Christmas Meditation By Dr. T. C. Chao - Mary's Song By Benjamin Caulfield - Card, c. 1940s

Mary's Song By Benjamin Caulfield - Card, c. 1940s

Christmas Meditation By Dr. T. C. Chao - Card, c. 1940s

Christmas Meditation By Dr. T. C. Chao - Mary's Song By Benjamin Caulfield - Card, c. 1940s Back

Christmas Meditation By Dr. T. C. Chao - Mary's Song By Benjamin Caulfield - Card, c. 1940s

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(6 x 3 3/8 In) This is an original vintage The World Service Agencies of the Methodist Church card from the 1940s. The front shows a lovely woodcut of the Virgin Mary and Baby Jesus signed by "Schreiner". The inside contains a poem titled "Mary's Song" by Benjamin Caulfield and a poem titled, "Christmas Meditation" which was "Written in a Japanese Prison cell by Dr. T. C. Chao, of the School of Theology, Yenching University, Peking, China. Free translation from the Chinese."

"MARY'S SONG -

Rest, little Jesu: lay

Your head on mother's breast;

The evening shade comes gray,

The sparrows crowd the nest.

Sleep, little Jesu, sleep;

May God my Jesu keep.

Rest, little Jesu: kind

The cattle, soft the hay;

Cold blows the distant wind,

The morrow a darker day.

Sleep, little Jesu, sleep;

May God my Jesu keep.

Rest, little Jesu: hush

Though bells and songs some near;

O men will mock and crush

Though God himself be here!

Sleep, little Jesu, Sleep;

May God my Jesu Keep."

"CHRISTMAS MEDITATION -

Nature is conquered,

While man is not tamed;

Pride and avarice hold sway

To make wars in the world.

While here below man worships evil,

There in heaven He prepares self-sacrifice

To give life for the conquest of sin,

To be the Word Incarnate in order to die. . . .

Lord, have mercy on me, Thy unworthy follower,

That, imprisoned as I am,

I may imitate Thy way;

In tears falling heavily not for me

But for all who have need of Thee."

The card is unused and is in VERY GOOD condition, light wear at the edges, blunted corner tips, minor discoloration from age.

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Christmas Meditation By Dr. T. C. Chao - Mary's Song By Benjamin Caulfield - Card, c. 1940s

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