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single eye of light that was one tiny window, and said, “I know it, too” ; and they smiled happily at e a c h other. There, in the darkness, they waited together. They were waiting for a Woman. For, not many miles away, in the village of Nazareth, God had spoken to someone. She was just an ordi nary woman with a gentle, loving heart. That is, it was that way until GOD spoke to her. One morning, God sent His angel, Gabriel, to whisper to the woman a shining secret. The woman thought about the secret all the time, and har heart was filled with the won der of it. She became the Woman of the Ages. She went about sing ing to herself: “My soul doth magnify the Lord, And my spirit hath rejoiced in God my Saviour. For he hath regarded the low estate of his handmaiden: For, behold, from henceforth all gen erations shall call me blessed. For he that is mighty hath done to me great things; And holy is his name.” —Luke 1:46-49. As she sang, she looked down a road—just an ordinary little road— that led to Bethlehem. But it was not an ordinary little road to her, for at its end she knew the shining se cret waited. After a long time she and Joseph set foot upon the road. They started on their journey to Bethlehem. As the Woman rode along the dusty way on the very ordinary little don key, she whispered in his ear: “If you only knew what I know!” But the donkey didn’t know. He only switched the flies off with his tail, and plodded on. He was on the way to where the shining secret waited and he never knew it. When night came, the Wonsan turned from the little beast, and gazed into the starry spaces of the sky and whispered, “ If you only knew what I know!” And suddenly there was the Star saying, “ I do know it. I have known it a long, long time.” They smiled at each other in the darkness—the Woman and the Star • —as the donkey drew up before an inn, As Mary looked at the crowded inn, she could not feel as though her jour ney were quite finished. But then she saw the little Barn, blinking a friendly eye at her, and the bright Star waiting, above it, and she knew that she was there. These three who knew the secret were together now—the Star, the Barn, and the Woman—and there
beauty of that secret was enough to change dull, ordinary things and fill them with wonder and glory.” • “Why, how nice!” said Peter. “Then we have a secret, too, for Jesus is coming again.” “That’s just it,” said Mother, in a pleased voice. “We have a secret that has power to make all the men and women, and all the boys and girls in the world happy, f Jesus is coming, and everything is going to be all right.” Then Peter and Penny and Mother sat quietly for a long time in the darkness, each thinking about the shining secret that was so much like Christmas. Penny spoke for all of them when, suddenly, she looked up and said aloud: “Jesus—I just love You!” [This story is contained in fuller form in a .new_32-page booklet by the- same name, avail able at 35 cents a copy, or three for $1. Order from THE KING’S BUSINESS.] ■ Bible Quiz for December This Is Station KYBC, the. Know Your Bible Club, broadcasting from the Junior Department of the KING’S BUSINESS. Our quiz is a Jumbled Word Contest about ^Christmas. When the following letters are correctly placed on the dotted lines, they will spell words found in. the Christmas Story. 1. Red+h o= ■ ,, 2. R+yam = — '• , 3. Hoe+sjp— .... ............................. . 4. Semi+ new—~ ............................... - 5. Eph+ dress+lh= ........................ 6. Rats= ......!............................... _ 7. Men+ rag = ... .............................. 8. Loh+lets+ sing +dad+cw= 9. Digs+ tin = ........... ........ ......1 10. Glean— .................................... 11 . H e+m et+eb lh =^ ........ 12. So+hue= .............................. Save your answers. The correct ones will be published in next month’s magazine. Answers to November Bible Quiz (1) 2 Cor. 9:15. (2) 1 Thess. 5:18. (3) Eph. 5:20. (4) Phil. 4:6 (5) 1 Thess. 1:2, 3. (6) Col. 3:17. (7) Psa. 34:3. (8) Psa. 145:4. (9) Psa. 35:18. (10) Psa. 100:4a. How to Join the K .Y . B. Club »*T.° £ecome#a member of the Know Your Bible Club, read through the Gospel accord- mflto John, using either your own Bible, or a Gospel of John which will be sent upon request. When the Gospel has been read and a statement to this effect, signed by parent or Sunday-school teacher, has been sent to the Editor of the Junior King's Business, a K. Y. B. C. pin will be mailed. Sunday- school classes or clubs desiring to order ten or more Gospels or pins may wish to share the cost of these supplies, as the Lord di rects: Gospels, postpaid five cents each—-in quantity, three cents; pins, without postage, two cents each. However, no one is to do without a Gospel or pin because of lack of money. Address: Junior King’s Business, 558 S. Hope St., Los Angeles>-13, Calif.
was nothing to wait for any longer. Now It could be told: the thing for which the Star had journeyed, for which the Barn had waited, "and about which the Woman had been singing. The shining’, secret., was about to be shown to the world. In the stillness of that first Christ mas night, God spoke. And the Word which He spoke was a darling Baby, snuggled in the arms , of the Woman. The Barn spread its .shel tering roof above, and; the Star looked down through the night with pride and joy. . - ; ; gifi It did not matter to the Star that it would' never shine so brightly again, for it. knew that down in the Barn lay the Light- of the World, and it was happy. It had "had" its -shin ing hour, and it never could be real ly ordinary again. The Barn knew, too, that one day it would become old; but it did not care either. For it had sheltered the Saviour, and that was" enough. .It never could go back to being quite the same ordinary place again. The Woman knew that in the years to come she would be almost forgot ten as her firstborn child, Jesus, would be loved and worshiped. But she -carried a shining secret in her heart, and no one could take that from her. She never could go back to being just an ordinary woman again. • * * The story had ended, and the three sat very still. “And so,” Mother finished, “Christ mas really is a shining secret, isn’t it?” . Out of the darkness, Penny spoke: “What did God really whisper to the Star, and to the Barn, and to the Woman? I would like to know.” “I was hoping you would ask me that,” said Mother, “ for you see it is a shining secret which has never been quite finished. It is being whis pered to us today. I think -that what God said to the Star, and to tjie Barn, and to the Woman was simply this: ‘Jesus is coming!’ And the shining
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