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Gifts foiAII the Family
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Christmas Symbols
The decorated evergreen and
the burning Yule log, associated
with the happiest festival of the
Christian calendar, spring, as
do many of the present-day rit-
uals, from pagan practices in
our obscure past.
The pleasant custom of bring-
ing evergreens indoors and de-
corating them, for seasonal fes-
tivities, has been carried on for
many centuries. The early Ro-
mans, and possibly the Egyp-
tians, used trees in this manner,
mainly because of their great
awe for the things, of nature.
Thus long before the Christian
era trees played an important
part in many religious festivals.
The first decorations were used
by the Romans, who hung
masks, representing the god
Bacchus, from the branches, for
the celebrations marking the
changing seasons.
Accepted Ornament
So much did trees become a
part of pagan ritual, that the
Bishop of Bracae forbade the
use of all greenery for the fes-
tive decorations in 575 A.D.,
and it was not until the early
17th century that the Christmas
tree became an accepted Chris-
tian ornament. It was in Strass-
bourg, Germany, that the first
record of a Christmas tree was
made in literature in 104. From
here the custom spread, gaining
popularity, until it was used
throughout the country and be-
came the centre and symbol of
the German Christmas celebra-
tion.
Decorations for the tree were
varied, but usually consisted of
-paper roses,, candy, streamers,
apples and various other trink-
ets of brightly colored paper,
suspended from the branches.
Martin Luther is said to have
devised the idea of putting can-
dles on the tree. He is suppos-
ed to have thought of it while
walking beneath the myriiad
stars one bright Christmas Eve.
A great lover of family gath-
erings, Luther thought it would
brighten the Christmas gather-
ing by representing the stars by
candles on the tree. The light-
ing of the tree has, of course,
become much safer since the
invention of ,the electric light.
The use of Christmas trees
did not spread rapidly through
the rest of Europe however, and
it was not until about 1860 that
German residents . in Paris
brought the tradition to France.
In England it was Prince Al-
bert, husband to Queen Victor-
ia, who in 1840, introduced the
now customary Christmas sym-
bol.
German and English settlers
carried the custom to this con-
tinent, and it was just slightly
over one hundred years ago, in
1834, that the use of a Christ-
mas tree is recorded in North
America, in a Lutheran church
in the city of Philadelphia.
Quite possibly this was not ac-
tually the first instance in this
part of the world, but this is
the earliest official record to be
found thus far. .
The tradition of kindling the
Yule Log has been passed down
from generation to generation
for many centuries in Europe.
The word "Yule" comes from
the Scandinavian and signifies
the season around the end of
the old year and the beginning
of the new.
Burning the log began as a
superstition; it was done as a
safeguard against spiri*s which
were supposed to be lurking
about. The Serbs and Croats
had an elaborate ceremony in
which a procession sojourned
into the forest and felled an
oak. This was sawn up so that
there was a log for each mem-
ber of the family. The largest
log was decorated with flowers
and sprinkled with wine and
1i w1i el) ell 4 x 1 i r );14.
corn before being burned. The
fire symbolized sunshine and
warmth and insured a good har-
vest for the New Year. The
hearth was the centre of the
family ancestors and the fire
was also an offering to them.
The charcoal was preserved as
protection against lightning.
Maintenance of Flame
In the British Isles the basis
of the Yule Log was the main-
tenance of a flame from one
year"to the next. The log for
the New Year was ignited with
a brand from the Old. The
tradition is probably best de-
scribed in Herrick's rousing
poem:
Come, bring with a noise
My merry, merry boys,
The Christmas log to the fir-
ing,
While my good Dame she
Bids ye all be free
And drinks to your heart's
desiring.
With last yeere's Brand
Light the new Block, and
For good success in his
spending,
On your psalteries play,
That sweet luck may
Come while the log is
a -tending.
Trimming the
Christmas Tree
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(By the Countryman)
One hopes and prays the time
is not too distant when all men,
everywhere, will live in the
spirit of Him who came to :earth
to bring a message of peace and
good -will.
On Mountain View Farm
years ago boys and girls made
their-, presents for each other,
for parents, aunts, uncles. and
cousins. Money was not the
criterion of a gift's value, but
the thoughtfulness and labor in-
volved.
One of the exciting, pleasant
activities was trimming the sev-
en -foot tree after supper on
Christmas Eve. It was a care-
fully -chosen, beautifully sym
metrical spruce, with a strong
top spike to hold the White
Star which represented Him
who had been born long ago in
a humble manger in the little
Town of Bethlehem.
Year after year Mother kept
the gaily -colored tree decora-
tions in shoe boxes on the top
shelf of the front hall closet.
There were long strings of sil-
very tinsel material that sisters
draped over the branches; there
were large, foldable red paper
-balls and fragile red metal balls
with life -like sprays of painted
green holly leaves. Little sis-
ter always strung popcorn for
the tree and tied a few red snow
apples on to lower branches.
The presents, carefully v4ap-
ped, were brought from secret
hiding places around .the house;
small presents were tied on to
the branches and packages went
on the floor beneath them.
Then stockings were hung from
the mantel behind the tall,
nickel trimmed base burner,
and each child knew that in
the morning his stocking would
contain at least an orange,
bright -colored ribbon candy and
a shiny new dime.
Finally, when wit was late
along about eight o'clock, Fa-
ther took his beloved, well
worn Bible and read again the
beautiful, ever -old, ever -new
story of the birth of the Christ
Child. And when a lad of a
dozen years took his small hand
lamp and climbed steep stairs
to his snug room under the
eaves and sank down into the
feather bed, he wondered then
—as he wonders now, why can:
not it come to pass that war
and greed and cruelty shallbe
done away with, and men ev-
erywhere live by the precepts
taught so simply long ago by
Him who walked for a while
among men.
During 1952 a Douglas fir felled
on Vancouver Island was found to
be 1.092 years old.
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