The frost white hill still glistens,
Beneath the moonlit skies,
As on the night of Christmas,
Untrod it sleeping lies.
A newborn year is waiting,
To meet the early dawn;
And whisper this to all the world,
Another Christmas gone.
The holly berry changes,
It's coat of emerald red;
And wreaths we twin'd but lately,
Hang, all their verdure dead.
And round our lonely dwelling
A loneliness is cast,
Our holiday is over,
And Christmas Day is past.
But still our hearts look forward
To many happy years,
Unconscious of our future
It's passing joys and tears:
Our friends around may sooner
Be laid within the clay,
Some present never live to see
Another Christmas Day.
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J. Sidlow Baxter (1903 - 1999)
J. Sidlow Baxter was born in Australia and grew up in Lancashire, England. He attended Spurgeon's Theological College in London and was a pastor in Scotland and England. He is the author of over thirty books and has ministered in churches, Bible Conferences, and missionary centers throughout the United States, Canada, Great Britain and other places around the world.He is scholarly but very practical and helpful. These spoken sermons will be a great blessing to God's people for many years to come. What a time it will be when we are able to meet with men like Dr. Baxter in the New Jerusalem that John saw coming down out of heaven.
J. Sidlow Baxter was a pastor and theologian who authored as many as thirty books[1] (depending on how anthologies and collections of sermons are to be counted) analysing the Bible and advocating a Christian theological perspective. His most popular work was Explore the Book, a 1760 page tome that analyses and summarizes each book of the Bible.
Baxter was raised in Lancashire, England, and attended Spurgeon's College in London before pastoring in England and Scotland, in Northampton and Sunderland. Memories of his early campaigns in Essex in about 1926 survive in the Memories of C. Everett.