Merry Christmas!
Each year we publish this short story by my Dad. Readers and their families can listen to the recording, or read or read it aloud on Christmas Eve or Christmas Day.
This parable’s title comes from the third verse of the Christmas Carol, “O Little Town of Bethlehem”:
How silently, how silently,
the wondrous gift is given;
so God imparts to human hearts
the blessings of his heaven.
No ear may hear his coming,
but in this world of sin,
where meek souls will receive him, still
the dear Christ enters in.
The parable is set in Wheaton, Illinois, which at the time Dad wrote it, was similar in religious importance to Bethlehem where Jesus was born. Remember that Bethlehem was little and poor, but it was here in humble Bethlehem that King David was born.
Titled, “How Silently, How Silently,” point out to your children how Wheaton’s proud Christians in their churches, as well as their missionaries who are every church’s spiritual giants, had no time for the visiting Israeli.
But Wheaton’s humble sinners welcomed him with warmth and love.
This is the point of this parable: that God’s people despised Jesus, and so it’s likely we would today, also, if He came to our city and church.
Unless we are meek and humble:
No ear may hear his coming,
but in this world of sin,
where meek souls will receive him, still
the dear Christ enters in.
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