(By Violet M. Williams)

‘Luke Tells Of Nativity

St. Luke. Chapter 1!, Verses B to 16

And there were in the same

fields, keeping watch over their flocks by night.

And, lo, the angel of the Lord came upon them, and the glory of them: and they were sore afraid.

And the angel said unto them, Fear not; for, behold, I bring you good tidings o! great joy, wlilch shall be to all people.

For unto you is born this day in the city oi! David a Saviour,

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I p ytop banged the gate be- hiadmhim end cluttered up the peth and into the cottage he shar-

.;d with his friend, Pip. Penny-

top threw down his schoolbag and 3km; himself gioomlly into a ghlll‘.

As it was almost Christmas time, Tip was writing out a list of pres- »enls he wanted to give. to people. ‘lie looked up with a sigh when pymytop groaned loudly.

"l know what's the matter with lyou," said Pip. "You've had a bad ‘ﬂay at school again."

“Yes. I have," said his friend, “Tm bottom of the class ogain~— .1” everytiiinS!" '

“It is your own fault," Pip told "him severely. “You are so lazy that you don't even tr) to get the right answers, and you always will .-l:e the bottom of the class until ‘you try to do better." , "l can't be bothered," groaned Peiinytop. “I'd rather so fishing

Ir sit and watch the clouds or do almost anything than work at school lessons." .

"Well. no one can hcip you but

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_ eagerly. "and, of course, make it do whatever Pennytop wants, such as sums and composition and his- tory and geography and every- thing!" f The Wise Woman promised to do

all this and then she sent Pip Ihome after telling him when to come back for the magic pencil.

PENNYTOPS MAGIC PENCIL

On Christmas Eve Pip crept home to the cottage with a long, thin parcel wrapped up in fancy paper hidden under his coat so that Pennytop would not see it. Pip hardly slept at all that night, he was so excited.

As Christmas Day dawned, he nudged Pennytop awake so that they could both open their pres- They had some lovely gifts because Pennytop and Pip were nice little fellows, despite Penny- top's laziness at school. You could hardly have seen them under the wrapping paper after their parcels were all opened; all-tliat is-cx- cept the magic pencil!

At last Pip took it from under his pllow and handed it proudly to his friend.

When Pennytop heard that this was no ordinary pencil and of all that it would do for him. his de- light knew no bounds. "We must

The two little elves sat down l0- gether at the foot oi the bed; Pennytop holding his precious pen- cil over the first page of a new exercise book and Pip with a large lesson book out of which he was going to question Pennytop and the pencil.

“The Wise Woman said that all you have to do is to _sli still and let the pencil do the work," said Pip. "You can watch the clouds or do anything else you like at the same time."

Pennytop sighed with anticipa- tion and put the sharp, shiny point of the pencil down on to the white paper all ready to write.

"Add up six and eight and nine

yourself," said Pip. Primly. Pip was not very clever but he always tried hard, and so came about half ‘Y!!!’ up the class which is a very nice place to be.

"if someone would scnd nie "mﬂhlﬂﬂ i0 help me at school instead of giving me silly gloves and things for Christmas. that! would help nic,“ said Penn_vtop.[ “Li” ‘"5 beiiiil Yciﬁv bud-tempered‘ and rude.

P1P looked down at his list oi clmumal Presents mid hastily

and eleven," read out Pip.

The pencil wrote down the fig- ures like lightning and added them up just as quickly.

"Thirty-four!" squealed Pennytop, delightedly.

“That‘s right." said Pip. he called out another sum, and still another lifter illill, and the pencil added them up gully, with

Then

crossed out the word gloves he had Written llEXt i0 Pennyiopﬁ numg l‘ “i? ‘OD 0f the page. He bit his DOYIFII hard as he u-omiercd whiit l0_\\’ritc instead. but he could think only of lesson books, which he knew his friend Wllllld not like for ‘Christmas.

PIP stared gioomily at the [ion-

Cll cnd which he had chewed until it looked like ihc lop oi‘ a Ilttlc palm tree, and thought hard. '1‘|icn the idea struck liim! lt “'35 a wonderful idea! l lhc little elf pulled on his wool- hi" ca} "lid but on odd gloves in f: cxcltemciit. 'l‘iicn he raced rem ihclcoldtazc. zuvzvv into IIil" woods, wilh Pcnliylop gaging “(m him in surprise.

Pip ran and ran until he came if; the Wise Woman's cottage. h "e I"? llhnted out his story toi Pr. and waited to licor what lhflilxllt of his plan.

llio Wise iVoniiiii riibbvtl Jilin thoughtfully and Ilt‘l‘ Flick tyes twlnkled down at Pip. r 5° you think thiil you would ‘k9 1° live your lazy friend, Penny-

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f]? Sm?" she SilllI. chuckling. lull is u vcry good idea."

ml’ ﬁshed with rclivi. "uh, 1 up" -

km?’ Peﬂliyiop would love-a nmgic Yntil to do his lessons for him.l

Vi" you rniikc it bright hiuc with is

‘ﬁred top unil n point that will

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I Pennytop v happily.

she Pip. ‘Australia?’ he read.

beudyfPennytop watched it iiurry from line to line oi the writing paper, _ taking his hand with it. Two whole t _ 'puges were covered before the lit- °pv a "wine pencil to‘ his Christ- i ile ell realized that his hand was rather tired.

llien. ‘° Kidd you think so." he siiid. "l time at school in future." And he

about Australia and it would not "V" wear down?" hc went on. stop!

shouting the answers

"Now for some geography," said "Tcll me llII you know about

The pencil began lo write and

"Oh well, that's etiough," he said "l am going to have a fine

tried to stop writing. But, alas, the pencil had not fin- hed putting down all it knew

And this shall be a sign unto‘ you: Ye shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes. lying in a manger. l

And suddenly there was with‘ the angel a multitude of heavenly hosts praising God, and saying,

Glory to God in the highest.‘ and on earth peace, good will toward men.

And it came to pass, as the angels were gone away from them into heaven, the shepherds said one to another, Let us now go even unto Bethlehem, and see this thing which is come to pass, which the Lord hath made known to us.

And they came with haste, and, found Mary, and Joseph, and the babe lying in the manger.

Hunting the Wren

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Once upon a time in Ireland. the wren was hunted and killed on Christmas morning; a branch ot holly and bright ribbons were at-I tached to his body which was car-i ried from house to house by wren boys who sang songs and expect- ed to receive a dole from cacl‘ household. . The story goes that during the Danish-Irish war, the Danes were resting after an arduous march and the Irish were creeping up quietly. All of a sudden a Wren. spying a few crumbs which the drowsy Dan- ish drummer had dropped on the drumheod, swooped down and lie- gan to peck at the crumbs. The pecking awakened the boy, who aroused the camp: the Irish, driv-' en off and defeated, blamed the Wren. l, Modern lrish. ashamed of the once-honored tradition. say the guilty bird may have been n stai- ling or a sparrow tmywny, and now welcome the wren to their farms and homes. '

would not let Pennytop stop eith- er! llc tricd to pull away his hand but it seemed glued tn thc pencil. Pip trlcd to pull away the pencil but it was no good.

On and on czircered the gay blue pencil, uiitil lite whole book was filled, anti iificr that the jiciicil storied on thc iicst. \\‘IlIiC table- cloth. Soon that loo was covered with uil thot the pencil knew about Australia. ilftcr the tablecloth the: pencil began on the clean wooden

floor. dragging poor Pennytop around with it. When the floor was covered with neat writing.

poor Pennylop found that lite pen- cil knew still more about Australia and,\veis going to wriic it all over the walls too!

"Oh, Pip, do stop it!" cried Pennytop. "I'll do anything if only this dreadful pencil will slop writing. ‘l will cvcu work hard at school!"

“And a good thing, tool" said the voice oi’ the Wise Woman, as she peeped in at weeping Pip and at little Pcnnytop being hurried from side to side of the wall, writ- ing and writing!

Well, of course, the Wise Woman stopped the magic pencil now that Peniiytop had learned his lesson. "Now your pencil is an ordinary one," she told him. "hut a very fine one for uil that, so see that you do wcli with it at school.“ “Oh, yes. indeed l will!’ sold Pennytop. rubbing his sore lingers and aching arm.

He and Pip persuaded the Wise Woman to stay to Christmas dinner and share their turkey; which Pip had to carve because Pcnnytops wrist was so stiff.

When school time cumc ziround again. Pennytop did so wcil that he was top of the class in no lime; and When it was geography les- son, and anything to do with Aus- tralia, the teacher was stirprised to

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see how much Pcnnytop knew.

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Vifhlle shepherds The angel of the Lord came (IOWli "ifenr not," said he, for “Glad tidings o! areal Joy I bring

“To you, in David's town. this day

Thus spake the eeraph, and forth-

Of angels praising God who thus

“All glory be to God on high,

Good-will henceforth from heaven

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watched their flocks by night. I All seated on the ground. ' And glory shone around.

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To you and oil mankind.

Is born of David's line,

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to men Begin and never cease."

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WHILE SHEPHERDS WATCHED THEIR FLOCKS BY NIGHT

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THE STORY OF THIS FINE 0L1) IIYMN

it would not be really Christmas to many people, if such seasonabie hymns us “O Come All Yc Faith- ful," "Hark The lrlcraid Allgvli Sing”, "Christmas Awake." all” especially "While Shepherds Watch- etl Their Fiocks By Night.’ etc-- were not sum; in the church scrv ices at the great Festival. It re- quires a good organist with a pow erfui organ, and full choir to with-

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The slsvrigur, Who is Christ in. “voéfd "rush. we singing 0 I . - ~.

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And this shall be the slim. uggmthlfe’ m congregauun, when. children attend the Christmas serv-

"Tha heavenly Babe you the“ ices. There is a lilt to this old ma“ “m1 tune and a swing to the grand old

T" huma“ "Iew dlsplayed’ words, which uplifts and arouses .iil All meanly wrapt in swathing heads and voices not allgggﬂhjt

deadened by the clamor of mortal life. Perhaps it is safe to say that it is the true model Christmas Hymn!

The tune. “Winchester Old", came first in order of time. It “'11s an outcome of the public rejoicing which rrin through Europe who" the lloiy Scriptures were given tn the people in their own language. The all conquering Roman Empire had for n long time ceased to rule

thirteenth century-and Latin was no longer the universal form oi speech. The Vulgate of St. Jet- umc, and the Old Latin version of the Bibic mode ihc sacred IJOOKS us useless lo the majority as were the original licbreiv and Chuldaic of the Old 'l‘cstomcnt, or the Greek of the New Testament.

King Alfred, the Venerable Bede, Wy/cilife, Tyndale and Coverdalc hull ziircatiy given English folk u taste of the biblical books in their own tongue. When Luther ilrﬁcllll" tatcd a universal reformation which was already in the offing. lllil ihercby drove back the movement for many who could not follow the impetus lead of the German re- former, Great Britain went its own independent way, discarded what had not purely apostolic authority and lost something of authority and discipline at the same time, but by its own clergy clung to scriptural tenets and teaching.

An Open Bible and Divine sci:- vices iu their own language W818 the first fruits of the movement. Their ancient churches and for the most part their clergy remained true to their ancient teaching Then; hymns were those of reveln tiou as used in the Jewish church and by the curiicst Christians.

To make these more acceptable they were transposed into English verse, sung to what we Call hymll-

tuncs, and became iiinncnsely popular. 'l‘licy were in fact the songs of ihc day to thc common folk.

Oiic oi those early transpositions or versions known to us as Esle’: Psaltcr. published in i572. added o Iew then modern hymns with

the world. Nations developed their own languages -- England in the

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Our hymn itself appeared in tho supplement to a New Version o’. the Psalms. an edition of which ap~ pcared in 1702, the work of lwu highly talented Irislimcn, the Rev. Nnburn Talc and the Rev. Nicholas Brady. loic had done splendid work for his countrymen in thosc troublous times when William Ill and Mari’ together occupied the throne of the United Kingdom. He was summoned to servo his king in London, worked as a coadjutor with the famous John Dryden, and succeeded him in the promlngnl position oi Poet Laureate of Eng- land. lie it was who so happily Pamilhrased of St. Luke's Gospel in our hymn.

The New Version gave us such well known hymns as "As Pant; the Hart," “Through all the Chang- ing Scenes of Life," and a few om. ers. in 1745 the first verse of the Christmas hymn was changed in "Scottish Translations and Para. Phrases." for Scotland to read:-

"While humble shepherds WBLCIlEiI their flocks,

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An angel scnt from heaven appear» ed,

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The last two lines were changed lo:-

"Good will is shown from lieoveii l0 men And ncvci- more shall cease."

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