The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1870-12-25
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1870 years ago occurred the bitth Of
Christ upon easth-nnd "God became
mAp,.". :. Earth, as If she would proclaim
from the moment of His birth her 10,
iephon 81 ths sayioaf. gave him oA!y q
bed Of straw in nsunger. H6 who
osse,atad all earth's loveliness. whose
smile filed the universe with beauty,
whose breath. waited fragrance to the
abWssa ..,Hhose optstretched hand dow
erod tie aarAh with grandeur to spb]imi-
t4h SaqsPtsd 9, stable for His birth place
--tAns, with, His first breath upon earth,
ps6Yaiming' TO man TINT humility is
Goa.hke end poverty no dishonor-
Manmight reject Him, bnt Heaven
owned Him and set in it's blue arches q
starss ,eloeeding all others in glory. to
hefald through earth and the vaulted
donaes ,of Gods realms His advent to
man, The glory of the Star of Bethle-
hem, caught from angels eyes as they
hoyered throughout space to behold
their God-made man. shone down into
the hearts Of the wise men. and filled
them with q new JOY, while oherubim
and seraphim took up the notes of q
new hallelujah upon earth, and. beaming
all over with delight. bore it aloft to the
waiting hosts OF Heaven, where tens of
thousands caught the glad sound and
echoed and re-echoed it throughout the
realms of God in anthems of praise to
Jehovah, and Joy for salvation to man,
until the courts above vibrated with a
new melody, which shook the great
arches of Heaven and trembled with
thrilling ecstaey within the souls of the
sainted.
God upon earth in human form-how
glorious to us the thought Like unto
us--flled with human love and human
suffering. yet in all perfection God.
How deep, how tender is his sympathy
for human woe, when he takes death
upon himself that man may live. Oh!
mar, MhD can scorn your fellowma
and feel your heart fire with hate from
hell, think that this death vas for Him
as we'll as you--a death of the righteous
for the unrighteous, of God for man,
and ,dare not impiously to raise your
hand against the life God has given.
'Ye who turn from the poor and suffer
ing ones of earth with oallous heart
and closed purse-strings. remember that
in earthly goods be was poor; remember
that his life upon earth was among the
poor and suffering; it was these whom
he principally healed and blessed; and
upon this day and this week of his birth
to man, according to your ability, do
likewise. Let not these suffering ones
of earth shrink back ip their dcsolate
want, looking with covetops eyes at your
scattered waste upon self, and doubt il
Saviour were born for ala, because nc
Joy, no comfort comes to their darkened
lives upon this day of rejoicing over his
birth to fallen believe that
the God of the pos sld us to O
strict account for ou1 upon this
day. Let this day. this +. be one in
which We put by the rich( habiliments Of
wealth, and go to the hovfls of want and
suffering, that The sunlight of God may
enter by our hand to war9 their hearts
into faith and love. Many of them are
squalid. wretched and degraded, but
they are as immortal as w4, for them the
Saviour died as fully aA for us. Oh
how can we know this ana put not forth
8 helping hand to theph2 If we would
Have these believe th4at Saviour has
been born upon ear&h for man, let us
ahow them our faith by our works.
There Il no @sore potent sermon to these
than to fesm, olothe and warm them, and
tell tbssm that upon this anniversary ol
tbs6 Sayiour's birth to man, God has pnt
Tin our hearts to comfort them. Ir
slis city of ours. children born to power
ty and suffering. shiver. cold and hun
cry, in stifed novels OF misery, clingine
to their mothers of poverty, preferrine