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BROWN The prophetic picture of a little child among wolves, leopards, lions, with lambs, kids and calves, and all harmless creatures, secure, 'happy and tractable, is a daring picture. In imagination, let alone in realiza- tion, it generates intensely the ele- ment of surprise. The figure of a child is almost the last thing to ex- pect in such a setting, and a little one at that. Some giant, or some wizard, or some enthralling angel such as was said to guard the gaics of Paradise, would not occasion such surprise. The Spirit of God is always abroad leading men into truth. Isaiah better, far better, than he knew, was outlining a surprising thing that God was going to spring upon the world. Into conditions where the lamb was the prey of the wolf, and the kid was the victim of the leo- pard,"and the calf was pounced up- on and torn asunder by the lion, into this theatre of world activities governed by the jungle law, God was to surprise men by introducing a child. And the surprise would grow as it was seen that the pre- sence and influence of the child softened brutality, cast out beast!i- ness, obliterated fear, generated love, and promoted and ensured se- curity and peace, The cradle of Bethlehem held this Child. The world woke up that first Christmas morning to find that God had sprung a surprise upon them. Hitherto the Creator Father had employed other methods to win men to Himself and to those ideal con- ditions in which He would have them live. But fear, disobedience, pride, hardness of heart, selfishness, had long sustained a reign of fang and claw and might. Those con- vinced of the marching on of God and the subduing of all things to Himself were not expecting this un- usual move of the Almighty Father of slipping a baby into the cradle of men's hearts to achieve His pur- pose. Silent, simply, without dis- play, the Lord had penetrated to the innermost heart of mankind. Surprisingly the Bethlehem birth became the most heart-touching, heart-revolutionary event of human history. A little child shall le them! Yes, it is the surprising bg- ginning of the most suyprising angel of love that ever struck re man ears. The weak thing was made to confound the mighty. The foolish of God was wiser in this EOISINOIIIICIGIN AIIM than the wisdom of men. The picture of fine control and astonishing accomplishment, amid what men always had occasion to fear, in this prophetic word belongs, primarily, to the way of the Holy Child Jesus. It was this realization that gripped the hearts of the dis- ciples of the carly Church when they prayed, "Lord . . . grant unto Thy servants that with all boldness they may speak Thy words, by stretching forth Thy hand to heal, that signs and wonders may be done by the name of Thy Holy Child Jesus." Jesus, of all who aspire to auth- ority in the world, is alone capable of ruling it in perfect truth and grace. The wild and beastly,' the gross and cruel, have been tamed and refined and - made gentle through Him. Listen to John New- ton, the writer of "How Sweet the Name of Jesus Sounds," witnessing of Jesus, "I was a wild beast, but He tamed me." Is it not true that when the world has the good sense to gather round the Child of Bethlehem, the bringer of peace and good will to all men, the life of our time which is so of- ten extraordinary sour and angry will be sweetened and made pleas- ant? Our irritations and hatreds will die. The law of kindness which is reflected in the prophetic world will prevail. There is one thing better than denunciation of war and economic wrongs and class antagonism and all that makes for contrariness and hurt in the earth; there is one thing better than battering upon the strongholds of evil with our fiery speeches and heated declam- ations and that is to have Jesus in the midst with His kinship, bro- therhood, love and salvation con- cretely set forth in our own lives. Dr. Hutton says, "The sign of a good man is that he conceals re- sentment, revenge and unforgive- ness." By which he means that he will wound no one, he will hold no grudge, he will forgive seventy times seven. Outside the thrall and influence of Jesus where will you find such a man? There is no doubt about it: there is a control of the minds and hearts of mankind vested in Jesus 'as in no other. Men possessed with 4e- vils have found themselves sitting at His feet clothed and in their right minds. Vicious worldlings, living according to their law of the jungle, have surrendered to His Mastership till their hearts burn within them as they walk and talk with Him by the way. As Gaw- dine, the organ-grinder in Michael Fairless', "The Roadmender," lost his viciousness and coarseness, and became lovable and kind as he daily sought for the upturned face of a little child which had asked jor a kiss, which he had rudely anl curs- ingly put away from him, so men have seen the face of the Child Je- sus and its love-ocontrolling, win- some way has day after day purged out of life fiendish and brutal traits and cultivated the angel in them. Truest of truisms, a little child shall lead them! But the magnificence of prophet- ic fulfilment respecting this state- ment: reaches its zenith in that the glorious religious consummation re- flected therein is realized in the re- velation of God in Jesus Christ. [It is primarily a religious picture, But there is no altar in it, no ritual, no specified offerings, no school of in- exorable law with its "Thou shait" and "Thou shalt not," no temple or ecclesiastical demonstration. There is just, the setting forth of personality, regnant, compelling, authoritative, clothed in spiritual might, now a child in his loveable- ness and then a king in his strength and power; and he it is who is to be the prime cause of the golden age of the people of God. It is a leng leap from Isaiah to Paul, but Paul profoundly grasped and stated the larger meaning of the Messianic prophecy when he said Christ shall be all and in a'l Bishops and churches, priests and creeds, are not altogether trusted these days by thinking men to take the lead in directing human thought and ideals. The demand is for Je- sus, We can understand Him; we like His manifestation; His good- ness appeals to us. This is not to say that the Church or person in word and life who preaches Jesus only in His Friendship, Saviour- hood, Leadership, and in the Ever- lasting Life He gives, is not going to make an impress on this present- day, strange and confusing world. The earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord as the wa- ters cover the sea the sooner the One born a King, the Child of Bethlehem, is given the foremost place on the stage of human action. The League of Nations--God bless it--will only succeed with its great ideals for the world as the Bethle- hem spirit and temper and teaching permeates the assembly and its plans and labors. Christmas 1927 New Year 1928 BEST WISHES for a MERRY CHRISTMAS and a HAPPY and PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR The ROBSON LEATHER CO. Ld. |= nN : | : : i : : ; ; MR : ! 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