President’s Message

White Ribbon, Volume 19, Issue 11, 1 December 1947, Page 5

President’s Message

Dear Friends, — By this time I suppose we have decided just what we w'ould like to give to those whom we love for Christmas. Also, I suppose, most of us have found that our purses do not stretch to the extent required by our desires, so that instead ot giving some costly gift we have to content ourselves with something more humble. Aren’t you glad that you do not have to reduce your love in the same proportion as you have to reduce the value of your gift * I am. There are those wonderful gifts we can each give without troubling our purses: Prayer for each other and (ioodwill toward each other; these gifts should go especially to those irt any kind of trouble, to those whom we find it difficult to understand (and who probably find us very trying folk), .o those who are indifferent to the havoc made daily by the liquor trade, the slack members of our Unions, etc. If you and I a minute or two each day to definitely giving our Goodwill, I am certain that the rersons to whom we give it will hi* cheered and helped. Jesus set great store on friendship. He showed us what friendship really meant. Friendship, with all that it implies, is surely the world’s greatest need today. As the bells ring out the glorious call, “Peace on Earth, Goodwill to men,” may we, every one of us, give a larger gift of Goodwill and Prayer than we have ever done in the past. A very happy Christmas and New Year to you all and in the often-quoted words of Tiny Tim, “God bless us everyone.” Your sincere friend, C. E. KIRK, Dominion President.