The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-01-06


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ii St. John saw
d measuring heaven
calculate the magnif-
In 1888 Christmas morn
q Christmas Moons and 1885
nights nave ndO OH our pOOI
let? Let us thank God that We
see this Christmas, the bells of
lhnxng out SO clear, so inspiring, SO
m h' inSilee' bells Of national victory.
Ri't ba6 either Melchior or Balthasar or
Cssnar the three wise men of the east,
fraukincepse or bags of sinking gold by
the bare feet of the infant Lord, report
ed to Herods palace the place where
thew found the child the swift horses
st
to that babe Graded in Mary's arm
and the Bethlehem star would have been
a star of tragedy, ard instead of a sons
of nativity. which the nations are now
chanting, this day would be chiefly mem
%~11 I'm
row escape which you and I had and
all the world had in that babes escape,
LEFT me saw that had that Herodic plot
eeS,Ite 1ucG 1arfact III h a az Wonld never
3 SOW Seen nnfolddnd The world had
n Nv tha ii,,os Of MANY snIendid men
BIZ amnne nhiIosonhers its Mithri-
dates among heroes. its Herodotus
among historians. its Phidias among
scuIntors. its Homer among poets, its
among dramatists. it's Demosthenes
among orators. it's Aesculapius among
physicians, yet among the contempora-
i inns oi as shu now in there are two opiaipns,
donS, az ~" verv rema rka hIe man
1Shara Iuera nIentv in those davs who
Iaid Of tbem He cannot sneak or
s"fHIee cannot Sing" or He cannot phi
I~osonhize" or Ellis military achieve
ment was Al mere accident" or His
nhinoi 10 nan bie noadicaI nrescrin-
tom never deserves the APPLAUSE Civ
an - PM concerning this full crown
S W n1oea it, Dos launches thraa
moan - camels Ind the h1nat Of sheen
and .the low of cattle mingled with the
Ia he's first crv while clouds that night
uoere resonant with music and star
there he is.'
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That Christ. after the detectives of
uarnd and plate and sanhedrin had
watched him hV dav and watched him
NV night wear after wear was reported
innocent II was found ont that when
he ia Ike to the vagrant woman in the
temple it was to tell her to "go and
sin no more" and thai if he spoke
with the penitent thief it was to prom
that as he moved about he dronped ease
Of main Inon lthe invalid's inflow. or
light upon the eve that lacked optic
nerve or mt broad into the hands Of
toa rb,nerv n ~ tool from, the orienta1
~ La ~ ~ daod vo,ng mnn and uitaiial
n9 him and Said TO t6a widowed moth-
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rasnondad .fMother notheri" And the
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never have been hung up for the uni
can Won inagine what a Specification
of fine worlds Hterat11re would he the
removal of ali Christ ever did and said?
IT would tear down the most imnortanr
shelves of Wonder CONVERSATIONAL iibrarv
and IF the vatican librsrv and Of Rrit,
ish museum and Berlin and Rom and
Vienna and Madrid and ST. Petersburg
libraries and ST. Pa,Is life wo1ld have
hean an imnossihilitv and his enist1es