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All the inns were overcrowded with strangers. They did not seem to think much here of people from Galilee because all kinds of heathenish folk lived there as if any one who was born in Bethlehem could be a heathen! And so he did not know what to do. Mary leaned her head on her hand and said nothing. "Your hands and feet are trembling, Mary," said Joseph. She shook her head; it was nothing.
Where the road from Bethlehem joined the Jerusalem highway stood the tomb of Rachel, and many a time had Naomi, loitering in the courtyard of the inn, heard pious pilgrims, fresh from the spot, tell the stories of Rachel and Jacob, and their sons Joseph and Benjamin. Naomi's little head was packed full of the stories of the great people of her race.
Listen to their song on the plains of Bethlehem, "Behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people. For unto you is born this day, in the city of David, a Savior, which is Christ the Lord." He leaves the throne to save the world. Is it a wonder the angels thought well of Him? Then there are the redeemed saints they that see Him face to face.
One of the young men said: "I have seen a young man, a son of Jesse in Bethlehem, who can play well. He is handsome in his looks, and agreeable in talking. I have also heard that he is a brave young man, who can fight as well as he can play, and the Lord is with him." Then Saul sent a message to Jesse, David's father. He said: "Send me your son David, who is with the sheep.
Time of the Return to Bethlehem Ruth offers to go and glean Dispositions indicated by this proposal she happens upon the Field of Boaz his Kindness their Conversation additional Favours Ruth's return Home Her Mother-in-law's wish to connect her in Marriage with Boaz the Measures she suggests, and which her daughter adopts with ultimate Success their Marriage Birth of a Son concluding Remarks,
The background stretched away into a hilly country, amid whose knolls and dells were shepherds with their flocks. The figures were Joseph and Mary, and the vista beyond was meant to represent the vicinity of Bethlehem. Taking up the casket, the monk, with infinite bowings and crossings, undid its swathings, and solemnly drew forth the Bambino.
"If only I might hold Him in my arms," she thought, but was afraid to ask. After a few days, the strangers left Bethlehem, all but the three the man, whose name was Joseph, and Mary, his wife, and the Baby. Then, as of old, little Ruth played about the courtyard and the white lamb frolicked at her side.
It was a question of the possession of the Holy Shrines at Bethlehem and other places which tradition associates with the birth and death of Jesus Christ; and whether the Latin or the Greek monks had the right to the key of the great door of the Church at Bethlehem, and the right to place a silver star over the grotto where our Saviour was born.
And whatever he may think about the philosophy of sight-seeing, it is not unlikely that he may see some sights. When Jerusalem had been half buried in snow for two or three days, I remarked to a friend that I was prepared henceforward to justify all the Christmas cards. The cards that spangle Bethlehem with frost are generally regarded by the learned merely as vulgar lies.
All your broad lands are not worth the rent of that little garden enclosed, where among ranked lilies sat Mary singing, God rest Thee, babe, I am Thy mother and daughter. You wag the head and an enemy dieth. You say, Come up, and some wretch getteth title to make others wretched. Therefore again I say unto you, Kings, by the spirit of the Lord which is in me, Let us now go even unto Bethlehem.
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