The Similkameen Star
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is part of: BC Historical Newspapers
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issued: 2023-11-29
issued: 1944-12-21
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note: rt^gHJHBIB-Bgg = 7*7- H D O The Similkameen Forty-Fifth Year, No. 3 PRINCETON, B.C., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 21st, 1944 $2.00 Year, 5c per Copy Reason's Greetings Good Tidings of Great Joy A CHRISTMAS MEDITATION By Rev. Edward W. Slater Good tidings of great joy! "Bah! Humbug!" said Scrooge. Yes, many of you are thinking just that— "Humbug!" How can there be joy when our sons and daughters are fighting on the battlefields; and us at home with such taxes! Just go back in history 1948 years ago to this scene (for Christ was born 4 B:C.) ; a few illiterate shepherds, watching their flocks one night on "the bills of Galilee were startled by an unusual vision. An Angel of God, who, apparently passing by the wise, the influential and the politicians, visited the humble watchers of sheep and allayed their fears by that wonderful statement, "Behold! I bring you tidings of great joy; for unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, Who is Christ the Lord." Good tidings — great joy — a Saviour — peace? Incredible! That story must have been just as unbelievable in that day as December 25, 1944.. On the one hand there was the innocent Babe in the stable manger and on the other hand was the might of the Roman Empire. Does not the message of Good Tidings and peace come to us afresh at' #n hour when mighty material forces have been released by nation against nation? Amidst the roar of guns, the bursting of rocket bombs, the whirling of B29 propellors there seems little room for expressions of joy and peace. Yet the greatest power in the world cannot be measured with standards devised by human hands. It is that power, that in the presence of adverse conditions, drives men on the road to the Star of Bethlehem. Over and over again the message of "Peace on earth among men of goodwill" has manifested itself when all things around us are tumbling on their foun- • dations. After the darEHess of the darkest night comes the light of dawn. Dawn to an ex- • ternal and materialistic w…
note: Title changes in chronological order: Similkameen Star (1900-03-31 to 1900-07-28), The Similkameen Star (1900-08-04 to 1900-10-20), Similkameen Star (1900-10-27 to 1918-05-10), The Princeton Star (1918-05-17 to 1935-08-29), The Similkameen Star (1935-09-05 to 1939-12-28).
has type: Newspapers
spatial: Princeton (B.C.)
spatial: Princeton
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0437911
language: English
lat: 49.460278
long: -120.507778
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: Princeton : Star Printing & Publishing Co.
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source: Original Format: Princeton and District Museum and Archives
type: Text