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that this is the best thing that can be done for them. But Jesus was the Son of God, and God owns everything, and can do what He likes; and if He loved this little Son of His, why could He not have gotten ready a neater, nicer place for Him to commence life in? This is a rather difficult question, but perhaps there is something about it that by a little thinking we can partly understand, perhaps wholly understand.
We read in the second chapter of Luke that Mary and Joseph came to Bethlehem at a time when everybody was on the move, roads thronged, hotels crowded. If ever in our travels we have come to a little country town where there happened to be considerable going on, we can easily appreciate the situation of Mary and Joseph. We have stepped up to the hotel clerk, and said, “Can I have a room?” “Have you telegraphed?” he will answer back. “No.” “Well, then, there is no room for you. We are full. Accommodations outside, but none in
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