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He gave us JesuS while the angels sang. And Jesus dièd for us on a tree. God gave Him— and especially to the poor and brokenhearted. Billy’s cheeks became wet, and none the= cleaner as he wiped away his tears with his fingers. And then a thought^ “ My poor Mom’ll like to know about that. The ‘Doc/ tole old ‘Grannie’ Smith that my Mom ain’t much longer fer this world. Guess Mom’ll like to- know about Jésus, about God, about angels, about heaven, about how God ’specially loves poor folks. Mom’s poor! I’ll go tell Mom!” Out of the door again into the gusts of the Christmas storm crept Billy Raymond. He had heard the Christ mas story from the lips of an old-fash ioned man of God who knew how to tell that wondrous story. Billy sped toward his alley home— “ to tell Mom. She’ll be glad!” At the intersection of two narrow streets near his homè, a great heavy auto-truCk suddenly rounded the cor ner and shot its glaring yghts through the storm. Billy thought he could beat it-—crossing in front of it. He did, only to be struck by a swiftly mov ing passenger auto that was attempting to pass around the more slowly mov ing truck. In a few minutes Billy was lying on a cot in a hospital, whence the passen ger car that struck him down had! speedily carried him. “ Badly injured internally,” said the doctor. Any Book Advertised in this Magazine may be Obtained from Biola Book Room 4,000 Children Burned to Death This is our record for 1920 From 10 to 20 per cent of all fires are caused by smoking Help Kill the Tobacco Traffic Get Posted Tobacco^—A worth-while book by BRUCE FINK, 75c THE CHURCH AND TOBACCO— by M. E. Poland, $1.00 A sk about our No-Tobacco Magazines NO-TOBACCO SLIDES & BOOKS STEREOPTICONS—BULLETIN BOARDS HERBERT S. MACE Box 497 - Redlands, Calif. Modernism Exposed ItsCharacter,Teachings,Advocates,Meth ods, Extent, Dangers, Deceit and Antidote in**Modern Religious Liberalism ,” by John Horsch, with Introduction by James M . Gray, p . D. New (second) edition, brought down to date. 320pages. Cloth, $1.50 net; Paper, $1.00 net. C ircu la r fr e e . BE INFORMED! Modernism is now the greatest menace to Christianity, Society and the State —a menace greater even than Luther opposed. Bible Institute Colportage Association 826 North La Salle Street, Chicago
folks on Christmas night have the old habit of hanging their gifts on a tree like this?” “ O, I know!” cried a neatly dressed little lass on the; very front seat. “ My mother told me it was because God hung His Gift for us on a tree!” “ Jesus didn’t hang on no tree! He hung on a cross,’ ’ replied the boy with the freckles. “Well, thè Bible calls the cross a tree, ’causé- my mother read where it did,” was thè reply. “ Exactly right you are, my girl,” said thè minister. “ God gave Jesus to everybody, to be their Savior, and to take- them at last to Heaven. Espe cially did He give Him to those who aré poor and broken-hearted. And this wonderful Gift of God was hung on a tree. In memory of that fact, we have this tree here.” ; And, then the minister went on and explained fully the meaning of it all, how and why “He was wounded for our transgressions, bruised for our in iquities;” and, how “ the Lord hath laid upon Him the iniquity of us all.” Back of that vestibule door, still thawing out his hands and feet, stood Billy Raymond, drinking in for the first time in his life ; that old, old Christmas story. It was all so new and almost fairy-like to him. But that old story has power. It reached his heart, and like the Ethiopian of apos tolic story, he believed even as he heard. It must be true. God must be like that. He loves. He forgives. And
THE CHILDREN'S GARDEN (Continued from page 785) ’cause our lesson the other Sunday read' that God sent Jesus to preach the Gospel to the poor and to tpe broken-hearted:—so it did!” “ Well,” chimed in another bright faced girl; “ maybe it did read that way, but I just guess rich folks can be ‘broken-hearted’ as much as poor folks!” “ Yes,” said the pastor, “ usually more so. That’s a good argument.” “ Well, any way,” said Minnie, “ He was poor Hisself, and was horned in a manger with the sheep and cows ’cause the rich folks didn’t want Him!” Another boy was shaking his fist frantically in the air above- his head. He had something to say. “What is it, Jimmy?” asked the pas tor, “ Well, my mother read to me the other night that when Jesus got to be a big man, He said, ‘Foxes have holes, and the birds have nests, but I ain’t got neither.’ And I’ll just bet that when He looks down an’ sees a poor little chap what ain’t got a nice warm ‘hole’ to crawl into, nor no nice soft ‘nest’ to sleep in, that He loves that kid a weeneie-teencie bit more’n anybody.” “ Well, maybe so,” said the minister smiling; “ we know He loves every body, but maybe He loves those who are poor and sorrowing a ‘weencie- teeneie’ bit more. But now I want to ask you another question: Why do
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