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Speaker 1 (00:02):
We hail.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
From New York City, where the American Stage begins. Here
is another program with a cast of outstanding place. Public
service time has been made available by this station for
your Army and your air force to bring you seasons greeting.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
Welcome again to proudly we hail.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
We're especially pleased to present our Christmas program, an original
play entitled Keeping States. And in that day the land
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of Judea lay under.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
The male fists of Rome.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
Either Augustus was emperor and his appointed king Herod ruled
over the people.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
In Herod there was neither compassion nor.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
Wisdom, only a certain cunning that seed on his greed,
his lust for power, and so made him despised and
hated from Galilee to Jerusalem.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
And so in that day.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
The people of Judea was sorely oppressed. Though beggared and reviled,
their numbers few, their future dark, they nonetheless kept.
Speaker 4 (01:40):
Their spirits and their faith.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
The prophets had long foretold of the coming of the Messiah,
who would deliver them from bondage, and so they looked
to God and awaited the miracles most gracious sires in Osias.
I have often thought of late that one way to
remove that grin of yours would be to have your
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throat cut. But with my froat cut, most noble, Herod,
I would be of no service to you.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
The world is full of spies, jack.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
All Ah, but none so adept, none so efficient, none
so filled with news as your humble servant.
Speaker 5 (02:20):
And none so filled with modesty. Out with your news
before I have it cut out of you.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
What is the talk in Jerusalem?
Speaker 1 (02:28):
Who plots against me?
Speaker 2 (02:29):
But tork O, Herod, is much the same of a
king soon to be born, a messire, a king of
the Jews, the only one king who rules share that
hero Now what of this talk of a king? It
has long been written and spoken of by their prophets.
This is not natural, Sire, that if they cannot find
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help on earth, they would speak it in their heavens,
said Bess, superstitious rabble.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
They proclaim a new leader every other week.
Speaker 5 (03:00):
I like that, such star.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
It is a strange land, full of dark happenings. You
crush their bones until their leaders, and still others rise
to plot and scheem.
Speaker 5 (03:17):
They say where this king is to be born?
Speaker 1 (03:20):
In the city of David.
Speaker 4 (03:21):
They call it the Bethlehem.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
It lies to the south.
Speaker 5 (03:24):
How does this prophecy read?
Speaker 2 (03:25):
No, you it's words, there shall come a star out
of Jacob, and the scepter shall rise out of Israel.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
You leave you this, I believe it's not, oh, heaved.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
The tribes of Israel are scattered through the mountains like
lost sheep, and from the remnants that dwell here in
Judea neither star nor scepter.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
Shall rise the city of David.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
You see well, Never, sire, kings are made on earth.
The gods watch over the upper world. Are sure you
spawn of Kalia?
Speaker 1 (03:55):
It is so, my king.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
It is also true that a plot is a foot
in Jerusalem to rob the caravan that goes north on
the morrow.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
How, by the god, why did you not think of
a tune.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
When one knows of actions become, sire, it is of
little moment to meet and remove them with adequate force,
like the celiberty of reporting the news to your captain
of the God, he.
Speaker 6 (04:16):
Assured, reason, my Demi, twy so troubles, my lord?
Speaker 1 (04:28):
Troubled you speak not to drink?
Speaker 6 (04:30):
Not the furrows in your brow run deep?
Speaker 1 (04:33):
Am I not pleasing to you?
Speaker 2 (04:35):
Hollis here, Goddess of Greece, of all the women I've known,
your by far the most pleasing.
Speaker 6 (04:40):
I thank you, my Lord, But I must say you
do not I cut a man wealthy.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
My displeasure is not caused by you, but by the
fact that I must leave you.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
Please me by fo for.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
The fear of that fat, fairly murderous, wild pig that
sits on the throne of Israel. You speak so hat
a fitting description, don't you think.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
Does not pay you?
Speaker 6 (04:59):
Well? What's your work?
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Hi?
Speaker 1 (05:01):
What I take my talent self with?
Speaker 2 (05:03):
It's not money I like. But now his ears are
filled with the voices of his beloved subjects, and fear
of what they say grows in his evil heart. What
is it they are saying, malone, what they've been saying
ever since they are captive to Rome, that a Messiah
is coming, a Christ to free them rough.
Speaker 6 (05:22):
But how does this concern you?
Speaker 2 (05:24):
Are having to leave me by Herod's orders, I leave
on the morrow for Bettleheim, where I shall sit and
wait for this Savior, where it is there, according to
the prophets, that he will be born Hera.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
I believe that you.
Speaker 4 (05:36):
See Herod's fears, and when head fears, he believes.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
And to keep my head on my shoulders.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
I must do his bidding, no matter how inane or wasteful.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
I would not likely head in the lord anywhere but
on your shoulders. How long will you be gone for me?
Speaker 2 (05:53):
However long it takes me to convince him that his
spy Syrus knows whether he speaks. And that's the only
emperor in the world is he who sits on the
Roman throne?
Speaker 1 (06:12):
Friends, May I sit with you? The inn is overcrowded.
Sit and welcome. I'm weary. The road is long from Jericho,
and my stomach craves food. Will you share with me?
We thank you, but we have already eaten. Come, Come
help yourselves.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
There's plenty here for all.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
You are most generous. I am Jonathan, and this is
my son Ethan. The pleasure.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
I suppose, like everyone else, you've come to register for
the tax eh to be.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
Bled by Rome. Ethan mind you would their say with me?
Speaker 4 (06:44):
Have no fear.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
I have no love for Rome or it's taxes. I
should enjoy feeding herod to the lions.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
Be careful, sir, he spies are I have.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
No careful spies? Hear him? Help yourselves to wine?
Speaker 1 (06:58):
Who are you, sir?
Speaker 2 (07:00):
And have you know, man, this is only fair should I?
I'm called Evan by trade, the merchant, by inclination of
brave men, by practice a coward, and by necessity of.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
Fear, You, too, Evan, have come to pay the text.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
I do if if there was only someone to lead us,
a champion among men unafraid.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
And if your voice lowered, my friend, what good a
champion without arms? We are so few in number. Rome
is mighty, and we are dust beneath its feet.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
Mmmm a house, say you lad? I say it takes
but a spark to light a fire, and our rom
is wood for the burning. If we rose up and
destroyed herob, others would rise with us. Well said the
words of youth, the words of truth, Navan foolish to
speak them, For even if such a thing were possible,
we have no leader. Have you not heard the story
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of one to come amongst us? Ay said, so? It
has long been said, he will come. You believe, eyeses,
I believe.
Speaker 4 (08:05):
There's a feeling I cannot.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
Explain many others heaven.
Speaker 4 (08:09):
Such a thing is not common.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
A feeling of the expectancy of the breath being held,
a feeling of waiting, even in the.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
Heavens of Mother. Yes, yes, that is it is everywhere.
He will come. And if you don't lower your voice,
you'll find yourself in change.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
It is difficult to keep calm over such things. I
am an old man, and as long as I can remember,
we have been an oppressed people, but never so much
as now, always as much as now. Oppression has no degrees.
If it affects one man, it affects all me.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
Father, you know in your heart you believe he will come.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
I know I am tired, and I have little faith
and bless hope, although upon occasion I still dream. I
tell you this happened. Were you to question all in
this internet in order to speak the truth, they would
tell you he is coming, and soon, maybe this night,
maybe the next, may be in ten what soon?
Speaker 1 (09:20):
It is good to.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
Stretch the legs a little before lying down a sleep.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
The night seems overly still. Shall we sit and rest moment?
Here we return as you, like heathen are.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
There are there many like you in your village, ready
to fight through the time time. Not only in my village.
We have formed a league with others close by. We
number nearly two hunts. And who is your leader?
Speaker 4 (09:46):
Sir?
Speaker 2 (09:46):
Zachariah, even what is it? Has no one ever told
you a silent tongue is a safe tongue? Yes, but
you I might see anyone. You never saw me before
this night, and here you are endangering the lives of
your friends. Have you know I'm not one of herod five?
You cub now and a few young fools. Remember, if
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you're going to be a party to revolt, have a
good sense to be a silent one.
Speaker 4 (10:16):
There are stars.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
Yes, the night is done. Heed my advice. He's done
a lot of Do not lecture me now? Have you
ever known it to be so steer?
Speaker 2 (10:29):
Yes, it's almost about the creations of waiting, waiting. I
happ We have better go back now. I don't understand.
Speaker 4 (10:41):
No, stay, stay, my friends, there is nought to fear.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
Look, look the stars. Oh my god, hang oby, it
turns the night of the day.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
And you speak, can read me while?
Speaker 4 (11:05):
Take me from this place.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
I do not believe. I do not belong.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
But you go ahead like a man, possess what's come
over you with already need to go stumbling through the
night as I start.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
Never was this such a star?
Speaker 2 (11:58):
It hung and shone forth like a great drop of
silver fire. But don't you see others come from the
hills above. What do they hear of this hour? We'll
soon find out over there We mean.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
You no harm.
Speaker 6 (12:15):
Who are you?
Speaker 5 (12:17):
What do you do here?
Speaker 1 (12:18):
Did you see the star? Yes, we saw it?
Speaker 2 (12:23):
Know you' meaning it's true, meaning you know? Tell us
for shepherds, tell us she'll be this night as on
all others. We were keeping like a great black cloak.
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Even the fire gives no night.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
Our charges bleep not, yet they sleep not.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
We've known a knife when the jackals did not cry,
and the knight was fear.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
Now and it is easily said that.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
The heart beat another tune.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
The Lord watches over us.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
If you like, I shall say you, David, stop say it.
The Lord is my shepherd. I shall not want. He
maketh me to lie down in green pastures. He leadeth
me beside still waters.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
He restoreth my soul.
Speaker 4 (13:17):
He guideth me in the paths of righteousness. For his
name's sake. Jay, though I.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
Walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I
will fear no evil, for thou art with me.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
I rob in my sand. Your words are music in
the heart of the weary. But the darkness is no less,
and the darkness grows, and what is there? And either
you'll lamb.
Speaker 7 (13:49):
The light to live when I have the Lord is
my God.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
Love.
Speaker 4 (13:54):
It game a long of me, My dear lordis all.
Speaker 7 (14:02):
Be not afraid, or behold I bring you finding the
great choice. We shall be to all the people who
there is born to you this day in the city
of David a savior who is ris Fos.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
And this is a sign of to you.
Speaker 7 (14:21):
He shall find a paper, apt in waddling clothes and
lie in a major.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
Lying in a manger. Know you where to find this manger?
The star shines over a shepherd. I don't believe it.
We don't ask you. Through him. In our hearts we
know the truth.
Speaker 3 (14:56):
Oh the.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
Bab was wrapped and swaddling clothes. How could they know?
They told us how they knew heaven. You're a man
of many words but little faith. But it is beyond.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
Is he not mine? They knelt him, worshiped the child Emmanuel.
They called him God with us.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
I don't understand.
Speaker 1 (15:38):
I do Christ, the Lord is born this night.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
And it came to pass that three wise men, kings
of the East, made their way to Judea and search
that he who had been born, the Savior of mankind,
the Prince of Peace. They went up to Jerusalem, saying,
where is he that is born King of the Jews?
We have seen his star in the east and are come.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
To worship him. Now Herod heard these things and was
sorely troubled.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
And gathered all the chief priests and scribes of the
people together, asking them where Christ should be born. They said,
unto him in Bestrahem of Judea. So it has been
written by the prophets. You yourself were the first to
tell me that Betrahem was the place this child would
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be born.
Speaker 1 (16:56):
Now come these wise.
Speaker 2 (16:58):
Men from the east seeking such a child. Jerusalem, as
well as all your dear is rife with the news.
And you, my trusted spy, you, my all knowing rogue,
try to tell me there's aught to it. Were speaker
higher their own chief priests, those of the prophecy, was
nothing but ancient rumor which intelligence men of Israel stip.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
No stock, You'll tell me what I already know.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
You went to Bethlehem, you come back telling me would
crowded with those who had come to register for the
senses nothing more.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
And so it was Sidon, and so it was higher.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
Yet five other spies I sent also returned, telling me
of babbling shepherds, of an old man named Simeon, who
died suddenly in the temple courtyard, proclaiming a son from
God had been born, and of a night filled with
strange light and voices singing from about Sire, Have I
ever brought you information that was not correct to the letter?
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Have I not proven your most trusted agents? Your other
spies are but dogs under your kingly feet, whom you
must scatter and fling to the winds for all the
good they bring you. I tell you, at the cost
of my life, that there was nothing in Bethlehem but
five drunken jackals who must think of strange tale to
find favor with Heaven.
Speaker 4 (18:10):
Mm.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
It's true, Cyrus, You're no ordinary rogue. In the past,
you've served me well. I would not enjoy putting you
to death unless I was sure you had broken feet
with me.
Speaker 5 (18:27):
Go now, let await my summon.
Speaker 6 (18:30):
Oh my Lord, what has come over you? Never have
I seen so taste the slow like a tiger in
a cage. Since you return from Bethlehem.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
You're a changed man.
Speaker 4 (18:45):
Yes, I am changed?
Speaker 6 (18:46):
What the salu in that to the sickness?
Speaker 2 (18:49):
No, no sickness. Perhaps I found it. I have been
sick all of my life. Perhaps I found But it.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
Does matter to me.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
I could not explain, Althia. You would not understand. I
do not understand myself.
Speaker 6 (19:05):
There's little to green from your words. Is the King
displeased with you?
Speaker 4 (19:11):
Yes, he's displeased.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
I wouldn't wonder.
Speaker 2 (19:14):
He put me to death soon, he said, is though
you can?
Speaker 1 (19:17):
I care well enough, But my mind, my heart is
filled with other.
Speaker 6 (19:23):
Thoughts, which you will not share with me.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
If I knew how, I would have you never felt
that that the life we lead is a wasted one,
that we do little good and much harm, That I
in particular am an evil man who does an evil
man's bidding for the sake of gold. We have no faith,
no faith in anything but Rome. And as gods have stone,
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ourselves and our riches, and what.
Speaker 6 (19:48):
Else is there for which they have faith?
Speaker 7 (19:50):
Rome is kind, It's God's a lenient.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
And as for riches, there cannot be enough of them
for me.
Speaker 2 (19:55):
Would that I could make you know? What?
Speaker 1 (19:58):
Yes? What is it? Where did it come from?
Speaker 3 (20:00):
Head? My lord?
Speaker 1 (20:02):
He demands your presence at once.
Speaker 5 (20:10):
My court is most honored by your coming, O, King
to the East.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
And we, in turn, Herod, are honored by your royal welcome.
I am Caspar, and these are my fellow magi, Melchior
and Balthazar Situle, noble men, we are curious to know
what brings you so far from your native kingdom.
Speaker 1 (20:33):
We follow a star, a star, yes, a star which
we saw shining in the east. For many days. We
have followed it, and it led us to displace.
Speaker 5 (20:44):
What say you to this cyrus?
Speaker 2 (20:46):
Recently the planet's Jupiter, Saturn and Mars mingled in a
display that is most rare, it stated more than a
week gone, How say you, men of the east?
Speaker 1 (20:58):
We have nothing to say on it?
Speaker 5 (21:01):
And what is the meaning of this star you follow?
Speaker 1 (21:06):
We are not tellers of fortune. Head.
Speaker 5 (21:09):
You must follow your star for a reason.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
We follow it to find the child? The child? What child?
Speaker 2 (21:17):
We cannot speak further, Head until our journey is complete.
In what place do you expect to find the child?
Speaker 1 (21:24):
In the city of David called Beth Ahead.
Speaker 2 (21:28):
So now you may go in peace, go and search
for the child, And when you have found him, bring
me word again that I may come and worship him.
Speaker 5 (21:44):
Also follow them when they find the child.
Speaker 4 (21:52):
Bring me words, go now the fire of you.
Speaker 2 (21:54):
If you fail me in this, you all die. Begone, Cyrus,
from your pirate attend me.
Speaker 1 (22:05):
Wire gone, moves off my leave.
Speaker 8 (22:10):
I'll have him prone to the lion for there whah ah.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
They will not think to seat you on this track.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
It is little known you are one of his men,
and yet you risk your life to warn us.
Speaker 2 (22:26):
I am no longer one of his men, sir, But
why do you trust me?
Speaker 1 (22:31):
There are ways of knowing. When a man speaks the truth,
his spies will be all over Bethlehem.
Speaker 2 (22:35):
We should trust too, greater forces than Tholways have had
it in all things, we have faith you will ride
to Herod at once tell him The kings of the
East eluded us at first, but now we know where
they say.
Speaker 1 (22:56):
I ask him his wish?
Speaker 2 (22:58):
Should they decide not to return to Jursie and tell
him we have seen no sign of the trader, Cyrus man,
be better to keep your voice lower.
Speaker 1 (23:05):
What matter?
Speaker 2 (23:06):
Who listens with that blind beggar, who is likely deaf
and witless in the bargain? Who comes at this our friend,
the friend good, Sir, Herod's men know you are here.
You must bribe and go on your way before the dawn.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
Did I not know your voice? Cyrus?
Speaker 2 (23:24):
I would take you for a beggar. It is kind
of you to give us warning, But as you can see,
we have already had our warning and are about to depart.
Who could give you warning?
Speaker 1 (23:32):
We have had a dream, the three of us.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
It is enough. How could you must not trackle the
caravan trail?
Speaker 1 (23:38):
Yes, yes, my son, fear not. We shall take a
path where none shall follow, and we shall be guided
from farewell, wise men of the east, Where go you, Cyrus?
To warn yet another?
Speaker 2 (23:55):
Oh God? How could they know? Who told them to?
Should they dream? As did the wise men? The world
is full of miracles, and I have been as a
blind lad. And now what must I do? Flee this land?
Save my skin? Herod will be alive with anger. He
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will leave no stone unturned to find the child, to
bring back the mage I and to find me, Find me,
to find me.
Speaker 1 (24:28):
That's it. I could distract them, lead them away, give
them false, trailed.
Speaker 2 (24:31):
Confound, and confuse them. Oh, wonder of wonder. After a
lifetime of waste and evil, I have found something good.
Speaker 4 (24:41):
To do.
Speaker 2 (24:42):
And should I die in this, then I die well.
I die for a cause so great, so wondrous, that
it is beyond all knowing. For this time shall never die.
When Caesar is dust and Rome forgotten, it will hang
like a great burning star for all men to see,
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for all men to know.
Speaker 3 (25:10):
A man, Ladies and gentlemen, here.
Speaker 1 (25:23):
Speaking for the men and women of your.
Speaker 2 (25:24):
Armed Services is Chaplain Colonel Robert J. Hearn, First Army Chaplain.
Speaker 6 (25:30):
I can't tell.
Speaker 2 (25:31):
You what it means for me to be the spokesman
by the men and women of our Armed Services and
extend to you their best wishes for Christmas nineteen hundred
and fifty two. At this season, it seems to me
that one of the important reasons for our feeling, as
we all do about our way of life is that
here in our country we can say Merry Christmas and
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mean it. I feel that Christmas has come to symbolize
what we and our fighting forces stand for. Throughout the world.
Speaker 1 (26:03):
The men and women of.
Speaker 9 (26:04):
Our armed forces are serving and.
Speaker 2 (26:06):
Fighting to maintain the one great truth that the Christmas
story must always emphasize, namely that God's love for men
has given to the lives of all men. Grandeur, dignity,
and worse.
Speaker 3 (26:21):
Made.
Speaker 1 (26:21):
The peace and joy of which.
Speaker 2 (26:22):
The angels sang in Bethlehem's stolid hills, sing within your
heart and within the hearts of men of good will everywhere.
Speaker 9 (26:31):
This Christmas Day.
Speaker 2 (27:05):
This has been a special Christmas program on Proudly we Hail,
presented transcribed in cooperation with this station. Proudly we Hail
is produced by the recruiting publicity GURREAU for the United
States Army and the United States Air Force Recruiting Service.
This is Kenneth Banghart speaking and inviting me to tune
in the same station next week for another interesting story
on Proudly we Hail.
We hail.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
From New York City, where the American Stage begins. Here
is another program with a cast of outstanding place. Public
service time has been made available by this station for
your Army and your air force to bring you seasons greeting.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
Welcome again to proudly we hail.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
We're especially pleased to present our Christmas program, an original
play entitled Keeping States. And in that day the land
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of Judea lay under.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
The male fists of Rome.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
Either Augustus was emperor and his appointed king Herod ruled
over the people.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
In Herod there was neither compassion nor.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
Wisdom, only a certain cunning that seed on his greed,
his lust for power, and so made him despised and
hated from Galilee to Jerusalem.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
And so in that day.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
The people of Judea was sorely oppressed. Though beggared and reviled,
their numbers few, their future dark, they nonetheless kept.
Speaker 4 (01:40):
Their spirits and their faith.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
The prophets had long foretold of the coming of the Messiah,
who would deliver them from bondage, and so they looked
to God and awaited the miracles most gracious sires in Osias.
I have often thought of late that one way to
remove that grin of yours would be to have your
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throat cut. But with my froat cut, most noble, Herod,
I would be of no service to you.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
The world is full of spies, jack.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
All Ah, but none so adept, none so efficient, none
so filled with news as your humble servant.
Speaker 5 (02:20):
And none so filled with modesty. Out with your news
before I have it cut out of you.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
What is the talk in Jerusalem?
Speaker 1 (02:28):
Who plots against me?
Speaker 2 (02:29):
But tork O, Herod, is much the same of a
king soon to be born, a messire, a king of
the Jews, the only one king who rules share that
hero Now what of this talk of a king? It
has long been written and spoken of by their prophets.
This is not natural, Sire, that if they cannot find
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help on earth, they would speak it in their heavens,
said Bess, superstitious rabble.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
They proclaim a new leader every other week.
Speaker 5 (03:00):
I like that, such star.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
It is a strange land, full of dark happenings. You
crush their bones until their leaders, and still others rise
to plot and scheem.
Speaker 5 (03:17):
They say where this king is to be born?
Speaker 1 (03:20):
In the city of David.
Speaker 4 (03:21):
They call it the Bethlehem.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
It lies to the south.
Speaker 5 (03:24):
How does this prophecy read?
Speaker 2 (03:25):
No, you it's words, there shall come a star out
of Jacob, and the scepter shall rise out of Israel.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
You leave you this, I believe it's not, oh, heaved.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
The tribes of Israel are scattered through the mountains like
lost sheep, and from the remnants that dwell here in
Judea neither star nor scepter.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
Shall rise the city of David.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
You see well, Never, sire, kings are made on earth.
The gods watch over the upper world. Are sure you
spawn of Kalia?
Speaker 1 (03:55):
It is so, my king.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
It is also true that a plot is a foot
in Jerusalem to rob the caravan that goes north on
the morrow.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
How, by the god, why did you not think of
a tune.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
When one knows of actions become, sire, it is of
little moment to meet and remove them with adequate force,
like the celiberty of reporting the news to your captain
of the God, he.
Speaker 6 (04:16):
Assured, reason, my Demi, twy so troubles, my lord?
Speaker 1 (04:28):
Troubled you speak not to drink?
Speaker 6 (04:30):
Not the furrows in your brow run deep?
Speaker 1 (04:33):
Am I not pleasing to you?
Speaker 2 (04:35):
Hollis here, Goddess of Greece, of all the women I've known,
your by far the most pleasing.
Speaker 6 (04:40):
I thank you, my Lord, But I must say you
do not I cut a man wealthy.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
My displeasure is not caused by you, but by the
fact that I must leave you.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
Please me by fo for.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
The fear of that fat, fairly murderous, wild pig that
sits on the throne of Israel. You speak so hat
a fitting description, don't you think.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
Does not pay you?
Speaker 6 (04:59):
Well? What's your work?
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Hi?
Speaker 1 (05:01):
What I take my talent self with?
Speaker 2 (05:03):
It's not money I like. But now his ears are
filled with the voices of his beloved subjects, and fear
of what they say grows in his evil heart. What
is it they are saying, malone, what they've been saying
ever since they are captive to Rome, that a Messiah
is coming, a Christ to free them rough.
Speaker 6 (05:22):
But how does this concern you?
Speaker 2 (05:24):
Are having to leave me by Herod's orders, I leave
on the morrow for Bettleheim, where I shall sit and
wait for this Savior, where it is there, according to
the prophets, that he will be born Hera.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
I believe that you.
Speaker 4 (05:36):
See Herod's fears, and when head fears, he believes.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
And to keep my head on my shoulders.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
I must do his bidding, no matter how inane or wasteful.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
I would not likely head in the lord anywhere but
on your shoulders. How long will you be gone for me?
Speaker 2 (05:53):
However long it takes me to convince him that his
spy Syrus knows whether he speaks. And that's the only
emperor in the world is he who sits on the
Roman throne?
Speaker 1 (06:12):
Friends, May I sit with you? The inn is overcrowded.
Sit and welcome. I'm weary. The road is long from Jericho,
and my stomach craves food. Will you share with me?
We thank you, but we have already eaten. Come, Come
help yourselves.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
There's plenty here for all.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
You are most generous. I am Jonathan, and this is
my son Ethan. The pleasure.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
I suppose, like everyone else, you've come to register for
the tax eh to be.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
Bled by Rome. Ethan mind you would their say with me?
Speaker 4 (06:44):
Have no fear.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
I have no love for Rome or it's taxes. I
should enjoy feeding herod to the lions.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
Be careful, sir, he spies are I have.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
No careful spies? Hear him? Help yourselves to wine?
Speaker 1 (06:58):
Who are you, sir?
Speaker 2 (07:00):
And have you know, man, this is only fair should I?
I'm called Evan by trade, the merchant, by inclination of
brave men, by practice a coward, and by necessity of.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
Fear, You, too, Evan, have come to pay the text.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
I do if if there was only someone to lead us,
a champion among men unafraid.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
And if your voice lowered, my friend, what good a
champion without arms? We are so few in number. Rome
is mighty, and we are dust beneath its feet.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
Mmmm a house, say you lad? I say it takes
but a spark to light a fire, and our rom
is wood for the burning. If we rose up and
destroyed herob, others would rise with us. Well said the
words of youth, the words of truth, Navan foolish to
speak them, For even if such a thing were possible,
we have no leader. Have you not heard the story
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of one to come amongst us? Ay said, so? It
has long been said, he will come. You believe, eyeses,
I believe.
Speaker 4 (08:05):
There's a feeling I cannot.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
Explain many others heaven.
Speaker 4 (08:09):
Such a thing is not common.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
A feeling of the expectancy of the breath being held,
a feeling of waiting, even in the.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
Heavens of Mother. Yes, yes, that is it is everywhere.
He will come. And if you don't lower your voice,
you'll find yourself in change.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
It is difficult to keep calm over such things. I
am an old man, and as long as I can remember,
we have been an oppressed people, but never so much
as now, always as much as now. Oppression has no degrees.
If it affects one man, it affects all me.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
Father, you know in your heart you believe he will come.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
I know I am tired, and I have little faith
and bless hope, although upon occasion I still dream. I
tell you this happened. Were you to question all in
this internet in order to speak the truth, they would
tell you he is coming, and soon, maybe this night,
maybe the next, may be in ten what soon?
Speaker 1 (09:20):
It is good to.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
Stretch the legs a little before lying down a sleep.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
The night seems overly still. Shall we sit and rest moment?
Here we return as you, like heathen are.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
There are there many like you in your village, ready
to fight through the time time. Not only in my village.
We have formed a league with others close by. We
number nearly two hunts. And who is your leader?
Speaker 4 (09:46):
Sir?
Speaker 2 (09:46):
Zachariah, even what is it? Has no one ever told
you a silent tongue is a safe tongue? Yes, but
you I might see anyone. You never saw me before
this night, and here you are endangering the lives of
your friends. Have you know I'm not one of herod five?
You cub now and a few young fools. Remember, if
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you're going to be a party to revolt, have a
good sense to be a silent one.
Speaker 4 (10:16):
There are stars.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
Yes, the night is done. Heed my advice. He's done
a lot of Do not lecture me now? Have you
ever known it to be so steer?
Speaker 2 (10:29):
Yes, it's almost about the creations of waiting, waiting. I
happ We have better go back now. I don't understand.
Speaker 4 (10:41):
No, stay, stay, my friends, there is nought to fear.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
Look, look the stars. Oh my god, hang oby, it
turns the night of the day.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
And you speak, can read me while?
Speaker 4 (11:05):
Take me from this place.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
I do not believe. I do not belong.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
But you go ahead like a man, possess what's come
over you with already need to go stumbling through the
night as I start.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
Never was this such a star?
Speaker 2 (11:58):
It hung and shone forth like a great drop of
silver fire. But don't you see others come from the
hills above. What do they hear of this hour? We'll
soon find out over there We mean.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
You no harm.
Speaker 6 (12:15):
Who are you?
Speaker 5 (12:17):
What do you do here?
Speaker 1 (12:18):
Did you see the star? Yes, we saw it?
Speaker 2 (12:23):
Know you' meaning it's true, meaning you know? Tell us
for shepherds, tell us she'll be this night as on
all others. We were keeping like a great black cloak.
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Even the fire gives no night.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
Our charges bleep not, yet they sleep not.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
We've known a knife when the jackals did not cry,
and the knight was fear.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
Now and it is easily said that.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
The heart beat another tune.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
The Lord watches over us.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
If you like, I shall say you, David, stop say it.
The Lord is my shepherd. I shall not want. He
maketh me to lie down in green pastures. He leadeth
me beside still waters.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
He restoreth my soul.
Speaker 4 (13:17):
He guideth me in the paths of righteousness. For his
name's sake. Jay, though I.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
Walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I
will fear no evil, for thou art with me.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
I rob in my sand. Your words are music in
the heart of the weary. But the darkness is no less,
and the darkness grows, and what is there? And either
you'll lamb.
Speaker 7 (13:49):
The light to live when I have the Lord is
my God.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
Love.
Speaker 4 (13:54):
It game a long of me, My dear lordis all.
Speaker 7 (14:02):
Be not afraid, or behold I bring you finding the
great choice. We shall be to all the people who
there is born to you this day in the city
of David a savior who is ris Fos.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
And this is a sign of to you.
Speaker 7 (14:21):
He shall find a paper, apt in waddling clothes and
lie in a major.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
Lying in a manger. Know you where to find this manger?
The star shines over a shepherd. I don't believe it.
We don't ask you. Through him. In our hearts we
know the truth.
Speaker 3 (14:56):
Oh the.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
Bab was wrapped and swaddling clothes. How could they know?
They told us how they knew heaven. You're a man
of many words but little faith. But it is beyond.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
Is he not mine? They knelt him, worshiped the child Emmanuel.
They called him God with us.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
I don't understand.
Speaker 1 (15:38):
I do Christ, the Lord is born this night.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
And it came to pass that three wise men, kings
of the East, made their way to Judea and search
that he who had been born, the Savior of mankind,
the Prince of Peace. They went up to Jerusalem, saying,
where is he that is born King of the Jews?
We have seen his star in the east and are come.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
To worship him. Now Herod heard these things and was
sorely troubled.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
And gathered all the chief priests and scribes of the
people together, asking them where Christ should be born. They said,
unto him in Bestrahem of Judea. So it has been
written by the prophets. You yourself were the first to
tell me that Betrahem was the place this child would
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be born.
Speaker 1 (16:56):
Now come these wise.
Speaker 2 (16:58):
Men from the east seeking such a child. Jerusalem, as
well as all your dear is rife with the news.
And you, my trusted spy, you, my all knowing rogue,
try to tell me there's aught to it. Were speaker
higher their own chief priests, those of the prophecy, was
nothing but ancient rumor which intelligence men of Israel stip.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
No stock, You'll tell me what I already know.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
You went to Bethlehem, you come back telling me would
crowded with those who had come to register for the
senses nothing more.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
And so it was Sidon, and so it was higher.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
Yet five other spies I sent also returned, telling me
of babbling shepherds, of an old man named Simeon, who
died suddenly in the temple courtyard, proclaiming a son from
God had been born, and of a night filled with
strange light and voices singing from about Sire, Have I
ever brought you information that was not correct to the letter?
(17:51):
Have I not proven your most trusted agents? Your other
spies are but dogs under your kingly feet, whom you
must scatter and fling to the winds for all the
good they bring you. I tell you, at the cost
of my life, that there was nothing in Bethlehem but
five drunken jackals who must think of strange tale to
find favor with Heaven.
Speaker 4 (18:10):
Mm.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
It's true, Cyrus, You're no ordinary rogue. In the past,
you've served me well. I would not enjoy putting you
to death unless I was sure you had broken feet
with me.
Speaker 5 (18:27):
Go now, let await my summon.
Speaker 6 (18:30):
Oh my Lord, what has come over you? Never have
I seen so taste the slow like a tiger in
a cage. Since you return from Bethlehem.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
You're a changed man.
Speaker 4 (18:45):
Yes, I am changed?
Speaker 6 (18:46):
What the salu in that to the sickness?
Speaker 2 (18:49):
No, no sickness. Perhaps I found it. I have been
sick all of my life. Perhaps I found But it.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
Does matter to me.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
I could not explain, Althia. You would not understand. I
do not understand myself.
Speaker 6 (19:05):
There's little to green from your words. Is the King
displeased with you?
Speaker 4 (19:11):
Yes, he's displeased.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
I wouldn't wonder.
Speaker 2 (19:14):
He put me to death soon, he said, is though
you can?
Speaker 1 (19:17):
I care well enough, But my mind, my heart is
filled with other.
Speaker 6 (19:23):
Thoughts, which you will not share with me.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
If I knew how, I would have you never felt
that that the life we lead is a wasted one,
that we do little good and much harm, That I
in particular am an evil man who does an evil
man's bidding for the sake of gold. We have no faith,
no faith in anything but Rome. And as gods have stone,
(19:46):
ourselves and our riches, and what.
Speaker 6 (19:48):
Else is there for which they have faith?
Speaker 7 (19:50):
Rome is kind, It's God's a lenient.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
And as for riches, there cannot be enough of them
for me.
Speaker 2 (19:55):
Would that I could make you know? What?
Speaker 1 (19:58):
Yes? What is it? Where did it come from?
Speaker 3 (20:00):
Head? My lord?
Speaker 1 (20:02):
He demands your presence at once.
Speaker 5 (20:10):
My court is most honored by your coming, O, King
to the East.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
And we, in turn, Herod, are honored by your royal welcome.
I am Caspar, and these are my fellow magi, Melchior
and Balthazar Situle, noble men, we are curious to know
what brings you so far from your native kingdom.
Speaker 1 (20:33):
We follow a star, a star, yes, a star which
we saw shining in the east. For many days. We
have followed it, and it led us to displace.
Speaker 5 (20:44):
What say you to this cyrus?
Speaker 2 (20:46):
Recently the planet's Jupiter, Saturn and Mars mingled in a
display that is most rare, it stated more than a
week gone, How say you, men of the east?
Speaker 1 (20:58):
We have nothing to say on it?
Speaker 5 (21:01):
And what is the meaning of this star you follow?
Speaker 1 (21:06):
We are not tellers of fortune. Head.
Speaker 5 (21:09):
You must follow your star for a reason.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
We follow it to find the child? The child? What child?
Speaker 2 (21:17):
We cannot speak further, Head until our journey is complete.
In what place do you expect to find the child?
Speaker 1 (21:24):
In the city of David called Beth Ahead.
Speaker 2 (21:28):
So now you may go in peace, go and search
for the child, And when you have found him, bring
me word again that I may come and worship him.
Speaker 5 (21:44):
Also follow them when they find the child.
Speaker 4 (21:52):
Bring me words, go now the fire of you.
Speaker 2 (21:54):
If you fail me in this, you all die. Begone, Cyrus,
from your pirate attend me.
Speaker 1 (22:05):
Wire gone, moves off my leave.
Speaker 8 (22:10):
I'll have him prone to the lion for there whah ah.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
They will not think to seat you on this track.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
It is little known you are one of his men,
and yet you risk your life to warn us.
Speaker 2 (22:26):
I am no longer one of his men, sir, But
why do you trust me?
Speaker 1 (22:31):
There are ways of knowing. When a man speaks the truth,
his spies will be all over Bethlehem.
Speaker 2 (22:35):
We should trust too, greater forces than Tholways have had
it in all things, we have faith you will ride
to Herod at once tell him The kings of the
East eluded us at first, but now we know where
they say.
Speaker 1 (22:56):
I ask him his wish?
Speaker 2 (22:58):
Should they decide not to return to Jursie and tell
him we have seen no sign of the trader, Cyrus man,
be better to keep your voice lower.
Speaker 1 (23:05):
What matter?
Speaker 2 (23:06):
Who listens with that blind beggar, who is likely deaf
and witless in the bargain? Who comes at this our friend,
the friend good, Sir, Herod's men know you are here.
You must bribe and go on your way before the dawn.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
Did I not know your voice? Cyrus?
Speaker 2 (23:24):
I would take you for a beggar. It is kind
of you to give us warning, But as you can see,
we have already had our warning and are about to depart.
Who could give you warning?
Speaker 1 (23:32):
We have had a dream, the three of us.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
It is enough. How could you must not trackle the
caravan trail?
Speaker 1 (23:38):
Yes, yes, my son, fear not. We shall take a
path where none shall follow, and we shall be guided
from farewell, wise men of the east, Where go you, Cyrus?
To warn yet another?
Speaker 2 (23:55):
Oh God? How could they know? Who told them to?
Should they dream? As did the wise men? The world
is full of miracles, and I have been as a
blind lad. And now what must I do? Flee this land?
Save my skin? Herod will be alive with anger. He
(24:17):
will leave no stone unturned to find the child, to
bring back the mage I and to find me, Find me,
to find me.
Speaker 1 (24:28):
That's it. I could distract them, lead them away, give
them false, trailed.
Speaker 2 (24:31):
Confound, and confuse them. Oh, wonder of wonder. After a
lifetime of waste and evil, I have found something good.
Speaker 4 (24:41):
To do.
Speaker 2 (24:42):
And should I die in this, then I die well.
I die for a cause so great, so wondrous, that
it is beyond all knowing. For this time shall never die.
When Caesar is dust and Rome forgotten, it will hang
like a great burning star for all men to see,
(25:07):
for all men to know.
Speaker 3 (25:10):
A man, Ladies and gentlemen, here.
Speaker 1 (25:23):
Speaking for the men and women of your.
Speaker 2 (25:24):
Armed Services is Chaplain Colonel Robert J. Hearn, First Army Chaplain.
Speaker 6 (25:30):
I can't tell.
Speaker 2 (25:31):
You what it means for me to be the spokesman
by the men and women of our Armed Services and
extend to you their best wishes for Christmas nineteen hundred
and fifty two. At this season, it seems to me
that one of the important reasons for our feeling, as
we all do about our way of life is that
here in our country we can say Merry Christmas and
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mean it. I feel that Christmas has come to symbolize
what we and our fighting forces stand for. Throughout the world.
Speaker 1 (26:03):
The men and women of.
Speaker 9 (26:04):
Our armed forces are serving and.
Speaker 2 (26:06):
Fighting to maintain the one great truth that the Christmas
story must always emphasize, namely that God's love for men
has given to the lives of all men. Grandeur, dignity,
and worse.
Speaker 3 (26:21):
Made.
Speaker 1 (26:21):
The peace and joy of which.
Speaker 2 (26:22):
The angels sang in Bethlehem's stolid hills, sing within your
heart and within the hearts of men of good will everywhere.
Speaker 9 (26:31):
This Christmas Day.
Speaker 2 (27:05):
This has been a special Christmas program on Proudly we Hail,
presented transcribed in cooperation with this station. Proudly we Hail
is produced by the recruiting publicity GURREAU for the United
States Army and the United States Air Force Recruiting Service.
This is Kenneth Banghart speaking and inviting me to tune
in the same station next week for another interesting story
on Proudly we Hail.
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