"The [Sadness] of a Happy Time"

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Handwritten narrative text and analysis of a Bible story based on Luke 2:7, which is included at the top of the page (King James translation), with underlining in yellow. The text discusses Christmastime and why not everyone feels happy during the holiday.

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The contents of the Mt. Horeb Baptist Church library include: 1500 photographs; over 150 cassette tapes; 70 linear feet of written documents in filing cabinets (including a box of sermons); between 3,360 – 6,720 items; 5 church registry guest books; 40 shelves of bound materials with approximately 30 to 35 books per shelf; and 50 miscellaneous artifacts such as set Commemorative plates and Sacrament set.

The church’s library documents over 100 years of history. These church records inform public knowledge about a racial past communicated in the sermons, music, funeral programs, weekly bulletins, and other artifacts in Mt. Horeb’s church library. These archival materials serve as a window into a time period that some Black historians refer to as the “nadir of race relations.” The church library collections offer insights into how faith informed the ways Black churchgoers experienced significant milestones and transitions over time. As a result, these church records provide access to authentic Black voices from the past.

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Handwritten narrative text and analysis of a Bible story based on Luke 2:7, which is included at the top of the page (King James translation), with underlining in yellow. The text discusses Christmastime and why not everyone feels happy during the holiday.

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8 p ; 28 cm.

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Text: "'The Saddness [sic] of a Happy Time' St. Luke 2:7 - 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 end. 'The Saddness [sic]of a Happy Time' In many homes an places...the birth of a child is hailed as a joyous and happy time...preparation for the new arrival is begun months and weeks before the actual event occurs...and yet...this is not true in all cases...for there are times when joyous an happy...occasions...are made sad...because of the events that surround them.... For more than four-thousand years...the Jews had been looking for Christ. And now he had come. And the first thing we read of him is: that there is no room for him in the in at Bethlehem.... Most of us know that Christmas is not always a happy or gay time of the year.... For there is something of the sadness of Christmas in each one of us.... Lowell Fulson would pursuade [sic] some that it will be a lonesome Christmas for them... For some...the apparent happy time will merely be a cover for their desperate sadness..... The bells and the tinsel.... The carols and the decorations.... The gift giving & receiving.... The peace & goodwill that we shall talk about...may only be a cover for the deep & desperate saddness [sic], with which we are possessed. The world into which Jesus was born was not the world of story book fantasies.... Sugar plumbs [sic]...and wooden soldiers.... It was a world very much like our own.... It was a world with it own share of sadness.... For it too was a world torn by war...stiffeled [sic] by suffering.... Shattered by injustice.... And fretted by insecurity..... It was a world very much like our own.... It is saddening when we think about it..... That many times our hearts are like that little in...in Bethlehem & there is no room for Jesus.... One writer says.... He came unto His own & His own received him not.... Somebodies heart will be made sad in this happy time because they shall not receive all they expect.... If we are to avoid the avoidable sadness of this time let...the things of Christ come in to your life.... For often in shuting [si] out what we don't want...we also shut out what we need. Two of the disciples of Christ encounter[e]d a man who laid begging for things that he wanted.... But what he wanted was not what he needed.... (Look on us.) We haven't got money, position, but we have a NAME.... When he made room for the name.... He leaped up praising God.... And his ancle [sic] bones received their strength..;.. The counternance [sic] of many people let us know that they have no room for Jesus! America is called a Christian nation.... Many business' claim that they operate on Christian principles.... But Jesus is on the outside...the church of Jesus Christ.... Refuses to let him in for they have no room, for him... Peter, James & John had their counternance [sic] changed when they opened up & let him in.... The Christmas spirit will not be saddened...if we make room for the master's spirit.... Tools.... Are not what is needed but what is needed is The Master's Spirit."

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"The [Sadness] of a Happy Time", text, Date Unknown; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1560562/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Mount Horeb Baptist Church Library.

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