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The Prince of Peace

‘TWhat means this glory round our feet," ..

"more bright than morn?"_V'

And voices chanted clear and sweat, "Today the Prince of Peace is born.“

“What means that star," the shepherd sold, "That brightens through the rocky glen?" And angels answering overhead Song "Peace on earth, good-will to men."

‘Tia nineteen hundred years and more Since those sweet oracles were dumb; We wait for Him like them of yore;

Alas, He seems so

Ghrlstmas Games

SPIN THE PLATE UP-TO- DATE

‘Ibis is always a great favor- ite, but it may be brought up-to- date by each child calling him- self after a different Und of plane. a

The children sit round in a One is called a Spitﬁre, another a Hurricane, anohher a Wellington, etc. Spin the plate in the centre of the circle (an old round tin one, with a nice clat- tery noise is best) and call out the names in turn. The Spitfire or whoever it may be, rumea to the centre to seize the plate before it falls. There -is great competition to be the fastest plane.

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CIIOPSTICKS

For this you will need some dried beam and a packet of wood- en sticks from the fifteen cent athre. Each child is given two stiah and a little mountain of

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beans and a saucer. The beans must be picked up one by one with the "chop-sticks" and put in the saucer.

The beans can be well washed afterwards and used for cooking as usual, or peanuts in the shell may be substituted.

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Divide the children into two teams and sit each team in a separate corner of the room. Pro- vide yourself with a list of things to act as "eating a bun." getting on to a bus." “shutting a door," "feeding the chickens" and so on. One member of each learn is given the same thing to act and the others have to guess what they are doing. As soon as they have guessed, the next member of the tea-m is given the next thing to act. The team who fin- ishes first wins.

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lut it was said in words of gold, No time or sorrow o'er shall dim, That little children might be told, In perfect trust to come to Him.

All around our feet shall shine, A light that the wlse men saw If we our willing hearts incline To that sweet Life which is the Low.

So shall we learn_ to understand

The simple faith of shepherds then, And kindly clasping hand In hand,

Sing "Peace on earth, good-will to men.f‘

For they who to their childhood cling And keep their natures fresh as morn,

Once more shall hear the angels sing, fToday the Prince of Peace is horn!“

—James Russell Lowell.

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Whatever happens or has hap- pened. make up your mind that the children shall have a Christ- mas party this year; the same as other years.

There may be no green fir Christmas tree, no lavish paper festoons, and you may only be able to afford one box of crack- ers, but in spite of these draw- backs, determine that all shall be as gay as ever.

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The "surprise" you may plan for the children is a home-made Christmas tree that you can make from articles around the house.

It is made of a broom hand‘ planted fimniy in a flower pot with colored string to the top oi’ the pole. It glitters with candles and tinsel (saved from last year) and silver paper stars and on it hang a few crackers and a tiny gift for each child._

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Party food usually makes very sticky hands, but sending the sticky ones to wsah may destroy the party spirit and lead to algl- ments, so at the party over-come this by playing “foliow-my-lead- er" game from the dining-room to the washrooms. Load the way yourself and let one of the other grown-ups bring up the rear to be sure that there are no strag- glers. Go in and out and around with hands held out in front. If any one touohss anything before they get to the waahroom they have to go to the and of the line. It's great fun. and when all are washed. the children ften want to play it Ill om agasn

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“Cod ’s Free Gift"

Oh. Saviour dear, how could. It b0.

That Thou did'st shed. Th! blood for ma.

To cleanse my soul. and set ase free, _

On that dark cross. on Calvary.

0b saviour deer, how could it M.

That Thou did'st love so wondrous- Ir

Accript God's gift, for all ‘tls fret.

Receive. believe, and be redeemed.

on Saviour it... how could 1t be. That Thou did'st give Thy life for

me. And suffered so, upon the tree, That I might live eternally.

Oh Saviour dear, how could it be.

That Thou did'st trulmph glorious- iv.

And Thou art coming beck, for me.

To claim Thine own, to reign with Thee. '

Chorus:

I know Ha lives, I know H; lives. At God's right hand He lntercsdee. He conquered death victorlolely This precious Christ, who died for me.

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yuumbewrototaoratbari 400 hymns. several of which are in common use today. thouxh AM!" pom the ltsaiauo! Glory is If!" the boat-known. Various ll!!!" l1" taratlone have been enemy"! from time to time. but those im- ante" have not recslvlil general acceptance. One version be 1 - out’: and souls. in your PM"!!! Theo the Father, . - m“

e 3517's numerous o wrmrTgsnincludad a will“! iii-ll! for the abolition of slavery "l America, and oddXy enough it was an American newspaper which first printed another Christmas "Y"!!! still widely sung todly- I" 154% '5 journal known as th "Rilllu" 1mm! a special Chris as edition In which appeared the words of the hymn “It Came Upon the Mid- night Clear." The comvolrr- I¢~ mund Hamilton Bears. served as a Unitarian pastor in Massachu- setts and elsewhere between 1840 and i876. Sir Arthur Sullivan, how- ever. can be claimed to have great: 1y assisted ln popular‘ 'nrs Sears words. for the hymn dldlnot b9- wm, wen-known until the great English composer set the verses to the now familiar tune "Noe!" In point of fact. Sear: wrote a sec- ond, equally meritorious hymn for Christmas use, beginning “Calm on the lilatenlns Ear of Night." Yet this effort of his has almost gone into oblivion.

"Hark! the Herald Angels Bing" is a popular Christmas tiyrnn that has had a varied history. One of the beet-known hymns by Charles Wesley (who wrote a total of more than 6.500) the verses were ﬁrst published irn 1789. but the first line re-nt "Hark! Now All the Wellrln Rings." Those were the days of lengthy services. and the original version comprised ten verses. To- day most hymnala confine them- selves to three or four stanzas front these ten. but in several instances some of the remaining verses are collected to form a separate hymn beginning: "Come, Desire of Na- tions. Come.”

' The first oeaealan when Wesley's opening line became "Hark! the Herald Angels Bing" was in 1753. anq even at that the time the ten- dency to omit some of the verses was becornlna ' ‘. onlv eight of the original ten being print- ed. Fl-vera! attempts at improve- ment have also been made. A van slvon Moular early last century star's‘ with:

Her"! the herald angels sing Glory to the newborn King. Glorv in the highest heaven, Pesto o» earth and man forzlven.

M-rs ‘ban e wilful? passed be- fore t?“ verses were associated

thev at" sung today. That tune, mvrruvt". was composed not as a hymn time but as music for cele- brations commernoraflno the in- ventlon of printing! Mendelssohn. the composer. wrote that though he believed the music would be liked b! elrmre and hearers. 1r would never do eI a tune for sacred worrls. Successive oration: have com- pletely yiolatad his opinion and today the hymn is never allied to any other tune! Mendelssohn wrote It in 1840- and since 1855 (when l!!! ’ ‘ to Wesley's words was first made) the hymn has re- Inﬂlned e Christmas favourite. Even more wldelv popular Ia "While Bhsbherds Watched Their flocks." for it has been translated Into several languages. and varloug lsilahtly altered version; have been lumt throulhnut the English- speakina world. This hymn data; from the middle of the 18th ren- turv. but Christmas congregations at that period sang: While humble shepherds watched their ﬂocks In Bethlehem‘; Plain by night. An Angel sent from heaven appear-

ed. ’ And filled the Plain with light.

America long ago ontobllshoi a version of her own-"On Judah‘! Plain as Shepherd's Watched."

The continued popularity nf m}; hymn In all parts of the world '.e somewhat remarkable: it doe: not have the advantage of beinz asso- ‘elated with any one tune, Though ‘Winchester Old” is commonly used to these words. at least six other tunes share the distinction to :1 considerable degree. "Cranhrugk" Is a favourite setting in the North of England.

The verses. written by Nahum ‘Ila-to. have a background of tra- Qily. Tale. an Irishman who came to London during the second hatf of the 17th century. and who ma, to the position of Poet Laureate in the reign of William III. never- theless starved to death in a garret. ‘fnternperate end improvident as he was. however, ha. "v. u, mi; 0110 popular hymn.

It was originally published in 1W5. In I hymnei issued bv Tate and ‘his Irish colleague. Nicholas Brady. who ncelved royal ngfmlg. ll°ﬂ f9 Mint e volume of new hymns. m contrast to ‘rate. Brady was a rnen of refinement. and It is believed thetlll polished his ply]. net's var-all. though they are 1n- variably ascribed to ‘rate elonb. If"! was Vlnr of ltratfora-on- Avon at one time. and served Ill a similar ecclesiastical til-pacify qr other aims- as wen as oer-i; e "“-‘£il1"".........°' “All. brook" '

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tune. it was included in a Catho- lic hymnal published in Dublin at that time. His first tunes to be published appeared in print in 1805. and subsequently further rol- leetlone of sacred music by this Canterbury shoemaker were issued at regular intervals.

Where the Christian Church ad- dicted to feuds, a battle-royal might be waved over another Yuletide hymn. The tune to which "Chris- tians. Awake" is invariably sung. and which muss rank among the first six popular Christmas hymn- tunee, bears the name "Yorkshire."

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