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Lucknow Sentinel, Wednesday, December 21, 1988—Page 9
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The wonderful miracle of the ,first Christmas
"THE CHRISTMAS STORY"
By Rev. Allison J. Ramsay
Lucknow and South Kinloss
Presbyterian Church
The fullness of time was now come when
God would send forth His Son; and it was
foretold that He should be born in
Bethlehem. Here we have an account, of
the time, manner, and place of Jesus'
birth.
When we think about "The Christmas
Story", we realize that it all started in the
beginning. Because the Bible teaches us,
in the very first verse of the Old Testa-
ment, that, "In the beginning, God created
the Heaven and the Earth", this foretells
Jesus' existance, not only before His birth,
but before all time, and down through the
years, Prophets have prophesied, that a
great one would be born, "For unto us a
child is born, unto us a Son is given: and
the government shall be upon His
shoulder: and His Name shall be called
Wonderful, Counsellor, the Mighty God,
the Everlasting Father, the Prince of
Peace." Hg will not only wear the badge,
(the key of the House of David) upon His
shoulder; but He shall bear the burden of
it.
Glorious things are spoken, of this great
ones' government. It shall be multiplied;
the quality of it shall increase, and it shall
shine more and more brightly in the world.
It shall be a peaceful government, and it
shall be an everlasting Kingdom.
Now as we draw closer to the Birth of
Jesus, we see the Angel Gabriel, coming to
Mary and saying: "Thou that art highly
favoured; the Lord is with thee; blessed
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art thou among women." Mary has the
presence of God with her, and she has the
Blessing of God upon her: But she was
deeply troubled by the Angels Message,
and she wondered what His words meant.
"The Angel said to her, fear not, Mary: for
thou hast found favour with God and,
behold, thou shalt conceive in thy womb,
and bring forth a son, and shalt call His
name Jesus". Mary knew that the Messiah
must be born of a virgin, and, if she must
be His Mother, she wanted to know how
this would come about.
"Then said Mary unto the Angel, how
shall this be? and the Angel answered and
said unto her, the Holy Ghost shall come
upon thee, therefore, that Holy thing,
w,►ich shall be born of thee, shall be called
'eson of God"
Now when Mary was engaged to Joseph,
before they were married, she found out
that she was going to have a baby by the
Holy Spirit. Joseph, to whom she was
engaged, was a man who always did what
was right, he did not want to disgrace
Mary publicly, "so he made plans to break
the engagement secretly.
While he was thinking about this, an
Angel appeared to him in a dream and
said: "Joseph, thou son of David, fear not
to take unto thee Mary thy wife: for that
which is conceived in her is of the Holy
Ghost, and she shall bring forth a son, and
thou shalt call his name Jesus. So when
Joseph woke up, he did what the Angel had
told him to do, and he took Mary as his
wife.
Now at this time Emperor Augustus sent
out an order for all the citizens of the Em-
pire, to register themselves for the census.
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Everyone went to register himself, to the
town of his birth, Joseph and Mary went
from the City of Nazareth, in Galilee, to
Judea and unto the town called
Bethlehem; where King David was born.
Now when Mary and Joseph, came to the
Inn, the Innkeeper said; "We have no
room for you". He had many guests in hiss
inn that night, but they were soon gone and
forgotten, but if he Jiad allowed Jesus to
have been born there, this would have
changed his whole life. Because, during
the night: "Mary brought forth Her
firstborn son, and wrapped him in swaddl-
ing clothes, and laid. him in a manger:
because there was no room for them in the
Inn".
So today if you say I have no room for
Jesus, if your heart and life, are filled with
other things, you miss the most important
thing in this world, and in the world to
come.
When Jesus was born, in the stable; a
wonderful miracle of nature took place,
the Heavens opened up, and an Angel
came down, to speak to a group of
shepherds, on a Judean hill, saying, "Unto
you is born this day in the City of David, a
Saviour which is Christ the Lord".
A sad little angel
gives the gift of love
The Sad Little Angel
By Rose Bowler
Asad little angel with tears in his eyes,
Lived on a 'cloud away up in the skies,
He cried to himself dear me oh dear!
I haven't a gift for the Christ Child this
year.
The big angels won't let me be in their
Christmas play
There's nothing that I can do or can say.
I'm not like most angels, I can't play the
harp,
My voice makes the big angels hide in the
dark
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I love the Christ Child as much as they too,
I must do something to show Him I do.
If I just had some gold or a beautiful star,
I'd take it to Him and I'd fly fly afar.
I'd flyright up to the heavenly seat,
I'd lay my grand gift at the Holy Child's
feet.
Then a beautiful lady in blue did appear,
She said little angel you need have no fear.
Just fly with me high high above,
Offer the Christ Child the gift of your love.
Written by
Mrs. Rose Bowler -Austin
R.R. 7 Lucknow, Ont.
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