tion of His infinite tenderness, con sideration, and gentleness. A bruised reed is not worth anything, yet the Lord doesn’t break it to make it more useless. A smoking flax represents that which is dying out. He would not quench it. Christ dealt gently whenever He contacted men. This is one of the most beautiful portions of Scripture showing the gentleness of Christ, the Messiah of Israel. Q. New Westminister, B.C. — “Where is heaven and where is hell?" A. This can be answered very quick ly since no one knows. There has, of course, been much speculation. There are those who claim that hell is in the heart of the earth and that heaven is a place up in the north where there seems to be an empty space. (Actually, there is no “hole” in the north. It is simply that the stars are blotted out by a great cloud of cosmic dust, according to astronomers.) The most positive an swer is that heaven is where the Lord Jesus Christ is, and hell is where the Lord Jesus Christ is NOT. * * * Envy simply opens the door so that bit terness can come in. * * * SOMEONE CARES You can imagine the joy and delight to the heart of a little boy living in an orphanage when he received a lovely basket of fru it for Christmas as did the other children. While his friends lost no time devouring theirs, the lad insisted on putting his basket in the window for the entire day. He ex plained, “I want my present where everyone can see it. In that way they’ll know that somebody really cares for me.” Have you ever thought about it this way? I f we have received the gift of eternal life, GocTs present to a lost and hopeless world, we, too, should keep Him in full view. In this way oth ers may see that we have received gladly the Saviour, the Babe of Beth lehem’s manger, the Christ of Cal vary’s Cross who died for us.
THE CHRISTMAS PROCLAMATION They tell me Jesus was not bom on Christmas Day. And Christmas trees were just a pagan rite they say, That decorations were idolatry, a work of art. Not symbols of the adoration of a heart That worships Christ as Son of God apart. It may be that the world is blind— Is worshipping mere trifles of this kind, And some folks blinded by the glare of 'customed gift Will miss the star and see not in earth's clouds a rift. But to the Christian thi* does sym bols mean: In every Christmas tree he sees a gleam, For dates and signs are lost in Chist- mas story, "H is advent" and "the hope of glory." He came, He came, the fact and not the time, Proclaimed in carols, and the truth sublime Is sounded through the earth on Christmas Day, And the Light of all the world shines on the way. What though a fantasy on earth is reached If through the mist the Son of God is preached? Though still in sinful pleasure men are found, Yet once a year they pause to hear the sound That Christ may still be known, let carols ring, And trees and lights their age old message bring Of God's great love and all-redeem ing grace, His gift unspeakable to all the hu man race. — Annie E. Hitt
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