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He made Himself of no reputation, and took upon Him the form of a slave. -PHILIPPIANS ii. 7.
ON Christmas-day, 1851 years ago, if we had been at Rome, the great capital city, and mistress of the whole world, we should have seen a strange sight-strange, and yet pleasant. All the courts of law were shut; no war was allowed to be proclaimed, and no criminals punished. The sorrow and the strife of that great city had stopped, in great part, for three days, and all people were giving themselves up to merriment and good cheer-making up quarrels, and giving and receiving presents from house to house. And we should have seen, too, a pleasanter sight than that.