-Phillips Brooks
"The earth has grown old with its burden of care, but at Christmas it always is young, the heart of the jewel burns lustrous and fair, and its soul full of music breaks the air, when the song of angels is sung."
-Phillips Brooks
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The following clip is from a rather unlikely Christmas film: 3 Godfathers, the 1948 John Ford movie starring John Wayne, Harry Carey Jr., and Pedro Armendariz. In it, the three star as rustlers/robbers who, while on the run, come across a woman in an abandoned wagon who is about to give birth. They help her, but she dies soon after having a little boy whom she names after the three men. Her final request is that they will promise to care for the child, and the criminals give her their word. It's close to Christmas, and Harry Carey's character- William- who, despite his way of life, has a certain belief in God's will, compares their situation to the three wise men finding the baby Jesus. He convinces the other two that they need to make a dangerous trek across the desert to the town of New Jerusalem.
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