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# THE NATIVITY  HE word “nativity” is a long one, but the picture facing page 125 explains what it means. The little Child, its mother, with a circle of light above her head, the manger spread with loose straw, the rude roof under which they are sheltered, the stars that are seen shining outside under the edge of the roof—all this lets us see that our picture is that of the holy night when our Saviour was born in Bethlehem. It is almost nineteen hundred years since the events described in our picture occurred, but the further we get away from that time the more interesting it all is to us. Christ being born into the world has made so much difference with the world, that when Christmas—which is only another name for Christ’s birthday