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o o no OE O Hond et lite har en (By the Rev. WADE)
What we must try not to (By the Rev. COUSINS)
FROM HIS EXCELLENCY, MAJOR BRAITH.
forget in these days when the (By the Rev. MULCARE)
atmosphere of WAITE WALLIS, HIS MAJESTY MINISTER TO Christmas Rector of St. Peter Church is The message of Christmas about us is: this the splendid La Boca.
PANAMA AND COSTA RICA.
centres in a Child Unto us a the ineffable sacredness of Beth It seems to me that, if we Child is born. And somehow lehem, but that it is a sacredness come down to our ordinary lives at this season our thoughts na.
that must not be isolated from what we ought to feel as we turally turn to the child. The our busy, dusty lives. There participate in the celebration of shop windows are all decorated are doginas that mean little in the Anniversary of the Birth of with toys and Christmas Trees the Street and theologic defini: Christ, is reverence for the all for the child. And father tions that are but a burden to power of God. When we come and mother don think very the busy and confusion to the to commemorate the great inuch about themselves, but of simple, but, He to whom Beth events of today it appears to me the child or children, as the case lehem owes its significance lived that we are in danger on two and toiled and taught and sym sides, No one enjoys Christmas as lim pathised and served in the heart (a) This day may have be: Feastily and as genuinely as the of the workaday world. If come a day which is a child; and next to the child Jesus Ohrist made men to know name, accepted just con: comes he who makes Christinas anything, surely it was this ventionally a day which happy for the child. Compare that the busier and the dustier conveys to us no living the joy of the child, who on the world they lived in, the more meaning Xmas morning finds the stock.
did they need the plea of (b) Another danger is this ing which Santa Claus has Bethlehem the plea of the that those who have rea brought for him. Watch him as By PASTOR GRIZZLE altar and the shadow of the lized, or are trying to he openg it, and finds in every Cross. We pause for a little at realize, the meaning of item of its contents a new joy.
Greetings in the love of Christ Christmas time and work ceases today, are overwhelmed and a fresh thrill. He forgets to the many readers of this for the day, but the Prince of by the fulness of the hig milk and his breakfast for journal.
Peace does not fix pause in thoughts which burst NDS once on Xmas morning. Com Freely, ye have received, the whirl and the clatter of a.
upon them.
pare this exquisite joy with that freely give.
toilsome world to make Hie How time and business and of the man or woman who enjoys God so loved the world, that claim good in our lives. He is the world blot out and wear out. Christmas by indulging in He gave His only begotten Son, making His claim every day the impression of what is really all manner of excess and de that whosoever beliveth in Him We make of Christmas a holiday meant by such mighty words bauchery.
should not perish, but have ever but every day may be a Holy as God, Jesus Christ, redemp.
The child teaches us the secret lasting life. For ye know the Day with Christ in our lives tion, everlasting life! In our of real and true enjoyment of grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, True, every day is not a great everyday life, we are apt to for the season, if only we be humble that, though He was rich, yet day in the same sense that get the significance Another year has of those passed embrace a formidable area. They enough to learn it of him. for your sakes he became poor, Christmas Day is. More often mighty terms. As we think of away, and one more milestone are. Honour, Duty, Reliabllity little child shall lead them. that ye through His poverty life demands are monotonous the incarnation of the Son of on the Road of Life has dropped If you will keep these three lit. Except ye.
become as little might be rich.
and the situations it creates for God, let us learn in our inmost behind us tle words before you and re children, ye cannot enter into The good things of God are us day by day are unheroic being these lessons the lesson want to send a brief mes peat them to yourselves now the Kingdom. Give more at: not to be selfishly kept to our fretful, and even selves. We receive belittling of Reverence, the lesson of purity sage to the British West Indians and again, they will help you tention to the child, is then to give Everything seems commonplace and Innocence, the lesson of who are living and working in greatly to be happy and to make one inessage of the season Says whittier, The soul is lost Sometimes the littleness of it Strength and Manliness, the the Republics of Panama and good progress on that Road of which think we need to heed. that saved alone. And as love all makes us sick at heart. But lesson of humility, as well as Costa Rica, and in the Canal Life along which we all have to But not only are we to learn prompted God great gift, so this is because we look at life in the lesson of Gladneng and Joy Zone. In order tº keep this travel.
what the child has to teach, we His love in our hearts will the wrong way. Life is not a periodic Holy Day, not a matter the Blessing which Christmas will put it to you in tabloid form, must be added one more. Loy the child. Here are three ways for the welfare and the happiness so that we may not be denied message as short as possible, But to these three little words must also do what we can to help prompt us to give, to minister, and to engage in loving service of times and seasons. We sing is intended to bestow upon ug as, like medicine, it can be taken alty. Be loyal to yourselves, to in which we may leain this messSometimes.
of others.
one and all.
without trouble, and sometimes your comrades, to your employ age of Xmas :The trivial round, the common Many happy returns of the even, with appreciation. It is more blessed to give than ers and to your flag and your (1) Give more careful attenDay is my sincere wish to the West Indians, my brief mes.
to receive.
country tion to the child bodyWill furnish all we ought to ask numerous readers of The Work sage to you is this: Work well There is one thing more that the child may have a The government of God is founded Room to deny ourselves a road, on the principle of man: play well, think well, eat well should like to add to this brief normal and healthy life benevolence, or the desire to To bring us daily nearer God.
and sleep well. If you can do message. ask all parents who and growth.
blesg others. Our richest blessIf, this Christmas, we can Christmas these things, you will probably have the good of their children (2) Give more careful atten ings come as the result of the learned much: Let us make be healthy and, therefore, most at heart to urge them to join tion to the child mind good things we have passed on learn that lesson, we shall have Message likely happy. You will also be the Boy Scouts or Girl Guides. that the child may take to otir fellow men.
every day a Holy Day by obey useful members of the com If they do. know it will help its proper place in a GIVE ing the call of the Jesus of By (N. SMITH)
munity. You must, however them greatly along that Road of world of thinking people. Give, give, give give!
Bethlehem.
put three things before every Life of which we have already Christmas 1929 is here, and thing else in life, things which spoken.
Robert Wade. 3) Give more careful atten. This is the time freely to give.
the air is charged with the ex.
tion to the child re: Give to the slek, give to the poor.
can be written in three short Merry Xmas to you all, and citement consequent on its ad words. But ligious character. that Give to the stranger our door.
Xmas Message vent.
these three little a happy and prosperous New the world may become Give from the fullness of your heart.
words cover a lot of ground and Year.
As we think of the Season and morally fit. Unless this Give a kind thought, give a fresh (By ELUJAR HUNTER) what it means, our first thought is done, trained bodies start.
and trained minds may Give to the sorrowful, weary, and Friends Countrymen. should be one of gratitude to Twenty Years Experience Merry Christmas! wish for all God for His abundant mercies simply add to the destrucwith West Indians tive forces of the world.
of you the practical blessing of towards us in that, unworthy Give a new lilt to some one forlorn.
the season, and those who re and unfaithful as we have been (By Rodolfo Ayarza)
With cordial greetings of the Give a fine gift of sweet surprise.
ceive what seems to be curses and are, we are spared to carry Season, and best wishes for a Give to bring luster to some one In my experience of twenty ples of civic life. advise you, be patient in your out amongst our fellowmen, the years on the Judical Bench, prosperous New Year, Among some of the disabilities in afflictions principles of Him, the anniver have found that the West In which have retarded their pro controversies, large, constant Give without stint, give of your best Now, this week, wish to be sary of whose advent we would diang haave a bright future be gress may be mentioned, their payments to attorneys at law, Give of your treasure, give with a extended the privelege of using celebrate.
fore them, which they do not frequent quarrels, their inequita and fabulous fumg invested in thie column to make an appeal As we say MERRY CHRIST. seem to have realized, on account ble rivalry, their malicious dis fair and unfair litigation. These Give with a loving word and smile.
to those who read it in the in MAS, to friends and relatives of their misapprehension and position and vindictiveness, and have no progressive and amica Give from your purse a gift worth terest of humanity, through the do we menn MERRY CHRIST misapplication of certain funda kindred malevolent propensities ble results. They while. Continued on Page Continued on page 19) mental and constructive princi which involve ceaseless judicial (Continued from Page Continued on page 12) 0 0 0 0 01 ΟΞΟΣ OSO task, worn.
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