The Advent Sign

And this shall be a sign unto you: Ye shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger. Luke 2:12 A sign, the sign that Christ is come! Ye shall find the babe, wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger! A sign, indeed, sufficiently unique to serve as a means of recognition, for when was it ever heard, that a woman travailed in a stable, that a manger must serve as cradle for a newborn babe? But a sign? How strange! How incongruous! How strikingly improper as a sign...