PRESENTS AND PUDDINGS.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 76, Issue 303, 23 December 1933, Page 1 (Supplement)

PRESENTS AND PUDDINGS.

Two things I would like to contribute towards your thought this Chrismas time—one concerns the origin of Christmas presents: and the other is a fine recipe for a Christmas pudding. I wonder if you ever asked yourself why it is we give and receive Christmas presents? The explanation is really quite simple. The day we celebrate, is, of course, Christ s Birthday—a fact which it is perhaps well for us Io keep clearly m mind, in view of the deification and commercialization of that pagan figure rather Christmas.” Since, then, we want to make Christ’s Birthday as happy a day for Him as we can; and since we can best do that by making U happy for one of the least of these His brethren.” we give presents to each other on His behalf. So don t forget that you really owe all the Christmas Presents you receive, to Christ, and that the presents you give are given for the love of Him It is so easy—and so disastrous—to carry on with an old custom when we have completely forgotten its meaning. Now for the Christmas recipe: The name of the pudding is “Angel’s elight. Lake two handfuls of the flour of good service; mix in a full cup of the milk of human kindness; season with a pinch of commonsense; stir in half-a-teaspoonful of imagination (so that it may rise to the occasion otherwise it will be stodgy) ; enrich to capacity with the fruits of experience and flavour with a dash of good spirits. Bake briskly on the embers of the fires or sacrifice, and serve hot to any hungry soul. Try it. It's good! —Archdeacon James R. Young, M.A., Christ Church, Wanganui.