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URONO WEEKLY TIMES,1 z;:tthis nmost 7joyful of holiday s - asons, WC greet you ithsini- eer od wsen warm iiappireciaion-. Meriy Cristmnas! Caoadiao Imperial Bank of Commerce P. DICKSON, Manager Ormeo, ont. we welcomne the opportunityI to wish you, aur good friends, the. happkest of holiday seasons and to extend our heartfelt thanks for youi: vaIued patronage. j THE McLARENS Orono Fuel & Lumber PHONE 14816 ORONO, OT "The Cri Seripture Lesson - John 1: 1-14 t] lWatthew 23: 3739a Taken from a sermon preached dý b bY Rev. Basil E. Long. b) As we consider the Corning k, Christ, 1 have in mmid four groups it of people. There are those w-ho tl believe that Jesus came, H1e(lied,} by His comning;,those wlio not onlyc and somehow we have benefited beiveMe camne, died, arose and is alive, but look forward to that C tiýme wlien lie will corne again in'it visible form; those wlio believe ii that Jesus cornes in another way nl - that because H1e did live among býi men, and] because 11e rose after A death through the power of God, bý that HTis spirit is alive and that 1M 11e comes to us again and again th w(,and again: another group who bi still look forward to the coming'ai of the Messiali, the Christ, aIndB do1 nlot belleve that 11e has corne. In a littie while we will cele- brate the birth of Christ. A great number of People will join in the festivities, yet tliey will not rec- ogýnize Min, because too many live on the periphery of things ont on the edge, not in whe r they are involved. Long ago I dis' coVered that if you try to hiatch too rny eggs under a miother! lien; the eggs around the edge, on the periphery of the nest, dIo not hiatcli. Tt is important for the eggs to be in a proper amount of hieat and to hav7e a certainI aimount of care, or else tlie litte chickens will ney-er hatcli. This says somethlingl about our Christ- ian Eife. If we are content to iveI on thie edg«e of tig and if our ascainwitli spiritul tingýÏs is intermittent, just happening once' lu a whule, thien the truý'e ife of Ch'rist is noet apt to be boru lu -us. As we think in this special way i about thie corning of Christ, in theî true sense of Advent how do we prepare for lm? It is true that the more religlous we becomne the muoree are preparingl A ertain man hia- a drearn in whlich lie looked uipon biis 2ood dceeds as the material of wInht construict a Iadder to climb Io heaveni. Each time lihontr11l"iuted j to thie churl or onaled to()chiar- ity1, lie imagined lie added a rung' lu his dr11eam 1the last twýo rungs were add(edl and theat of Ili- en rolled back, but to bis surprise, ýwlien lhe went to eniter lu. , esus christ stood in tlih nde of theil wayv. Jesus looked at hhm and saidg "T an the dloor. 11e fthat entiereth', not by the door, but lirn 1tqu some otlher way is a thief and a robber." We can become very re- liluyet not receive Christ in * i ýA ane season of joy odgo iI JACKRUCKARD REAL ESTATE SýALESMEN- WTLF HIAWKE JACK RICARD GARNET RICARD ,000r)eoo.f00 o.00..00 *0ours, oubr (zatel bflk n NeT-ie vnRsoyoauyorant~ Resturat wii b elsed romDecmber25t an renaincl Jse tel Jta-thanssu day morning, Decemiber 6, 1964. A Afy Ccurious crowd watclied withou helping. the w7oman and hier baby [e proper spirit. It is gýood to be lay on the pavement in a tempe-r- h)ie to give charity, but we can ature of 34 degrees. A visitor o) that and flot be changed inside from Tuilta sumimoned a taxi but ecause we do it for the wrong t he driver refused to transport ýasons. In preparing for Christ the mother to the hospital. Theni eepinIg in touch with the things the helpful stranger called the Imneans opening up our hearts, Police who neyer arrived, buttw ýat wiIl put us in the way of the patrol cars passed and neither pirit, so that Hlis Spirit xnay stopped. A former state represent- orne to dwell in us. ative cliancei that way, stopped and calledl the fire department In rearngfor the comingý of for an ambulance and sent a man "hrist we nied to heed the fact across the street to the Broadway hat it is easy to be too busy. We Rotel to borrow a blanket. The ve in an ag' e where people dIo blet was refused. Whule wait- ot want to get involved, so they ing, for, an ambulance, Captain )usy thcieselves li other things. Bill Latliam of the fire depar't- ni extreme example of this is to ment and former state represent- le found in the Daily Oklahoman, ative B'ob Cutnîngharn decided to [ondfay, Decemiber 7, 1964. "A take the mother and lier child to hirty-one year old mother gave the liospital in the latter's car irtli to a child on the sidewalk and they did." ithe corner of Sheridan and This story is reminiscent of roadway, Oklahoma City, Sun- (Continued on page 6)