NEW BIBLE GROUP HOSTS A TIME TRIP.(RELIGION)

Byline: REV. DUKE HERGATT Temple Baptist Church in Halfmoon

Can you imagine what it must have been like on that first Christmas night? Think of it.

Visualize yourself as a shepherd two thousand years ago tending your flock on a hillside near Bethlehem. The wind is cold . . . your rough cloak is drawn close around your shoulders to keep you warm. It seems to be quite an ordinary night much like hundreds of others you've spent beneath that vast, starlit sky.

Then suddenly an angel of the Lord appears in shining glory saying: ``Fear not: for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great Joy, which shall be to all people. For unto you is born this day …