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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1937
Page
2
Grandchildren of South Sea cannibals on Funafuti sing Christians awake the happy morn under tropical skies. The coral isle lies just west of the international date line. Maoris, whites in New Zealand and Australians enjoy open air picnics and outdoor sports as Christmas stockings hang.
The piece surveys Christmas traditions around the world, from China’s Sun Festival timing to England carol singing and Norway tea rituals. It notes Japanese trolley signs bearing blessings, Sweden’s influence on Christmas lights, and Bethlehem tableaux in Czecho-Slovakia.
Little Marjorie told her Sunday School teacher she must give up her part in the Christmas exercises. The teacher coaxed, but the child said she had lost her Christmath Spirit not her Christmas Spirit, due to a lisped front tooth.
Directory lists pastors, service times, and Sunday School for churches in Columbia, North Ridgeville, Penfield Junction, Avon, and surrounding areas. Includes Columbia Baptist, North Ridgeville Congregation, Fields Methodist, Henrietta Methodist, LaPorte Methodist, Penfield Junction Baptist, Birmingham M E, St Peter’s Catholic, Avon Baptist, Camden Baptist plus midweek activities and choir practices.
Pastor AH H Patrick leads Brighton Clarksfield and Rochester churches with Sunday School at 10:00 AM Worship at 11:15 AM League times vary. Clarksfield offers 9:45 AM worship and 10:45 AM school, League at 2:30 PM. Rochester lists 11:15 AM worship and 10:00 AM school with League at 8:90 PM. Rev William Winger conducts Sunday School 10:00 AM Worship 11:00 AM and M Young People's Meeting 7:30 PM.
A compact listing shows multiple churches with pastors and service times. Huntington United Church conducts morning worship at 9 15 with Sunday School at 10 led by Mr Frances Coe. Lagrange M E Church hosts worship at 1 18 with Epworth League at 7. North Eaton Church of Christ lists Sunday School at 10 00 and morning service at 11 700. Grafton M E Church holds morning worship at 9 30 and church school at 10 30.
The church traces origins to 1846 with Rev. F A Roebbelen and later pastors. The 1852 parish church was remodeled in 1924. a parsonage and school were built and used by resident teachers. English services began in 1903. a German service remains monthly. The 90th anniversary was celebrated in July 1986 with multiple preludes and pastors listed.
A Sunday School lesson on Philippians 1 12 26 notes Paul a prisoner in Rome writing to the church to express thanks for a gift and to encourage faithfulness joy and courage. He speaks of bold preaching despite envy and the aim that Christ be magnified in life or death with motives of love and distant heavenly reward.
Phillip iang 1:12 26 outlines hindrances that become help. Questions invite reflection on Paul’s rejoicing at opponents’ successful preaching and identify the most important insights for personal faith and ministry.
The article invites readers to attend church for Christmas and the following Sunday, tracing the Christmas story through church history from Christ’s birth to modern times. It emphasizes the church as custodian of Christmas, the timeless spirit of love and generosity, and the magi and shepherds as enduring symbols.
The text contrasts complete surrender with Christian consecration, asks about the elements of consecration, and how the kingdom’s progress depends. Clericus extols pursuing a noble object that elevates beyond routine toil, while the lesson prayer asks to keep Christ first in thought and to rejoice in hardship for Christ’s exaltation.
The work from The University of Chicago Press offers a broad history of philosophy and a philosophy of history. It treats notable historical events, showing causes and outcomes under a view of human control. The author argues the past remains present in the living present and links history to social phenomena.
The Sunday Lesson for December 26 1937 in Churches of Christ Scientist uses Isaiah 55 1 3 and Revelation 21 27 as Golden Texts and includes a passage from Science and Health by Mary Baker Eddy describing New Jerusalem and the Kingdom of heaven.
The piece muses on Jesus birth date as unknown and four BC best guess. It argues that Christ came timelessly from a world beyond time and space and that his birth created a calendar. It contrasts the ease of believing ugly stories with the slow acceptance of beauty and ends with the infant cry in Bethlehem.
D Carl Yoder recalls a family scene of a Christmas tree and a mother with a baby as the moment he handed the world the hymn Home Sweet Home. The memory frames the creation of a lasting, beloved tune.
A man named J Howard Payne sits alone in a dingy room on Christmas Eve far from home. He recalls childhood Christmas memories while listening to carols and longs for familial warmth as he finds a well lit house where a happy family trims their home.
The word carol derives from cantare meaning to sing and rola an interjection of joy. Caroling means to sing joyfully. Carols are folk art found as carols in England and Noels in France, often pictorial with simple concrete language. They arose from first hand experience in local dialects with refrains and anonymous tradition. Francis of Assisi popularized the practice of singing Christmas carols.
Stockings by the fire likely originated from folk tales of good children receiving gifts from Saint Nicholas, with regional variations in Europe shaping the practice. Community Christmas trees emerged from medieval and 19th century European traditions of public trees as symbols of unity and charity. Christmas carols began as medieval religious songs later adopted by communities for festive rites. Mistletoe carries a pre Christian symbol of fertility and peace later integrated into Christmas ritual. The Yule log tradition signified warmth, protection, and the hearth feast, evolving into seasonal celebrations and indoor fireside customs.
The excerpt notes open air festivals of Italy and Spain in Holland, tracing origins back to pagan days in England and describing mistletoe held in reverence for its cures.
The Druide were said to have crafted a plant item for a ceremonial use during the Winter solstice festival. The Yule burn is linked to Viking mid-winter rites honoring Thor before Christian influences reached the North.
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