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Stars. Now I believe some of you can tell me about one star that was differ ent on the night our story happened, and to help you I have here in my hand a large silver star. (Let children tell what this star did.) Yes, it moved along in the sky, and stopped over a certain little town, and our memory verse tells us why it stopped there. Let us say it over a number of times. Prayer.
loves you best be wounded if you passed her by? Jesus is that Friend. He isn’t satisfied with a gift of money or some service. He wants just yourself. The Birth of Jesus. Luke 2:8-20. Memory ¡Verse. “ For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ th e . Lord.” Luke 2:11.
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Approach. How many of you really like stories? Yes, 1 know you do from the way you listen. You especially like the ones that have strange, wonderful things in them and yet are BEGINNERS as true as can be. Do you AND know that the most won- PRIMARY derful stories in all the world are here in our Bible? And to-day we are to have the most beautiful one of all? Yes, you have guessed it— our Christmas story. Tell me about it. (A few sentences from the children.) And it really happened in a country a long way from here, in a land we call Palestine, or the Holy Land because Jesus came there to live. Now here is a picture of the kind of beautiful little animals that were feed ing on the hillsides in this country, and can you tell me what they are? Yes, sheep, and men called shepherds watched over them. What do you see when you look up in the sky at night?
Lesson Story. Before we have our story who will tell me the name of the little town over which the star stop ped? Bethlehem, and we always want to remember this name for our memory verse tells us Jesus was born there, and calls it the city of David, because David was also born there too, long, long ago. Now Bethlehem was just a little town, and the houses had flat roofs, so the people could go up on them, and when it was warm they often slept there, and at night the people could look off the flat roofs and see the stars and the shepherd’s fires twinkling like stars upon the ground, for they had fires to keep themselves warm and scare away anything that would harm the sheep. So it was the night Jesus was born, the shepherds were staying all night in the fields watching over their flocks of sheep which were curled up on the ground and fast asleep. You know it would get cold at night and
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