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DONALD DUCK

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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 aro 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 ears tend ever heard, with a strange, compelling dignity, breaking the hushed silence of the cast- 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 see! The little town, that covera 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 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 caparisoned.

Poor men slouch along the tracks over the rough hills covered with camei-thorn and

GERMANY LAUGHS AT OWN A.A.

Messages reaching New York from neutral 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 flooded the country since the R.A.F. bogan ita present exten- sive series of bombings of the Reich.

The anti-aircraft artillery Joke fian, In fact, taken the place of the pro-war Jokes concerning ersatz- substitute-"raw" material and other political jokes, the article points out. The Schwarze Korps disclaims any intention of defending the honour of the anti-aircraft artillery. No such defence, it naseris, is necessary.

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 vitriolic attack on citizeng so ignorant or no evil as to seek to discredit this arm of the Service by tolling Jukes at its expense.

Soldiers who understand, these matters appreciate the value of tho anti-aircraft Artillery, the article slates, but the civilian at home is top Imorant 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 tyrant in Rome that they should make this tiresome journey.

ARKNESS

h a s

Debut 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 la 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 home 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 way precious,

the

THE CHIGI MADONNA

Europe,

He must try the inn, cost what it may. But the inn was hopelessly full. The innkeeper would not. Isten to them. One look at their travel- stained garments, and he thrust them out.

*

FOU can see them

Ythere in the rar-

row street, its hard cobbles shining in the moonlight. Mary is nearly swooning with pain and weariness. The very benst 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, as all the poorer houses were.

Joseph reaches 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.

War flames

but Christian nations the world over continue to celebrate the birthday of the Prince of Peace. Summboite uf day

this beautiful painting by Sandro Botticelli, showing the lovely Madonna and the Infant Christ. Yet

note of tragedy lingers

in the

the picture. The angel at left presents ears of wheat and bunches

of grapes, representing the bread and wine to be used years later at the Last Supper, just -before-Christ's death. The Infant-among-the-animals-Itis

Christ blesses these fateful symbols with upraksed hand,

All the privacy that can be offered is a-bed of straw

gratefully and gladly accepted.

L

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 1408; It is called the Chigi Madonna, or the Chigi Botticelli, in honour of the artist'e patron, Count Chipi. The original is 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-asleep on the hay.

The world still sleeps, and turns and moans in her steep. She seems unable to awaken. She dreams sometimes with bright, happy dreams, and then sinka 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

our

. purpose. Baby hands could release us from our bondage If they would only pull proud heads down as low as the manger and teach us the royal values of humility, un- selfishness, and love. These 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, nauscated 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 if 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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