T h e K i n g ' s B u s i n e s s Dec. 21 Worthy of worship. Heb. 1 :1-14. Dec. 22 Worship with joy. Lk. 24:50-53. A Christmas Prayer B y M argaret E. S angster Last night I listened to the prayer A little girl was praying-HH I, quite unnoticed, standing there, Could hear what she was saying! “Oh, God,” she whispered, ‘‘Christmas Day Is coming . . . Pretty soon I may Hang up my stockin’, and a tree Will jus’ be loaded down for me. I know that I’ll be glad an’ gay, On Christinas. Day -on Christmas Day! “But, God,” her childish voice was grave, “I wonder if You couldn't save Some of the presents folks have planned To give to me . . . You understand, So that some children who won’t get A lot of gifts—” (my eyes;were wqtj.)., “Will have nice things. I’d like to know That others would be happy, so I’m asking You to have it done— 'You- see You gave Your only Son . . . I’d' like, myself, to give,away Something I love, on Christmas Day!” Last night I listened to the prayer¡Tj! A little girl was saying— And, in my heart there grew a light, An echo of her praying! —o:—• The good news of the Christmas bells is a personal-message. It is a message to sinners lost and needy. We know who is meant when the bells ring. A mother took her little daughter to church, and listened while th e.minister preached a very earn est sermon against sin, trying to bring the subject home to the hearts of his hearers. The. hlittle girl listened with wide-open* eyes, and suddenly turning to-her mother, in great distress, she whispered, “Mamma, he means us.!” Unto us,4 ° you, to meJMj is born a Saviour. It means us. It means me. It means you. When Tennyson was a young man, he wrote from Marblethorpe: “I am housed at Mr. Wildman’s, an old friend of mine in these parts; he and his wife are two perfectly honest Methodists. When I came I asked her after news, and she re plied, ‘Why, Mr. Tennyson, there’s only one piece of news that I know; that Christ died for all men’ (Rom 5:15). And I said to her, ‘That is old news, and good news, and new news,’ wherewith the good woman seemed satisfied.” Old news, good news, new news—how important it is to you and to me! A Roman Emperor was passing through the streets of Rome in a triumphal pro cession, surrounded by attendants. and soldiers. A child came out of the crowd and ran toward him. The soldiers cried, “Go back, child! go back! he is your Emperor!” But the child replied, “He is your emperor, but he is my father !” In the kingdom of God, Christ is not only our Prince of Peace, but also our ever lasting Father. Christ is the center and source of a true, thoroughgoing Christmas. Unless we kneel at the manger and there greet a divine Lord, and unless we recognize that God came to earth in the person of the Child born in Bethlehem of old, we have no Christmas at all, but just the relics of an outworn social custom, attended by
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