CHRISTMAS
Poem★★★★A band of fugitives were crossing an Eastern desert. The night was dark, but they determined to push on. Soon they lost their way and had to spend the night in anxiety and fear. It seemed as if the night would never pass. But almost at once the sun rose, bringing daylight and showing the way of safety. Not one of them ever for- got that sunrise. So, too, the people of the world in their wanderings. ‘They were lost—lost in the darkness of sin. But the Dayspring from on high hath visited us, hath risen upon us, making plain the way of eternal safety. Christ is the dawn, Christ is our Dayspring, and the purpose of His coming was to give us the light that would lead us to eternal bliss.
The point
Desert travelers lost in darkness find safe passage with the sunrise; Christ is the Dayspring providing eternal safety and light.