Show GREAT SACRIFICE she felt sorry for a baby who biad no doll 1 the stockings had been hung up and the little ones gathered around the hearth to hear mamma tell the story of the babe of bethlehem says the new york world their small faces expressed profound sympathy when they heard how abo son of god was born in a stable how he lay on a bed of straw how he shivered hi the cool december night and how his life waa in danger from the wicked herod little bessie seemed to be particularly impressed she said not lung but one could see that she was thinking hard when half an hour later mamma came to bessiea Bes sies bed to kisa her good night found the child pressing her doll to her bosom and gazing at it with unutterable ion As she stooped over the bed bessie looked up and asked earnestly mamma amt gods baby got g ot any dolly no replied the mother smiling bessle looked ui her doll aam and hugged it then convicting connic ting emotions showed themselves oa the little face A after fter a long silence the child raised her eyes which had such an expression as those of the martyrs must have worn at alie stake and said firmly take it to him mamma closing her eyes tight bessie laid the doll in her mothers hands and buried her faco in the pillow to try to forget the great sacrifice alic biad made |