The weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, 1900-01-06
COMMUNICATED.
New iberia, La. Jan. End, 1900

10 tDe EulloI VI tHc lbEhIAN,
Dear Sir:-The Christmas-tide,
with its rolling, swelling waves, is
past and gone; its doings and say
ings wise and otherwise have pass
ed into history and new year is
on hand. What this new year
will bring about to this nation and
other nations, the AllwIse only
knows, but we shall now refer to
three wonderful events that trans
PRED in the new dispensation, the
like of which never appeared be-
fore and likely will never come
again. We refer to the birth,
death and resurrection of Christ.
We enquire if there are any
facts recorded to prove these
miraculous things. Let us see.
We shall lay aside all prophecies
for the time being, and proceed to
the witnesses themselves, and we
find that at the birth of Christ
that angels left their abode on
high, and came down to the plains
of Bethlehem, and it seems that
as they descended that they made
music in the air and attracted the
attention of the shepherds for
they came t0gether-and the
angels said, 'Behold we bring you
good tidings of great joy which
shall be to all people, for unto you
is born this day III the City of
David, Savior which is Christ
the Lord" then the shepherds
said one to the other:-"Let us go
to the place and see if these things
are So" and they went with haste
and found the babe as was told
them. The shepherds then returned
and Joined the angels and both
men and angels joined in the ever
lasting song, "Glory to God in the
highest, Peace on Earth, Good
will towards men," Then appear
ed the Wise Men, who had been
directed by bright star across
the burning sands and they never
halted on their long journey until
the star stood over the place where
the young Christ was. Note,
these Wise Men were Jews, but
they were Astronomers and could
read the movements of the stars,
when they saw the babe they to
satisfied themselves that he
was the true Messiah sent by God,
fell down and worshiped and pre-
scented him gifts, frankincence
and myrrh as to Prophet, Priest
and King.
We now pass to his death, and
we find that when he said, at is
finished" and gave up his life
that the sun of nature could not
stand the schock, but yelled his
face, the world trembled under che
pressure, the solid rocks rent asun
der while darkness was upon the
earth. Then after his death they
placed the body in new tomb in
the solid rock where never man
had laid, and made it dOubly Sc
cure rolled a large stone against
the door and set soldiers to watch,
but OH the morning of the third
day, when the women lever true
and faithfully came to embalm the
body, they found the large stone
rolled away, and when they looked
in they saw an angel there, who
said unto them "Whom seek yes''
they said, Jesus the angel said,
HE is not here, He is risen, come
see the place where they laid him.
then Jesus appeared and said,
'peace unto you," then they knew
him. Afterwards he showed him
self to a. great many then to
Thomas who seemed to doubt, but
the Savior said, sshandle me and
feel me and see the prints of the
nails on my hands and the print
of spear in my side' and Thomas
exclaimed my Lord and my God. y
Now these are a few out of the
many facts of the birth, death and
resurrection of Christ, the Savior
of the world. We look upon these
three great and grand events as
forming a golden chain in our sal
walton. These three links were
forged within the fire from off the