El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-12-21
The World Never Tires Of
the Beautiful Story Of
THE SAVIOR'S NATIVITY.
The Shepherds RejOiced and the Angels
Of God Sang Praises and Songs OF
Divinest Triumph When Christ
= Was BOrn:-"Glory To God In the
& Highest, and On Earth Peace To
Men Of Good WILL

Written For The HERALD. -lr.+
Christmas has always seemed to all
men as one of the angels feasts, With
what holy envy then must they not
have regard ed the fortunate Gabriel.
waiting on Daniel, the man OF desires,
and Inspiring him with sweet
prophecies, and still more when
he went forth on his embassies
that were preparatory to the great
mystery, Bearing me- sages to Joachim
and Anne, to Zacharias and Eliza tn ;
but most of all they envied him when
he went to Nazareth at midnight, and
salute1 Mary with salutatiOn, which
was not his alone. but the salu ;ation of
the wnole angelic world, and then
stood back little, in blissful trem bling
reverence, while the Eternal Spirit
Oversh allowed their young queen. and
the sweet mystery was accomplished.
Caesar Augustus, at the summit OF
his power, desired to ascertain how
many millions of men were weighted
down beneath his sceptre, and he or
dered a l:st to be made out, of every in
dividual in all the nations composing
the immense Roman Empire.
To form this census, Augustus ap-
pointed four and twenty commissioners
whom be despatched to all. the then
known world. Publius SuJpitius
Cyrinus) WAS charged with the govern
ment Of Syria, upon which J1dea de-
pended. E
Saint Luke Informs US that this was
the first enrolment of the people ever
made in that country for the Romans.
Twelve years afterward the same
Suiriuus was ordered to make q second,
he being still governor of Syria, when
the Emperor Augustus reduced Judea
90 of n- hnx
PEELED from it King Archelaus, the son
of Herod, and having bauished him to
the Gsuls. &
The edict which was issued for this
general census, ordered every one,
the richest equally with the poorest,
to appear in each individuals native
place, or place of family origin, in
order to be inscribed upon the Roman
Register.
Hence Joseph and Mary, who were
both of royal lineage of Dav d, went to
the city of David, called bethlehem.
There the Virgin Mary, who had been
by the Archangel Gabriel hailed rs
full of erace'' and "blessed among
women" though by human eyes looked
upon ss the wife of Jos aph-after~ hav-
ing in vain sought for a lodging at an
inn, was compelled to take shelter
in a. part of the hamlet
where rooms aud stables had been
scooped out of the rocks. And this
was the SPIT, so forlorn and so humble,
which received, at his entrance into
the world, him to whom belongs all
splendor and glory. AT the moment
when this miracle was accomplished,
when virgin brought forth a Savior
in the neigh borhood of Bethlehem, at
q place called the Tower of Ade err, the
shepherds in the fields, who were by
turns keeping watch over their focks,
were all ct once dazzled and alarmed
by an outburst of light from the deep
darkness. Amid this glory there ap-
peared az u gel. who said to them;
"Fear not; for behold 1 bring you
good tidings of great Joy, that shall be
to all the people: for this day is born
to you a Savior who is Christ the
Lord, in the city of David. And this
shall be sign into you: you shall
find the infant wrapped in swRdd1ing
clothes and laid in maug ar." At the
very instant, the angel was joined by a
multitude of the heavenly host, prais-