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No More For Siberia 1 Christmas Dance
General S. C. Newburn, Minister oil The Pastime Club mold their
Militia, who was 'in Toronto last week, Christmas dance in the town hall to.
said no more Canadian droops' would night (Thursday). The Goclerleit
be sent to Siberia. Orchestra will supply themnslc.,
Many Are Travelling
li3 spite of the fact tha tiseCeloo are
no cheap rates being offered,
Held Court Here
1-lonor Judge Dickson held
Voters' List Court here on Thursday
passenger agents of the railways morning last and heard appeals against
states that the Chrisnsas ravel was the Assessment Roll in the after -
very heavy this year. noon.
All Restrictions Removed U. S. Papers Hit •
z,> •, x • '< t• * *' :28th: One is that the pagan (esti of the Nativity; and if so, on what
* vat of the Saturnalia decided the date? Whilst the Eastern Church
" aWHY.CHRISTMAS FALLS * „day. The -Saturnalia was a brief knew nothing of the Western festi-,
* ON DECEMBER 25TH '
'into license, 'held towards the .end of of the same import of ':tlse Manifesta-
December, when slaves enjoyed free- tions," of Epiphany—of which the
(By Z. B. ,McCorkindale.) .don in speech and action, when Western Church knew nothing, It
Strange as it may appear, the' friend:remembered friend with gifts, ! is possible to e a solution that
cl>urch for nearly three centuries .and when the streets of the imperial twill ex lain both .these 'festivals at
city were filled with holiday crowds. P
was inctiffenent to the .time of our the .,e ti,,,e ng. n cies,,. in
x season of liberty, which degederated val of December 25, it has a festival
ar
Lord's birth. . There were many and
bitter dispuixs about the proper time
for celebrating Easter •that conl-
niemorates His resurrection; but as
a 'festival, the Nativity 'was ignored.'
It was only in tine fourth century
that the Church of 'the West, and sub-
sequently the Church in the East, a -
No doubt this popular festival ;point-
ed back to, and commemorated the
golden age 5vhen , sten were free
and equal. But the Saturnalia ex-
tended only from December 17th to
December 23rd; and thus did ;not
embrace what was afterwards Christ-
mas day. No .doubt some of the
customs that Characterized the Sat-
dorted December 25th as the anniver- urnalia, such as the giving of pres-
sary of our Saviour's advent.
rhe hesitancy and delay that
chawacterized the action of the church
couitd only arise from the fast that the
actual date was 'unknown.
The year was unknown. Attempts
were made to find out by a deduc-
tion from two texts in St. -Luke's
Gospel, which tell us that in the fif-
eats, have come down to us; .but .fit
is improbable that the date of this
festival determined the date of 'Christ-
ninas.
Other seekers after truth have ex-..
plainer( Christmas :day as the Christ-,
Ian continuation of the pagan testi-,
val of .tine Natalis Intvicti—the Birth-
day of the Unconquered Sun --held
teenfh year of the reign of Tiberius, on the winter Solstice' according to i
"Jesus began to he about 30 years the Roman calended. This is a more
of age." Luke 3: r and 23. The probable reason than .the former, but
is not to be at once accepted.
Turing aside for a anoment from
the practice of the Latin Church, let
us look at !the practice .of the Church
of the East.
Had the .Oriental chu21;ch a festival
env angelist does little or nothing to
help us in discovering the year, for
he gives only our Lord's approxi-
mate age. Moreover, had He really
been "nn His thirtieth :year at the
time 'he stated, He must have been
born in the year 2 or 21 of our era.
He must, however, have been born.
before this, as Herod the Great died
in the spring of the fourth year be-
fore our ,era, and all our authorities
unite in declaring that Jesus was
born while Herod was yet alive. Thus
the actual wear of our Loral's birth
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All who can use grate coal will
kindly leave orders at Wiltse's grocery
store or at the coal office immediate -
is unknown, but it is probable that y
Tine Grate coal is the next size lar -
He was born one or two years before ger than egg size• and contains only
the death of Herod—say 6 or 5 B. C. 1'"0 impurities as compared with 7%s
The day and the motif!' are un-
known. .Clement of Alexandria,
(died A. D. 22:0), gives various cur-
rent dates for the day and the
month, such as April 18th or 19th
or even May 29111. Hipolytus of
Rome, somewhat later, gives the
date as Wednesday, December 25th,
in the 42nd year of August. But
all these dates are conjectural. Had
the church known the date, there
would naturally have been a festival
of the Nativity. Had there been such
a festival, we would not have had this
variety of figures.
The festival of Christmas, was, to
begin with, a festival, of the Latin
chufcb, There are various conjec-
tures as to the reasons that prompt-
ed the church to select Deceniber
in other sizes.
We are expecting a ear of Pea coal
and all who wish sane will kindly leave
their order immediately.
Souse stove and egg coal coming.
All those who can use nut coal, we,
would like to hear from you immed-
iately.
SOLE AGENT FOR
SCRANTON & D. H. & L.
COAL
TERMS --- Strictly Cash.
All the restrictions on the sale and , Eight hundred and fifty daily papers
use of sugar are to 'be removed Jan- of the United States have been forced
uary 1. Police Chief Wheatley re-
ceived official advice from the food
board! notifying him of the removal of
the . restrictions. Accepts Position
Represents Huron' Dentists. I Rev. E. L. McL, Smith, of•Lucan,
Dr, Bruce of Kincardine, was elected but a former Presbyterian minister at
by the dentists embracing the count- Henson, has accepted a position as
les of Grey, Bruce, Huron and Welling- General Secretary of the Social Ser -
ton to represent them as one of the vice League of New Brunswick and
Board of Directors of the Royal ,Col- Prince Edward Island.
lege of Dental Surgeons, Toronto, for Extends Invitation
the next two years,
The Oficial Board of Ontario St.
"Canada Weekly" Has Assigned.
to suspend publication by the advanc-
ed production costs of the war per-
iod.
Methodist Church extended a hearty
The Canada Weekly, a periodical invitation to Rev. S. Anderson, of
published at Toronto, that took in lots Lambeth to become
tllniisir pastor
next'
of money by using returned soldiers year.
for canvassers, has made an assign- Rev.. Eric Anderson now at Bayfield
ment. Subscribers in Clinton have not and was a former pastor at Blyth some
received their paper since September. years ago.
Mr. E. R. C. Clarkson has been ap- !heat May Be Fed
pointed trustee. I 53y an ommission in a telegraph sum -
How Walkerton Hears the Good News. 1 unary of the last clause in an order-
The Waikerton 'Telescope gives the in -council on Dec. 2121, repealing Sec -
idea of how the Walkerton people now lion 2 of an order passed on March
hears when any of the boys are coning 7, prohibiting the feeding of wheat
home:—Front now, on the Town bell to poultry, a misunderstanding is Pre-
is to be rung whenever it is learned valent. The facts are that wheat may
that returned men are coming on the be purchased or sold for milling and
train. This will ,give citizens an op- .for the feeding of poultry as in the
portunity to get to the station in tune pre-war times.
to welcome the 'home -coming boys. I The Wardenship
Rev. J. W. Robinson Dead. The Wardenship of Huron is already
London Free Press:—Word of the a subject of conversation with a num-
death at Toronto on Thursday of Rev. ber of people. Next year as per -
John William Robinson, a former. rest- - arrangement, will be the turn for a
dent of London, was received in the Liberal member to fill the position.
city today. Mr. Robinson was in his There are four in the field for the
77th year and had been in good health position, viz:—Reeve Campbell, of
until quite recently. While in this East Watvanosh and Reeve Armstrong,
district he bad charge of pastorates of of Hullett,'Reeve Crich, of Tucker -
the Methodist churcb,at Siloam, Sparta, 1 smith, and Reeve Beavers, of Exeter.
Goderich and Dungannon where he 1 We understand Mr. 'Crich and Mr.
made a host of warm friends. Besides 1 Campbell are the oldest members of
itis . widow, who resides in Toronto, the quartette attending the Co. Coun-
the late Mr. Robinson is survived by a cll.
fancily of four grown-up daughters. The t Died In London
family up until four years ago resided On Wednesday evening, Margaret,
in this city. 1 second daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Wil -
Mrs. E. B. Nelles Dies of .Pneumonia. 1115211 \Volker, of town passed aivay
Nirs. Gladys Toylor Nelles, wife of ; after an attack of inflenza followed by
h1ajor Erie B. Nelles, of t1se W. O. R. ; pneumonia. She was t9 years and 11
died Fridayt St. Josephs' Hospital, ! days old and was attending the Lon -
London, after sa short illness of pneu- ; don Normal. The young lady had
monia. lvlrs. Nelles was a daughter of a most successful career in the Clin-
Mr. W. N. Manning, of the Sherlock- i ton Public School and Collegiate and a
Manning Piano Company, . and was • bright future was before her. The
born in Clinton 24 years ago, and went i young lady took an active part in
to London with her parents fifteein j League and Choir work of Ontario
years ago. She was married in Nov- :, Street Church. A sad feature is the
ember, 1917, on Major Nelles" return ; fact that the only brother was •kill-
froini the front. She was take.' sick ed to action two years Wednesday
only a week ago with influenza and was aken to St. Joseph's hospital. Pneu Miss Grace Walker, the eldest daugli-
ter, has been sick with the "flu" out
tak
mental an n
developed d death followed' horse Thursday evening and the fun -
his admirable book, "Christian Wor-
ship; its Origin and Evolution," which
displays not the sligfest trace of Ro-
man . bias, proposes .a solution which
he declares the most satisfactory.
t According
to this learned Ronan
Catholic writer, it is probable that
the day of.Christ's birth was com-
puted from the reputed day of. His
death, which would bring to an end
a complete number of years. (here
being no data Enabling the church
to determine with• accuracy the date
of the Passion, it was assigned to
March 21, April 13 or 19, and pos-'
sibly other dates. The .most gener-
ally
enesa11y accepted, however, was March
25 Hippolytus of Ronne, and other
writers, assign the Passion to a year.
i,a which the 14th of the Jewish
mouth Nisan fell on Friday, March
25; but in the only possible years
in Itch -kir March25 fail on a Friday
the ,dire of the Paschal noon forbids
the possibility of that day, and date,
being ;rhe day on which our Lord
was crucified. Tine passion certainly
did not fall on March 25. The day
was selected because on that day oc-
curred, aecordiing to the calender of
the time, the spring egiuno2. and
also the creation of the world. But
on the assumption that the death of
our Lord took place 021 a March 25,
it was further assumed that the lo -
carnation must have taken place on
a March 25. Reckoning in even
numbers fromthe first moment of
Mary's eoncepfir*s, for symbolicaal
considerations admit of no fractions
and imperfections, the birth of
Christ must have taken place on a
December 25.
The same astronomical and sym-
bolical method of computation ex-
plains January 8, on which fell the
Epipjsania of the Eastern Church,
commemorating the Nativity, the
adoration of the Magi, and the
baptism of our Lord. Let us in this
case reason backwards. Nine months
front January 6, gives us April 6,
With what notable event is April 6
associated in the Eastern ;church?
The historian Sozotplrn •' makes'
mention of a sect of th''e Montan
sits, who celebrate Easter on this
day. Fourteen days back from
April 6thgives us March 24, the
spring equinox, according to their
reckoning, and also creation's birth-
day, On April 7, then the first full
moon of the first month took place
.474,e, preek Day for the obs,eryappe
1 of the Nafivity,0 doiicludes Mgr.
Duchesne, 'January 6 is thus found.
to be connected with paschal com-
putation based on astronomical and
symbolical considerations exactly
similar to those front hich we have
endeavored to deduce the date of
December ?5,"
But while of all the solutions
prdifosed this seeing to Mgr. Du-
chesne the most satisfactory, he yet
"would not venture to say, in re-
gard to December 25, that the co-
incidence of the Sol novus exercised
no direct or indirect influence on. the
eseelesiastical decisions arrived at in
regard to thematter,''_
A. J. 'Holloway
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Our rubbers give the wearer lasting and sat-
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We've rubbers for men, women, and ehildrezi
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Minor Locals.
Municipal nominations will 'lie held
onMonday, December. 30th..
The Toronto Daily paper's are rais-
ing their subscription rates at !slew
Years. ' -
For Soldier's Kiddies --(Brantford Expositor); The Pied
Piper of Hamelin, in the person of
Rev, C. E. Jeakins, camouflaged as
Santa Claus, drew the children down
to Eagle place last night, And 400 in
number, they 'packed Wesley Church
Sundayay school, where the beautiful big
Clrristssias tree had been set up for
their joy by the Great War Veterans,
Their choruses and their songs had
just ;as true a note of Christmas glad -
lets as those in East Ward the night
before. Every child got a parcel and made every little heart was happy,
eral held on Saturday afternoon in -
Her husband and father were with her terment being made in Clinton cene-
at Mine end. Mrs. Nelles was one of
London's most estimable young ladies
and hosts of her friends will hear of
her .death with sincere regret. She
was a member of the First Methodist
church, Besides her husband she is
survived by a tiny baby daughter, her
father and three sisters, Misses Harriet
Eleanor and Marion. The funeral was
held from her father's residence, 525
Queen's avenue, Sunday afternoon to
Mount Pleasant Cemetery.
*THE FIRST CHRISTMAS
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f� And there were in the -,3
+ ;same country shepherds ,t;
abiding in the field, keep- ._
,. ng watch over their flock
,= oy night.- Iib
And, 10, She angel of the ,++•
Si Lord came upon thein; and ','tt,
ti heywere
erthesore
angelid.said unto T
f thein, -fear not; for, behold, +x
bring you good tidings of
a great .joy, which shall be to
;. all people. ;+
+_ For unto you is horst this
fay in the city of David a a
X Saviour, which is Christ the t•
+, Lord. i;
'Abid this shall be a stiff la
y ▪ unto you. Ye shall find ;al
the babe wrapped In swad-
dling
wad dling . clothes, lying in a gt
manger,
And suddenly there was
, with the angel a multitude ',t;
e;
in the West. - The body was brought
tory, Rev. 1. A. Agne'v, pastor of
the deceased, conducted the services.
'Che pallbearers were C. C. 1. students:
Messrs. A. Leonard, N. Tyndall, 0,
Walker, 11. Potter, E. Livermore and IN,
McNeil.
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IN OTHER LANDS
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One of the prettiest of Christmas
customs is the Norwegian practice of
giving, on Christmas Day, a dinner to
the birds.
One of the most joyous of Christ-
mas celebrations is that in Naples,
where the day is observed with fairs
and bonfires and fireworks.
Ill France, Austria, Italy and other
Roman Catholic countries the mid-
night Mass of Christmas eve is one
of the most impressive services of
the year,
Among the rural folk in many parts
of England At is popular belief that
persons who, die on Christmas Eve
are certain of immediate and eter-
nal happiness,
In Spain it has been the custom
for ages to include in the Christmas
celebration tlse giving of pardons to
all prisosiefs wlio are serving sentences
for light offences.
Many little Belgian boys, and girls
look wider their pillows for the
Engenskoek on 'Christmas morning,
believing that the angel Gabriel himself
will have placed the. cake there .
Christmas Day in Corsica is ob-
served by thepeople as a religious
festival, but not as a social one, arid:
4 of heavenly host pralsmg ;+¢ there, ;ire no family gatherings as fit
God, and saying• Canada 'and fn most of the Countries
Qlory tQ God in the 4
e, of Europe,
highest, and. on eitrttt peace, Among fire ortlioa8l•: of Serbia and
. good will toWirc !lieu. Vt Bulgaria a very shtgular custom pre-
And It. 'ebine •to pass, as ,t' wails, If it tail possibly be. avoided
the angels were gone away ;
son them into Heaven, the Ss,
no one crosses a strange threshold on
n- ft« the monshig of Christmas day,
« shepherds said one to a y A superstition of tine Scotch is
"t'. other: Let.us now go even 44that it is very unlucky for any but a
X., unto Bethlehem, and' see '.;t dark-haired person to first cross the
+ this thing which is. come to 4F
't, pass, which the Lord hath •,-rleasono'ssiignedd on ltbeing athat Judas s had
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3« tirade known unto, 515 .
t red hail.
:t« and foundAnd eMarytiala'
d with l�lal d 's The midnight 4Mass iit.2 f. Mark's
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the babe lying in a ilsalSger. Aj«
is the chief feature of• the Cltrnstntas
,�. i Celebration in VCniice, Cn flats oc=
44, they nsi madens known a roacieiifhe with 1. the historic cluu'cii is liglstch
A«;J; with hundreds of wax candles,' each
,x«: sayinig which was told th'dnn cosi rt« •shore trait seven feet tall
+,' cerning the child. 121 the Italian highlands for .een-
++sAnd all they that heard it ;.l, furies there has been a quaint and
wondered at those 'Things which of mak-
.4,t were told t'tibfn by tate shop- I. pretty custom, at Christmas
_; iserds, .. ing votive offerings at the shrines of
« the Redeemer -of fruit ,and flowers by
att Mai;y kept all these things «;
the peasants, eacli garbed in the
Thursday, Decemt
DON'T GET •EXCITED
IT'S NOT A RAILROAD DISAS
NOR SHIPWRECK
NOR MURDER
NOR CYCLONE
NOR PRIZE FIGHT
NOR GERMAN VICTORY
No nothing of the sort, but
the boys who want . good readin
just received, liberal assortment o
one for twenty cents per volume
five cents.
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and pondered there In her heart
And The Shepherds return,
,t ed, glorifying and praising :God
for ail the thing+ that they had
f5E heard aind seen, as it was told singe forgotten, is for the housewife
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picturesque dress of his own district,.
A Christmas custom preserved in
the Ukraine, the original significance
of which seems to have been long
+' alto 'fifelb, e nit, to; carefully preserve the sweepi15gs
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