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Newspaper
Saline Observer
Location
Saline, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Dec 22, 1955
Page
1
A devotional Christmas prayer asks God to enlarge hearts with goodwill toward all, forgive sins, and bless families and nations. It pleads for the Spirit of the Christ Child to inspire humility, mercy, and Christian brotherhood through Jesus Christ.
Mrs Winifred Gall directs Christmas Eve program at Trinity with organist duties and an all ages service. Congregational carols include From Heaven Above to Earth I Come Silent Night and Let Us All With Gladsome Voices. Sunday School divisions recite and sing, ending with distribution of gifts.
Saline's city council anticipates population growth from 1800 to 500 to 1700? The article notes growth to 5,000–6,000 in coming years and plans for expanded water services including a new pumping station and treatment facilities costing about 90 340 dollars. Projected sites foresee 500 new homes within city limits and 1 200 more adjacent to the city. Layne Northern Company has drawn up a preliminary survey and cost breakdown.
The Church School of St Pauls Evangelical and Reformed presents a 7 30 p m Christmas Eve program featuring organ preludes, scripts, tableaux and choir numbers. Children from nursery through primary departments perform readers songs poems and nativity scenes under Rev Alvin Siemsen and church teachers.
Pupils from the Intermediate and Senior Departments will sing carols tomorrow evening December 23 after the school Christmas program. Rev Henry McKenzie and Mrs McKenzie host a party at the church following the event. Teachers include Charles Jaquith Herman Waddell and Mrs William Spike.
The 1897 New York Sun reply to Virginia O’Hanlon defends belief in Santa Claus. It argues that truth is beyond sight and that faith, love, and imagination give life its greatest meaning. The editorial asserts Santa exists as surely as generosity and devotion.
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