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The Tale of the Tablecloth and Manger Moments

December 23, 2013 • Julie Saffrin • 2 Comments

Christmas Tablecloth | juliesaffrin.com

Last night, at Substance Church in St. Paul, Minn., Peter Haas, the pastor there, told a Christmas story which I had never heard. I hope it touches your heart this Christmas season, as it did mine. The writer of this story, Howard C. Schade, pastor of the First Reformed Church in Nyack, N.Y. penned this story in the December 1954 issue of Reader’s Digest. Note: I checked with Snopes.com and it says this story is likely legend. I’ll leave that for you to decide. As for me, I choose to believe what Schade wrote in the magazine’s “Drama in Real…

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