Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1898-12-29

in r., D.. iihout any doors, and
Iuwc> ss.it by chilled night VIM.
hen ward riding many days un-
d. ."l topical sun. and part of many
u,..r- 3. 1 the avenger overtake the
before he could be hidden in
a.-ss.,. IaRdt
The sanhedrir also were allronted at
:he report of this mysterious arrived
u child 1T might upset all cOnven-
i'uali'i.. sTI threaten the throne Of
''.- L..lyI. ihut the door and boil =
an ",uH!c 'a- it against Nm" .....
5iI r''.-.-..i ard ccclesiaStIcu, Uo.rr.
Christ on a retreat wen only few
lays of age, viii all thu Pr.Nauuus aEG
iardships and snf~Ngs r. 'ctreat!
When the glad news cam La H.-cd
Vas dead, and the Madonna was pack
ing up and taking her Child home, bad
news also came, that Archelaus. the
son, had taken the throne-auother
crowned infamy. What chance for the
babes rife. viii not some short grave
hold the wOndrous infant?"
Put him to DEATH" was the order all
Up and down Palestine, and all up and
down the desert between Bethlehem and
Cairo. The cry was: Here comes an
iconoclast of all established order!
Here comes an aspirdnt for the crown
of Augustus. If found on the streets
Of Bethlehem. dash him to death on the
pavement. Ii found on a hill. hurl him
Down the rocks! Away with him"
But the Babe got home in safety and
passed up from infancy to youth and
from youth TO manhood and from ear
penter shop to Messiahship and from
Messiahship TO enthronc ment, until
the mightiest name on earth is Jesus,
ard there is no mightier name III
Heaven.
What | want to call your attention to
is YOUR narrow escape and mine and
the worlds narrow escape. Suppose
that attempt on the young child's life
had been successful! suppose that del
egation of wise men, who were to re-
port to Hrrod Immediately after they
discovered the hard bed i'm the Bethlc-
hem carayansary, had obeyed orders
and reported. SupposS the beast carry
ing the Madonna and the Child in the
flight had stumbled and flung To death
It's riders! Suppose Archelaus had got
his hands on the babe that his father
had failed to find! Suppose that among
the children dashed from the Beth!e-
hem house tops or separated by sword
Of the enraged constabulary Jesus had
persisted!
Then. to begin on the outmost rim of
nv subject, Christmas festivities would
never have been observed, Christmas
carols never sung. Christmas gifts
never bestowed, Christmas games never
PLAYED, Christmas bells never runG.
What an awful subtraction from the
worlds brightness would have been the
making of December 25 Ike other days
of the year, Glorious day! After
Frightening England and Holland and
Germany for centuries il stepped across
the sea and pronounced its bcnedic- |
.fcn on our shores. Why. we rever get |
,ver our childhood Chr.stmases. !
Father aud mother joined in them.
they forgot their rheumatisms and |
shortness of breath, and for awhile |
threw off the SORROWS of lifetime while |
they struggled with MS as to who should |
first in the morning shout The Merry |
Christmas" Then there were all the |
mr. ocent allurements a. to who brought |
tie presents. and the worderment as 10 !
low sleighs drawn by reindeer could |
rame down the perpendicular. and |
fterward the disappo ntment as some
o der brother or sister. with ali the /,
Erile of discovery, tried to persuade VA !