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CLERGY COMMENT The Miracle Of Christmas Can Christmas survive This baa been asked and wondered about at various timet Worded otherwise It might be asked whether people can survive Christinas with all the pressure of hooping parties and agonising over gift selections Let us consider this thought from a spiritual rather than a materialistic viewpoint Christmas Is intended to be primarily a spiritual matter although It also has very particular visible things attendant to it as decorations lights Christinas trees and gifts At times however the balance becomes tipped or weighted heavily by the visible things toward being only an even with external physical concerns Indeed this is all it can be If the spiritual element la removed As a spiritual event given through human means it Is miracle The message of in the Bible as And she brought forth her firstborn ton and wrapped him In swaddling clothes and laid him In a manger because there was room for them in the Inn Luke 2 And the Word was made flesh John 114 and When the fulness of the time was come God sent forth his Son made of a woman made under the law to redeem them that were under the law thatwe might receive the adoption of sons The miracle aspect of this is threefold One that Christ birth I of the Virgin Mary This Is a miracle when measured against all natural understanding human conception and birth But it la a miracle because God was acting with His divine power over and above natural laws to accomplish His purposes Our Lords birth may be described as of an earthly mother but by a heavenly Father The second aspect of miracle Is the fact of Christ scorning to the earth It is within the mind of God that He chose to do It in this particular way But when we consider that He left His realm or throne of glory to come to this earth and world the humble manner that He dfd In so doing He endured and accepted all manner of human difficulties poverty ridicule persecution false accusations betrayal and death by crucifixion ThereasonaBgtvenlnHlsmessageinthescrlptures is that this was done for the purpose of salvation of sinful fallen mankind He did all this In our place that la for us and offered Himself as sacrifice and payment lor our and sins We do not deserve this effort of God on our behalf nor can we earn it someway Rather this is God s great love for us In Jesus Christ In action Nothing else could produce this We find it stated in John IS For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son that whosoever in Him should not perish but have everlasting life The third aspect of miracle la that the individual can have the benefit of Christ work of salvation through repenting of sins This is God good great free gut to man This is a miracle also when we realise that in moat human relationship and dealings one does not receive anything without firs t paying for it or giving something of required value Yet this is what God does through Jesus Christ rf Jesus comparison to which our gifts to one another are but a small reflection The love and the warmth of spirit at Christmas are also drawn from that eternal and heavenly love of God which we can share with one another as we center our attention on the simple yet won account of Jesus birth at Bethlehem The miracle of Christmas will continue as such as long as the proclamation of Christ birth as Saviour also continues as the central message of the Christmas season Not Sorry To Go Says Councillor Christmas Is only really Christmas when the message of Ji Christ Is there This Is God s gift to us all In compariso INT A RAIDERS HOCKEY GEORGETOWN MEMORIAL ARENA FRIDAY DEC 21st RAIDERS O A Intermediate A Champions Port C Sailors Admission Adults SI 35 Students Children Family Booster Club Meeting at Cedarvafe Centra following game SEIKO SCORES POINTS WITH SPORTS LOVERS All the sporty features a man coutd want are found In these new Seiko Chrono graphs They have automatic self wind an instant day instant date change calan dor water 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members for their efforts throughout the years on behalf of Georgetown Id Just lllce to say in wrapping up that 1 ve enjoyed my years in Georgetown council he said I certainty speak for all of the people of Georgetown when I say that all the people con nected with the Georgetown council have done an admirable Job If my eight years as councillor have been en joyable Mayor Smith said then my three years as mayor have been more enjoyable He went on to say that he expressed regret that council did not implement some of the things it had set up to do throughout the year I only sorry that as of- Jan there will be more Georgetown I saying that 1 don support Hills I m Just saying that this Is the end of an era Mayor Smith also extended his best wishes to the council members and people of Georgetown for a merry Christmas and a happy new Personal Jimmy Redmond son of Mr and Mrs Allan Redmond of Keats Avenue Georgetown and student at Harrison school Is recovering from surgery performed at Sick Children a hospital in Toronto on December 13 Friends will be happy to know that Jimmy expects to be home for Christmas CHRISTMAS CONCERT The Church School of SL The Martyr held their annual Christmas concert on Sunday evening Toe talents of appreciation by a large of toe congregatioa appeared right on time to distribute oranges who chanted they never noticed be brought htm an English accent ALL I WANT FOR CHRISTMAS Santa Clause visited residents at the Sargent Road seniors apartment building last week at their first Christmas party Putting in last requests for Christmas Eve are the building two oldest residents Mrs Lillian Carey left and Mrs Verial From Florence our traditional decorative wooden ware In It and your choice of ewe I ton colors matching t box each BRAMPTON Motorists Brave Ice The ley road conditions which Georgetown police chief motorists on their safe driving prevailed in Georgetown Floyd Schwantz commented Chief Schwantz also noted following a blUzard last that he knew 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