Article January 30, 1904 Issue

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J. R. Miller

Which way lies your Bethlehem and where will you look for the Christ on next Christmas morning? Seek him not in some outward form of devotion, some round of religious observance, however venerated or sacred in human estimate, he is not there. Seek him not in your own moral rectitude or sense of personal worth secured from a superior self-righteousness, he may not be there. Look not for him in the inn of accredited ecclesiastical formulas of intellectual belief or in the statements of doctrines to which you have given assent, for he himself is truth and greater than all formulas of belief about the truth. When you go to your creed be sure you have not found an empty manger. The Christ you need will be found in a lowly place, in the place where love and humility dwell. Mary and Joseph were a part of that scene upon which the shepherds looked. Jesus was closely linked to all that was beautiful in the human. Go and look into some other life and heart on Christmas day, where there is loneliness, but tenderness and love, and pour out your love and speak your word of adoration to those who wait for the divine fulfilment and there you will find your Christ.—The Standard.

The central need of life is that we believe that each of us is set to do a characteristic piece of work in the Almighty's work-shop, and that we shall have some sort of adequate reward if we do it in our best way.

We must have the transforming motive if we are to get a reasonable portion of contentment with our lot; and reverence for its special opportunity, and the widest spread of all great motives, that which has made history resplendent with its heroes and martyrs, is the faith which comes to the rescue when plain, every-day motives have lost their freshness, and remind the soul that it is in God's service, at God's post of duty, building not merely houses of wood and brick, but structures which defy time's corroding tooth.

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