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Before people will believe in Him and com. mit their lives to Him they must experience both these things. The Christmas story in Luke 2 shows us that evan gelism is a work of the Spirit that requires both proclam- ation and demonstration. First, the angel proclaimed the good news that God's great promise had come true. “Be not afraid; for behold, I bring you good news of a great joy which will come to all the people; for to you is born this day in the city of David a Savior, who is Christ the Lord” (Luke 2:10-11). The good news of Jesus Sincere, open-minded peo- Christ must be pi “and made known. -It-ts-stiit the message that overcomes the worst fears of people. Preaching, teaching and wit- nessing are important. But words alone will not win people to Jesus Christ. The shepherds needed more than glorious truth. They needed a visible ’sign'to enable. them to discover. this wonderful reality for them- selves. So the angel also said, “And this will be a sign to you: you will find a babe wrapped in swaddling clothes and lying in a manger.” With this sign to go by the shepherds had no difficulty finding the child. Today we, like the angel, can help people to see signs of Christ’s presence in this world. We can point to the lives of great saints-such as Mother Theresa or to the millions of uncelebrated souls whose lives clearly demon- strate that Christ “lives and moves and has His being” in them. ple, like the shepherds of old, can—still—discover—Jesus. Christ today by proclamation and demonstration, by Word and sacrament. While in prison John the Baptist began to wonder whether Jesus was indeed the Messiah he had pro- claimed Him to be. Jesus told John’s disciples to go to him and “tell him what you hear and see: the blind receive their sight and the lame walk, lepers are cleansed and the deaf hear, and the dead are raised up, and the poor have good news preached to them.” (Mt. 11:4-5) If we proclaim Jesus Christ as the Savior who will help all people and can demonstrate that He is making a positive difference to our lives and the world then people will have to decide whether they want Him and the life that He offers or not. Not everyone will chose to love Him and worship Him as the Christmas story in Mat. thew chapter 2 makes clear. There will always be Herods JANUARY CLEARANCE — THE PRICES ARE RIGHT! — HOTPOINT . 2649 FOURTH CASTLEGAR 8 .C FALCON PAINTING & DECORATING AVENUE who only feign loyalty to Him, but in reality oppose Christ_and His Church. While Word and sacrament help people to discover Christ, let us not forget that their conversion to Him as Lord and Savior is the work of the Holy Spirit. As Paul says, “. . . no one can say “Jesus is Lord” ex- cept by the Holy Spirit.” (1Cor.12:3) John noted: that people come to faith and be- come children of God “not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor the will of man, but of God.” (John1:13). In 1987 let us remember that many in this world sin- cerely long to know Jesus Christ and look for signs of His presence. May we seek to equip oursélves to proclaim Him as Savior and Lord and to be mindful that what we say must be matched by what we do. As Jesus puts it in Matthew &16: “Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father who is in heaven.” Medical Briefs Sneezing cured BOSTON (AP) — A squirt of anesthetic can cure continual sneezing, even for a young woman who went “achool” 300 times an hour, a doctof says.. The odd case was recounted by Dr. James Sturm of fork. And you were told to lift your fork often — after all, you were eating for two, Beck then, most experts “post-partum p @ Avert varicose veins and ition. constipation. A-1984 Yale University study suggested that women who din mod and started sneezing. By the time doctors saw her, she had been sneezing 800 times an hour for two hours. Sturm reasoned that the sneezing was caused by irritation of the nasal lining and the transmission of nervous signals over the trigeminal nerve to the brain. His solution: a squirt of cocaine hydrochloride, a topical anesthetic. It worked. “The sneezing began to abate three minutes after the nasal epithelium was anesthetized and came to a complete stop five minutes later,” Strurm wrote. “The patient was observed for 20 minutes, and no further sneezing occurred.” Cocaine harms heart BOSTON (AP) — Small, “recreational” doses of €ocaine appear to trigger dangerous and potentially fatal heart disturbances in seemingly healthy users of the drug, a new study says. In.The New England Journal of Medicine, Dr. Jeffrey Isner of New England Medical Centre in Boston describes seven cases in which people in their 20s and 30° suffered heart attacks and other cardiac problems after using cocaine. “Virtually all of the patients that we and others have described involved relatively small doses of cocaine, so-called recreational doses,” Isner said in an interview. “That's one of the lessons to be learned from this. It appears that any recreational dose can be fatal.” In a separate overview of cocaine’s medical complications, two doctors said animal studies suggest that cocaine may be more harmful than heroin. “Cocaine is becoming widely recognized as one of the most dangerous illicit drugs in common use today,” wrote Drs. Louis Cregler and Herbert Mark of Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York. Cirrhoisis therapy BOSTON (AP) — A drug used for centuries to ease gout is the first safe therapy for a fatal form of cirrhoisis that primarily strikes women, researchers say. The drug, called colchicine, appeared to cut, the death rate in balf during a four-year experiment with vietims of primary biliary cirrhosis. “It’s the first time that a safe medicine has been found to affect the progression of this disease favorably,” said Dr. Marshall Kaplan. “It clearly doesn’t cure the disease, but it certainly helps. Primary biliary cirrhosis is a liver disease unrelated to alcohol ion. Its cause is . The disease strikes about 14 of every 100,000 people in the United States, and it is the leading reason for liver transplants among adults. “Until this year,” said Kaplan, “this was a disease that was progressive and tended to kill most people who got it. Nothing worked.” Kaplan, a researcher at New England Medical Centre in Boston, said he is now giving the drug to all victims who show signs of the disease. The primary symptoms are fatigue and itching. MS virus located PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Researchers who last year found a new virus in multiple sclerosis patients now say it is likely the virus is the long-sought cause of at least some forms of the disease. Multiple sclerosis afflicts 250,000 in the United States alone, the U.S. National Multiple Sclerosis Society in New York said. Until how, its cause has been unknown, and there is no cure. At a symposium, at the Wistar Institute in Philadelphia, Dr. Hilary Koprowski, the institute's director and one of the discoverersof the new virus, said “T have a strong suspicion” the virus is the cause “of some cases.” “I think it's very likely,” said Dr. Magnhild Sandberg-Wollheim of the University of Lund in Sweden, who collaborated with Koprowski on the*discovery. In a separate development, Takahiko Saida and colleagues at the Utano National Hospital in Kyoto, Japan, reported in the Journal of Immunology 11 of 66 during pregnancy was not only un- warranted — you needed to conserve energy, not squan- der it — but that it might harm you and the baby. Some even warned exertion would prompt miscarriage or lead to small, weak babies. ~~ In recent years, though, the advice has been chang- ing. Doctors are encouraging active women to stay that way and are even guiding some sedentary women to get fit when they're preg- nant. It's not uncommon to see pregnant women at the local pool, on the jogging path, out for a brisk walk or at an aerobies workout. Many pri- vate clubs and public facil- ities across the country now offer exercise programs de- signed specifically for preg- nant women. “Now, when you sit down and put your feet up, it’s not instead of exercise — it’s af- ter exercise,” says Mall Peepre, senior consultant at Fitness Canada in Ottawa. WOMEN ACTIVE Why the big change? Per- haps the general trend to- ward exercise in the last de- cade had an impact — many women were reluctant to forgo fitness unless given a good reason. So far, a good reason hasn't surfaced. Experts emphasize that much more research must be done in the field, but they say the evid now programs protected against miscarriage and pre- easily mature delivery. Other stud- giving birth and to recover in subsequent months. BE CAUTIOUS What are the best ap proaches? Experts say sedentary women should be cautious and should seek advice about beginning exercise programs when they are pregnant. “It’s no different for the person-who is pregnant than the person's who's not,” Cox says. “You have to be patient with your exercise program. It has to be slow and pro- gressive.” “Pregnancy is not the time to start.a high-powered pro- gram,” Peepre says. “But you can start mild activity and improve your fitness over the next few months.” Generally, fit women are allowed to maintain their ac- EVENING CREDIT COURSES — This. winter Selkirk College offers the following credit courses on the ter skiing, scuba diving and racquet sports. Bicycling is not advised — you can fall too — and jogging in the later stages of pregnancy can damage pelvic ligaments. “The sports themselves may not be bad, but it's the dangers beyond (partici- pants’) control that are the problem,” Peepre says. The best exercises? Swim- ming, vigorous walking and low-impact aerobics. Researchers at University of Tennessee recommend gentle stretching, a warm-up and a 15-minute cool-down period for every session of exercise during pregnancy. Many people monitor their heart rate to determine whe- ther their workout is chal- lenging. The rule-of-thumb: take the number 210 and de- duct your age to get your maximum heart rate per minute. Your “target” heart rate should be about 70 per cent of your maximum. A good workout is 15 or 20 minutes at target rate. But the heart beats faster during pregnancy and the target heart rate is no longer a good indicator of the work- out’s strain. Aspirin emerging as “wonder drug” WA TON (AP) — exercise can be helpful dur- ing pregnancy. More impor- tant, they add, there is no re- search suggesting it harms the fetus. “On balanée,'from what we know; the effects of exercise on pregnancies to be posi- tive,” says Dr. Michael Cox, professor of medicine and as- sistant director of the athle- tics department -at Univer- sity of Toronto. HOW IT HELPS Among other things, doc- tors say, exercise during pregnancy can: e Increase energy and ASA, known mostly as a pain killer, may help with prob- lems in pregnancy and de- fence against diseases such as AIDS and cancer, re- searchers said. Dr. Allan Goldstein; chair- man of biochemistry at the George Washington Univer. sity Medical Centre, said ASA is emerging as a new “wonder drug.” Dr. Judith Hsia, who works with Goldstein, said ASA and a protein called thymosin stimulate white blood-cell production of gam- ma interferon and interleu- kin-2, two promising sub- stances that boost the dis- ease-fighting immune system. Preliminary human trials ‘confirm test-tube results that ‘the equivalent of one to two ASA tablets daily can triple interferon production and double interleukin output, she said. 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