Advent

One authority on Church Symbolism writes: "It is not often that one sees the Christian Year represented in symbolic form. This is surprising because the subject lends itself splendidly to representation, and exhibits the life of our Lord in orderly sequence." Nine windows have been devoted to this subject, the first three describing THE CHRISTMAS CYCLE, The prophecy of Isaiah 7,14 about the Messiah is inscribed on a scroll to represent ADVENT. *

* Tragically, the much-heralded R.S.V. 1952 O. T. translation has eliminated the word "virgin" from this Isaiah text just about the time we installed it permanently in our window. The word "virgin" is the correct translation of the Hebrew original given by inspiration of God. We're happy that we happen to contend publicly for verbal inspiration and the deity of Christ in this way at the very time when modernism denies both.