Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 46, Number 301, Decatur, Adams County, 22 December 1948 — Page 18

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By CLARK KINNAIRD Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judaea in the days of Herod the king, behold,, there came wise men from the east to Jerusalem, o Saying, Where is He that is bom King of the Jews? for we have seen His star in the cast, and are come t.o worship Him... Herod could be compared to Abdullah, the ruler of Transjordan today, in some respects. Herod, whose racial origin was Arab, was a ruler in the homeland of the Jews by. sufferance of a foreign power. In his case it was Rome. Ones he was driven out of Palestine. He took refuge in Rome, made friends and went back under Rome’s protection, bearing an appointment from Marc Antony. Whereupon he proceeded to make himself master of Judaea and Jerusalem. When Herod the king had heard all these things, he was troubled, and all Jerusalem with him. And when he had gathered all the chief priests and scribes of the people together, he demanded of them where Christ should be born. And they said unto him, In Bethlehem of Judaea: for thus it is written by the prophet, “And thou Bethlehem, in the land of Aida, art not the least among the princes of Juda: for out of thee shall come a Governor, that shall rule my people Israel.” It has been remarked as peculiar that Bethlehem, which was the place where David the great ideal king, hero and poet of the Jewish people, was born and grew up and which had other cherished associations, never rose to any influence or became capital of Judaea, but remained "an ordinary village." There seemed no particular reason why,. instead, Hebron or Jerusalem became capital. Though more isolated than those two places, Bethlehem was no more so than Gibeon, Ramah and others similarly situated which became famous. Nevertheless, it was unimportant and small—"o little town of Bethlehem” in that year 747 by the Boman calendar. Then Herod, who had privily called the wise men, enquired of them diligently what time the star appeared. And he sent them to Bethlehem, and said, Go and search diligently for the young Child; and when ye have found Him, bring me word again, that I may come and worship Him also. When they had heard the king, they departed; and, io, the star, which they saw in the east, went, before them, till it came and stood over where the young Child was. > Many conjectures have been offered regarding this Unique star of Bethlehem—that it was | a conjunction of Mars, Jupiter j

wsflCE? I SEASONS T greetings i s Sb 4 Hl 7- ■ What makes Christmas? Memorieft I s Other candles—other trees. (We remember all of these.) And as each Christmas card appears, We greet our friends of other years. Q FRICKLE’S PLACE | ' * ■

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- •' ' • '-/'t -- ' ‘‘And io, the star which they saw in the east, went before them, till they came and stood over where the young Child was." A drawing ‘ which illustrated a Christmas greeting a hundred years ago.

and Saturn; that it was a comet; that it was a nova, or exploding star. But it may just as well have been what Christians prefer to believe—a miracle that occurred once and will not occur again, a mystery just as precious and inexplicable to mankind as the blade of grass was to Darwin. When they saw the star, they rejoiced with exceeding great joy. And when they came into the house, they saw the young Child with Mary His Mother, and fell down, and worshipped Him: and when they had opened their treasures, they presented itnto Him gifts: gold, and frankincense, and myrrh. According to one tradition these wise men, or Magi, were named Gaspar, Melchior and Balthazar. In the east of that time, such perfumes and incenses as myrrh and frankincense Were, like spices, as precious as gold —luxuries only for the rich and royalty. But the gifts also had an intentional symbolism: gold was the emblem of royalty; frankincense a token of divinity, and myrrh was a prophetic allusion to the persecution unto

death which awaited the Man of Sorrows. ( It was not just the Jews of the homeland who waited hopeJ fully for the Messiah promised ! by the prophet Isaiah. Throughi out the lands immediately to the | east, men were looking for the ! advent of a great king who would rise among the Jews.« The 1 country whence came the Magi . is a matter of conjecture, but I their following the guidance of , a star suggests they came from the region of Chaldea, where astronomy was highly developed at that time. The people of that region were most like the Jewz, in religion, of all nation/ in the I world. They believed in one God, they had no idols, they worshipped light as the best symbol of God. Hence their affinity with the Jews in their expectations ’ regarding the coming of a Saviour. Hence the significance j they immediately attached to the appearance of the phenom--1 enal star. In coming to seek Him, the i wise men from the east expressed a feeling which, we know from the Roman writers Virgil, Tacitus and Suetonius, also had been for a long time difiusel through the West.

CHRISTMAS PVTZ’ | The Christmas “putz” is a decori ative feature in many Bethlehem. Pa , hon« during the Yuletide season It is a representation of the birth of the Christ Child in the stable at Bethleheih in Judea. The residents of Bethlehem, Pa., follow this custom, which was brought to this” country by early Moravian settlers, and spend months arranging, the exhibit. The word ■■putz” is short for the German “putzen’,' meaning to arrange or decorate.

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(Virgil a child of heaven was looked for, who would re« store the golden age and taka away sin.) So the hope had fermented in the minds of all men, not just Jews alone, and they were ready to welcome Jesus as the Christ who had come in accordance with their expectations. And being warned of God ip a dream that they should not return to Herod, they departed into their own country another way. And when they were departed, behold, the angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream, saying, Arise, and take the young Chikl and His Mother, and fle* into Egypt, and be thou there until I bring thee word: for Herod will seek the young Child to destroy Him. When he arose, he took the young Child and His Mother by night, and departed into Egypt: Herod did have all children two years and under in Bethlehem slain. But within a year, he was no longer the tyrant who could order that all nobles whom he called to him in his last moments be executed (to insure that his death would be attended by mourning). He died at Jericho in April, aged 69, of what is chronicled as “a terrible disease.” And Judaea—and the world—had a Saviour. And was there until the death of Herod: that it might be fulfilled with was spoken of the Lord by the prophet, saying, “Out of Egypt have I called my Son.” So we learn from the deathless story chronicled by Matthew’. Matthew was not one of the scribes or professional writers. His occupation was the collection of taxes and customs duties at Capernaum; these were exacted from persons and goods crossing the Sea of Galilee, and from travelers and commerce on the high road to Damascus. Matthew must have been a man of influence, for such responsible posts as tax collectors have never been given to humble men by any politicians since antiquity. He certainly was a man of wealth, for we know he made a great feast in his own house, to introduce his former associates and friends to Jesus. His name was originally Levi; Matthew probably was adopted as his new name when Jesus converted and baptized him. Matthew is ,m e nt i o n e d by name after the Resurrection, and he must have labored long as an apostle, for there is evidence that his Gospel was written at lestst 20 years after the Resurrection. There is reason to believe he spent most of this time in Jerusalem, after which he went as missionary to Chaldea or Persia, whence came the wise men . . . saying, "jjhere is He that is born King?” Copyrisbt is:s. King Features Syndicate, Inc.

Silent Night The famous Christmas hymn, "Silent night, holy night,” was written in Obendorf, one of Austria's ’ loveliest villages, on Christmas Eve, 1818, by the local clergymen, who took the words to the home of the village organist the same night, ; where they were immediately set to the well-known tune. England has two towns with Christmas names. Christmas Pie is ' a small village near Guildford, Surrey. while Christmas Common is near Oxford and Henley.

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