A small town near Jerusalem on the west bank of the Jordan River where Jesus was born

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Christmas, and Bourne says, anent this belief, that it was about the time of cock crowing when our Saviour was born, and the heavenly host had then descended to sing the first Christmas carol to the poor shepherds in the fields of Bethlehem.

It runs from the Bethlehem plain where He came in, to the Olivet hilltop where He slipped away again up and back, for a time, until things are ready for the next step in His plan.

Philadelphia to Peevers Mansion just outside Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, on such short notice.

Philadelphia to the Peevers Mansion just outside Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, on such short notice.

Elisha were discussing a false sign that had appeared over the country ofYemen a few days earlier, a sup-posed reoccurrence of the star of Bethlehem.

Before they collided the conveyor driver saw the Bethlehem in his rear mirror and retroversed the tracks, the great steel cleats stabbing through the surface of the roadway, locking in a sudden spasm.

Expertly retroversing his tracks, the driver flipped the concrete beam off the Bethlehem, then drove off.

But I listened not to the Zealot: could the steady and bright torch which, even where the Star of Bethlehem had withheld its diviner light, had guided some patient and unwearied steps to the very throne of Virtue, become but a deceitful meteor to him who kindled it for the aid of Religion, and in an eternal cause?

As the Caledonian savages danced through that long-gone night, a thousand years, perhaps, before the prototypes of Joseph Smith, John Alexander Dowie and Aimee Semple Mc-Pherson envisaged the Star of Bethlehem, a new sun looked down upon the distant land of the Athapascans and another scene--American Indian savages.

THE dawn was about to break in a cloudless sky, when Tancred, accompanied by Baroni and two servants, all well armed and well mounted, and by Hassan, a sheikh of the Jellaheen Bedouins, tall and grave, with a long spear tufted with ostrich feathers in his hand, his musket slung at his back, and a scimitar at his side, quitted Jerusalem by the gate of Bethlehem.

We say in Bethlehem that a Benjamite can sling a stone at a hare and catch him as he jumps.

Bethlehem, Jerusalem and Nazareth, and even took a side trip to Cana where Jesus performed the first miracle at the wedding feast.

Benozzo Gozzoli, who had frescoed the chapel in their palace with portraits of the Medici in his Journey of the Wise men to Bethlehem.

At seventeen, he was forbidden by his oversolicitous father Jesse, familiarly known as the Ass of Bethlehem, to remain with his older brothers and fight the Philistines, though he had fought both the wolves and the lions which had harassed his flock.

Bethlehem, that is the great conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn, will make an appearance in May of the year 2000 and that will be the moment when the parousia or second coming will occur.