“Ye shall have a song, as in the night when a holy solemnity is kept.”—Isa. xxx. 29
Suppose that now we were to go out into the town, in the chilliness and darkness of this evening, and were to find a poor man and a poor woman asking from inn to inn whether they could have lodgings for to-night; both of them worn out and exhausted by the long journey, and the one clearly just about to become a mother. By-and-by we may hear that they had been obliged to take up their lodgings in a barn: and next morning we might be told that at midnight, in all the coldness and uncomfortableness of such a place, a baby had been born. (more…)
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