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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1957,
The Day Christ was Born
WITH the most inspiring time of year foremost in our thoughts, the China Mail begins today the dramatic hour-by- hour account of that single day in Bethlehem when the birth of Jesus
changed the history of the world.
JERUSALEM.
THE LAND was softer then; but not the people. The land where limestsone now shows through like bones wasn't always a skeleton. Then, olive groves and terraced vineyards and fig plantations held the soil on the slopes; valleys grew wheat and barley, leeks, lentils, beans; steeper hills and where the bedrock broke through grazed sheep and goats.
the uir
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by GEORGE GALE
There were forests of oak and cedar and cypress trees. The land was hilly and soft; green and red. There were the pale and dusty grey- greens of olive trees, dry in summer, shiny in the windy winter rain; and the thick dark green of slender cypresses; and the yellower green of vinos. The soil was red.
And now, as then, only in the three winter months chills when it comes barging in from the cast, and now with a sudden storm or when in the hills snow falls and it freezes, keeping For the rest it is hot; cool is more of a problem than
This is a hot- keeping warm, land; in the middle of things.
This land was Aral called Canaan.
"And Abraham Look Sarah, his wife, and Lut his brother's substance sen, and all their they had gathered, and the souls that they had gotten In Huran: and they went forth to
of go into the land Canaan; and into the lund of Canaan they come."
The census ANE early morning in a win- ter month 1,900 years after Abraham first brought his tribe and its lents and goats to these
hills a woman slowly woke
she felt the child move.
1on.
her down into the plain of. Esdrae
and The track was rough though they had tied rags round their sandals their feet had been cut on the sharp pieces of lim”- stone that littered the track.
The first night they had slept an ancient In the open, under
live tree. Behind them now Iny the hills of Galilee, where Nazareth lay.
Insido
It was barely light but the first morning clatter had begun. Cocks were crowing; people were moving, overhead and In the narrow alleys outside. The woman Iny awake resting: she was tired. She had carried her child for nine months. Any day now it would be born.
Her husband, lying beside mattress, the strow her
and smiled ut his stirred
iley bad wife. He was glad managed to fud shelter, al- though it was rough.
oni
over
They had travelled hundred miles during the past
A
days, and they had had to go slowly because of her condition. They were poor and had not been able so they had had to
to afford to alre
the open
ACROSS the flat rich plan you could see the hills of Judea and to the east the higher hills beyond the Jordan,
All around were these hills, hills beyond hills, in the even
and the early morning dark at the edges, paling below for filled with their valleys were
Rand
A NOTE ON HOW THIS UNUSUAL REPORT CAME
TO BE WRITTEN
THE NARRATIVE here has been sont from Jerusalem where the author completed on-the-spot rasgarches after consulting eminent Biblical authorities. His aim: to retell the most inspiring story of all in terms of the modern newspaper.
year,
ani the
the
he has been.
central porch of the temple he the Goramantes was building.
Indians." He is an old man, hated, fear- In the succession of Empire, Ing death. He is a iyrurit in his Rome In enjoying its great term.
This is the own land and a cringing vassal
time when of Rome.
people were kept happy with It is 30 years since the Remans bread and circusca, made him puppet. He has bled
And this
carlier, erect the people to
great monuments, bribe high Romans, Augustus himself had ordered and above all raise high this vast that the month Sextilus hence-
forth be known as Augustus. temple.
This your 100 It lay within a high wall, find troubled with reports from one
outer courtyards, cloisters, High Corinthian of his distant tribute countries. in far of Palestine, have been Samaritans and Jewa, bickering profaning each other's graves,
Augustus sends un ordinance: must in The burled dead future be accorded much more respect. Absolutely no one shall be alowed to disturb them. If anyone does, I désire him to be sentenced to capital punish- ment."
here as nomads, tending their flocks on the hills, and how one winter the rains failed and Abraham had had to take his tribo south to Egypt, where the inner and No never failed,
Joseph knew how for 400 columns, roots of carved cedar.
wood, years the tribe in Egypt re- membered these his he now It had a gent altar for sacri was climbing, arid how they had feing animals, returned and fought and settled tables for beating the blood out of the carcases, quarters where the priests
lived, countless chambers where law was dis pensed, business done, infants circumelaud, the Holy Books taught.
here.
This was their land, this land of soft hills and olive trees.
For several days they travel led along the ridges of the hills. The great wind never left them alone, Sudden ballsforme drove them to sheltor. And then before tham on one of these hilik, stood Jerusalem, the fortress elty, the city which David had conquered and made his capital more than a thousand years bafora,
right marble
Morning
TS inner area was Holy: a notice in Hebrew, Latin, and Greek said: "No one who
Is
The message goes out from Imperial Rome; and reaches the vassal-king
Herod In his frightened palace.
Likewise a message may have
gone out from Rome telling Herod to conduct a cursus for not a Jew permitted beyond the benefit of taxation.
who They had felt like provincials this boundary. Anyone
at his own risk, there, Joseph and his wife, in deeg, does so this great city, bullt of golden and is liable to the death lacstone and shining white penalty." marble.
The stable
Waiting
THE Jews were still here in
And in the heart of the Holy
Palestine, living Among Temple was the Efcly of Holics. Inside it there was only a bare these rounded hills, remember. rock covering a cleft In the ing their history, keeping hold of their religion, and waiting for QUARTER of
& million around. Below lay the abyss.
a messiah to deliver them from ¿ people were packed
Into
Here, in this place, where the their bondage. Its 300 acres, They had seen Ark would have stood had it Herod this morning looks Herud's marvellous new temple; not been lost benturies before,
south-eastwards, but they hadn't walted, but had was concentrated the religious across these weary hilla, por.
hapa he looks pressed on down to Bethlehem, tradition of the Jews: through where over that first hill and this more familiar village lying this, Yahwehr spoke.
down and up and over that, fur- on the hill's side.
this
ther - hill, seven winter And already,
miks away, Bothlehem lies. Suddenly, lying there, Mary morning, priests are preparing winced The Arst pain bloomed roots and sheep for sacrifice
Mary and Joseph have gond inside her.
and in the courts dealers are a little way out of the village, baggling and money-denders to rest on a sheltered slope. It "Are you all right? It won't squabbling with clients.
is cold. Joseph wraps' his couran "Soon, Joseph sald.
cloth cloak around his wife. Tho be yet,
Eariler that morning while child inside her kicks. perhaps today. Can you get up? They're coming in for some of Mary and Joseph slept, while prles had Herod slept, the animals."
They got up, smoothed down climbed to the highest pinnacle eyes to the East for the first It took them a couple of days their tunics and brushed off the of the temple, had strained his yellow light, and had blown a to cross the plain, and then they straw.
They climbed up out of the diver trumpet, and the clly had had begum climbing again, for
and stablo, where they had been rubbed its eyes and started the track to Jerusalem Nazareth beyond followed the sleeping, which was a hollow new day. ridges of the hills, twisting with in the rockt, roofed over with
wood and clay, into the room It still is darts in Rome: the contours.
Augustus sleeps, the first Roman It was my ancient track, Per- of the inn.
The light was getting strong emperor. Of him Virgil song: haps men had followed it even before Abraham, and Joseph er, was reaching the tops of the "This is he, the man you have
would soon reach heard promised was an Israelite, for whom rehills, ligion and history were the Bethichem, had already reached Augustus Caesar, son of a god, ostablish who will once again same thing. The journey had been hard.
Arst
In his palace Herod saw the the golden age in Latium, in the doy
ha they
He knew, from the teachings The walked atomy the twisting from the Holy Books, how his sun met hit a golden grape- region once ruled by Saturn, and the great will extend the empire beyond track that led from Nazareth distant ancestors had first come vine carved outside
donkeys walk.
He thought back over the journey. It had been a nuisance having to come here to Bethle- hem all the way from Nazareth but there had been no choice.
A census was being held and everybody had been told to report at their home town and he had not wished to leave his wife behind
He was thankful at least that they had managed to reach Bethlehem before the child was horn..
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