Article December 19, 1959 Issue

Signs of the Times

with contributions from Edward L. R. Elson, E. A. Pitt, Eunice Boller

The Reverend Edward L. R. Elson, D.D. in the Christian Herald New York, New York

In the Christmas Story...there is a message often overlooked—the message to men's fears.

God's message of assurance came to rugged men of the out-of-doors. While tending their sheep on the slopes of Judean hills these men... beheld a mysterious illumination. As they paused, smitten by fear and mystified by the signs, they heard an angel say, "Fear not: for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people."...There came the joyous assurance that with the advent of Him who is called...The Prince of Peace," man need never again know unassuaged fear.

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