One Star that night in Bethlehem outshone
All others in the scintillating sky.
The shepherds saw, and did not pass it by;
They knew the Star for Christ’s, and worshipped, prone,
As though for all men’s sins they might atone.
Though gleam they followed there was surely dim,
They saw, ana heard, and knew, and went to Him–
For them no test of faith but faith alone.
For nineteen-hundred years our minds have moved
And stumbled into things, and so improved
The mundane things of earth; and yet ignored
The side of life we should have underscored.
We’ve had of living proof two thousand years;
The shepherds had their faith–we have our fears.
by Ray Romine Sunday, November 28, 1943
