“The world was dark with care and woe, With brawl and pleasure wild; When in the midst, His love to show, God set a Child. “The sages frowned, their heads they shook, For pride their heart beguiled. They said, each looking on his book, ‘We want no Child.’ “The merchants turned toward their scales, Around their wealth they piled; Said they, ‘‘Tis gold alone prevails; ‘We want no Child.’ “The soldiers rose in noisy sport; Disdainfully they smiled; And said, ‘Can babes the shield support? ‘We want no Child.’ “Then said the Lord, ‘O world of care, So blinded and beguiled, Thou must receive for thy repair A Holy Child.’”[119] [Illustration: THE CHILDREN OF TUNIS ARE WORTH HELPING] QUOTATIONS PRAYING CHILDREN IN KOREA Sometimes little children learn about Jesus in some way and become Christians before their parents do. Three years ago, after a meeting in the country at a place called Top Chai, in Korea, two small boys, each nine years old, came up and told me that they were friends and had been believing in Jesus for a year, but that none of their parents had been Christians. They said, “We want you to pray every day with us that our parents may believe in Jesus.” I wrote their names in a little book and did pray as they asked me to, and every time I met the boys after that I would ask if their parents had become Christians yet. “No,” they would say, “not yet, but they are going to.” Last spring, just before I left Korea, I went to Top Chai to say good-bye, and one of the boys came to me with the brightest smile you ever saw and said, “My father has been sick for a long time but is better now, and has promised to come to church just as soon as he is able.” And back of him stood the other boy holding a smaller boy by the hand. “Pastor,” he said, “this is my younger brother, who has become a Christian, and my father has been coming to church all winter.”