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ORT PERRY STAR zz==xk PORT PERRY, ONTARIO, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 22nd, 1955 ] RT a ' * $2.00 per year. Single Copy Se. MIRO MOMIRT AIM ROMER The Christmas Message Unless Christmas is renewed in each of our hearts each year at this time the coming of Christ to the world nearly two thousand years ago has lost some of its possible power in the world of to-day. We need that power. We need use it for world good. We need it each day throughout the year 1956. We need tp understand that Christ's message was a very practical one: The Tod only one that would save us from destruction. When we have stripped His message of all theology we still have the magnificent fact of Love * standing out over the centuries with a radiance that blots out small issues much as a blinding . light makes it impossible to sort out the small details of a scene. : We have the basic common denominator of action laid out for us, clearly. We must approach each experience with the strength of Love. We must decide the issue as Love would have us de- cide--not sentimentalism but Love. We must first learn how to Love. Christ set the example. He taught us how. We accepted God first of all. We become part of that great natural Life principle which made all life. = Then we naturally want the good of our fellow creatures. We are still weak unless we follow up this idea N with sacrifice. Many of us want good as long : as we make no sacrifice to obtain it. We follow the Christmas Message in the twentieth rcentury only if we can .love enough to sacrifice. We accept the Russian, the African, the Arab as they are--but we do not stop there--that is sentiment- alism. We find ways to deal with his problem and 2 ours fairly and reasonably remembering the Wy dignity of Man. : In We do it slowly. We learn to have good judg- & ment through loving first. If we desire to aid we 2 p will find the way. True love expands our minds, jis; increases our wisdom, and emboldens our action 3 for truth. - . pis "This great principle of Love works for us per- Mi sonally as well as universally. Each conquest in : : personal life brings the conquest in universal life 3 --a little closer to the angel message of "Pence on ~~ 770 earth good will to men." : 2; THE MANAGEMENT und STAFF of THE PORT PERRY STAR. Greetings from our Merchants He This week the Star is pleased to carry special Christmas Greetings from the merchants of Port Perry. It will pay you to read these ads over as they also carry 'information regarding special B i features for Christmas buying and also special <a shopping hours, You will find your local merchant friendly and ready to serve you in all your shop- ping. Not only are they ready to help you with your gift problems now and throughout the year, . 27 but they are back-of the many community pro- Ae; jects that make our town a good place to live. vi Appreciation Day Winners 7 The retail Merchants announce. the winners of two coupon draws, Saturday, December 17, Mr. Geo. L. Jackson, ot Port Perry, had a 10°¢ coupon drawn and re- ceived $17.89 and- at the Special Draw held on Tuesday, December 20th, Mrs. Betty Moorhead won $10.90 with a 57 coupon. Nice for Christmas +4 shopping! fre The next draw will be on Saturday, December 24th, at 3.30 p.m. and will take place beside the . 18 Western Tire store. The amount in the pot, will 3. he $273.17. ' : Not a Rocking Chair The paradise we seek for old age is not a rocking K, chair in which to sit and twiddle our thumbs, but a { place where we may use our strenth and gifts and : vo knowledge and experience to finish our job or to do other jobs for which we never had time. Activity And thep » worshipped ' in a- useful role gives us a feeling of adequacy and accomplishment. : Our faces may be scribbled over with auto- biographical notes that tell past hopes, fears, joys, angers and disappointments, but life always be- gins where we are. We should have purpose; we should still want to do something; we should still look ahead expectanty, - -- Hobbies need not be merely pastimes: they can be stimulating, enjoyable and. remunerative, pro- viding outléts for cur creative impulges and our : self-expression. They should be planned for and Ta worked toward from our middle years, and at the proper period of our development they should he ready to step in to fill the vacancies in our lives. Said 87-year-old Frank Wise as he set up his ex- gi oR hibition of bookbinding at Montreal's first Golden AA Age Hobby Show this year: I just haven't time Am to grow old." . SRE AAR