"'O come to my heart, Lord Jesus,
There is room in my heart for Thee!'"
"Yes!" said the Clergyman. "That was it! And you are a very good little girl to have told us so nicely, and to have remembered it all this time!"
So to-day, with this sweet thought in our minds, we can remember that there is a place in the heart of each one of us which we can keep for Jesus. We can think of His love to us, we can love Him in return, and worship Him every day we live.
And if we make room for Jesus in our hearts here, we shall find by and by He will give us "a crown of glory that fadeth not away."
Now let us think about the picture which all the Children at the Service are holding in their hands, and looking at so earnestly.
They could see the Holy Babe and His mother. They could see some men, shepherds, bending down and worshipping this Holy Babe; and they see that this is not a beautiful Castle where a King would be born, with curtains, and bright carpet and pretty cradle; but instead it seems to be a sort of Cave, cut out of the side of a hill—a stable, with a manger for the food of the cattle, while straw is scattered on the ground, and there is an Eastern donkey, raising his head in wonder to see a babe lying in his manger!
LYING IN A MANGER.
How came those shepherds there? Do shepherds leave their sheep in the middle of the night to go to a stable more than a mile off to see a little new-born babe?
Ah! but it was something very wonderful that had happened in those dark fields at Bethlehem, which made the shepherds go.