Do you hear what I hear?

Rev. John Hicks Guest Columnist 1942. As the story goes, a young boy named Bruce was to be the Wise Man from the East in a Christmas pageant at a rural church in the Pocono Mountains of Pennsylvania. On the night of the pageant, Bruce dressed in a long white gown and a purple cloak. In one hand he held a crown of yellow cardboard. In the other he carried an ornate kerosene lantern. It was not a happy moment for Bruce’s father when he saw his son and remembered that he was going to have to dr