and morning star
"(Shone in all its beauty. The child
' Jesus slept,
Miles away, on the roadfrom
Jerusalem, three men were hur.
, rying with gifts fox a King. On
the hills of Galilee an unheard
of thing was happening, shep.
' herds were leaving their sheep
to come to the birthplace of
•a child. Wise men and shep.
herds arrived at this little town.
of Bethlehem and find the child
?first in a manger and then in
the home of, a kind. friend,
Why? Luke
ricWicr
Dutch Barons
John K. Sully, former press.
dent et DRMCO, Goderich,
has been appointed president
of The Timberland Ellicott
Limited, Woodstock, it was an.
pounced by Richard E. Bowe,
chairman of the board. 'The
Timberland Ellicott . Limited
manufactures hoists, derricks,
ropeway and tension stringing
line equipment, and custom en.
gl peered products.
AtreariegWruAKAtfegjgg
of The Ridge
Owned Miles of Lake Shore -
says,
"She
brought forth her firstborn son
'Rand laid him _in a manger, be.
cause there was no room for
them in the inn." No room.
Behind the blunt statement of
factlay the deeper truth; this -
,people had' no house room for
•Him because they had.no room
in their hearts. Where. there is
no heart room there is no house
room, This fact • still governs
the heart response of nie'n.
The action of the innkeepex
was pregnant with meaning for
the future; in a very real sense
it was prophetic. Shut out from
the inn -at His birth; the Christ
was often shut out of the af.
fairs of men in His later life.
"lie came unto His own andHis
own received Him not". ,
Refused entry at Bethlehem,
The .Poderich. Signal -Star, Thursday„,
soon 'tie is rejected from the
social environs est• lie has
known at Nazareth, "Te could
do there no mighty works be.
cause of their, unbelief ".
What is lits later experience?
He is•hounded from theTetnple,
at Jerusalem, where Pe should
leave been welcoined. He is re.
jetted from a synagogue. He
finds that , many towns provide
opposition, of such force .that
He has to seek sanctuary in
the country. At last He is taken
• prisoner and crucified. Hounded
from the very world He came
to save - "no room".
Yes, in His life on earth men
shut Him out of their sym.
pathy, out of their hearts. They
close the doors of their hearts,
love and tolerance to Him; they
would have none of Him;. away
with Him, they cry in a fury of
emotion.
The Christmas message is
proclaimed again this season.
Christ again seeks entry into
the world of men and women
and affairs. What are, His
chances Of pintiliFen +a t y?
Will there be no room again
this yea? Indifference le .a
terrible attitude to have towards
the Christ of "Beho�4'
said the Spirit, "Ietaed at the
'door and knock if any roan
hear my voice, and open the
door I will come in to him,
and will sup with him and he
with Me:"
Just how willing le man to
open the door to the intimacy
of Christ's gaze, in his busies
nese world, in politics,-
private
olitics,private life? If Christmas time
is to be anything more than an
”emotional flip, we must honestly
face that question.
If we in our modern world
are so busy with our rising
Productions , the changing of
our social structure, extra taxa.
tion, and personal pleasur: s,
that Christ is crowded out, our
blood be upon our own head.
It is true that the world may'
need some of the people in the
but above all it needs
Christ too. If we continue to
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root Hun, ''$. *00.
then the inn,W10000Weitilak
a thing of IKIrritt. i 440007,,'
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xects time Ile vides to the the
of 4O hearts*, .,dam vo, Wird:
yeti let Him in?
Is there 0,000dr two?
said the TraVOlOr,.
Knocking on the )110041t
door;
And his horse i t the il,c•
champed the grasses
Of the forest's ferny floor, '
And he smote 11PQn the door
the second time,
"Is there, anybody there",
he said
But no one descended to the'
- Traveller;
He suddenly- smote on the
door, even
Louder, and lifted tete
heads - •
"Tell them I came, and no
one answered,
That I kept ay word,"
he said.
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First pretentious residence erected in the earliest days
of the Goderich settlement—the log cottage at Ridgewood
Park—was built for a nobleman erroneously described
until now as a "Belgian" baron. He was 'in fact Carel
Lodewijk baron van Tuyll van Serooskerken, Chamberlain
to the King of the Netherlands, member of a family which
to the present day has held high office at the Hague.
Hips land purchase from the Canada Company, later in-
herited' by his son, Right Hon. Vincent Gildemeester,
extended all tha way up the lake shore to the site of the
present Point Farms Provincial Park.
The story is told for a first time in Book II of EARLY
HURON HOUSES AND THEIR FAMILIES, by W. E. Elliott.
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