Show Christmas Story Continues to Grow In Faith Intensity Year by year the Increasingly old but ever new new story of Christ Christmas Christmas mas warms the heart of all aU Christ Christ- endom Year by year the depth of 01 faith is Intensified by the beloved words of the Christmas story by bythe bythe bythe the prophecies of the patriarchs of oi old whose wisdom enabled them to foresee the coming of the Christ Nowhere else in hi all the Scriptures Is the prophecy of the birth of ot the Saviour more beautifully or convincingly con con- convincingly told than in hi the words of the prophet Isaiah More than years before the event he de de- For unto unto onto us a child is born unto us a son Is given and the government shall be upon his shoulders and his name shall be called Wonderful Counsellor Counsel Counsel- lor The Mighty lIghty God The Everlasting Everlasting Ever Ever- lasting Father The Prince of Peace Therefore the Lord himself sha give live you a sign alga Behold a virgin shall conceive and bear a son and shall call his ls name Immanuel Immanuel Isaiah also foretold the visit a as the Three Wise Men to Bethlehem In Chapter 60 verse six Ix The multitude of camels shall cover thee the dromedaries of and they shall bring gold old and Incense and they shall hall shew chew forth the praises of ot the Lord And so the prophecy and the thi etory story go 10 to the magnificent climax climas which is s related b by St 51 Luke in is these words And she he brought forth he hei het first born born son lon an and wrapped him in swaddling clothes and laid him in a manger manien because there wa Was no DC room for tor them then In the inn |