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TEARLY two yeurs passed before Joseph hal Another super- natural experience, but at last it came.
CHAPTER FOUR OF FULTON OURSLER'S STORY OF THE
LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS
whole
A prophel like unto me pryd government. No Messiah Once more the angel in- terrupted their quiet lives will the Lord raise up to thee." was to lead them in revolution. make them in Writer and haranguers at free them and with a sign from the other the crossroads constantly
of the no turn masters
God would not send world; one last dream for sured
people world the tax-ridden
Christ His Messenger to earth merely Joseph, a vision with great that the long-awaited
would soon be with them to rally the glory of David and news, the angel declaring:
Every where men were quoting Solomon. "Arise and take the child
from the prophets to anticipate the people waited for such a and go into the land of Israel.
of patriot, For they are deed that sought just how the Son of God would Messiah- trinity
come to earth.
General, and king. the life of the child."
They are dead! They meant Herod!
No Question
ITI no question in their minds Joseph and Mary, the most perfect bellevers in his- tory, obeyed the directive. From his sleep Joseph sprang up and began to pack at once. Taking the child and mother on donkey, he turned again to the grey and yellow desert that lay between them and home.
"There will be A great star in the heavens to announce
His birth," said one.
It was in vain that
Such was the state of the world. of the Roman empire, Mary "He will be born into the Judea, Nazareth, when
take decided to line of the house of David in and Joseph
the twelve-year-old boy on a Bethlehem, but He will live in
Jerusalem for the Galilee," said another.
visit to Passover, Year after year the Naturally Joseph and Mary family made this journey, but feld Jesus of the three Wise
was the Arst time they Men who brought Him gifta
would take Jesus with them. and said that they had seen
this
Ills Star in the east and had in Jerusalema again Mary's come to worship Him.
Also growing boy looked Bround fascinated by the He knew that He had been him,
and that splendour and the squalor of As the long desert days Joseph and M ry were both of palaces and slums, the penury passed and the little family the princely use of David.
drew nearer to their own part
Bethlehem born in
in the midst of magnificence, and especially the beauties of confirmed People Were Wrong the Temple, with lis walls of
cedat and
of the world, other travellers
in wayside camping the news.
Yes,
dead!
London Express Bervice
by
SITTING ON THE FENCE
T
Nathaniel Gubbins
HERE'S another of But that bloke ain't balmy. em," said the man Livin on is Stock Exchange in- in the corner of city lunches, nad sleepin them vestments, entin is end ort, at the third-class compart or first-class carriages. That ment. "They can't travel is before Cripps got im. The firat no more because of dirty parasite." their income tax."
"Shush," said his wife, "you might wake im up."
Oo cares?" asked the man. "It's time some of them typez wna woke up. Look at is and"
"What's tig matter with is ands?"
in
"I wish you wouldn't talk so loud, Charlie"
the
"I shall talk as loud as I like. Dirty parasite, that's what hc is, livin ou the sweat of workers." "But Charlie?"
Cun
"Never done a stroke of work ed
you don't know, do you,
I do, I know em all. I
om. Look at is bloat-
their lives. Look at em." "Oh, no. That's not fair,
"I think they're rather nice Charlie, I reckon he's got rather
said his wife, "nice and a nice face. Besides, he might
aly. We can't all work ave cart discase or something.”
our finds."
"It's time some of them did," said the man. "I suppose reckons he works with. brains. I don't think,"
he
19
"Well he might, lic's got a nice big ead, anyway."
"My father always told big-ended people was
"T
Rot
ope he as. I up he's eart disease, kidney disease, and stomach ulcers."
"Now you're pettin spiteful," sold his wife.
"O.K. I'm gettin
spiteful.
But not so spiteful as he was me when he was grindin the faces caste balmy, of the poor, livin in is
while is factory workers Was dying like flica at tho machines."
STORY
THE RETURN TO ISRAEL
Did not such absurdities de city of His position; He merely
Herod the Great was RUT very early in 1e Jesus walked with Mary and Josep tract from the dignity and good- kept reminding them
of the
"I thought you said he was of the Stock Exchange," said his toife.
The train stopped at a station. "Dirty parasite," shouted the mon as they got out.
I opened
**
*
my
eyen for h moment, made a face at the man's back and settled down to sicep again.
In the club
6Y7ELL, there they go again.""
"WELI "W107"
FL
TheGovernment. I don't
we've bait such supposa bunch of incompetents running the 'country since the Magan Charta."
"Don't you?"
"As soon as I read about the groundnuts lark I knew would be a flop. I said to my
money. self "There goes my There goes your money. There Roes everybody's money. Down the drain And It's turned out I than even tq bo
worse thought."
**Has it?"*
"Who do they think they are?" African explorers?",
"I don't know." "A lot of little Jacks-in-office- Stan- fancying themselves leys and Livingstones. Why, there isn't one of them with the guts to bo either. Could they! discover darkest Africa alone? Could they have crossed the Zambesi?
"No Lára.
"Why,
to
He marble. As
they'd be scared learned what
the Gate that Was the people through него expecting from
beauty of their own neglected discover darkest Birmingham. their called Beautiful, Jesus carried ness of the idea of God? In his school and in conversa Messiah, and
alone on Ho
that
a Saturday night. knew that a few coins
His foster
ΠΟΥ Seized suddenly with a great tenchings, quoting every
hey'd be scared to cross Pie- Jesus heard more and they were wrong. There was father had given Him: mites
knotted more of the Messiah who was coming to them no Saviour with and pennies
in the warm rush of zeal and a surge and then from the magnificent cadilly Circus alone without to bring freedom to the people: supernatural genius for
war hem of His
robe; with these of such questions, Jesus stood simplicity of Micah, the pro-holding a policeman's hand."
phet, when he demanded; copper pieces the boy paid His
"Would they?" whlie Joseph remained
"And they call themselves way into the Temple up.
praying with clused cyes.
"What does Jehovah request Government. No wonder they Burning with cagerness, the of you but to do justly, and to can't get recruits for the Terri- Priests Everywhere twelve-year-old strode into an love kindness, and to walk toriala. You wouldn't catch me
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"ONE ROMANTIC NIGHT" (THE LIFE OF FRANZ PETER SCHUBERT)"
BACK IN JERUSALEM
HOW ABOUT
Sticking Him
A BITE OF YER
PEPPERMINT
CANDY?
NO
own courts.
offshoot sheller
inner humbly with your God?" of the
ut the Fathera Templo where
wii die rolls of them and
The Face of Mary
JHEREVER Jesus looked there were priests, On that very day twenty thousand Israel sat
1
Joining anything for a Govern- ment like that,"
Wouldn't I?"
scum
"Who were the backbone of the Territorials? The middle of them were registered in the Scriptures around
recruits to this classes. Who won the Battle of Temple and got their living debated the texts of judges and E new from it. The place swarmed prophets. A circle of admiring
famous debate had taken no Britain? The middle classes. with men In ceremonial
intellectuals was listening tu note of the passing of time until And now they're called costume; Levites with pointed
Jesus, looking over the heads of and vermin. Why should they
beck join up at the caps and large pockets in which awe-stuck silence.
and call of books of the they carried the
palo people who
them? Into this ring of professors of face of Mary. law; Pharisees with their broad
Tears glistened "I don't kno
"I tell you, philacterles
If anything should won't get the "again
Who got them
His antagonists," row the
and deep white the sacred teachings walked the in her reproachful eyes; for the
fringes on purple gowns, boy from solemn Ersenes in white robes
Galllee and His first and only Ume since He was happen
with the born she seemed not to. compre-the first time? Kitchener. Who
ou are
and with them from Galee longue was and Judea and the land beyond questione He now put to them. hend. Jordan crowds of earnest be- He seemed eager to learn from Hlevers who came to buy lambs these sages, but they
the
They
volunteers
Rot
them the second
time?
I
get
"Son, why have you done so Churchill. Who's likely to recoiled
them to us? Belfold, your father and
next time? Shinwall? I have sought you-sorrowing." wouldn't join the Brownies for
Shinwell." At onec Jesus made His fare- "Wouldn't you?"
teachers. the groggy
"The
or pigeons and lay them on the from His honest inquiries.
be burned; women after allar to be
childbirth, sick people after re-
WOMOTI and
and thong
eme
covery,
and men grateful
апа who hoped
soon to have cause to
Bargains
struck,
grate- being were greetings exchanged.
Jul.
Savants Alarmed
to
well to
country never was in
In JERE ever such questions pu Around Mary's shoulders He such a state as it is now.
the clook. of deeper the past we've had bad Govern- these brains before? wrapped
blue, that she wore now, and ments and good Governments, Never, never, He was not there
took her About
hand and to higgle and dispute
led her but they've always been men, and as they good or bad. If they made mla- trifling matters. The savants of toward the gate, all day long, the smell of burns Inw listened first with scorn walked together, she told Him takes they took the blame like ing flesh, the smoke of incense and irritation, then with In what had been happening.
psalms Bung; genuflections
astonishment, friendly, but with awakening
alarm.
Jesus was gripped with this credulity, with spectacle of colour and notte and movement,
men and
"Did they?"
"Why
didn't Cripps resign the after he devalued the pound?”
No idea,"
"Because they don't intend to anything, don't. you worry.
"I'm not.**
It seemed that Mary and Joseph had started от Journey back to Nazareth, feel- Day and night came and the ing sure that Jesus was follow- But why did
they burn the fifteen men still tried to answer ing
with a troop of other resign about animals? Why did they im the questions of this unknown Nazareth boys. But when they agine God would be pleased
stripling. New Judges took began to search for him, Jesus when allars bled and smoked? the place of weary elderly ones, was not to be found. That was Why did the poor have to spend and the debate went on with why, as soon as the sun was UP: That's their motto. Well, I must money to buy animals? Why the unwearying lad,
Mary and Joseph turned their facts back foward Jerusalem. (Continued on Pate ()
must they buy them only from
tho
the
priests? What d
It was impossible by logle to Priests da with the money? dislodge Him from the simpli-
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