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FRIDAY, DECEMBER 19. 19,18 HERALD AND NEWS. KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON PAGE 7 A Wise Men By GEORGE W. CORNELL Associated Press ReUfloa Writer The house stood against a hill side. It was small, made o( sun hardened mud bricks. It had m windows. A narrow path led to the doorway, hung with a heavy wool cloth. Beside it leaned a woodman's ax. As the wayfarers approaches', the o-.ily sound w as the crunching of camel hooves on the red gravel. It seemed quite loud. Melchoir's lined face tensed. Neither he nor his two companions spoke. They atared ahead fixedly. This was the place. This was tneir goal. This was the star- touched habitation. In front of the house, i m o k e turled from an earthen oven. A waterjar sat nearby, and a mill stone. Off to one side of the house was a vegetable patch, a.id on the other, a little shed built against a Cypress tree. Wood shavings littered the ground beneath the open shelter. and on a work table lay knives, wedges, bow-drill, adze, mallet and other carpenter's tools, along with some partly carved yokes ana axles. Travel-spent old Melchior held himself erect, his senses on edge. So here the long odyssey raded in Bethlehem. He and the other Magi, who had aecucaica ineir minds, passions and physical endurance to the dream of welcoming God's Pre mier to mankind, stopped at last outside a oeasant s hut. Its occupants were not in sight The three stately callers slid to the ground. Servants, who had quit their burros, took the reins of the camels, tapped their necks and pulled down on the halters, signalling them to kneel. Hastily, the Magians straight ened their mantles. Melchior smoothed his iong, white beard. Then he stepped to the door post. He caught his breath, and knocked. What answer lay within? What was its compelling power, its atrange appeal?' It seemed odd, indeed, that the great eastern scholars should be there. They had wealth, prestige, acclaim. Yet there they stood, with pent-up solicitude, at the doorstep of an obscure Jewish family. What had engrossed them through the years, and driven them, and brought them across half a continent from Persia to this unlikely pass? The reason was plain to them, although few shared their values thett, or ever. They saw, above an man s ambitions, attainments and em pires, the overarching, infinite logic of God. They believed He spoke a constant word, in every evolving atom of the universe, to man. And now, in this time and place, they sensed His most eloquent affirmation. He had sent His Envoy. Truth had become flesh. The divine vo cabulary was rendered in man's terms. God had bent down to man, and His voice rang out on earth. The King had come! That was why the wise ones were there. That is why they had aat their saddles for months, why they had traversed rugged miles, why they had questioned and per aevered, why they stood now at the abode of Joseph, the carpenter. As they waited, though only for a moment, they could hear as if far off the camels dropping to their knees, then settling in a ser ies of lurches to their bellys with legs folded tightly beneath them What would the Child be like? An old Persian maxim said "His body resembles linht. as His Spirit resembles truth.' But the Magi had no preconceptions: they had come not pronouncing, but inquiring. The door ioprinc was drawn Dick (feeder's Christmas Special Tonight & Tomorrow While They Last Reg. $5 Now The balance of our Christmas Stock Middy or coat style. Lots of colors. Sites I, C, D. OPEN TONIGHT AND EVERY NIGHT TILL 9 TILL CHRISTMAS DICK REEDER'S STORE FOR MEN Sfh & Main Phone TU 4-6621 Reach The End Of ADORATION OF THE MAGI is pictured in this ancient woodcut taken from a book pub lished nearly five centuries ago. It shows how the "Kings of the Orient" appeared to medieval imaginations. Modern research shows the visitors from the East wara profes sional scholars, and "kings" only in a poetic sense. The picture is from John of Hielde sheim's story of the Three Kings, published in 1484 and now at the Pierpont Morgan Library. aside, and the mild, steady gaze of Joseph met theirs. "What seek ye?" "We seek One in whom God has visited hi the person of a child." Joseph surveyed the strangers fully, then bade them enter. "He is here. The Magians filed through the doorway, Melchior hobbling in ad vance, followed by the grave, dark skinned Balthasar, and then by Gaspar, young and beardless. The floor was beaten clay, with a sheepskin mat in the center, and some low benches and uten sils against the wall. In a corner. shirt-clad infant played In a wooden crib. The quiet, young mother, Mary, picked Him uo, smiled faintly and sat down on a bench, displaying Him on her Knee. He was a year and some months of age. He looked up with wide-eyed interest at the visitors. Melchior's lips parted wordless ly. Tears welled in his eyes. Then he and the others knelt on the dirt floor in reverence and wor ship. They nad found their King They had entered the presence of God's Son. ' There, in the ordinary beauty and innocence of a healthy tod dler. Providence had provided its ultimate message to man. How often the greatest truth is clothed in simplest array. To recognize it required humil ity, the knowledge that knows its lack of knowledge. And this was the character of the Magi. While exalted scientists sought a world in space, they sought a world in time. They aspired, not to mere appearances, but to meanings. Through faith, they saw intuitively what others never see. Many see the stars. But who could sec what the Magi saw? They saw the star of Bethlehem. The Child nad been given the name Yeshua, or as the Greeks say, "Jesus," which means "The salvation of Jehovah." Presently, with joyous anima 2 DAT Strvict AXSCOCHItBMt FM MAIN If aja) 10 WN A COUNT I f to $5.50 m -iT l MM .ull. VSir"' tion, the Magi hurried outside the house and from their parcels, brought forth gifts and laid them before Him. Melchior presented gold, red gold, symbolizing a king's power. Gaspar brought myrrh, the resin of burial and death, offering it with tears. Baithasar gave in cense, the rich gum of frankin cense, signifying Ditr.ie immor tality. Mary sat with bowed head, murmuring over each gift. "Thanks be to God." Tradition says the royal Magi had brought huge coffers of pearls, silk hangings and other luxuries as intended presents, but so as not to offend the dignity of the poor, gave only what they first touched as they reached hi their chests. After their departure, their misgivings about King Herod were intensified by ominous dreams. So they spurned his request In return to him and identify the Child. Instead of taking the usual route home, northward through Jerusa lem to Damascus, they went an other way. Some accounts sug gest they circled south toward Petra. crossing the copper-colored mountains of Moab. Other reports say they slipped northward along the coast, de parting by ship from the port of Tarsus in Cilicia, where Herod's troops, in vengeful pursuit,- later wrecked the whole harbor. Meanwhile, Herod also wielded his wordly power and cunning to overcome a hild. He sent legion naires to slay all Bethlehem chil dren under 2. "according to the time" of the star learned earlier from the wise men. But the outcome of that clash shakes history The seemingly helpless Child won. Joseph and Mary fled with Him to Egypt. The Magi also escaped back toward the rising sun, back to the elevated plateau of Persia, to the vineyards of Shiraz. back to the land of hornless cattle and poetry. Tradition says the Magi later Salute the men in your life with new 1 . ' tfter-ihave lotion, hair tonic; stick deodorant and man -tiled soap. 15. M It's all man! A fresh, spirited fragrance ... to appeal to the "he" in every man ... in the toiletriea every man needsl , it 4-ot. bottle of cologne. IJ.W ir 4-ot. bottle of sfter-shsve lotion. 11.50 Men's Duo: 4-. bottles of cologne and after-shave lotion. I3.M Traveler's Set :2-. bottlesof coiofne and after-ihavt lotion. S2.M Journey built a chapel on Mt. Vans, where they had first seen the star, and tnat tney met there each year thereafter. They are said to have become bishops, ordained by the Apostle Thomas. It is recounted that their bodies after they died, were removed from Persia to Constantinople then to Milan, and in 1 163. to Cologne, where they rest now at the Cathedral of Cologne. The Middle Ages claim that the Magi were Kings, and they were, in a sense. They were sovereigns in the realm of wisdom, a royal heritage, beholded to its Divine Author. They were far away when Jesus was born, when Christ came to renew life. But God gave the sign. And as is always the case they could stay or j o u r n e y. To average minds, their decision was folly. They acted with utter aban don. But despite the risks, the im ponderables and the distance, those who sought, found. Deer Not His, As Fine Paid KANSAS CITY. Kan. (AP) -William 3. Wilson notified the sheriff the other day that his pet deer Kudoipn had been stolen. Two men returned Rudolph and apologized, explaining they thought they had caught a wild deer. 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