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The earth has grown old with its burden of care,

But at Christmas is always is young. The heart of the jewel burns

lustrous and. fair,

And its soul, full of music, breaks forth on the nir

When the song of the angels is

sung. It is coming, old earth, it is coming to-night, O'er the snowflake: that cover the

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The ...‘. ofthe Christ-child fall gentle and while,

And the voice of the Christchiid tells out to the night

That mankind are the children of God l

On the soul of the lonely, the wretched lid. poor, v

The voice ‘of the Christchild shall

fall, And to evnry blind wandered open ‘the door Of a. hope that he dared not dream. of before. With a sunshine of welcome to all. The feet of the humbiest may walk in the field. Where the feet of the holiest have

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'I'his, this is the marvel to mortals revealed

When the silvery trumpets Christmas have peel-ed

That mankind are tm children of God.

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-Philips Brooks.

ADVENT FIRST.

This is the “Christmas Number" —and-already in the cities, the messengers of Santa Claus have paraded through the streets with trumpets sounding arrl military bands escorting all the inhabit- ants "of Toyland-a- gorgeous Bvectacle, and the squeals of joy from the small specators help one to forget and forgive the com-

merclwism of it all. The next. three

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. McDONALWS

TH_E ISLANDS LEADING STORE

weeks will be filled to thefbrcaking point with preparations, of gifts and Christmas cheer-for others. 0f him" dinners and parties, all good and all

proofs that the spirit of Christ- mas is indeed breathing through the community. But don't we often hear, and perhaps say ourselves, “A nuisance, all this fuss"— "l will be glad wh it is over"—"G00d thihg it only comes once a yeari" The remedy, of course, is as simple as looking at the brass serpent was for the stricken Israeltes, and as hard for some to fo‘low as for those who refused to look. This is the season when the Church bids us prepare- not only to celebrate the Birthday of the King, but to mmt Him in actual fact when He shall ‘come ngan to judge the world. In the midst of "the Christmas rush" we must take time to think— and by think I mean think-sit down and let the turmoil subside so that the soeret thoughts of our hearts may rise to the-surface . the good and the bad, that the bad may be washed away by the healing grace of God's forgiveness and the good may have a. chance to expand and be turned into the action that God requires of us. Only by spending a good Advent shall we be able to taste‘ the exquisite joy of Christ- mas to the ful'. when we go out in the dawn of Christmas Day to greet and to worship. and to re- ceive for our own, the Child of Bethehehem, who is also the Ever- lasting God.

CAPITALISM VERSUS LIQUOIFS PRIVATE PROFITS

‘There is much talk in these mod- ern days in regard to capitalism versus labor. It is indeed strange that lnbor has not officially ob- jcctrd to an ever increasing liquor caoiwiem. On the authority of. Ontario's Liquor Commissioner beer and wine sales in hotel beverage rooms in Ontario were t3.- 845090 in August 1935. as compared with $3 259.291 in August, i034, an increrse of t'*86.909._ It should be noted this increase is nearly four hundred thousand in one month.

‘Ibis increase in liquor expendi- ture has this outstanding meaning- tbe youth of both sexes, in grow-

imz numbers. are learning to drink. . ..

For the fiscal yaar 1084-45. when

the oresentbevsrage room system was being inaugurated in Ontario there exist. many f‘ ' l “ ingblocks in the way of a straight financial statement but a fair ap- proximation puts this liquor bill over forty millions when every cost of this drinking business in Ontario is computed. "One of the highlights of the re- port was the company's cash posi- tion, which now stands at $99,404 alter paysmnt of 0500.000 t0 the United States Treasury under the terms ofthe settlement, as well as repayment of a'i loans and bank overdrats."

The settlement with the United States ‘treasury was not explained. It may have been lawful excise. but July there was a British Odumbls transaction when a United States Oovcroment civil suit for collection of 017250000 en the charge of havice defrauded the U.

i B. Treasury ofthat amount through

‘ ‘smuggling. by the mm liquor in-

The ouecm You

two. At this price you'd expect t0

You certainly won’t be disalllloillt‘ ed. Plain whites and patterns 1n

(a sermon ...; Rev. John Suther- imd Bonnell, Fifth Avenue Pres- byterian Church, New York)

Rev. John Sutherland Bonnell, D. D-. o native of Charlottetown. Prince Edward Island. and a vet- eran of the World War. who recent- ly relinquished a great work in Winnipeg to become, pastor of the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church, New Yuk, preached last Sunday in that pulpit from the text: “The fool bath said in his heart, 171cm is no God." Psalm 53:1.—B0ston Evening Transcript).

, A beautiful rabbinical tradition says that over the couch of David hlms Always a harp"; and that somelilmes at midnight vagrant, breezes, sweeping across its strings,

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in giving one or

exceptionally nice.

styles, Pro-shrunk to give perfect sat-

have been settled out 01-’ 001KB 1'01‘ $500,000. - It takes the liquor traffic to deal in mil'ions when other 11111110151 concerns, dealing in necessities ,are glad to count the year's output in thousmds or even hundreds.

BACK T0 BEAST 0F THE JUNGLE

Professional sport in some periodicals is demanding majority space in the columns. To those who are interested in matters of more moment this everlasting dose be- comes a bore, especially when it is realized that a personal subscrip- tion is helping to support a sport- ing world.

Of the recent Baer-Louise boxing contest, which meant $500 000, for the winner. one daily comment- ed: “Many men paid $200 t0 899 Louise and Boar pound each other for 12 ‘minutes. Prize fight are for fools like these.” '

Talk about modern civilization, let alone the Christ ethics of the strong bearing the burdens of the weak! This $1,000,000 scramble for boxing tickets is an undeniable evidence that the bestial in human- ity in all too numerous instances predominates over mental inspira- tions or‘ spiritual force.

FEELING 0F RESPONSIBILITY

Every leader of mankind, ‘every man who‘ has deeply influenced his generation, and his accomplished great acts, whatever the admixture of good and bad in his composition, must have and before him, per- haps frequently, perhaps only at times. some sense of the Divine Purpose and Mission entrusted to him. Men of thought, like Socrates and the‘ philosophers; men of im- nglnation, like the great poets; men of action, like Cromwell and Lincoln, not men of business too, who with- out much show and emonstration have devoted themselves to the bet- terment cf humanity in such direc- tions as come within their scope- all these. in one form or another, must g have been inspired by a feeling of responsibility, by a. realisation that there must be some worthy outcome, in _t_he fulfilment of which they were privileged to share, for which. all their efforts were asked ancineedcd. Such a faith adds greatly to human power: with it he can do his duty. And those who have that faith in large measure are the helpers of the race-sir Oliver Lodse.

There were B5536 persons em- pioyed in Canada's fishing industry in i934, an increase of 0,088 over the preceding year.

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would draw forth music so sweet that the 90915-3118 would rise from slum r and match th strains with ords till dawn flocked with gold

t e easiem skies. The simple prose

of the story is this, that m the

Psalms the hand of-fGod sweeps

the Sllihss of the h art of man.

Th“ we find in the alter lyrical

bursts of tenderness, the sob of

WTMW. the despair of doubt, and

echoes of mortal conflict as man

55171106. falls to earth, and rises

“Kam- slmsllllnz upward m the

.3101” of attaining his goo], ' The DSB-lm of our text was writ- ten a thousand years before chi-tel;

while we live in the twentieth cent.’

HABSH WORD “FOOL” MEANS ONE WHO HA8 QIOBAL BESTB-AINTS AND DONE _INIQUI'I.'Y

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ThefPsalmist Fi_1_1£ls__An Unbeliever

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the-lad did not appear at One day they met in the Strand,

and the boy thus explained his lb-

senoc: "You know, I've got to be a

bit of s. cosmopolitan. Ali this n-

iigious talk doesn't go down, when

you've grown up and have seen‘ life!’ ‘Ilhe minister said: ‘That's

not the truth, and you know’ it. Remember the hospital" The boy's face fell. "Padre, yoube right." he

confessed. It was one more case of a philosophy devised to Justify conduct.

On Seelng Rembrandt’: "BAND!"

The Psalmist represents God ll looking down from heaven, seeking those in search of him. anxious to find men eager to believe. Plenty of people seek money, advantage, pleasure, but find no moments to seek God. No wonder that he be- comes to them shadowy and un- substantial. They pass glib judg- ment on belief, but how can they hope to know God in the precip- itate rush of modern life?

A guide in the National Gallery in London complained to me of some of the visitors there. ‘They push in with a clatter of heels and bu out again. Two yokels came on their first visit to London, and one stood on the steps while the other went inside. In twenty minutes he came out, saying that he "could have clone it all injlftecn minutes if he had had on his hob-nailed shoes."

1111' afterward. It emerged from the experience of a Hebrew, while we are mostly Anglo-Saxons. A king 9031995901 1t. Whlle W8 are commgn People. Yet for your mind ‘ and mine. the message has definite 11105-111118. The Psaiier touches every emotion of the heart and every as. piratlon of the spizit. Here we see 31c Psalmist blazing with indlgng- on.

No Argument in Scripture

The Psalmist is indignant because he has found someone who denies the existence of God. He does not 500i! to argue or reason with the man. but exclaims: "The fool hath said in his heart, ‘There is no God!" I-ie adds that you could expect no

.o.her conclusion from such a source.

We might observe, in passing, that 110m Genesis to Revelation one mil-Y Search 1n vain to find any ar- gument for the existence of God, Jesus offers none. God is so real,

' so personal, so definite a factor in

the minds of saints and. scers that they would as soon think of argu- lng for the existence of the re- spicndent sun. The most precious experiences are not demonstrable like propositions in Euclid. We a,» Drchend the profoundest truths of 61181011 Only as they become part and parcel or Our own lives. You remember how 1". W. H. Myers

terest of Vancouver, was reported to makes his st Pa,“ Say:

0h. 0011111 I W11. you surely would

i believe itl

,Oh, could I only gay what 1 have seen!

How can I tell or how can you re. ceive it. u

How, till he bringeth you where 1 have been?

"The fool hath said in his heart, there is no God." Denial of God, to the Psalmist, is born in the heart of aman whom this her-sh word describes. But someone may M71990? "It lS unfair to call g man who doubts a fool. Isn't the Psalm. 15¢. by descending to abuse show- his that he has lost his argu- mem?" N0; for the Hebrew word so translated means not a mo,“ who has lost sanity of judgment, but one who is ignoble, implous, glvgn W immoral living. Writing of a man who has cast aside moral restraints the Psi ist reasons: "From such a founta n-head one could expect 0111? denial of God." This becomes clear as we read further: “Corrupt

b°°°m9 filthy.’ there is none that doeth good, no, not one."

Phllosoph, to Justify Conduct

I have known persons of high moral tone whom doubt has almost Sllbmefsed. But it rarely happens that U131 work out their philosophy, then pattern their lives accordingly. People choose what they want to d0. then they construct a philoso- Phl’ 00 Justify their conduct. Doubt clouds the minds of multitudes be- cause of the way they have lived. A clean break with the past often is necessary for the beginning of clear knowledge. The great leng just completed for the Mount Wil- son telescope required careful pre- paration for a year. It must be per- fect when it is turned toward the heavens or its reading of their se. crets will be untrue. How much more essential is clarity of soul if we are to discern eternal truthl when Jesus said, "Blessed are the pure in heart," he meant that here gag 110w men may have vision of

A mndon minister told men that his duties as war chaplain took him to a hospital in Rouen where were men who had enlisted to rerve their country but who had been worsted in inner conflicts of their own lives I-hd there were paying the penalty of sin. Asleep in one of the beds, he saw a young fellow who once had taught in the Sunday of his church. Months passed, the war- dragged to an end, and the minis- ter returned to his own pulpit; but

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I entered the Dutch mom in that gallery and sat down before Rem- brandtfs “Rabbi? Rembrandt paint- ed this picture in 1&7, when he was a bankrupt, disillusioned man. With head poised against a golden brown background, the weary eyes of the Rabbi 100k out upon the world from beneath the shadow of his hat. All the light in the picture is concentrated in a square of six inches. The painting has a universal quality. You can bring your own troubles to it and find them re- flected. As you study the iines of care "on the face, you enter into the trial indelibly inscribed. You must be still to know Rembrandt.

"Be still and know that I am God." "They that wait upon the Lord sha‘l renew their strength." "Seek, and ye shall findlfllf God has grown dim to you, ask your- self, have I given him a chance? Have you given yourself an ‘oppor- iunity to find him“? If you refuse yourself this, some day you will ccho the fool's whisper, "There is no God.’ "They have not called up- on God."~ mites the Psalmist. Of course, they haven't. Atheism has no fellowship with the Eternal, no communion of spirit with Spirit. How long is it since you have prayed? If the flame of prayer flickers ‘and dies, it wi‘l leave only ashes upon the hearth of your spirit. Do not cut off this one great means of communication. "Ask, and ye shall receive." mn- just two weeks give prayer a trial, living on the basis that there is a Clem-commun- ing with him. He will respond to your search.

| Testimony of F. B. Meyer

In 1926 I journeyed to Boston in company with Rev. F. B. Meyer, so long the minister of Christ Church, London. He talked of all that God had meant to him through life. I said: "Forgive the question, but was there never some period when the shadows gathered and faith became dim?" His beau- tiful oid face brightened. "It. is nearly seventy years since I gave my heart to him,‘ he answered. “I have followed as I could. Now I am feeb‘e. Never once has he failed me. Never has there been a shadow be- tween us." | When we walk with God, we itread the only path that shlneth more and more unto the perfect day. Without him the road ls bleak and lonely. Ideals are capped and hope is quenched. But, in fellow- ship with God, though we do not escape trial, we hear afar sweet notes of victory. Let us pass from this church to live a life of trust and at its end to “greet the unseen with a cheer"! (Reported bjL-S-S-H.)

MR5. SANTA

BOSTON, Dec. 20-3 there a Mrs. Santa Claus?

A practical-minded little boy in Boston who realizes that Santa himself is a very busy man at this time of year, is very much inter- ested. He addressed a letter to Santa's seldom mentioned mate at the North Pole.

In a childish scrawi he wrote that he realized her husband had his hands full so couldn't she uncl him a toy. He didn't want her to spend much money, but he thought she'd know a good bargain when she saw one.

The letter, the first ever mailed here to "Mrs. Santa Claus" was directed along with several hund- red other Christmas appeals by the postmaster to charitable organiza- tions and individuals.

HOW MANY COWS‘!

“How many cows did you drive home?" asked Farmer Hodges. "There were two cows in front of a cow, two cows behind a cow, and a cow in the middle" What was the smallest number -of cows Farmer Hodges could have had? Answer: Three.

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