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family out of the first story front in the hotel, and put us in there? What's the use in having God for a father if He is not going to send on a courier in advance to let people know who is coming, and make sure that we will be attended to, and have some of the best of everything?” So when they came to the Bethlehem House, or whatever the hotel was called, on account of the crowd, they had, perhaps, to stand up in a line and take their turn as places were assigned, and as all the desirable rooms had been given out before Joseph and Mary’s turn came, the only thing left them was to go to the barn, and give their little God-boy a horse-crib for a cradle.
Now certainly one object that God had in sending His Son away from home, putting Him down here on the earth for a few years, letting Him fare exactly as other boys and girls had to fare, giving Him no “push,” but making Him take His chances, was to show us that it is the boy and girl that God thinks of, and not