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THE FORSYTH COUNTY NEWS, DEC. 23, 1971, SECTION B
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To all our friends
and neighbors
we sing a joyful
carol of holiday
wishes ... love,
peace, happiness,
and togetherness.
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For a safer and merrier
Christmas, be sure the toys
you buy for your children are
hazard-free. Toys requiring
alcohol, kerosene, gasoline or
carbide lamps are extremely
dangerous when placed in
young hands.
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One of the best ways to
encourage scholastic achieve
ment is to give a youngster a
typewriter of his or her own.
Portable models like the
Hermes 3000 and the Hermes
Rocket are not only light
weight, durable and easy to
use ... they also fit comfort
ably into almost any Christ
mas-present budget.
Well-Loved Carols
Ring Out Everywhere
"Joy to the world! The Lord
is come!”
"It came upon the midnight
clear, that glorious song of
old.”
"Silent night, holy night,
All is calm, all is bright.”
"Oh come, all ye faithful,
jqyfUl and triumphant.”
Throughout Christendom,
the words of these well-loved
carols are familiar even to
little children, and they’ll be
heard this Christmas
Yule Lives
In Legend
And Lore
Twinkling on trees, glow
ing from windows, glittering
everywhere, Christmas lights
reflect, today, the candles of
an earlier time.
A candle in the window can
light the Christ Child on his
way, says Irish legend.
Nativity scenes in homes
and churches depict the ani
mals of the Manger—and on
Christmas Eve, the cattle, the
sheep and all the animals pre
sent at the Nativity are given
the gift of speech.
So says the lore of Christ
mas.
Blossoming on the holiday
scene, greens and flowers
spread their beauty and fra
grance, reminding all of the
living wonder of Christmas.
In legend, all flowers bloom
at midnight on Christmas
Eve, just as they did more
than 2,000 years ago.
The legend and lore of
Christmas expresses the sim
ple faith that lies at the heart
of this happy, holy time.
Some of the most delightful
of legends are told in carols.
From France comes the
"Carol of the Birds.” Its
words recount how the birds
flew to Bethlehem to behold
the Christ Child. Each bird,
as it flew, sang a special song
of praise and rejoicing.
There’s a "Carol of the
Flowers,” too. Summoned to
the presence of the newborn
King, every flower blossom
ed, and each blossom was a
symbol of the Little One’s
virtues.
Seafaring peoples, in their
own way, related nature’s
wonders to the miracle of the
Nativity, through carols.
"I Saw Three Ships Come
Sailing” tells of ships cross
ing the sea on Christmas
mom, bearing Jesus, Mary
and Joseph.
BEFORE TURKEY
Roast peacock was a Yule
delicacy of early England.
HOME BUYER
CLINIC
By Wm. J. McAuhffe,
Executive Vice President
American Land Title Association
Safeguard Against Forgery
A recent case brings to
mind the hazards forgery can
create for home ownership.
In this particular instance,
a husband and his girl friend
posed as man and wife and
a home to
unsuspecting buy
ers while his legal
wife was away on
a visit. The girl
friend signed the
Wm. J. agreement of sale
M«-Auliffe,Jr. a n( j deed—and
she and the husband signed
affidavits at closing that they
were man and wife. Because
of forgery, the deed trans
ferred no title of the real
wife's interest to the un
witting ’■ purchasers of the
home.
Although forgery often is
not detected until after a land
transfer is completed, protec
tion is available against finan
cial loss from this type of
land title defect. You can
safeguard your investment in
a home from forgery and
many other land title prob
lems through a title search
and owner’s title insurance.
In asking about title
insurance, it’s important to
remember that owner’s cover
age is necessary to protect the
home buyer. Mortgage
lender's title insurance, which
may be requested by the
lender in a transaction, does
not safeguard a home buyer’s
investment.
For free literature on
things to consider in buying a
home, write American Land
Title Association, 1828 L
Street, N.W., Washington,
D.C. 20036.
Bamboo it a kind of graaa.
wherever carolers get to
gether.
"Joy to the World” was
written by Isaac Watts (1674-
1748), English hymnist.
Watts, who is known as the
creator of the modem hymn,
wrote nearly 600 hymns.
Many of these still appear in
Protestant hymnals, says the
Encyclopedia Americana.
"It Came Upon the Mid
night Clear” is the work of
Edmund H. Sears, a Unitarian
minister in Massachusetts,
more than a century ago.
Perhaps the most famous
of Christmas carols, "Silent
Night” was first sung on
Christmas Eve, 1818, to guitar
music.
Mice in the bellows had
silenced the organ of a tiny
Austrian church. Father Jo
seph Mohr met the challenge
by writing "Silent Night.”
IBs organist composed a
melody for guitar.
Father Mohr’s inspiration
aside from the mice—was the
vast, still beauty of the snowy
mountains around the
Village.
"Oh come, all ye faithful”
is translated from the Latin,
"Adeste Fidelis,” and its
exact beginnings are shroud
ed in the mists of time.
Historians say it may have
been written by Saint Bona
venture, in the 13th century.
IT’S LEGAL
Alabama was the first U.S.
state to make Christmas a
legal holiday, in 1836.
Christians Celebrate Holy Day
With Prayer and Thanksgiving
For those who celebrate
Christmas as a holy day, the
holiday is greeted with re
joicing, with prayer and
thanksgiving, in church and
private devotions.
The word "greeting” has
a special significance here,
for herald angels singing to
shepherds in the fields and
a star shining in the heavens
truly brought greetings—ac
cording to the Revised Stan
dard Version of the Bible,
"good news of great joy
which will come to all
people.”
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IN THE TRUE CHRISTMAS SPIRIT,
WE JOIN ALL MEN OF GOOD WILL
IN PRAYERS FOR LASTING PEACE.
’ GRATEFULLY, WE THANK EVERYONE
A-i 7 for the trust and confidence
ft(U dfUl THAT HAS BEEN EXTENDED TO US.
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HOLIDAY HINTS
HEPING SANTA
Instead of letting unex
pected holiday dinner guests
put you in a frazzle, play it
cool by freezing extra buffet
helpings for drop-in visitors.
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Foil pans from frozen pie
and cake packages make great
reflectors for Christmas
lights. Just cut a hole through
the center of each pan and
screw the lights through
them ... into their sockets.
READY FOR YULE
"Christmas tree” is the ac
tual name of a plant that
grows in New Zealand.
Long before the December
25 birthdate of Christ was
celebrated in devotions, it had
marked a season set aside for
another kind of greeting. In
Northern Europe, Teutonic
tribes of pagan times greeted
the rebirth of the sun, of the
winter solstice.
Earliest celebrations of
Christmas combined some of
the ancient pagan traditions.
By association with Christian
beliefs, old customs of greet
ing the sun became symbolic
of a recognition—a greeting
of faith, hope and life eternal.
CAROLERS OF YESTERYEAR PERFORM in their quaint
furred costumes (above), in an illustration from a greeting
card of the 1880’s. From the Hallmark Historical Collection.
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MODERN-DAY CAROLERS (above), are photographed sing
ing at the Tower of London, along with the famous Beef
eaters. From the New Book of Knowledge; photo, by the
British Travel Association.
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