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br.writeln("<center><B>Christian Quotation of the Day</B><BR><SMALL>Monday, December 22, 2025</SMALL></center>");
br.writeln("<DT style=\"margin-left:.4in;text-indent:-.4in\">The world grows terrible and white,<DT style=\"margin-left:.8in;text-indent:-.4in\">And blinding white the breaking day;<DT style=\"margin-left:.6in;text-indent:-.4in\">We walk bewildered in the light,<DT style=\"margin-left:.6in;text-indent:-.4in\">For something is too large for sight,<DT style=\"margin-left:.8in;text-indent:-.4in\">And something much too plain to say.<DT style=\"margin-left:.6in;text-indent:-.4in\">&nbsp;
<DT style=\"margin-left:.6in;text-indent:-.4in\">The Child that was ere worlds begun<DT style=\"margin-left:.8in;text-indent:-.4in\">(...We need but walk a little way,<DT style=\"margin-left:.6in;text-indent:-.4in\">We need but see a latch undone...)<DT style=\"margin-left:.6in;text-indent:-.4in\">The Child that played with moon and sun<DT style=\"margin-left:.8in;text-indent:-.4in\">Is playing with a little hay.");
br.writeln("<DT style=\"margin-left:.4in;text-indent:-.2in\">... <A HREF=\"https://www.cqod.com/cqodndac.htm#Chesterton\">Gilbert Keith Chesterton</A> (1874-1936), <A HREF=\"https://www.cqod.com/cqodndta.htm#CollectedWorksChesterton10\"><I>The Collected Works of G. K. Chesterton</I>, v. X</A>, Ignatius Press, 1994, p. 187");
br.writeln("(see the <A target=_blank HREF=\"https://books.google.com/books?id=wcQUdmpd0RkC&pg=PA187&dq=%22The+world+grows+terrible%22\">book</A>; see also <A target=_blank HREF=http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John+17:5;+Isa.+66:4;+Mic.+5:2;+John+1:1-3;+8:58;+1+Cor.+8:5-6;+Col.+1:15-18;+Heb.+13:8>John 17:5; Isa. 66:4; Mic. 5:2; John 1:1-3; 8:58; 1 Cor. 8:5-6; Col. 1:15-18; Heb. 13:8</A>; more at <A HREF=\"https://www.cqod.com/cqodsub1.htm#Child\">Child</A>, <A HREF=\"https://www.cqod.com/cqodsub1.htm#Christmas\">Christmas</A>, <A HREF=\"https://www.cqod.com/cqodsub2.htm#Eternity\">Eternity</A>, <A HREF=\"https://www.cqod.com/cqodsub3.htm#Incarnation\">Incarnation</A>, <A HREF=\"https://www.cqod.com/cqodsub3.htm#Light\">Light</A>, <A HREF=\"https://www.cqod.com/cqodsub4.htm#Sight\">Sight</A>, <A HREF=\"https://www.cqod.com/cqodsub4.htm#World\">World</A>)");
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