Christ Child’s Birth
Revitalized The World
By DR. E. C. BLAKE
It is recorded in the Gospel ac
cording to St. Luke that . . she
brought forth her first born son
and wrapped him in swaddling
clothes and laid him in a manger
because ther was no room for them
in the Inn.” in these 29 simple
words there is recounted the birth
of a man child whose life has re
vitalized the world.
His helplessness at birth, sym
bolized by the tightly wrapped
swaddling clothes, contrasts with
his kingly power today over the
lives of millions of persons
throughout the world. The mean
simplicity of his birth is forever
called to mankind’s attention by
the hay and manger converted into
mattress and crib.
And recall that the background
for this humble event was an inn,
too crowded to receive him and his
parents, whether due to economic
reasons or selfish hearts — or both.
Our once-a-year contemplation of
the stable scene — the mother rest
mg after her labor, Joseph and
some helpful women standing in
the shadows, their faces lighted
from within as they gaze upon the
new born baby—constrains us to
see again that the central emphasis
of Christmas is the eternal God’s
revelation of His love for us.
Because God’s love is the central
emphasis of this Day of Days,
Christmas, who recall the sacra
mental wonder that God was in
that child, mark the difference this
makes.
It is the difference between men
struggling in the dark against a
brutal and senseless fate and men
who know that, behind all dark
ness is the creative love of God.
It is the difference between a
baseless, sentimental, escapist, ro
mantic idealism and the profound
realism of faith which looks un*
blinking at an evil world and is yet
sure that the love of God is at the
heart of it.
It is the difference between the
profound discouragement of sci
ence and moralism and the pro
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found hope of men who believe in
God.
One of the many artiste who has
painted a portrait of the Nativity
scene added an element that is too
often lacking in our visualization
of the meaning of Christmas. And
yet, it is this element that gives
completeness to its meaning.
Among the shadows thrown by
the candlelight that illuminated
the stable in his picture, the paint
er drew a great shadow of the up
right and horizontal bars of a cross.
The cross is in the background
as it must be at Christmas time. It
must be there if only to remind us
of the suffering bound up in all
great love.
It is only as we see the cross at
Calvary from the vantage of the
manger at Bethlehem that our
hearts will be able to perceive the
profundities of Christmas.
Rev. Dr. E. C. RIake
The Rev. Dr. Eugene Carson
Blake is the Stated Clerk — the
chief administrative officer—of the
United Presbyterian Church in the
U.S.A. He has headquarters in
Philadelphia.
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