A few years ago a striking Christmas card was published with the title,
 

"If Christ had not come?" 
 

It was founded upon our Saviors words,  "If I had not come?" 
The card represented a clergyman falling into a  short sleep in his study on 
Christmas morning and dreaming of a world into which Christ had never come. 
 

In his dream he found himself looking, through his home, but there were 
no stockings in the chimney corner, no Christmas bells or wreathes of holly, 
and no Christ to comfort gladden and save. He walked out on the
           public street, but there was no church with its spire pointing toward Heaven.
He came back and sat down in his library, but every book about the Savior
had disappeared.

              A ring at the doorbell and a messenger asked him to visit a poor dying mother. He hastened with the weeping child and as he reached the home
he sat down and said, "I have something here that will comfort you."
He opened his Bible to look for a familiar promise but it ended at Malachi,
and there was no gospel and no promise of hope and salvation, and he could
only bow his head and weep with her in bitter despair.
 

           Two days afterward he stood beside her coffin and conducted the funeral service, but there was no message of consolation no word of glorious 
resurrection, no open Heaven, but only "dust to dust, ashes to ashes," 
and one long eternal farewell. He realized at length that
          "He had not come," and burst into tears and bitter weeping in his
sorrowful dream.

           Suddenly he awoke with a start and a great shout of joy and of praise burst from his lips as he heard his choir singing in his church close by: 
"O come all ye faithful, joyful and triumphant, come ye,
O come ye to Bethlehem........"
 

              Let us be glad and rejoice on Christmas Day, because, "He has come," 
And let us remember the annunciation of the angel,
"Behold I bring you good tidings of great joy,
             which shall be to all people. For unto you is born this day in 
the City of David,  a  Saviour which is Christ the Lord." (Like 2:10,11)

           May our hearts go out to the people in heathen lands who have no blessed Christmas Day.
 

Our thanks to the family of the Late Rev. Ralph Chambers 
for their permission to share this article
to the Glory of God.
God Bless you