Show M DISPUTED QUESTION Of EXACT DAY OF SAVIORS BIRTH Most ot of the tho good people wile who will ge 10 geto I to church on Christmas day would tell you If you naked th them that they thoy were celebrating the of oC time tho of Christ yet et the tho facts are that they are undoubtedly several years wrong in III the tho number ot of years sup to sed tho tho uta no nomore more accurate when whon they suppose Illin to hn have vo been horn on Dec 25 5 From tho be bent t and most live sources It seems likely that Christ troll really born barn In time the year n I Ii G and that dating the Christian era orn from the Iho first day lIay of lit the tho January tits be the tho year yem 1907 1007 Almo Doom Dom 1111 and not the year ear 1003 i loth Hoth profane and sacred history tell I till that the Augustus order ordered Ill ed 1 ti census of oC t time Ie empire and that for fOI time tho purpose or of enrollment nil all the tho were werl directed to go to 10 the elt city or town ton to which the they Or theIr belonged mint Is IA why Joseph Josel h and Went event to and h village instead or of NII Naas was the tho birthplace or of For tho nays II 11 14 1410 A tie Ie cr o tt ont a lh from A u I Caesar tho nil t to ho tutu hilt own city went up UI from Galilee from the tho city ot of Nazareth into Tuda to the tho ell city of oC vIII vl i to 10 hl bs enrolled with nary hIs es housed wife who wn with child That Thai Is vicar enough If the tho dale ot of a 11 census ordered lIy by Angus Augu tU tits end taken by I cnn bo be ns III hut but unfortunately there them w ert three censuses ordered by the emperor tho tor which from IIII wa lre b the first t c COli en tinned to their dates nA an they been hoen accustomed to Ito de before the birth of t counting It from the tho Creation If front the found log Ing or of their city It If by Ol m plods 1 ant for five centuries thelo wen were no Annos then I gnus gUU n a Ronan Homan abbot the I 1 mr r sort style anti h by nn 1111 elaborate to lIya eyu tent of calculation 1 the thc birth ot of Christ 1 In time year of tome and the fourth year or of the 1903 years ort Ill ago n go reached his hili conclusion h by time tho unto of the all counting 33 years that bel being ng the thu age ot of Christ hut but subsequent u com have shown that tic he node all nn error of oC scale tour ears s and that he have the era that much sooner Hut Dut the tl a an to till t exact year Was wall trifling c 0 In r mired to Rhe a p All nn ot the month III upon which ihrl arn mama Christ l horn In Iho 6 seems to hoc have been heen the tho must popular late but In 11 places and accord hug to different authorities Christmas lint has been Ice II celebrated III every month In iii limo tho year In III July August liB as well ns January March and 1111 1 December aid even in III the Ihl same It celo nn different days and indeed mm lute ns as 1611 the tho I parliament cHilli I It Well lit st was US born ore not In Decem er hut but In III September or October An 1 the sensor the tho Nativity or oc PO nn uncertain It naturally that tha t ninny of time popular Ideas all alla a about the birth of o Cutlet lie erroneous due not n a II little till no to the fart that the 11 painters of the tho Nil Nn hate hoo to the nil thou though h It loud hal occurred In their country under that prevail In ht in III the tho various marls of n nt t tint season of JC the year Thus W we have pictures or of time holy family under n shed hell that looks tint n a Ca open Oil on lilt all nudes WI we hilI pictures of oC n a ble rot up the tho aide t f t hili anti It If It la is n northern WI we have invariably snot ano Oil un till that rout out of C time tho fart C t that there li is hu huShaw Shaw In ht 1111 lInc aid that hinter is IA the limo ruin en on timer there u ono of Iho IIller the oC Der c 2 tor myths 1111 l In IB tho li II fly alid It IS IA sal not likely that time shepherds could ho be out oat on m time Iho hills tending their In ht limo tho ml mm or 01 hut the would have selected such rut nil time ot of th the year to 10 oblige the tho to u the tho of enrollment Time Ihl facts are that when Jn eph and at th the Iun so that get no ns LIS Ih Inu t thIe have hIe bon been very Oly pear they d lout out outto to the suburbs or of time the town for tor tora fora a pIneo to Ila pass s time till night fifty rh Far n 1 time stub le r y r attract 1 by time tho hay buy 1101 straw went In ha to In pass the night the manger tens Willi hem hell n a nut ot of 1 n roc ruck Ie anti It was with hay when the chill child w os II hots It naturally th thorn r us 1111 th the niost convenient crIb hy by the tha mother The rh only occupants of the tho he healthA aides althA Jo Joseph eph and Mar were nn an ox ant antmin min ass or ns as 0 would say Hay In niu nh 1 n burro hurlo lath It Ivan for tor years nl nit lint nil all over er the wood oxen mid asses on lin th their lr knees nt at midnight ht oho Iho site or of time nt It fib It Is a II b by 1 n tI tIly by ly the Ihl J Helena time the mother of If the Emperor Constantine lh rho church I lit III 1 the shape or of IL I Fine fhe III III n nn II 18 as rOI with 1 lId hut this was torn HIt h Turks and melted n hullt hulIt rim my Iy however It has haR peen all Ow to the tho of It tIle the Or Greek elt and aid Christians aver the tho holy places or of l al rill ull tiro th pot churches Bro are divided between therm the church ot of the the Iho rest The Armenian Catholics who are to tho church tho 1 the tho mil or tho ro or 1 a ull separating the nl navel iron Irom the tho rent reat of the tho church lit 11 the sancta nl a a 01 chute choIr is 18 11 at altar Ile e to th the wille kIngs or amid nn right In ht lit of It Is 1 n large rut In iii U lh floor It Is III II a that the tho ot of stopped over JIel this lit any rate the tho birth II of Christ took place directly under It In III the grotto belov whIch la is tae tho n amt Mary ury nought hell You In the grotto down t 15 of lit n II spiral The Tho stable in III IlI I feet teet b by it 11 wide and 8 it 11 II In Hewn hewl out of solid RollI tack luck It its sides are 1110 covered with costly marble Theme III no nn light hili th the 11 to Is b by 3 J or of t design from Litre penn princes The Thu 8 are J k pt con continually At time tho oC th phIl I pIneo of of tho Salor h II |