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...among merry celebrants
at a small town inn
By CLARK KINNAIRD
AND it coma to pan la those
days, that there wrnt out a
decree from Caesar Augustus,
that all the world should be
taxed. . ., .
IN THE year 749 by the Roman
calendar, the world ruled by Au
gustus that was most of the world
known then to the Roman extended
from a vague, almost legendary,
Cathay westward to a barbaric Brit
ain. The popular conception of the
world was a plane stretching from
the Mediterranean to abysses beyond
which all was darkness.
Actually, beyond the boundaries of
the world of the Romans were many
populous lands, one of them being
what's now called America. The
latter had been populated by mi
grants from acrosa the sea who may
have been Asiatics, Phoenicians,
Egyptians, northern Europeans, or all
four. Most of the people of America
at that time were nomadic tribesmen
not unlike the nomads of Palestine.
In the Roman year 719, Jews who
dwelt In their homeland between the
. Mediterranean and the River Jordan
waited humbly and hopefully for a
messlah. They had been promised
one by the prophet Jsaioh: "Unto us
a child la born, unto us a son Is giv
en, and his name shall be called
Wonderful, Counsellor, tho Mighty
God." They wanted a national deliver
er from the tyranny which bowed
them down. The estimated 3.000,000
people of Judaea, Samaria and Gali
lee, which then comprised Palestine,
were unhappy and rebellious under
the rule of foreign pagans.
And all went to bo taxed, every
one Into his oirn city. And Joseph
went up from GalliiA out of the
, city ot Kazareth, Into Judnea,
unto the city of David, which Is
called Bethlehem; To be taxed
with Mary, his espoused wife,
being great with child.
, There are many places In the map
of Palestine the names of which be
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May the message of
the first Christmas
bring you great joy.
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gin with Beth, because It was the
most genera word for house or habi
tation. Bethlehem meant house of
bread. It was one of the oldest towns
In Palestine. It was the home of
Ruth; the Book of Ruth is a page
from the domestic history of Bethle
hem. David tended his sheep close
by; Samuel came to Bethlehem to
find the shepherd lad and anoint him
as king of Israel.
And so It was, that, while they
were there, the days were ac
complished that she should be de
livered. And she brought forth
her first-born Son, and wrapped
Him In swaddling clothes, and
laid Him In a manger; because
there was no room for them In
the Inn.
In the days of Augustus, Romans
celebrated the Saturnalia, or festival
of Saturn, in the seven days begin
ning December 17. During it, no pub
lic business could be transacted, the
law courts were closed, and no male
factor could be punished. It was a
time of licentious disorder. Probably
Saturnallan celebrants filled the inn.
And there were In the same
country shepherds abiding In the
Held, keeping watch over their
flock by night.
Sheep were one of the most im
portant possessions of the ancient
Hebrews. Judaea had manufactures,
fisheries and commerce, but most of
its people earned their living from
tillage of the soli and from their
flocks. Immense numbers of sheep
grazed In Palestine in Biblical times;
there Is a story of one group of shep
herds whose flock consisted of 3,000,
000 sheep and goals. Sheep and lambs
provided most of the meat and wool,
most of the clothes of the East.
. And, lo, the angel of the Lord
cams upon them, and the glory
of the Lord shone round about
them; and they were snro afraid.
And the angel said unto them,
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Fear not: tor, behold I bring you
good tidings of great joy, which
shall bo to all people. 1'or unto
you In born thin day in the city
or David a- Saviour, which i
Christ the Lord. And this shall
be a sign unto you: Ye hall find
the Babe wrapped in swaddling
clothes, Jying in a manger. And
Middenly there wan with the
angel a multitude of the heaven
ly boflt praising Ciod, and saying.
Glory to God in the highest, and
on earth peace, good will toward
men.
And It came to puss, as the
angela were gone away from
them into heaven, the shepherds
(uUd one to another, let us now
go even unto Bethlehem, and see
this thing which Is come to paxs,
which the Lord hath made known
unto us. And they came with
haste, and found Mary, and Jo
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' seph, and the Babe lying In. a
manger. And when they had seen
It, they made known abroad the
saying which was told them con
cerning this Child.
Because of what the shepherds
made known, the world eventually be
gan to calculate time from the birth
of Jesus. But there was an error in
transcribing 749 into Christian
chronology, and the event about
which Luke was to pen the greatest
news story ever written was in 4
B.C., reckoned by today's calendar.
Luke was the nickname of Lucanus.
a man of Antioch in Syria. He was a
physician (and also reputedly, a
painter of extraordinary skill t before
he became a convert to Christianity
ajid a companion of Paul. The story
was inscribed by Luke in Greek, up
on papyrus, as a letter to one Theo
philus, another convert to Christian
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Wiv, happy and cheerful festive seasonl
ity. The latter was, like Luke, a Gen
tile, and he appears to have been a
Roman of high position and wealth.
Nothing else is known of Theophilus
except this: by inscribing this Gospel
and the acts of the Apostle to him,
Luke made Theophilus' name im
mortal. There is little more that we know
of Luke but we know this: he was a
friend unto death. 'I am all alone,
save for Luke," Paul wrote shortly
before he was put to death ia Rome.
Such devotion was to be expected of
a Christian.
It is probable that Luke gained
most of his knowledge of the Saviour,
as he did his devoutness, from Paul,
for there is no evidence Luke ever
himself saw Jesus.
Luke could have had help from the
earlier gospel of Matthew, who had
left his job as tax collector at Caper
naum to be one of Jesus' disciples,
MERRY
CHRISTMAS
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ever-so bright and gay.
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and from what Mark had recorded.
There were countless other narratives
of Jesus current at the time Luke
wrote. Still It appears that Luke was
inspired most by what Paul told him
and by the material he gathered him
self. It is clear he wrote with con
summate, unmatched art.
Paul himself was a great writer,
as we know from The Epistles: First
Thesaalonians, Second Thessalonians,
Galatians, First Corinthians, Second
Corinthians, Romans, Philippians,
Colossians and Philemon. His writings
and his labors within a few yeara
transformed Christianity from some
thing known to a few into a world
religion. Still Paul placed his empha
sis upon the acts and teachings of
Jesus. It remained for Luke, a man
wonderfully inspired, to write the
wondrous story of the First Christ
mas that excels all other Chris Unas
stories ever told.
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joycus holiday be filled
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