Magnifying Christ at Christmas
Reflections by Dr. David Gregg
Dr. David Gregg was the pastor of the Lafayette Avenue Presbyterian Church in Brooklyn and the president of Western Theological Seminary. His voluminous writings on faith were well known a century ago. Here are his thoughts on the celebration of Christmas:
Christians, stand at Bethlehem and open every door and window of your being Christward.
Look backward. Look forward. Magnify Bethlehem. Recount to your souls the things for which it stands. It stands for the “fullness of time.” It stands for the fulfillment of glorious predictions. It stands for the realization of those burning hopes which made the heroic men [and women] of the past. It stands for the coming of the Son of God Himself into our nature. It stands for the glorious past and for the more glorious future. As the dawn carries in it full day, it carries in it the salvation of [men and women], and the triumph of the right over the wrong, and the coming millennial glory of the Kingdom of Jesus Christ.
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When we comprehend the backward and forward reach of Bethlehem, we do not wonder that all that is grand crowds around the Cradle Manger. It is worthy of all. Let the Star shine. Let the Magi give gifts. Let the Shepherds worship. Let the angel faces flash out from the great dome overhead. Let the church bells chime. Let the sacred harps and organs respond to the masterhand that sweeps their strings and flies over their keys, and let them turn the common air into praise. Let Christmas carols roll over this wide earth, and echo among the stars. Let the great universe of God jubilate.
Let everything in Heaven and earth shout, "Hosanna to the Son of David; blessed is He that cometh in the name of the Lord; Hosanna in the Highest." While all of this takes place, see to it, O my soul, that thou carriest thyself to Bethlehem, to receive, and to love, and to trust, and to worship.
Be thou certainly there: and while there recognize Christ, honor Christ, reincarnate Christ, and call Christ God.
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