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PAGE 2. SOME YEARS AGO. THE LATE DR. J. H. JOWETT preached a sermon entitled. “If Christ Had Not Come.” We are reminded of it today by the return once more of the Christmas season. Merely to realize the condition of the world if Christ had not come, Dr. Jowett said, we should have to be busy for weeks turning out lights and darkening win- dows. shutting doors and cutting up literature. destroying art and silencing music and song. Sometimes we see things better by contrast, and the con- templation of a negation may often serve to reveal more fully the great truths of our Christian faith. Our Lord Himself adopted this method. at times. of pressing home truths on the hearts of men. and every positive assertion He made carries with it the solemn emphasis of an implied negation. “I am come that they might have life.” “I am come a Light into the world.” “I am come to seek and to save that which is lost.” There we have it. No life in ourselves. No light in the darkness of sin-beclouded hearts and minds, and no sal- vation for a lost world if the Lord Jesus had not come. If Christ had not come. Think of it! No Christian love and sympathy that will bind up the wounds of suffering men and women and speak comfort to the broken heart. No hospi- tals. no schools. no institutions to minister to the aged and relieve the distressed and unfortunate. Only a race of hu- manity hating each other with a bitter hatred. destitute of every virtue we call Christian. crushing the weak and unfor- tunate to the wall in the mad struggle for existence. without a hope in the world and going out into the blackness of eternal night. But thank God it is not so. as the return of Christmas reminds us. Christ had come and brought life and immor- tality to light. He is God’s best gift to the human race. offered freely to all men. for “the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ. our Lord.” For this reason. we can sing with joyful hearts: HAPPINESS, I HAVE DISCOVERED, IS NEARLY AL- ways a rebound from hard work. It is one of the follies of men to imagine that they can enjoy mere thought, or emotion or sentiment. As well try to eat beauty! For happiness must be tricked! She loves to see men work. She loves sweat, weariness. self-sacrifice. She will be found. not in palaces. but lurking in cornfields and factories and hovering over lit- tered desks. She crowns the unconscious head of the busy child. If you look up suddenly from hard work, you will see her, but if you look too long, she fades sorrowfully away.â€" Dam’d Grayson. THE SECRET OF ALL AGES WAS REVEALED AT Bethlehem. There God sprang a surprise upon the human race which habitually thinks of Deity in terms of power and with difficulty can associate love with lordship. When the veil was withdrawn. the world saw a woman stOOping over an infantâ€"saw a youth working at a carpenter’s bench. a man standing by a bed of pain, a man hanging on a SOME OF OUR CHURCHES REGULARLY SPREAD THE Lord’s table at the evening services on Sunday as well as at the morning service. says the Christian Standard. organ of the Disciples of Christ. Usually. instead of having the emblems passed through the congregation in the evening, those who desire to commune are invited to occupy the front seats. while the deacons serve them. Many persons are un- able to attend the morning hour of worship. This custom affords them opportunity to participate in this most solemn and enriching experience. Then. too. it gives a tone of devo- tion to the evening meeting which can be secured in no other way. We have made much of the Lord’s Supper in the Res- toration movement. There is yet much beauty and power undeveloped in this sacred ordinance. It is given central place on Sunday morning. Why not exalt the evening service with the great memorial? u-‘J-‘\I \J--uu-'-~- v--- â€"-â€"â€" advertised for a gardener. and got a letter from a gentleman concerning a man whom we will call John Smith. The gen- tleman said: ‘John Smith has an excellent knowledge of gardening. He can manage a kitchen garden wonderfully, and he can bring an ornamental garden to perfection.’ And he went on through the list of what the man could do. My friend said to himself he was just the man he wanted. But when he got to the bottom of the page and turned over, on the other side. there were three words. ‘But he won’t!’ ” Could this be a possible reason why some are not out and out for Christ? BISHOP CHELMSFORD SAID: “A FRIEND OF MINE For The Quiet Hour Joy to the world! The Lord is come! Let earth receive her King; Let every heart prepare Him room, And heaven and nature sing. He rules the world with truth and grace, And makes the nations prove The glories of His righteousness, And wonders of His love. They all were looking for a king To slay their foes and lift their} high. Thou cam’st a little baby thing -\ That made a woman cry. I come in the little things, Saith the Lord; My starry wings I do forsake, Love’s highway of humility to take: Till by such art I shall achieve My Immemorial Plan, Pass the low lintel of. the human heart. Look upward! Press onward! The prize is secure, If faithfully on To the end you endure! With strength for life’s battle He'll gird you each day, And give you the Victory, Each step of the way. Adown the veiled year, With Jesus as comrade, Whatever awaits you H'e knoweth your f tame; He never will fail youâ€" He’s always the same. God Bless you! agd guide_ you, Of you He is mindful; And givé you His'bestf Through Him may you triumph, In Him may you rest! CHRISTMAS GREETINGS WWâ€" was startled to hear Deals of]: - ter from the playroom. Timo y, wandering round alone, had found Roderick’s hobbyhorse behind the . ' that he had never seen such a thing in all his life“ He stood in front of it and shouted with delight. Then some bed. . Early the next morning, the chil- dren came creeping downstairs to get their stockings. They gathered in a joyful circle round the bright fire in the living room. An- 125 The class yell of the School of Experience is “Ouch!" there, clutching the reins. As the sleigh drove slowifioout of the gate, the hohbynorse unced up and down. Timothy sat erect, drum. horn and all. It was a strange sight; all the way down the road Reaple turned round and looked. oderick stood on the porch laugh- ing. The last thing he saw, as the team turned _a _he_nd, was a spotflof A Dutchman was recently expati- sting on the folly of gmngwomen the vote as has been done in Eng- land and Canada. He declared that in Holland, there was a greater effl- cienoy am the female sex where thw. did no possess that doubtful f”"“°‘°° He painted to the fact hat the Dutch woman sits with one foot on the spinning wheel or churn and with the other she rocks the cradle containing the twins; with her hands she knits socks for her husband. while on her knee she rests a hook from which she is 1mprov1ng her mind by study. And all the while she sits on' a cheese pressing it for market. Greater ef- ficiency than this hath no woman. Wfitmfi'bhifiifié’ gaily ii the Christmas sunshine. ‘ The Safe Place To Buy We are selected dealersâ€"appointed to the Moran 85 ‘Crosley franchise The Greatest Radio Value in Canadaâ€" Let us Demonstrate It? Smith Brothers, Durham, Ont. EFFICIENCY EFORE investing in a} The [eight of Considenuon “\Vaiter, my h“! 5‘“ij 1w m”. teen shiflings; you V“ mud» n {0113; teen shillings!” “Yes sir.. I thQUght you "112M be superstitious, snr. Rand the Classified Ads. 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