Norwich bulletin., 1916-12-25
cfRIsTMAs SERMONS Local Preachers Delivered Annual Ad- dresses on Spirit of Christmas.


 On Sunday morning the annual Christmas sermons were delivered at many of the churches in the city. Ex- tracts from some of the sermons de- At Trinity Methodist church, Rev. Frederick w. Coleman, the pastor, de- lfvered a Christmas sermon taken from Which Shall Be to All People. and in part he spoks as fo1ows:
 Of course, Christmas is a period of joy-"great joy"
 The very word Gospel means Good Tidings. Prophets rejoice in ing.
 We have many outward expressions of this Christmas joy, but these ex- pressions spring from one source. The Incarnation means God with us! What kind of Godl His true character is revealed in His Son.
 He is not only the Infinite and the Eternal one, but He IS our Friend, Sa- viour, Father. This coming of God in to human life means untold blessings It means love and interest on the part of God. He is no longer remote but near.
 We need this precious gift of Christ 1 more than ever in this modern world of ours.
 The Incarnation offsets the dead weight of matter and force all about us that seems at times to crush out the 1ifo from our aspirations and ideals. It is a spiritual message. An answer and all-convincing. It is a message the human heart craves. It is the central fact of our faith. It is the | root of all our truest joy. Immanuel God within Christ. l We watch beside His cradle ss we l ,1oto f6a frxy ycf far-v Of f,f h We follow Him through His earthly l life. We find His wonderful character and the impression He produced upon origin. Birth, Life and Death trans- men, corresponds with His Divine | ifs us with their wonder and mystery and we cry with Thofas My Lord and My God"
 Mckinley Ave. A. M. E. Zion. | Jesus was born a King, said Rev. E.. George Riddle. pastor of the McKin- l ley Avenue A. M B. Zion church in l his Sunday morning Christmas sermon.
 Rev. MT. Bidd1e's text was The Birth | of King. taken from Matth. 2:1-2 and l he in part spoke as follows: l Now when Jesus was born in 1 Bethlehem of Judea, in the days of
 Herod, the king behold, there came wise men from the east to Jerusalem,
 saying. Where is He that is born King of the Jews? 2"
 ! this text; Herod the king. and He that was born King of the Jews" Herod, like all other kings had been made king after his birth, but Jesus was born a King. This is our subject | "The Birth of a King"
 What a great event the birth of a
 child is; as the word goes from house to house the community is generally
 excited; "a baby is born;" another
 immortal destiny is made possible; another racer in life Journey has
 started to run "for veal or woe"
 ''Born King" There have beer
 kings from before the time of Ahram
 till now; and why not? Kings and g
 kingdom are just as good for tho com
 mon people as president and reptS5ltc;
 certainly the people in Imperial Ger
 many have fared far better during the last forty or fifty years than have the
 people in Republic France. The every day talk of doing away with kings ii memely bombast; we have had king' from the beginning, we have then , now. and we will have them till the ent of time; and then throughout thu
 eternal ages, for Christ is eternally tt
 be King of kings.
 Born King of the Jews" What al an event for three worlds; heaveI amazed tat the Son of God should be come living sacrifice! The earth as tonished that the Son of God should
 become incarnate in the fesh1 Hel restless and disquieted, for this is tn E beginning of the downfall of Satan. . Over four hundred years ago Iuth
 CT was born in stable or in mark
 lsetplace under similar circumstance
 to the birth of Christ, unknown ant
 in the eyes of the people insigficant , but God was looking down from heav en, as He does on the birth of ever.
 child, and there lay rapt up in tha little child in that small Prussian tow , of Saxony the germ for the grea $ Protestant reformation; just as tn 7 redemption of lost world was rap F up in the manager where Christ wa born King of the Jews.
 God raised up Ceaser Augustus. an f exalted him to the head of the Roma I Empire, and 'in the fulness of time, g touched his brain, and as we read h S should be taxed" And that the Vir I gin Mary should be at the appointe l place at the appointed time, to fluff e the propsecy uttered hundreds of year . before, Herod in executing Ceaser' command orders that each lewis g family shall repair to the place of thei . genealogical record.
 = God does not change, the same Go
 who ruled in Rome and Babylon is ye y on the Throne, and is now ruling owe s all, in this terrible worldwide war g though we may not recognize it. H r
 Since our salvation is so 1argel
 founded on the .iIcarnate life of Chris k let us rejoice that He. the Son of GoC
 the creator of tho universe was "Bor z a King" that He might rule and reig1
 not only for us. but in us. Withou
 the manager there could have been n y saving cross, no Jesus of human sym
 pathy and infinite compassion. n n Easter morning, no intercession
 heaven, no return for a redeere k church. No meeting of loved ones be
 yon this vale of tears.
 Thank God for tn birth of this Kin, for it was and is the prelude of all th | blessings that have followed. Blessing
 inconceiveab1e to lost humanity, an T reaching on and on into the eterpitie U till all that was lost in Adam shall | :. found in Christ.
 Let us adore the creator and re !, deerner of the world; The Almity Rule n of the Universe.
 Broadway Congregational. U First Born Among Many Brethren s was the title of the annual Christina sermon delivered by Rev. Edward