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Show The Star of Bethlehem. (The New LippinCott's.) -It was a cloister fancy of the Dark Ages that "the Star of Bethlehem" war. some especially created star-like body, probably within our atmosphere, designed wholly for the leading of the wise men. The law of parsimony rejects- such explication, and science, with silent scorn, turns its back upon the bauble star, for in the glorious depths of. heaven are matchless orbs which, swinging on their way into mortal mor-tal ken. for a while, meet all the demands de-mands of the poet and of the prophet for the "Star of the King." History affords us data for determining deter-mining this wondrous star. When the magi arrived in Jerusalem Herod was within-a few weeks of his-death. his-death. The massacreof the babes of Bethlehem was or-., of the last of his tragic deeds. Herod died in the: year ; ' . - if of Rome 750. When "Herod inquired diligently what time the star appeared," appear-ed," the reply was evidently such that he thought it safe to exterminate all baby sons of Bethlehem from two years old and under, showing that "the star had been known to the wise men for at least two years before their arrival in Jerusalem, and whether its appearing appear-ing had marked the conception or the birth of "the King," Herod could not decide. Recently discovered tablets at Zidion give the date of two enrollments for taxing, made under Cyrenius, governor gov-ernor of Syria. The first of these, during dur-ing which Christ was born, was made live years before th date A. D. |