A Popular "Uncle"

Radio Record, Volume III, Issue 24, 27 December 1929, Page 9

A Popular "Uncle"

X mas Greetings to Children "THE Rev. BE. Weeks, better known to 2YA radio children as "Uncle Ernest," recently sent the following message from London to be broadcast to the children of New Zealand. 20 Memorial Hall, Ferringdon St., London, H.C.4. My Dear Girls and Boys, . or may I still call you Nieces and Nephews? WITH all my heart do I wish you a very happy Christmas and a bright and prosperous New Year. That sounds very grown-up and formal, and yet it is Reece CSU KEE EE TEE EER ERERERE REE EE EREEEEEEERER ER EEEEESES

really what I want to say. I know you will be having a perfectly lovely time, girls aru boys always do. Some of you will make the glad discovery that the greatest fun in all the world is setting about to make somebody else happy. That is why Santa Ciaus is always represented as a jolly old man with bright laughing eyes, because his job is thinking out plans how he can give other people glad surprises. May you catch his spirit and try his plan that this may be the gladdest Christmas yet. -~ The sun has been shining into my study so brightly and beautifully today. I wished the windows were twice

as large so that twice as much sunshine might come in. It made me think of the love of God, and I wanted my win-. dows to be bigger and bigger so that God’s love might shine right into everyting in my, life. Do your ears ever burn? They ought to, for I am freguently talking about you. I have that beautiful album with those thousands of signatures with me here, I show it with a good deal of happy pride to all my friends when they eall, and I tell them of you splendid youngsters away in beautiful New Zealand. Sometimes a lump comes in my throat, for how I have missed you. Perhaps some day I will come back to you. Anyhow, I tell you what we will do-we will go on loving one another and loving everything that is good and beautiful and strong and sweet and pure and true, and then do ‘you know what will happen? Oh it’s wonderful, why, we shall become like that which we love, we always: do. Cherio, youngsters-a perfectly beautiful Christmas to you. Lots of love from your ever affec- ' tionate