New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1909-12-27
.THEPAST0R'SDREA
TALKS TO CHILDREN,
DR.. Farrg Tells of Gods
I Lamb an Christmas Sermon.

A Christmas Dream was tho topic OF
she clriidrea's sermon preached yesterday
-. ogning by the Rev Dr James NJ. Fsrrar,
sE-presidont OF tine General Synod OF the
Reformed Church i'm America and pastor
Of She First Dutch Reformed Church. Sew
onth avenue and Carroll street. Brooklyn.
His text was: Instead Of the thorn shall
come up the mr. Tree. Isaiah, IL. IL. He
said
once upon 4 time in faraway cline
tnore NaS iog ann ON INC sac o. a
sou may be sure. were very poor. The chit
Eren never know what IL was &c have a
f. 10y. The boys never even had 10Y To
OeStToy. On tho hillside there were many
thorn trees that stung Ike Iumblebees.
neiT father, "a no WAS very strong, was
often wrong. Tie would break a ROD from
q thorn as soon rs = child Mas born.
Sometimes he whipped the boys until the
blood came. and once he made them lame
. Y hen the children SAW him coming with
5 the thorn they wished they had not beeh
born
one night the eldest child dreamed that
She Lad visited the farsway village of
lthelham. There she saw man aud his
ife without a light looking for plac"
10 stay that night As she watched them
sorry 10 see that they were only able 10
60 3Eto stable. There she saw them
looking for an empty manGcr In which 1"
- protect their child from danger
4 brother and his sister whose hatr vas
. res came IN and lifted their little white
lamb from its bed They told the parents
they might have this empty msncer for
Their little stranger. Then, IN her dream.
she thought she was going back 10 the
.a'ln ,'N the MN ahc that ule lalhp To-.
lowed her mp the bill. u was dark nlent
and she had no light 4 fox crossed their
path and ran INTO its hoie An owl from
dead tree cried Who Whoc TIE
'littio Eiri said. The fox has a mole and
sou have nest, but this little lamb has
no place 10 rest As she passed a thorn
. ~ and
Killed tho lamb
She dreamed that she saw the lamb
blood running down upon the roots OF tnc
tree whose fhoTn~ stang like 4 bee While
she watched. 700 frightened 10 run, she saw
The thorn tree changed into q ilr tree As
= changed The thorns fell ike = shower
= thc wolf. one big thorn ran into rs
eye snd, ~ith = bark. TIE "olf ran into
she hurried % the house shouting; ''No
more rods. no more rods Father cannot
whip va now. While VIC plead until ne
hlh>s mo lambs blood has taken ava.
morning and She look her httle SISTERS
and brothers to see The tree. She tc,o
had come up the Or tree. he cniloren
had many strange questions % ask 10
snsN'sr theu' vss ? grsVe TASK -. .Lrl'T
suv IF the lambs bloo1 fsl On the cruel
~olf-' SISTER sid Why do YOU ask such
p question Because the blood fhaf to"s
snd good.
Twas the night lsfors chrictuat. when Ell
-hrelFh fhs hoy-e
20 q creature -ss sriTTinE. not even nous
Ths stockiuEs we're hung by the chimney Win
sr 80 hops inst s- Ntcholss soon would BE
fNerr
But there must have been mouse IN the
nzsts hsEkei. for your pastor SUDDEN:
woke and found himself sitting b. the desk
where be had been fast asleep Before hinl
VAS ar Old book from which he had been
reading during the evcuing-in II Z story
Of ''Thorns and This-lcs and 4 Christmas
stor~ from The little town az Bethlehem;
2 picture Of wise men by the manseT- with
gifts ot gold. frankinceuse and ny rrh.
And there was a leaf turned do~ n. where
u was written that the Lamb Of God
faketh ewav tho sins n the world.
After reading these wonderful stories
,ol.r pastor had fallen asleep IN his chair
Nesr midnight. when The room grew cold
ana The stTeetcsr went Tumhling b, he
dreamed Of being IN tho forest on the side
cf the hin b. the min. All tho story about
1hs children in the loE cabin. the little
girl s dream. tho wolf and the lamb. the
1rorn bush Lad changed into Christmas
tree, wss. II would seem. just our pastors
Christmas dream.
II YOU juniors viii read this same Oh
hook you, toe, strange sforie1 av the ream