THE HOLY FAMILY

New Zealand Times, Volume LI, Issue 12016, 19 December 1924, Page 16

THE HOLY FAMILY

A CHRISTMAS STORY. If it any wonder that about the whole Christmas story, beautiful legends spring? We like to think that qvery one adored the infant Christ and protected him and so, although we know it is n legend, wo repeat the tale told of the Holy Family as it. jrurneyed into Egypt—swift -pursued by Herod’s soldiers. “They sought refuge in a cave, and the spiders spun their webs over its entrance, and when the soldiers came up they said, 'rhere Las no one taken refuge here; see the very spider webs are unbroken,’ and they went on their, way leaving Christ ir. His mother’s arms. ■ The Holy family journeyed on, and (they passed a f.eld where ; a man was sowing wheat, the grain sprang up 'instantly by miracle. In astonishment Mary dropled tbe coins which Melchoir had given her, and where she dropped them the sower found them. An ho jr later the soldiers arrived. ‘Have any fugitives passed this jway ?’ ‘Not since that field was sowed 1* was the reply. Now tbe grain was ready to harvest,' no the Grldierß turned and went' another way.”—“Red Cross Journal.”