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Shadows and Sunshine at the Christic Bethlehem Cradle
A preacher exhorts Christmas readers by tracing Jesus birth from Bethlehem as the starting point of a world changing career. He notes 42 generations of influence, warns against judging ancestry, and highlights divine protection, humildy, and the village’s obscurity as a source of universal salvation. The speech urges honoring cradle origins and urging charitable legacies.
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Louis Blopsch
Talmage
Matthew i
Abraham
David
Babylon
Christ
Bethlehem
Ruth
Asa
Joseph
Holy Mary
Ammon
Rehoboam
Niagara
Mount Sinai
Herod
Judea
Cairo
Earth
Jerusalem
Galilee
Juda
George Peabody
Danvers
Mass
America
Flerod
Dore
Mary
Jesus
Veronese
Cuyp
Rubens
Tintoretto
Correggio
Serugino
Ghirlandajo
Raphael
Madonna
Itachel
Turner
Wellington
Mornington
England
Waterloo
Europe
Handel
Halle
Saxony
Judas Maccabaeus
Esther
Israel
Egypt
Jephthah
Messiah
Eli Whitney
Westboro
Gutenberg
Metz
Germany
Clarkson
Cambridgeshire
Morse
Breed’s Hill
Washington
Westmoreland