Object: A pillow

Good morning, boys and girls. Today we are going to learn something new about a wonderful Christmas carol that all of you have sung many times. The name of this carol is "O Little Town of Bethlehem," and it was written by a very famous minister named Phillips Brooks. We have a very strange object to help us tell the story, but it played a very important part. (Hold up the pillow.) I want you to see how this pillow helped make the Christmas carol "O Little Town of Bethlehem" come true.

One day Pastor Brooks was sitting in his study when the Sunday school superintendent came to visit him. He told Pastor Brooks that he had been asked by some of the children in the church to ask the minister if he would write a very special poem for their Sunday school program. The children …