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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Goderich Signal-Star, 1981-11-25, Page 24PAGEM am:-.43ormuctonom„.sTAR, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 20, latil SUPERIOR MEMORIALS ESTARLISHED OVER Se MRS Faith is a gift - it is up to us to accept it or reject it • Godarith Area ' Raprosantativie ROBERT McCALLUM 11 Cambria Road Goderich 524.7345 Clinton.Seaforth Area Reprosentativo MICHAEL FALCONER 133 Nigh Striiitt Clinton 4124441 BY THE REVEREND G.L. ROYAL KNOX PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH As these words are read, we have entered Advent, It is MONUMENTS MARKERS.CEMETERY LETTERING MONUMENT CLEANING SA REPAIR, DON DENOMME AIIAIIPR�INTATIVI EOR AN APPOINTMENT ANYTIME Phone 524-6621 PRYDE MONUMENTSsusiouss on. 1920 an approach bi-depth to the Festival of Chrietmas. It is time of reflection. We are in company with apostles and prophets. A promise is given; a promise is redeem. ed. No promise is worthwhile until it comes to fruition, Ad- vent is the pathway of Pre- mise and eventuates in Christmas. Our journey begins in the deep Millets of the Old Testa- ment. We are confronting a pilgrim people: they move toward a distant horizon. They are recipients of a pro- mise. Over a long period of time, they watch and wait and wonder if the hour will ever come when the promise is completely and suc- cessfully fulfilled. The pro- mise Is prompted hi terms of a Messiah. He is to be of God, born of woman, ushering in the completing of an age of glory. The hope of Israel is bound up in this ly One. They live, breathe, exist in the aura of the pro- misc. They receive strength and faith through the pro - mime. The promise is ever- present. It infuses every mo- ment and the conviction grows stronger, "Ile will come," There are periods in which they are impatient and fall into every iniquity, only to rise again with a more sublime hope. 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It becomes one person - the precious individual - before his Maker. Redemption becomes the aim, outfitting persons for the Kingdom of God, As Kierkegaard so rightly says, "Lo, for this reason God is 'the Judge' because before Hing there is no crowd, but only in- dividuals." ("The Sickness Unto Death," p, 24.) The saving quality overpours out of Israel to include the Gen- tile world. It is to be the redemption of the world. As our journey winds on, we are confronted with the Birth of a Child. We cele- brate this event on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, We must probe the celebration to see what really happens. Our answer can be found in the heavenly declaration, •"Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, goodwill towards men," Each title a commentator looks at this verse different hues are reflected, First of all, God is first -of - all, Ile is the Priority, the Primate, the Originator, the Initiator, As Creator He takes His place,rlightfully, as the Divine Designer of all that comes to pass, the Giver of the Promise, the Redeemer of the Promise. As Ile sets all in motion the prettier statement cannot but be correct, "Glory to • God in the highest," Then, we feel out what is • being aid not - the vertical beconies the horizontal - we are on that 'earthy' plane - • this is the place • Where human beings count, The essence of What , is transpiring in the Birth of the Child is in terms of 'peace' and 'goodwill.' The rewire of God is for peace on earth, peace in the hearts of the o le. Peace can only be a fully (that is, the realization of the Prettese) through interception by humane of the Divine, This peace comes because God says in Christ, His Son, that all Is well, The peaceful in- tent of God is, in its tun, to become the peaceful Intent of persons toward persons. This can be found in the fac- tual situation stated as follows, God loves me, therefore, I love you. Total peace. Is only found when I am the voluntary recipient of His peace so that I can pass it along to others. The opposite to vice is not virtue, but faith. I am taken from my sins in the Birth of the Child and His ensuing ministry, and I become a custodian of faith. As a faithful child myself, I become a herald of peace. My intent in life becomes peaceable. The second anchor is goodwill,' It takes in the en- tire world. Mankind, womankind, humankind everywhere are recipients of my goodwill. I do not set out to injure them. I am not in competition with them. I will stand aside so that they may advance, My top priority becomes the serving of others. This would be , Christ's way, Each and every other human Is to be confronted with my good- will. If 1 am His, can I do otherwise? Is not the entire- ty of my pilgrimage "before Him," the realization of my right and true self? God would have us as His ser- vants, not the slaves to sin. So, the final step is on each doorstep. It is the personal coming to faith. This is the expectatious • result of Christmastide. God, the Father, sent His Son so that human beings like us might turn our footsteps into the right path, the very highway of the Eternal, and come to God in the only way possible, by faitk We stress again a them first 'etumcitited on the ?annuals Read concern- ing "the strangely warmed heart." Yon will remember the scene a Stranger enters into company with two peripheral disciples trudg- ing from Jerusalem to their village. He opens up secrets they could never even guess at. At the dose of day in their abode, "He was known to them in the breaking of bread," At this point He disappeared, and one disci- ple said to the other concern- ing "a strangely warmed hearti, It is in this mining of the heart that the presence of an imminent faith is betrayed. "Behold, I stand at the door and knock." Who vvill-can open the door? Only the possessor of the heart your heart - my heart. Only you and I can open the door- way. Only you and I can in- vite Him to enter. He will not intrude where he is not wanted. We are free. The necessity of faith becomes ",the wart nometisetv heart fully occupied." He Invites us in the Ciospel - "Come un- to Me" - and we, by faith, In- vite Him to enter, to be at home, to merge our lives in His. Conclusively, let um say, faith is a gift. It is given of God, It begins with an idea, the ldea oi God. It moves into the environs of conviction. It mulls in faith, We are grasped, seized, magnetical- ly pulled. But • "not all who are called are chosen" - why? Simply because we are free, and need not heed the knocking at the door. The Victoria Street U.C.W. November fair attracted a large crowd last Wednesday. They came to buy homemade baking and crafts and to enjoy tea and sandwiches served by members of the U.C.W. (Photo by Joanne Buchanan November party held Be Cahn In Our Soul was the anthem siting , by the Huronview choir on Sunday morning, • Nov. n and a hymn sing was held on Sun- day evening, The Goderich Township Women's Institute provided "old time music" on Monday afternoon. Molly Cox enter - tainted at the piano and Alberta Driver played the violin:Also joining in on the entertainment was Huron- view's own Jim Ruddock playing his accordion. The ceramic class met in the craft room on Tuesday afternoon and the monthly meeting. of the CNIB was held Tuesday evening when • Mrs. Edna Cantelon and Mr. Jim Ruddock,attended. The November birthday party was sponsored by the 14,0,8,A, Clinton Lodge and greetings were given on Van Egmond and Ray Cantelon finished off the pro- Huronview gram. Happy Birthday was sung and a lovely lunch of news • tea and cupcakes was served at the closee. Sympathy is expressed to the families of Mrs. Monica Calwill, Mrs, Marjorie Kay and Mrs. Muriel Gibson, Huronview residents would like to announce the receiving of a $10,000 dollar grant from New Horizon, Readers • are reminded that the Huronview book of recipes will be ready for sale before Christmas so phone and place your order for a cookbook now. Many thanks from the residents of Huronview to the Ethel United Cburch who donated choir gownel The choir will be wearing them for the • first time at Christmas; behalf of the lodge from Dora Heard. A musical duet by Gladys Van Egmond and Ray Cantelon started off the. program. Watt Webster played his mouth organ followed by a duet by Mr, and Mrs, F, Forest, The residents then enioved a solo by Phyllis Harrison. Dora Heard whistled through a few familiar Pieces and Lorna Radford led the residents in a sing song. Watt Webster. accom- panied Dora on the mouth organ while she whistled, Another number by Mr. and Mrs. Forest, Phyllis Harrison, music by Gladys Holiday nights - times far draling up, going places, fooking absolutely radiant! 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Pastor: Row. 14. Velond 04-1414 Lift t to CKIYX Rodio Soodoy df i0:30 a.m. for• the "Rack to God Hour" SUN, gvAr4Oft F0140AMEN/A1, REV. R , BRUSACHER PaSrfOr ec.m. FAMILY ROBLE SCHOOL 11o36 a.m.-MONNING wansfuo S130 p.n. Word of Life Club lteil p.m. -MINUTE MEN SERVICE EtIO p.m. THE OLYMPIAN PROGRAM lad p.rn„.11111LE STUOY & PRAYER JESUS IS COMING SOON edWiii,htk-evf-.41,0451,66.4r...101 ,P4kee.4‘.0.61,.."Ite..4144,0-41itewes.re-fterikdo4iw,....es--44ee-.4,ces-4,,,,e...ereice•-... • Knox Presbyterian Church THE REV. Cr, LOCKHART ROYAL, M,A., M. DIV. MINISTER LORNE H. r rTERER, Director of Praise *LIgkftng 01 Theo Virg. Adv,* Carafe' (.11feldait, .1.e.Peao1 reffew4 konv Ctriyfe4 aorroef lo Servo 41,0 SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 29 UAW o,m, Cmrnank,snIz Clem 11:110 es,to, Sunday Stitool 11166 0,m, Ofidno Worship 21641p.M. SERMON SERIES POill ADVENT: (1) "The Nord for a Saviour" (Murray Eaciliffety !Mot to Worship 1,404ttee-iiir:414.teu44114441;40.11,.....ixeioeit.e.ftere"Vea***-40,44404Nuereiseaftrowali.e•ree40.6. 1 i 1 V........,,,, • •—•41...-.6,44-....”44.14.11r.........-.11,40.11r....6.10,1au."11410.164•-•11.411.1k........-.11.4*-1 f Sunday, Nov, 29, 1981; FIRST ADVENT i SACRAMENT OF THE LORD'S SUPPER 1 Sr. 44. at 10 a.m. ( ................i.....r............-iii4.-%.......-4...-..................................-i.0 rii.d..i...-i.i.........-*..r.;Ak..o%..i.-.:..i-...oti,.i...,........a.......-Q..-.i..ri,..i..i--..; i THE SALVATION ARMY • :.. SUNDAY sCHOot 524-9341 945 AM 1 18 WATERLOO ST. S. i 11:60 A.M. FAMILY WORSI-OP C 6:30 P. M . E VENING, SERVICE ' .? i i All Aro Cordially Invited to Join Our Fellowship ? 1...„, e0.4ikors...11.1,6.1,....1,...1.144,44....414....4.1046.1041,...1,4•,144,,,,i.a.ia,Illiiia..........1 1.......o.,40tirmo-Micle,4,44,4.4,41,41,41,4..16.V.41hatt0.41.4...111.4.414.4,..41.4.-411....W.464044,..1. Th 4 Anglican Church of Canada 1 ST. GEORGE'S CHURCH t 1k/r+ and Meson Streets, C•oderith i ? Rector: ifie Pow,' end Pobert J. Crock or Organist -Choirmaster: Joseph O. Herdrrton S ti 06 a ir 46,047DAY, NOVE$4644604.04vrtertfMBER 29 ' 8:30 d, rtl. FA* COMMUll'idfl. First Sunday irt Advonf 1 i 14:(30-0...rn-, -Lighting lite Ad -Wiled' Cdridy, ffory4optisett • i man: A Hew Christian i .Yeso de. ofwaye tvokome at S. dotorowt. ; ).....,......................4,.........,..............—.. -4—,......„----........--.,,,-; BEREA-BY-THE.WATER LUTHERAN CHURCH Gibbons Si. al Sddetkitt Drive 9:15 Sunday School and Bible Classes , 1040 Worship Marvin L. Baez, Pastor I "Preaching peace by Jesus Christ: He is Lord at aJI Act 1036 524-2235 Nort4 Jr. S.S. at 11 a.m.