Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 36, Number 301, Decatur, Adams County, 22 December 1938 — Page 7

■■Lighted Candle A Christmas Jem) centuries hK°. there was My..., MP4 . o«d in the city of AH’: \H the inns were full when a reman, drain. arrived in the no room for her Zfl. , n „ .ml n was lt ‘ tp i «'«• street Were i.Jduig as they pass nr' shelter for the in Ml«h dire need I - |K,. ■' . ■ Mund. finally, in flK, e and on the hay in a _ M ~y of

fl-— 1 Attend The New Years ■RIVERVIEW GARDENS EXCELLENT FLOOR SHOW M GOOD ORCHESTRA ■t)[ KI AVORITE BEER — WiM: _ ( H VUPAi.M Make Reservations Now v il A Good Time for Everyone 1H Admission 75 cents ffl Herman “Hi” Meyers, Prop. |To Kirkland IH I wish to express mv appreciation for «M the privilege of serving you as trustee for the _■ last four years; and to mv bondsmen sincere thanks for their confidence, and in behalf of fl oqr township we wish to thank the following S trustees and their townships for transfers: fl Mr. Beer of French. Mr. Doan of Washfl ington. Mr. Zwick of Preble. Mr. Habegger of fl Blue Creek and Mr. Huffman of Wells county. fl To my successor, Mr. Earl Martin, the fl greatest of success. fl Wishing you all a very Merry Christmas B and a Happv New Year. I H. H. High

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üb. laid down her head; and it ** re ‘* arln K 'he night-time, that the Chrlst-Chlld wan horn. And when He had grown to manho<>d, Hfs people, the one who had come to call Hltn, Christ, heard the story; an d established the custom of placing a lighted candle In the front window of their homes on Christmas Eve, In order that any who were sick or needy or distressed, might know thiit in these houses lived Fils friends, and here they could find the help they needed. And some there be. who do tell that ere leaving the earth the blessed Lord did promise that He would return every year on His

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birth-night, but that He might tome in the guise of a beggar and that His people must minister to those who eatne to them, lest they turn Him away, unawares. And so. lest. He come again to the earth on the anniversary of His birth-night, and he a-hungered and athirst, and a weary for shelter and have not where to lay His head. His people do place THe lighted candle in the window, to light the Chrlst-Chlld on His way. And they do tell the story of an old shoe-maker, far off In the old country, who in a dream saw the blessed Ijord and rece|W-d ,lli.B promise to come to Him on the day before Christmas, needing a pair of shoes. And the shoemaker set to work and made for the blessed Lord, the finest pair of shoes of which He was capable; and he set them in the window of his tiny shop, to await the coming of the Christ. And when the day came, he was up betimes to wait His coming. The shop was swept and dusted and cleaned as never before and hardly had the day dawned when a beggar stopped In the doorway to ask for alms. His feet were muddy, and he left great tracks on the shining floor of the shop; but the shoemaker ministered unto him; and then set to work to I clean up the dirt his visit had oc-1 casioned. Then, there came some children, who were cold and him- 1 gry. These he warmed and fed and ; sent, happy, on their way. And a- ( gain he tidied the shop to await the coming of the blessed Lord. And throughout the day. they | came to him for help and comfort, 1 and he gave it them with a sorrowing heart because the blessed Lord came not. And the evening came, and he lighted a candle and set it beside the shoes in the window. Hardly had its tiny rays . stretched out into the night, than ; there came to his door a woman i and a child, thinly clad, hungry, thirsty. Sure, they were a sight to melt the heart within you; and the shoemaker drew them into the shop and warmed them and fed them and asked them questions about why they were out away from their home at this hour ■ of the night. And when they were ready to pass on. he noticed that the child , had no shoes; and the night was cruel cold. "But where,” he ques- i tioned. "are the child's shoes?, Why do you take him out with-1 out his shoes?” And the woman replied that he had no shoes, at . all. at all. Now, there was just one pair of > shoes in the shop that the child

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could wear. That was the pair the shoemaker had made for the blessed Lord, and that had stood all the day in the window, awaiting His coming. Half-sobbing to himself, the shoemaker thought, “Sure- ' ly. the blessed Lord will understand, He come yet this night,” I and he took the shoes from the I window and put them on the child’s feet and sent him on his way, comforted. And the evening waned and the blessed Lord came not; and the shoemaker, a-weary and sad. went to lied, leaving the candle ' burning brightly in the window;. I And in His dream there came aknocking at the door, and when ■ he opened it, there came in to his i house all of them whom he hail * sheltered and fed and warmed and comforted during the day. And in I the midst of their coming, a voice said. ”1 was hungry and ye fed Me; thirsty, and ye gave Me drink; cold, and ye warmed and I comforted Me.” But the shoemaker couldn't understand. “Lord”, he exclaimed. "I waited all day for you. but ye came not; and I but now retired, weary and sore discouraged. And the i shoes 1 made for you. 1 gave to ■ yon child." And as He looked toi ward the child, sure and it was | the child who was speaking to ! him all shining bright, and in the likeness of the blessed Lord. Hitnsei?. and He said. ’lnasmuch as \ ye have done it unto the least of I these, my children, ye have done ’ it unto me.” And he looked, this

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shoemaker man, there was tlie beggar, and there were the children, and the woman and all to whom he had ministered the day. and in every face was the shining likeness to the blessed Lord. He had entertained angels unawares. And in memory of the night, he forever after kept the Christinas candle burning in his window on Christmas Eve; for that is the night upon which the Christ-Child comes to earth again: and you never may know when He is at your door, even if He he clad in the poorest garments; and there’s no luck for you if you turn away any beggar from your door, emp-ty-handed on Christmas Eve.

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