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December 24, 1940.
By Walt Disney
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This is Christmas Eve-Read This Story to Your Children
N 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 sky makes them lift their heads, makes them wonder whether they are dreaming, makes them cry aut to one another, A shining form, another and another, until the air is bright with pinions.
Then a voice, moro beautiful than any music their ears had -over heard, with a strange, compelling dignity, breaking the hushed silence of the east- ern night.
"Glory to God in the highest,
and on carts
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 see! The little town, that covers the top of a hill and looks from a distance for all the world like a little toy-town made by a child with square, white cardboard boxes, is packed with people.
A decreo 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 caparisoned.
Poor men slouch along the tracks over the rough hills covered with camel-thorn and
GERMANY LAUGHS AT OWN A.A.
Messages reaching. New York from neatral sources in Berlin 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 flooted the country since the R.A.F. bégan its present exten- sive series of bombings of the Reich.
The anti-aircraft artillery joke has, in fact, taken the place of the pre-war Jokes concerning: ersaiz Bubaillute "raw" malerial and other political Jokes, the article polits aut
The Schwarze Korps disclaims any intention of defending the honour of the anti-aircraft artillery. No such defence, it asseria, is necessary).
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Civilians Blamed
It does, however, devote two full columns to an explanation of the virtues of these guns and their crews, their achievements, their importance and their general excellence, and makes a vitriolle attack on citizens so ignorant or so evil na to seek, to 'discredit this arm of the Sorvico by telling jokes at its expense.
Soldiers who understand those mitters "appreciate" the value of the afiti-aircraft artillery, the article |states, but the civilian at home is
too ignorant.to, do was
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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 tyrant in Rome that they should make this tiresome journey.
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ARKNESS has fallen, 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 of his
greatest
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 a child, the Saviour, who would be called Jesus.
Mary thought the child
· might be born soon. The faith
ful 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 with friends, for the enrol- ment.
Humble folk like Joseph and Mary from a village homė did not put up at inns, when rela- tives would welcome them. But trudging along the Inst few miles Joseph had hesitat- ed.
The relatives lived on the other side of the town. Time. was precious.
THE CHIGI MADONNA
War Aames in Europe, but Christian nations the world over continue to celebrate the birthday of the Prince of Peace. Symbolic of the day is this beautiful painting by Sandro Botticelli, showing the. lovely Madonna and the infant Christ.
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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.
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can see them there in the nar row street, its hard cobbles shining in the moonlight. Mary is nearly swooning with pain and weariness. The very beast is trembling with 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, · ́
There is warmth, at any rate, and shelter, warm milk, and simple fare, and, above all, rest at last.
Din the soft, sweet
URING the night,
scented hay, in a place made
Botticelli, Florentine artist, did the painting about 1468. It is called the Chigi Madonna, or the Chich Botticelli, in honour of the artist's patron, Count Chigi, The original ts in the Gardner Museum, Boston, warm by the breathing bodies of ox and ass, 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-isleep 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
as all the poorer houses were..the manger and teach us the
Joseph reaches the house at last. It is late now, and he shudders to hear the noise within, but att his entry and gesture the host a cousin, perhaps, or oven a brother- comes out to him.
lingers in the
the picture. The angel at presents ears of wheat and bunches of prapes, representing the bread and wine to be used years
All the privacy that can be later at the Last Supper, just
offered is a bed of straw _before_Christ's death. The Infant__umons_the_animals.. It is Christ blesses there fateful symbols gratefully and gladly accepted." with upraised hand."
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 to- morrow, let us remember Bethlehem, The world was born again there,
And one day man will turn, nauseated and satiated, to find his deepest happiness, not in the things that the world calls great and wise and mighty.
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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