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PAGE EIGHTEEN Continued From Preceeding Page CHRISTMAS ON BROADWAY This is Broadway, Christmas night, BrcatliuiK iHjituic and Delight; See the great white lights so clear— Only once in all the year Do the lights of Broadway glow On such happy throngs as flow y&Sjfjpi Gay with laughter as they pass On their way to Midnight Mass. —Dan Doran ALL MEN SHOULD BE ENROLLED Whenever the door bell rings to find Myself in a sorry state — From the washing of linens and other things Such as cup and saucer and plate— And a voice says, “Taking the census, ma’am,’' I think of Our Lady’s plight, Os the dark and the cold and the swaddling clothes In the hush of that holy night, —Franchonita Rover GALAXY NOEL The pine tree whispers to the snow, As friends lonj time together; The winds in rythmic cadence blow', ’Tis wintry, wintry weather. But lights upon the altar flame And every candle names His Name. While in the heavenly diadem Each star’s a Star of Bethlehem. —Oren R. Brown LIITTLE CHILD leftists' heard ibis, they remounted their c-imel;. and went t> Bethle hem to find tii. CM d Heiod, meaning to kill -he Chiiu if he knew where he was, told the sci entists to let him know if they were : Ik -essful. On their way the Lirre scTntlst* H beh ' he star which they had I in th n- oy. n court* ry arid they I rejoiced because they knew it I meant they had not unde the jovr- B n< yf r nothing and they ''.ere on fl the { it road. B At Bethhhem the rim stopped fl over the house of Mary and Jo* fl e:ih. 1 < w. d< e i rite (if B Kino 11.-. !. Timy were in IVtirie- B hem in order to be listed in the B census the Emperor Augustus had B f-rderert,.. throughout his Empire. fl They h'Ct journeyed from Nrrnr- B |‘l) ;i n '«! • v-h> ’•*■ tlie trilie |g <. sc ic;;; from David had to rc- B B M-.irv was about to give birth to fl ? chi’rt Ac. an col bad told her fl earlier that' she. a Vo-gin. was to fl ronw ivt a Child toes re she B marridto Joseph. The angel said tfgi p ;»f v •d • b" «■’ o 1 h W Cm " :■ •'■th ■ F ly Chert :• ! B f; it lh' Chad ".1 the Bon of Cod. fl T'.faiy knowing God could do all fl thbri.s belli: ved the angel. And in H order to prove thru t l is was a fl r( d nv saw f ■•in G'i 1 pv rev.eri B B although very old, was also to give B birth to ach id. Mary went to see ,Jo\ CL O HG 210 Y 'i To (jrii .md eun one ' ‘''("'(ln bring luppincis i mWjm-'i S % * and prosperity to all. I I BA SS & STEPHENS NEW & USED CARS SO2 S. SALISBURY ST. DIAL TEmple 2-1414 y£? : *TFt )&"**&*- *> } H<wJL •■'•v. ;.\ «& * v 4fsit ■ •'.. j®>> jrtay "* yen ond ye*"’ o’ f ] gfl. Chriitmattim* .• • and p.W$Jt throughout tb» ccmmg y '-%\... ~~ < "" H»w rear! \0 W* KINNEY’3 PARADISE GRILL V 305 W. Soulb Stupe 1 —...., ~~ - ; Elizabeth and found what the an* I eel said was true. In an ecstacy of ! joy she sang a song of glory to God. Joseph, too, was told in a dream that he should marry Mary and | look after her and her Child be- j cause Mary’s son was the Son of God. And so Joseph married Mary, j When Joseph and Mary reached I | Bathlehem there was no room for j them anywhere because so many j 1 people had come to register. They j 1 wt re shown a cave that was really j 1 for animals, where they could j ! lake shelter. And in this cave the j Child Jesus was born. Hosts of an* ; 'vis sang above the cave to His Glory And some shepherd guard ing their sheep by night were told bout this Child and they, too, went to adore him. Now by the time the three scientists arrived at F-"thle- I-em. Mary and Joseph had fa and room in a house, and the 4 o.rs stood over the house. Th" scientists entered and j hov. <-d down before the Christ Child, horn to be King, and of forred Him presents of geld. License and myrrh. Then they returned 'a their own country ; without fellin'' Herod they had found the Child, because they j were warned in a dream not to do so. Wh> n Herod heard Ibis he v/as furious and gave an order that all children in Bethlehem under two "hould be killed so that he might 1 be sure that the Child hern to be King would be nut to (Wth But Mary and Joseph, having been warned i.i a dream, had already fled to Eevn*. Now ai Christmas time, the birthday of Jesus, we all give pre sents to each other in memory of the presents given to Jesus by the scientists. It is a time of great joy for all those who love the Christ Child. Only some like Herod are jealous and would put an end to this time of joy. Jesus, today, leads all those who are willing to be together with Him in one place, that is. in His Church, lie does not lead them bv the strength of arms or atom bombs, but he leaves them free to come of their own accord to find Him. Many nations, even enemy nations, colored and white togeth er, are friends at the feet of the Christ Child, and His Kingdom ex tends all over the earth. These people are at peace, with the peace that passes understand ing because they know they are the true children of God, and that the Christ Child has prepared a place for them in heaven for all eternity where they will always be with him. CHRISTMAS 1957 Pharisees strove to adapt the Old Law to the ever changing circum stances of life, and in their efforts, substituted formalism for theology as the heart of the spiritual life of the Jews. The Sadducecs. though predomi nantly the priestly class, secular ized their faith. • Their materialis tic mode of life would recognize savior who promised a kingdom to the poor in spirit, the meek, the clean of heart and to those who would suffer persecution for jus tice sake. These materialists did not believe in spirits. How could they receive the angel’s message. “Peace on earth to men of good I will.”? . Rich and poor were ‘.nanny ds- I yided Rt- the time of the Savior’s I birth. The hateful, overbearing at tttude of the rich evoked dislike ! and bitterness among the poor. Po. ! jiticai authority supported the ! rich: the poor could turn only to j God for help and ultimate justice, j (n defense of the poor the m w born Savior chose poverty us His companion on entering, remaining in, and on leaving the world. The champions of the existing order would not lona tolerate Him Who cam. to establish justice and chai lt> Tho birth of Christ into such a world explains why “His own re ceived Him not.” Yet this birth j marked the beginning of the ! Christian revolutiokn -wh 1 c h I spread after the national'im cf : the Jews and the opportunism oi j the Romans has first nailed Christ i to the Crocs. In His death huniu’.i- I ity was reborn and thus became ■ wholly transformed. Th*> code of ethical and religious ! principles which Christ's coining. ! and teaching established gave _ e new soul to society and made (no things of earth subject to the things oi heaven, j wt as His ' :v n nature of Man-God relinked hu j inanity to Divinity, the ephenr. rat ! to the eternal. The final end ot re born humamy is not chanyaolv : public welfare but unchangeable, eternal life. , Peace through justire aml iove helped solve the problem of slavery of old bv implant ing a new spirit in surety. That same spirit of ( irist can 'one fine a solution in our av for the problems ot ex 'lar.ge. sharing oi "'Aim, cf dorn and disarmament. They (the works of tn> unis! shall pesish, but Thou .ail continue: am) they shall .-j« will a> a gar ileni anu as > vesture thau sha’t c . in/a iem, and they shall ■hanged but thou are tin seU vme, and thy years shall not fail.’’ An exact evaluation of the stub' ,f humanity at this Chimiim-s ime of 1957 compared with its ,tate in the days of Christ s birth and His lime is not possible. But | we can discover the same kind ot indifference and active hatred ier ' the Savior of the work! today ar. it existed nearly 20 centuries a.' The evil of secularism is only the cloak that disguises the eno ■ mies of Christ. J.t is an evil which I limits itself to the human here ; and now in exclusion ot man’s i i lation to God here and hereafter, i it would accept a newborn Christ if He were man only and not also God. It excludes God from human thinking and living and breeds both extreme individualism and a theistic communism. .... , In the moral life of the indivi viduai, expediency rather than res ponsibility to God is the norm, fa mily life too. is blighted through contraception, divorce and neglei > nf the educative function if re ! "vdrd at all. The same is true of -dustrial and commercial life here without Christ no true bro ' ; rhood can be achieved in own •shin, management ar.-i labor Again we welcome ft this Christina- time of IE 7 the re ! ninders of the Saviors birth. As I W 8 contemplate Him in H'S three * told generation: from the bosom ot the Father in eternity, from the ‘ metuary of the virginal body of Mary in the cave of Bethlehem, | and in thehcarts of “men of good ! will’’ through faith and ihe Sacra; -icr.t ot the Eucharist, we a”? In deed given that peace which the ; world cannot give But it is as much our God-given j own Son to bring that peure to | mission as it was that of God's : others even as it was brought to : us. While rejoicing over the proc ess of the mission of the Prince 1 if Peace in the history of human : ity since His advent we know that ! the same ancient enemy. Satan, is I ever at ivork, using the same wea j pons, if under different forms. In Paradise he destroyed the j peace of our first parents to d - ! colt and coercion. Under the guise I it a promote, of temporal welfare j he •HI causes brother lb rise «• ■ atnst brothci in the endless wai i fare of envy and hatred, because Satan cannot tolerate God to be come our Brother to teach us good will and thereby to bring us peace on earUi. ADVENT WREATH earlist days of Christianity ajid Advent. Is a time us prayer and of j penance in preparation for the j coming of Christ. The home ceremony for use of the Advent Wreath is sim ple. It consists of tlie Collects for the Sundays of the sea son. On the first Sunday, the family gathers for the blessing of the wreath by the father. He sprinkles the wreath with holy water and the youngest ehild in the family lights the first purple eanclle and the prayer for the first week is said. During the first week, the one candle is left burning during the j evening meal, at prayers or at j bedtime. Two candles are lighted! J on the second Sunday by the old-1 est cniid and allowed to burn a.- ; before. Three candles are lighted on the third Sunday by the moth er and during that week. All four i candles are lighted on the fourth Sunday by the father and allow ed to burn as before. At the end of Advent, candles j and ribbons are changed to white, j evergreens renewed, and tiny Christmas balls added to decorate j the wreath. The wreath may be j kept during the Christmas seu ! son. until EniDhany. HOW TO MAKE AN ADVENT WREATH 1. Start with a circular form on which you can tie green foil- j age. (Such forms are now avail- ; able in stores selling Christmas | decorations.) 2. Tie or wire small clusters of evergreen branches (laurel, cedar, pine, holly or whatever is readily i availablei to the wire circles to! make your wreath. 3. Decorate wreath with the purple ribbon, 4. Insert 3 purple canules and one pink candle in the sockets and | your Advent Wreath is complete 1 the advent wreath CEREMONY The ceremony is simple. It starts at the evening meal on the Saturday before the first Sun day in Advent with the blessing ; of tlie wreath. The head of the household is : the one designated to say the j prayers, following which various j members of his family light the ! candles. If the group is not a I family, then a leader may be se | lected to say the prayers and oth ! era appointed -to light the can i dies.) For blessing the wreath, the i following prayer is suggested: Father: O God, by whose word ! all things are sanctified, pour : forth thy blessing upon this wreath, and grant that we who i use it may pfsnare our hearts for the coming of Christ and may receive from Th?? abundant graces. Through Christ our Lord. Amen, Then follows the prayer which is said before the evening each night of the first week in Advent. CHRISTMAS CRIB l ;iii3 throu.thout Fu.-. p -. One of the best known of ♦ >.;«•£ e :>r!y or it--s is now in Rome in i e L i'ic.i of Saints '’osinas and Damrin. Forty five feet lung, twenty feet wide. tv ntv ■< -i f— l b»«b ( jt ine'n-’es several hun ■■t fi'i}-es, a!l hand carved es wood; its sky Fas stars and a moon: thc-e a-e the tra-N --tional angels anti shepherds; the surroundin'' countryside and peoole performing their dai!v tasks; there are buildinys ranging from an i n to a ra.s --tl". and a thousand other dt -1 M.--HV families nl-• > made th-ur own Chririmas criiiri and, in south ern liuly j> :! -ular!y. the C I'rist mus testiviti-.-s centered around j fb> -e home -rentior.s. In Italy it is called the “Pre i sepo” from the T.atin pracseoio. i which means stable. In France it !: s the creche: in Germany the j Krippv; in Spain the Nacimiento ; Wherever Christmas i? celebrated j tod-iv, the:e i a Oirri-v-s crib The Chrtr.tmss crib v s brav;’ t to America by the va rious imml"-3iits who c3-’e to , tth h»!f. But there is one ei tv in America which his be come famous for its distinctive Christmas crib tradition • Bethlehem. Pennsylvania, ap proximately named and now known as the Christmas ( it) . of America. It was Christmas Eve. in 1741. that Nicholas Louis, the Count or Zingendorf, and a group of Mora vian pioneers, seeking the religious freedom of the New Wcm'd, named their settlement after the bifth place of Christ. With them they brought their •Putz” tradition—the elaborate manger scene* carved of wood which have b“en bunded down from generation .to generation now. and which arc still being improved as each family makes its contribu tion , . Th" most inspiring o r these is (he Community Put/, which tells the Christmas story in seven scenes with more than two hun dred buildings, the most noted of which is an accurately sealed re production of Herod’s temnie. A real stream of water ruins throifgh the Putz. which rests on fifty, bu shes of moss, it is annually dis-. rjivved from December IS to Jan | vary 2 in the First Moravian j Church there. GIFT EXCHANGE I orrsent can beat mv present, its i , r/'ciTv merry Chri'tmHs. We didn't discuss the mater a* «aia. Resigned!y, I watched her each morning pack sandwiches in to a bap. knew that her lunch money was being diverted to Christmas spending. Resignedly, 1 went into a department store, I hurried past all the showy expen - I sivc items and bought the warm ! red flannel robe that 1 knew she i needed and that 1 could afford. P,e --| M«ne-”y. then. 1 waited for Christ* , mas Eve, with its renewal of* de THE CAROLINIAN feat. But suddenly, at the eleventh hour, I was handed the key to vic tory. The week preceding Christ mas my firm had a rush job that kept me working late nights and all day Saturday. Then the SKjni noon before Christmas the agency j head called rr.c into lus office, wished me a happy holiday and handed me a thick envelope Pay ment for overtime plus a small bonus, he explained. When I got back to my desk I opeiiPfl it and found a poin scltia-deoor.ited card enclosing seven crisp ten-dollar hills. Seventy dollars. J spread them out fanwise on my desk. iop. Seventy dollars! The words made a little carol in my brain. Anita hasn’t worked any over time. The government doesn’t give bonuses. She couldn’t pos sibly have saved this much. This year I’m bound to win. This year I’ll be Santa Claus As soon as the office closed I almost ran the four blocks from my building to the department store, dodging the bundle-laden last-minute shoppers. Rreathlessly, i I .pod again to the lingerie section. | This time I ignored the plain, the | tailored, the practical. Instead I j | directed my attention to the froth | and folly, the items clearly dt- I 'i-ined for the girl who has everv i thing" Finally” I settled for n filmy I pink chiffon gown and negligi e trimmed with ostrich feathers and j a price tag that claimed the entire i contents of my bonus envelope. Ania was in the kitchenette ! cooking our traditional Chris,mo.' . i vigil oyster stew when I reached : | home She gave me a cheery wave j j iin d I waved cheerily back, then j I skipped into the bedroom to wrap j ! my trophy in gay paper and brig.it ; i ribbons. With a sense of smug I i satisfaction. I carried it to the cln j set and placed it tenderly on top i | of my earlier, now disdained pur- , ! chase It’s back to the exchange ! counter for you day after tomor- j row I mentally taunted the red ' 'Santic 1 robe. No bargain giving for i j .Joannie this Christmas. _ . Supper was a happy meat, m ! spite of its reminders of whose ! h-eight and broad branches over ! powered cur tiny living room vW ■Vi re. it seemed, the closest we have ever been. Each time our eyes met we exchanged little secret ' -miles. And Anita, nr, she moved about with the tinsel and shining ( riis, stopped often to give me 1 ! t'l" loving pats. She was. I knew, -herishing the knowledge that riv i bad bought me something spe:-i:d. -coring in advance my ad<; •nd pleasure. And for .he •»-• me I was able to respond wholt i ' "artedly to her smiles and pats. nee I had my own private know j ’ ige to el-r i-'h. M last the final ornament was hitnr. the li;hts plugged the tiny figures of the Na tivity scene set in place. - ■ be t r>ari wan opening the 1 -rge case from lowa and mr ii g . riles of the iniristri v shaped parcels. It had 1’ ? been a family custom to corn our presents when we reUi-n --fd from Midn ~ht Mass. V i Vanned to follow it tonight. Put now, as we stood idimirmg the decorative effect ot «vr opening's work. Anitas ant 'i p-ition babbled over. ’•I can’t wait, ’ she confided. I can open the other packages ve n | we get home, but 1 have to give j you mine now. I want you .o «6ai : it to church.’’ She vanish, d into the bedroom. ■ was bock in two minutes with a ! s . iUare box. Smi’ing with eontent i ment, ri.r stood by as I broi-ie tne ! se als. slid off the ro; tted ribbon, i unfolded the crinkly paper and j lifted the lid. “A muff!” I exclaimed. “And it j matches my coat collar I thrust n hands into its centi r, h< id ii • out for fully display. ‘‘Oh Anita, magnificent present’” She went to the hall closet and brought out my coat to show how extict was the match and 1 obed i end abed and expressed my do | light to her complete satisfaction, j My delight was genuine too. As ! always, Anita had put into he*- gift not only money but taste and . thought. And this time I coukl ap , predate it fully, without the gnaw - j ing discontent of knowing that ; once again my gift must be second 1 best. A lovely muff, I thought, a | truly luxurious muff. That flannel ] robe would have looked pretty j sick beside it. But even this muff will be- put in the shade by all that feather-trimmed chiffon. “You can’t wear rnv gift to Mass,” I told her gaily, “but I j want you to have it now. anyway. Don’t move till I come bek ” I hurried in the bedroom, opened the closet door, reach ed up for the box. I held it in front of me for a moment, vis ualizing again the glamour and richness of that gown and neg ligee. In that moment I could imagine Anita’s face as she looked at it could see her eyes widen with surprise and won .<er. could watch her triumph fade and become mine. I had a monemt’s sense of exulta tion, a surge of satisfaction it having won oar lifelong battle. Then, without guitr knowing why, I turned back to the clo set, buried the box I he’d or der a piie of sheets and look out the other one. I moved again to the ISvirm room 1 at top speed, an it afraid that any delay might make me change my mind, “Here.” I thrust the package mtu her hands, said almost curtly, -Merry Christmas ” I stood beside her while she o ucned the box, took out the robe, snid the conventional things about its color, its texture, is bf-ing ex actly what (he wanted. I waited then for the hollow feeling, the bitterness of knowing that, as us ual. I must accept more than I could give. Only I didn’t feed hol low at all. Inside I was all warmth and glow and joyousness. Anita slipped the robe on ovc-r her dress, tied the belt with care, paraded in front of the mirror. Joannie, it’s a pefcct fit.” she | seid. “And such a bright Christ ] mas red. And yon—”'H g’c-rice I went to the rnuLf||i|£|jpifl e.vtn| sparkled with the happino;> of i>n- ; rivalled ponerosity. "You do like vour pro::, nt, don’t you " “1 love it," I raid hon \stly. I picked it up from tho ta'olo and lubbed my cheek again:;! tlx* soft fur. ••.Larline Anita, this '<jS£. ! 22b'* boat Ciiiiaimus ever. " ' ” "-"***" ' " And why call ye me ! o S d, i>ord, and do not the j> i" > which ! say? -(St,Luke 6, The Lord Jesus Christ, our blessed Savior and 'in' nr r, expects us to do our pari - to read and seek to understand His teachings in th<> Mii.de, to have faith and trust in Him, to love and obey Him “for there's no other way ” ■ \ “Triumph is just ‘timph* added to ‘try’.” op, i 8 V-if yj A ' . YvV ' ' jMgu V/e appreciate the cp; > tumty the Holiday Season brings to say "The: 1 -: < A r j, f- 1 - R ii.Ji 319 S. F. ■ 3r: et . > I J ; CChris imas lirinq those « | i i WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1957 . ■ is WB4y w * 1 V / \ * '«/ / \ * u. ; // / \ i / \ C KRAM E R’ S “The House of Diamonds Martin - Dilisbury Sts. Raleigh, ■ —— P"'v? : V. « '"^Em | jf 7 V I N v f ' '■■■■..;>, r \ 1 |y * I wy p ■ j ! 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