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mmwm jtsfmri v page two the acton free press thursday dbcembk 13th 1934 ir hi gantaelaua setters from the boys dear boys really rm quite proud tils year of the way you hoys answered my request for lettera you did a whole lot better than last year to fact you sent bo many flue letters uathe- wished i had more prizes i sorted and read and resorted your letters trying to pick out he one to win the hockey stick and pads and puck bless my f soul if i could decide but i had to finally and jamie lamb is the winner but im asking the free press to publish five other letters- from boys and ii you boys whose letters are published will call at the ree press tomorrow you will each receive a beautiful christ mas box- of candy wltri a picture of myself on it i want to thaestyou all for writing such nice letters and especially thtve boys who werent too greedy for them selves but remembered the christmas spirit and thought of other folks who werent so fortunate ive kept all your letters and noted their contents and 111 do my best to remember you all ou christmas- your old friend santa claus acton ontario december 8th 1934 dear santa i wish to thank you for the lovely gifts that you gave me last year and for which i was so much happier i hope you and your jolly little helpers and elves are feeling as well as possible after you have presented the otliar young children with their gifts i should like you to come to my house and give my brothers and sisters and me our presents after you have come down the chlm- ney and entered the sitting room you will find a lunch on- the table that mother and i prepared lor you at the fireplace you will find a stock ing hanging up and i hope you will miss the odd hole in it and by the lunch will be a note expressing my wish for a bob sleigh on electric train and a few pop corn bags and some candy and also a carpenter set with which i would like to make a birdhouse so goodbye for now for mother is getting anxious as it is my- bedtime and she would like to tuck me in dont forget your lunch and the other dear children yours lovingly jamie lamb georgetown ont december 1th 1934 dear santa just a few lines to tell you i am looking forward to christmas i arn anxious to see you again and i sup pose you will be glad to get back t acton again when you come on christmas night you will find a hot drink of coffee and a piece of christmas cake on the table and i am leaving some hay and oats for your reindeer santa will you please bring me a bicycle this year and some candy and oranges i will not ask for any more for i know there are millions of little boys you liave to visit and it would be greedy of me to ask for more than my share i have been a good boy this year and i hope you will not forget me well i musht say goodbye until next year wishing you a safe journey and hoping you will have a meriy christ mas i remain your friend lawrence cross have little friends all over the world it will soon be time for yaa- to visit us again and we will all try to be good boys and girls i hope the ground will be white with snow when you tome and none of your little friends are sick i wish you and ail your friends and helpers a merry merry christmas and hope to see you soon your little friend jack majnprize rockwood no 2 december 8th 1934 santa glaus dear friend we have been taking the free fuers for years and have always looked for ward to the day we get it as we always enjoy looking it over in reading ft this week i noticed our good old friends picture santa claus he was telling the boys and glils to write to him so i thought i would take the opportunity of writing him a short letter i hope you will be able to come to see us this year also visit all the children everywhere as i know every chld would be very much disappointed if their dear old friend santa glaus was not ablo to call on them i will be pleased wtch anything this year as i know money is scarce and it is hard to get a whole lot for everybody i have two sisters and six brothers i hope they will get some thing if ft is ever so little also mother and dad hoping my letter is not too jong and wishing you every success for a merry ohrfetmas and a happy new year yours truly karl frank acton ont a december 7th 1834 dear santa claus in last weeks fan pkkss i read that you would like to get letters from the boys and girls of acton and i am pleased to write to you some bos tell me there la no santa claus but i know there is i have written to ydu over smoe i learned to 1 am ontr eight years old haw does jtt ffeel tojwjtwo tbfflmnrl years old and sj-tii-i- v llmehouse ont december 10th 1934 dear jolly santa we all know dear santa that you will be very busy delivering all ypur toys to good boys and girls that you and your little helpers had so much trouble making everyone i hope will be snug up in bed when you will come down the chimney full of soot and fill all the stbclaiigs full of toys everyone will be happy on christmas morn for the toys you gave them for christmas i wish you would bring me an electric train that lias electric lights and can whistle i wish that you would bring me a dart game i do wish you would give the sick boys and girls- lots of toys for some of them cant wtite to you all my friends are sending the sick children gifts as well we ail hope that nothing happens to you on your way and i wish you your reindeer and elves a merry and happy christmas and a prosperous new year your dear friend bill hassall age 13 christmas babies a child bom during christmas tide lasting from christmas day until now years day will always be lucky but it must always be pricked with a holly leaf on the right leg if it toe a boy and on the left leg if it is a girl should snow be on the grpund at the time of its birth the infant should bift rolled in it before it is six hours old according to ancient superstition this custom of rolling a newlybom child in the snow was carried out by the old midwives untli quite recently in many places it is said this risky prac tice is indulged in surreptitiously to day a lover on christmas morning should walk to the house of tils betrothed and if the snow is on the ground throw a snowball at her window if there be no snow a small pebble also ensure hap piness and possibly marriage during the year there is a general superstition that if a girl sits on a table she will never be married but chilstmas day is an ex ception i if she should bo desirous- of attracting the attention of a man in the room on that day she should sit oa a table and thus secure his admiration if the bait is taken tho fish will be landed before the twentyfirst of june acton ont december 10th 1934 dear santa claus i am writing to tell you i have a little baby sister and 1 would like you to bring her some thing her name is betty she is a good girl i want what ever you have for me daddy said not to for get him bye bye from kenneth kenneth allan r r 3 acton ont age 7 protect the child from the ravages of worms joy using mother graves worm exterminator it is a standard remedy and years of use have enhanced its reputation ancients gave presents the sunday school lesson forsundav december 10th the custom of making presents a christmas is derlvej from very anclont usage it as aamailtmlc invention in latin count lvi btita acre exchanged at new years writes james wildo fa- cett in the washington d c evening star the decoration ol churches with mistletoe and holley is likewise a pagan survival nativity plays and pageants trace bajt to a prechristian era the sports of the lords of misrule in england are supposed to be an inheitance from the saturnalia of heathen rome father christmas or santa claus is identified with st nicholas or nicolas and also with knecht rupercht and robin goodfellow grimm says that in some parts of germany knecht nicolas is merely an attendant on the real giftgiver who is sometimes the infant christ and sometimes dame bertha but who is also frequently con ceived as an ugly dwarf called krani- pus carol singing by waifs strolling street musicians is an old british custom the first christmas cards date from about 1846 the setting up in latin churches of a christmas creche is said to have been originated by st francis for men forchristmas go to a mans store youll find our stock complete with suggestions that solve the gift problem for him shirts for men snappy patterns smart christmas boxes a favorite gift for men 98c 125 195 and 225 ties large assortment to suit all tastes 49c to 100 special regular 100 ties for boxed handkerchiefs pure linen exceptional quality for oc and j9c pyjamas a smart and well appreciated gift christmas wrapped tw 150 195 these items will help you solve your gift probletns the christian and the lords supper golden text for as often as ye eat this bread and drink the cup ye pro claim the lords death till he come 1 copiir 20 time written to the corinthlars from phllippl about 508 a p exposition i pauls account of the institution of the lords supper 1 car 11 2326 tire apostle paal- received dlectly from the lord by special revelation the ruth about the lords supper v 2j cf gal 1 12 acts 22 17 18 2 cor 12 14 how important the lord himself must regard tho lords suppjr to make it the subject of a speal revelation when the fact of its lnstltui mon was aireudy known by the apostles j ivlio were piisent tile time in- whlcn jcus instituted the supper the same night in which he was betrayed gives j it ii tender interest there issdmethlng i remarkably touclvlng in his giving thanks over tiat bread and wine that spoke of his own death 1 ho was giving thanks for his own atoning agony and j death the bread represented hs body liut was the next day to be given on r the cross for them as in the old testament siciifices those who offered them ate or them to set tartn in aj j iijjufe their appropriation to themselves of the benelits of the death of the j animal so we eat the bread to set forta i our appropriation to ourselves by faita oi the atoning benefits of the death of j christ we do it all in remembrance j ol him christ was leaving them hj i knew human beans and how- ieadiy j we forget and he would have us nt- i member him aiktespecaliy his atoning death the inpicme manifestation of his i love the ljrcis supper is a keepsake j lke a ring that the lover puts upon the finger of her he laves that whensoever j sie looks at it in his absence she may remember him the old testament sacrifices brought- sin to icmembrance the lords slipper brings jesus to re membrance and the perfect atonement he has made for sin once for all the revised version properly omits the word broken f rom v24 the bedy of jesus j was not boken john 19 32 33 36 it was given for us luke 22 19 tne bread is broken in the lords supper simply that it may be distributed but we each partake of the whole unorokm christ the cup is the new covenant in his blood jit is as if it were the parchment upon which the new coven ant of pardon through atoning blood is written we read this covenant when we look into the cup the wine tells us that the covenant is dedicated wica the blood of jesus heb 9 1826 r v however often we drink tiiis cui and the clear implication is that we should drink it often we should do ft in remembrance of jesiu how the lov ing lord desired to be constantly re membered t5yhis people iheatmg the biead and drinking tae cup we are pro claiming the lords death we saould keep it up till he comes then wc will no longer need the memoral for i wo will have himself the lords sup- per looks back to tne cross and forward to the second coming it is both a memorial and a prophecy it is also tie vehicle through which we actually leed on our lord it is a very solemn feast and it is a grievous sn to partake of it thoughtlessly losing sight of its deep significance and making it a mee fom v 27 eating unwjrthily dies uoi j mean in personal unworthiness of its i blessing but in an unworthy manner that is thoughtlessly not ducernaig the lords body that is therein set forth whoever does partake oflt un worthily is guilty of the body and the blood of tlie lord v 29 i e we siai in the guilt of his death for we tuc made a mockeiy of that solemn cere mony that sets it forth cf heb 6 ti10 29 how awiul is the thougntlisiiesi with which many professed christians approach the lords supper aiways examine yoursen ask yourself do l realize that this sets lorth my lord s j death in my place and so partake eat oi the bread and drink of the cup heedleso partaking of the cominunon in corinth not being occupied with the loid and his body but with their oah tastes and appetite had wrought ter- i rible elfects some were sick and some were dead v 30 why shoud we not believe that similar ellccts of thought- less partaking of the communion fol low in our ihurxaes today indeed the statement that such careles and thoughtless participation hi this huly j ordinaiict 1s prevalent among ua can- not be construed into unwarranted ciitlcism members of churches whose practice it is to attend public worship almost from force of habit bring the same indifference and careless attitude of mind to the lords table it is a most serious lapse from christian duty so to do and the apostle is not back ward in setting forth the danger and condemnation in which those who are guilty of ft place themselves let us bco to it that the sin be not justly laid to our chaige l ii the real presence there has been endless discussion over the force of the word is in the clause oils is my body docs it mean that as jesus blessed the bread it became the actual physical body of christ or does it mean this bread represents my body and just as you eat this bread and 1 becomes part of you so you are to isnt me and i will become of you one can find help to an answer to this question injezek 5 4 5 1 cor 10 4 16 11 25 ezek 37 11 matt 13 28 luke 12 l john 10 7 rev 1 20 oal 4 25 but after all has been said there is doubtless a real presence of christ in the elements tand when we do portatce of them discerning the lords body there is a real feeding upon christ so that just as the bread we eat becordea part of us so ifx himself becomes part of us on the other hand if we partake in an unwo thy manner its a mere form net thinking what we do not dlscern lng the lords body we are guilty of the body and blood of christ and we cat and drink judgment to ourselves 1 cor 11 27 29 bev 12 11 1 5 7 9 14 1 cor 5 7 comp with ex 12 13 there can be no forgiveness ex cept on the ground of that blood there are many in this day who sneer at the doctrine of atonement by shed blood as a sanguinary theology or a tlieoogy of the shambles but a j christianity without atoning blood is a christianity witlioat remission of sins or peaqe of conscience that last sup per closed with a hymn probably ps 110 how this fact hallows sacred song- and gives our souls to rejoice in its exercise it will be noted that mat thews account of the last supper has buen added to the selected lesson- scripture v wrist watches make useful christmas gifts tluu and up other christmas jewellery and novelties gardiners watchand clock repair shop eatinc a cuukch the good oldfashioned christmas produces hearty appetites and not only among human beings one of the strangest items ofyulb tide news comes from an alpine village where it was reported thousands of famished rats had invaded a garaga and devoured a motorcar leaving only the iron framework but the record for strange meals is surely held by the dogs who ate a church somewhere in the north pious eskimos built a church with a frame of walrus ribs covered with walrus hides it was a nice church but between morning and evening service on sunday it was torn to pieces and devoured by a pack of hungry docs left to get in on the drawing for the beautiful quilt every order entitles you to a lucky ticket drawing on saturday december 22nd at 8o0 p m watch for announcement and get your numbers now those party dresses and accessories the clothes and overcoats should all look their best during the christmas holidays were prepared to give excellent service on dry cleaning pressing and repairing theres no order too large or too small to receive our best attention our best advertisements are our satisfied customers spotless dry cleaners mr bacon you should never judge a man by his clothes my dear mrs bacon ineyer do i always judge him- by his wifes clothes acton next to bans grocery phone 25 to one and all a merry christmas we have already laid away a host of useful gifts for christmas and as arriving- daily our store is full of beautiful useful yet inexpensive gifts doll carriages assorted colors and sizes 300 to 1250 wall blackboards 110 to 195 easel blackboards 195 to 295 tricycles i 700 to 1650 rocking horses l 295 wheelbarrows 125 and 190 toy tables chairs and cabinets 89c and 99c kiddies rocking chairs scooters etc smokers assorted sizes metal and wood finishes ranging in price from 100 to 1150 a lovely assortment of occa sional chairs in different designs and coverings a lovely gift for anyone 850 to 1950 pictures 15c to 275 tables coffee tables end tables nests of tables in the newest styles very moderately priced a nice assortment of cushions at 100 and 225 goods arc for ail cedar chests walnut finish always a beautiful and useful gift 1400 to 2400 an invitation we invite you to come and make yourself at hometit is always a plea sure to yshow you our merchandise lamps hi the newest designs table lamps bed lamps boudoir lamps bridge and junior lamps desk and action lamps we have a lovely assortment to clioose from at very attractive prices give mother and dad a chesterfield suite fur christmas lovely suites just arrived in the newest designs and cover ings at 8950 and up inner spring mattresses the standard mattress of the day why sleep on the old hard felt mattress when you can get a real soft inner spring mattress for 1250 and up our motto good furniture at reasonable prices johnstone l rumley phone 30 ui house furnishings l ji acton ontario