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THE K I N G ’ S BUS I NESS He has not yet come to the city or the home that makes up his true inherit ance. In that unfinished house he bears testimony to all the people with whom he dwells, “ I am with you as a pilgrim and a stranger,S-do not expect me to abide.” ^D r . W. B. Riley. LITTLE TOWN OF BETHLEHEM O, little town of Bethlehem, How still we see thee lie, Above thy deep and dreamless sleep The silent stars go by; Yet in thy dark streets shineth The everlasting Light; The hopes and fears of all the years Are met in thee tonight. For Christ is born of Mary, And gathered all above, While mortals sleep, the angels keep Their watch of wondering love O morning Stars, together Proclaim the holy birth! And praises sing to God the King, And peace to men on earth. How silently, how silently The wondrous gift is given! So God imparts to human hearts The blessings of His heaven, ilo ear may hear His coming; But in this world of sin; Where meek souls will receive Him still,
• PRAYING GENERALS The United \Presbyterian reports that Dr. Andrew Robertson, of Toronto, Canada, during a recent visit to Pitts burgh, told the following interesting incident: “ When the news of the vic tory of the Marne was placed in Lord Kitchener’s hand in the War Office in London, he passed it without a word of comment to Lord Roberts who was standing beside him. Lord Roberts exclaimed in amazement, ‘Only the Lord could do this.’ ‘Yes,’ said Lord Kitchener, ‘Someone has been pray ing.’ ” “ Lord Kitchner,” adds the United Presbyterian, “ was a praying man. Every day at noon, no matter how pressing the war business, he left his office for the little church around the corner for a quiet fifteen minutes With God. General Allenby, on the eve of taking over the command of the Pales tine army, gathered his officers together in Cairo for a season of quiet prayer. Such are the men who lead the Allies.” THE JEW A SIGN No man can question that ever since this century was born, events have been conspiring together that look to the termination of the Jewish dispersion. That there is a spirit of expectation on the part of Jews throughout the world that the end of their dispersion is drawing nigh, is not questioned. .1 read sometime since the significant and sug gestive thing, that when a Jew builds a home he never completes it. A writer says, “ The next time you are in Lon don go along by Hyde Park, look at the second house by the gate, which is Lord Rothschild’fe, perhaps the richest man in the world. Look at the marble pil lars in it, and at the cornice above; one of them is unfinished. He is an orth odox Jew and every orthodox Jew when he builds his home leaves a portion unfinished to bear testimony to the fact that he is but a pilgrim and knows that he is not in a permanent abiding place.”
The dear Christ enters in. O holy Child of Bethlehem, Descend again we pray Cast out our sin and enter in, . Be born in us today. We hear the Christmas angels The glad tidings tell; O, come to us, abide with us Our Lord Emmanuel!
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