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DONALD DUCK
December 24, 1940.
By Walt Disney
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"NOW--STAY
PUT!!
This is Christmas Eve-Read This Story to Your Children'
the hills round Bethlehem the shep- herds keep watch
over their flocks beneath the star-lit sky,
They crouch over the em- bers of their fire, pulling their cloaks more closely round them, for the night is cold. But a light in the aky makes them lift their heads, makes them wonder whether they are dreaming, makes them cry out to one another. A shining form, another and another, until the air is bright with pinions..
Then a voice, more beautiful than any music their cars had ever heard, with a strange, compelling dignity, breaking the hushed silence of the east- ern night.
"Glory to God in the highest,
and on earth.
Peace among the men of good-
will.**
What is it all about, this strange movement of men to- wards a lowly stable?
Come to Bethlehem and sec! The little town, that covers the top of a hill and looks from u distance for all the world like a little toy-town made by white a child with square. cardboard boxes, is packed with people. *
A decree, has gone forth from Caesar Augustus that men must be taxed, and an en- rolment made in their native places The rich-have-got-the- best accommodation, of course. They have had themselves carried in luxurious litters, or they have ridden in on camels gorgeously enparisoned.
Poor men alouch along the tracks over the rough hills covered with camel-thorn and
GERMANY LAUGHS AT OWN A.A.
Messages reaching New York from neutral sources in Beriln indicate the lack of success at tending the German anti-air- craft fire.
The Schwarze Korps, the or- gan of the Black Guards, pro- tests against the wave of jokes at the expense of the German anti-aircraft artillery which has Пooded the country since the R.A.F. began its present exten- sive series of bombings of the Reich.
Joko
Tho anti-aircraft artillery has, in fact, faken the place of the pre-war Jokes concerning ersatz- substitute-"raw" material and other political Jokes, the article points oul. . The Schwarze Korps disclaims any intention of defending the honour of the anti-aircraft artillery. No such defence, it asserts, is necessary.
Civiliana Blamed
It does, however, devote two full columns to an explanation of the virtues of these guns and their crows, their achievements, their Importance and their general excellence, and makes 's vitriolic attack on citizens so Ignorant.or so evil as to seek to discredit this arm of the Service by tolling jokes at its expense.
Soldlers who understand thesa Inatters appreciate the value of the. anti-aircraft artillery, the
article
states, but the civilian at home l too Ignorant to do so
THE
FIRST NOEL
By THE REV.
LESLIE WEATHERHEAD famous City Temple preacher
coarse grass, weary and des- pondent and dispirited. It is another whim of the hated
that tyrant in Rome
they should make this tiresome journey.
* ARKNESS
Dallen
ha but the moon has risen. In the moon- light you can hear the tinkle of a bell tied round the neck of a patient donkey.
His bridle is held by the hand of a carpenter named Joseph, who has trudged all the way from Nazareth. He is weary. And worried, too.
It seemed to him that his happiness was crowned when gentle and virginal Mary, daughter
greatest of his friend, and only seventeen years of age, consented to be his betrothed.
But a strange thing had happened. An angel appeared to Mary and told her that she would be the mother of iL child, the Saviour, who would be called Jesus.
Mary thought the child might be born soon, The faith-
fal donkey bearing all un- knowingly the Treasure of the. Ages, trod gently, but the journey had been a long one, and Mary longed for rest.
They had hoped to stay friends for the enrol- with ment.
Humble folk like Joseph and Mary from a village home did not put up at inns, when rein- tives would welcome them. But trudging along the last few miles Joseph had hesitat- ed. The relatives lived on the other side of the town. Time was precious.
THE CHIGI *MADONNA
War Rames in Europe. but Christian nations the world over continue to detebrate the birthday of the Prince of Peare. Symbolic of the day is this beautiful painting by Sandro Botticelli, showing the topci
Madonna and the infant Christ. Yet a note of tragedy The angel Ingers in the picture.
thent and at left presents *ars of bunches of grapes, representing bread and wine to be used cars laterat the Last Supper. Just before Christ's death. The infant Christ blessen these fateful symbols. with upraised hand.
the
He must try the inn, cost what it may. But the inn was hopelessly full. The innkeeper would not listen to them. One look at their travel- stained garments, and he thrust them out.
can see thom
Ythere in the nar
row street, its hard cobbles shining in the moonlight. Mary is nearly swooning with pain and weariness. The very beast is
with trembling exhaustion.
Once more Joseph plods on. It must be the house of their friends now.
But even the house was full of noisy guests! And it was a one-roomed house, probably, as all the poorer houses were.
Joseph reuches the house at last. It is late now, and he shudders to hear the noise within, but at his entry and gesture the host-a cousin, perhaps, or even a brother- comes out to him.
All the privacy that can be offered is a bed of straw among the animals-It-is- gratefully and gladly accepted.
There is warmth, at any rate, and shelter, warm milk, and simple fare, and, above all, rest at last.
URING the night,
DU
in the soft, sweet scented hay, in a place made Botticelli, Florentine artist, did the painting about 1468. It is called the Chigi Madonna, or the Chigi Botticelli, In honour of the artist's patron, Count Chigi. The original is in the Gardner Museum, Boston. warm by the breathing bodies. of ox and nas, the Saviour of the world was born.
Look, imaginatively and re- verently! For here is the miracle of the ages, very God of very God-asleep on the hay.
The world still sleeps, and turns and moans in her sleep., She seems unable to awaken. She dreams sometimes with bright, happy dreams, and then sinks back into meaning- less lethargy or the disturbed dreams of the drugged,
When she wakens it will be to find that baby fingers can unlock the meaning of life and point the way to paths of purpose. Baby hands could release us from our bondage if they would only pull our proud heads down as low as the manger and teach us the royal values of humility, un- These selfishness, and love. things can give the individual heart the joy which this feverish generation has brush- ed aside.
So, for to-day and
let us remember morrow,
The world was Bethlehem. -born-again-there
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He will find it in some mo- ment of wondering awe when it means everything to him that He who did not despise a manger will stoop yet lower and make the lowly, human heart His dwelling place and His throne.
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