106 , FESUS BORN.

 

-to them. These fears were soon removed by the an-
nouncement that they had come to tell them good news.

As soon as the angels had gone away into heaven
again, the shepherds said one to another, “ Let us now go
* even unto Bethlehem, and see this thing which is come
to pass, which the Lord hath made known unto us.”

They were certain that this wonderful child was the
promised Savior they had been looking for so long, for
the angels declared it. “And they came with haste, and
found Mary and Joseph, and the babe lying in a manger.”
Then they went out and told all they had seen and heard,
and the people greatly wondered at the strange story.

Mary, the mother of Jesus, knew that her boy was to
be some great person, for an angel told her so before he
was born, but she kept these things, “and pondered them
in her heart.” Christ came in this humble manner that
he might teach the world the great lesson of humility.
Sin has made us proud and selfish, but if we are ever
saved, we must become very humble and unselfish like
Jesus. He was the Son of God and could command the ,
angelic hosts of heaven, yet he was cradled in a manger.

Jesus came a helpless babe, but became the greatest
of men. ‘ He began life a child, so that he might be in
sympathy with children, and have them feel free to come
to him in all their needs. He loves little children, and
has bid them come unto him and be saved. “Those that
seek me early shall find me.”