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The Newberry Sun, Newberry, S. C. Dec. 26th, 1968—PAGE 7—SEC. C I am the new year. I stretch before you three hund red and sbcty-five days, unused, without blemish, unspoiled, each day a new leaf in your Book of Life. On it you will place your imprint. If you write with firm steady strokes the pages will be a joy to look upon. If your pen falters, if uncertainty and doubt should mar the pages, it will be a day, a year, to remember with sorrow. In each hour of my three hundred and sixty five days you have sixty minutes. It remains for you to fill them with sixty seconds of hope, en deavor, love, honesty, patience, and trust in God and your fellow man. I am here, but once past, 1 can never come again. How will you use my precious min utes? CONGO ART. ..Titled ’’Awake”, this prize-winning oil depicts a Congolese shepherd under a bright sky with the Advent star. It was selected for reproduction on a Christ mas card by the Committee on World Literacy and Christ ian Literature. The £>est way to understand the feast of Christmas is in terms of a gift. We spend 364 days in getting; Christmas we spend in giving. The greater part of the year, we inflate our ego and insist on our rights, on Christmas Day we deflate our ego to bring hap piness to others. The reason we give on Christmas Day is because we too have received a gift—the (iift of God to man, in which He humbled Himself so com pletely as to veil His Glory and His Power. The Divine Babe did not come into this world as one would walk in to a museum to see the work of other artists. He came in to the world as a painter in to His own studio. His en trance was into the world that He had made. We give gifts at Christmas because we received a Gift. It is the birthday cf God in the form of man, in order that man might be like unto God. When ever we give gifts we tear off the price tag so that there will be no proportion between the gift of the lover and the love of a giver. CARD IS A GIFT The New Year’s greeting card is really a form of gift; this custom is credited to the Chinese, who have sent such cards for ever a thousand years. To You And Yours AS WE ENTER THE 55th YEAR OF SERVICE TO OUR fine customers, we pledge to you that we shall make every effort to continue to merit the confidence and support which you have given us in the past. IT GIVES US GREAT PLEASURE TO DO THIS, because we fully realize your friendship, goodwill, and patronage have made it possible for us to serve success fully the people of this area ever since the first “horse less carriages” began to appear on our streets. AS WE APPROACH THIS GLAD HOLIDAY SEA SON, we pause to wish you and your family the happiest Christmas and the most prosperous New Year you have ever experienced. Again—we wish You and Yours ... A HAPPY HOLIDAY SEASON! ALL THE FOLKS AT Smith Motor Co. YOUR DEPENDABLE DEALER FOR DODGE — CHRYSLER — PLYMOUTH — DODGE TRUCKS 1309 COLLEGE STREET—NEWBERRY, S. C. Phone*: Sale*: 276-3622—Service 276-3621