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[0:00] Well, we're a little bit short on young folks this morning. I'm never quite sure whether I should give a young people's talk or not. But of course I always remember Dear Miss Herbert, I remind you about 95 I think it was confined at the end of the service that I had not given the young people's talk. You know, I said well there weren't any young people here this morning in this period and she said well I was there, I was fine here.

[0:34] So, she was young and hot and we're going to offer the men who've got to do something. But we will just begin with a thought we'd do in that vein. Young people's timbre, we've known some cowl but of course there's one that isn't in there but it's probably one of the best known.

[0:59] One who's probably the first that the children learn. Away in a manger in those cliffs or the beds the little Lord Jesus laid down his sweet head. I don't know if you realise he knows it. Of course if you look at most modern parables you'll see Anonymous written underneath it. But in point of fact those who have really placed out the origin of Tim will know that it was in fact none other than Martin Luther that wrote that simple little hymn away in a manger. It's been played history from the journal. It is one of Luther's hymns. And this is all a sort of wonder to me because you see I always think of Martin Luther as a rather austere person. A rugged person. A man who stood against the power of Roman Catholicism. A man who was wonderfully used as God to bring the bring the reformation which has brought us so much religious and civil liberty. And somehow it just brought another light on the character of that great man of God that he who could stand against the power of Roman Catholicism with all its darkness ignorance and in those days a progressive power could provide such a wonderful simple little hymn of man through me a heart he himself woe me at a little time. And of course the last verse there goes my gift.

[2:53] Dear me Lord Jesus I ask you to stay close by me forever and love me I pray. Bless all the dear children in my tender care and sick of the heaven to live with this there. That was you to be honest. Thank you to the Lord. Aha.