Luke 2:7 And she brought forth her firstborn son, and wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in a manger… Unless the Holy Spirit has been really given, these are the words which we may see written up here, and there, and everywhere — even in this professedly Christian land — "No room for Jesus here!" You can scarcely find an inn literally — a hotel, a public-house, or a beer-shop — where these words are not too plainly written up "No room for Jesus here." They are written, too, over the doors of how many so-called places of amusement — theatres, ball-rooms, and such like: "No room for Jesus here!" But not only so; over how many places of business are there these same words! In how many private houses — drawing-rooms, dining-rooms, parlours, and kitchens — may we look up and see the same sad words — "No room for Jesus here!" And written on all these why? "Who dares," you say, "to write such words?" They write them — every one writes them, wherever he goes, who has an unchanged heart; for upon every heart that is not changed — whether it beats in the bosom of a prince or a peasant, of a professing Christian or a professing heathen — the same sad, solemn words are written deep — "No room for Jesus here!" (Henry Wright, M. A.) Parallel Verses KJV: And she brought forth her firstborn son, and wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in a manger; because there was no room for them in the inn. |
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