GREETINGS OF THE CHRISTMASTIDE AND BEST WISHES FOR THE NEW YEAR.

White Ribbon, Volume 32, Issue 377, 18 December 1926, Page 2

GREETINGS OF THE CHRISTMASTIDE AND BEST WISHES FOR THE NEW YEAR.

"God so loved that He gave." "Oh, love, that will not let me go, 1 rest my happy sou! on thee; I give thee back the life 1 owe, That in thine ocean depths its flow May richer, fuller be. ’ “God commendeth His love towards us. in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for the ungodly.” “God so loved the world that He gave." That is the essence of sacrifice! < lod gave. The Fatherhood of God is the idea we should emphasise and remember. He loved —so He gave. He wanted to show a blind world the meaning of love. Only through a human manifestation could that be understood. He took upon Himself the form of man. But it was to show the Father's love.

Because the Father Is Invisible, omnipotent. the “I am," we cannot so easily grasp the meaning of His Spirit. But "God is love.” We say He is loving. We should rather think He is I/>ve! and human language is. of course, inadequate. Pathetic and eloquent was the petition of a dear friend lately. “We’re your bairns. Father," she pleaded. "You love us; you know our needs. We love Thee. Oh. Father, we’re your bairns." We cannot picture infinity. He is beyond the power of our human comprehension. and only through conscious (pith can we come into touch with Him through the othei Holy One in the glorious Trinity the Holy Spirit. “He will take the things of God and reveal them unto us.” Lovingly your comrade, BLANCHE READ JOHNSTON. Hon. Secretary. W C.T.U. 18 Cowan Avenue, Toronto, Canada.

Discussing the annual report of the Glasgow Savings Dank, the "Glasgow Herald. ’ in a leading article, said; “It is true that the ‘Drink Bill' helps in no inconsiderable manner to finance the country, and there are many who think it an equitable arrangement that the bookmaker, as well as the brewer and publiean, should be made to stand and deliver a portion of his gains. But be cause we are compelled to tolerate the drink traffic, in spite of its wastefulness and other enormities, until the nation really awakens to the price it pays in death, disease and demoralisation for this toleration, it does not follow that we should, for the payment of ‘blood money,’ sanction a system that, almost equally with excessive drinking, is responsible for waste, criminality, and social disorganisation. Because we aro carrying one parasite industry, is that any reason why, for merely sordid argument. we should carry two?"