Blessed Telltales

Saturday. Isa. 9: 1-7.

You can tell Jesus’ reign by the Jesus trails. Gloom gives way to gladness. Darkness runs before the flood of light. The drawn face, white and tear-wet, becomes round with joyous smiles. Freedom displaces oppression. Weapons of strife make a good fire to warm by. It’ll be true, really, some day, on this old, sin-stained, hurt earth when Jesus does return. It’ll be true today in our hearts and circumstances if Jesus is in control.

Open in the reader The Bent-Knee Time

Restored from a scan of the 1918 edition, with page headers and numbers removed and words rejoined across line breaks. Scan-derived text, still being proofread; compare the original scan before quoting.