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I ordered them, therefore, to go back after the waggons, and in the evening we camped to the north of Bethlehem. From here, on the following day, I sent the prisoners of war through Naauwpoort into Basutoland. On the same day I gave orders to General Michal Prinsloo to take the commando and to strike a course between Reitz and Heilbron.
When the Virgin fled from Herod's wrath, she hid in a grotto in Bethlehem, and the same is there to this day. The slaughter of the innocents in Bethlehem was done in a grotto; the Saviour was born in a grotto both are shown to pilgrims yet.
"He lived in Nazareth," said Matilda eagerly; "that was his home." "Then how could he be born in Bethlehem? it's near a hundred miles off, I think." "But don't you know?" said Matilda. "Caesar Augustus ordered everybody to be what is it you call it? I forget; to have their names put down, in a list of all the families and tribes, so that they might be taxed " "Taking the census?"
Jerome, as he saw day by day patrician men and women who had passed their lives in luxury, begging their bread around his hermitage at Bethlehem, wrote of the fall of Rome as a man astonied. St. Augustine, at Hippo, could only look on it as the end of all human power and glory, perhaps of the earth itself.
I ask it of you for the sake of that old angelic song, heard so many years ago by the shepherds, keeping watch by night, on Bethlehem Heights. "Mother, I should so like to have a great deal of money," said little Tom Fletcher one evening, as he sat on a low stool by his mother's knee. His mother was knitting busily by the firelight, and they had both been silent for some time.
Discontent and rebellion should have no place in your lives, as it had no place in theirs. "When Joseph and Mary reached Bethlehem they found the town so full of people, who had come from far and near for this purpose, that there was no room for them in the inn. For eight days they wandered about seeking a place to rest and finding none.
Bellamy, at Bethlehem, who was the owner of a slave, he pressed the subject kindly but earnestly upon his attention. Dr. Bellamy urged the usual arguments in favor of slavery. Dr. Hopkins refuted them in the most successful manner, and called upon his friend to do an act of simple justice, in giving immediate freedom to his slave. Dr.
From the moment of leaving Bethlehem, at which place we remained nearly a fortnight while the General placed his columns, we entered among the hills and fighting was continuous. Our passage to force was Relief's Nek, and, as we had expected, the Boers made a determined stand there.
To his dying day it would haunt his memory. The muffled figures on the ground stirred and stood erect. Overhead burned the stars in the frosty sky. The silence was broken by old Eli. "Let us now go even unto Bethlehem, and see this thing that is come to pass, which the Lord hath made known unto us." Over the rough, uneven ground hastened the shepherds.
Such are the contrasts of the surprising Orient. Many of the beads and rosaries taken to Europe by pious pilgrims are made in Hebron, just as the mother of pearl relics come chiefly from Bethlehem, where are made also the tobacco-jars of Dead Sea stone. Hebron does a fair trade with the Bedouins, but on the whole it is quite unprogressive.
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