# The Lutheran Pioneer_St. Louis_1884_S47
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The Lutheran Pioneer. 47

HOLY NIGHT.

Holy Night! peaceful night !

Through the darkness beams a light,

Yonder, where they sweet vigils keep

O’er the Babe, who in silent sleep
Rests in heavenly peace.

Silent night! holiest night!
Darkness flies, and all is light!
Shepherds hear the angels sing:
‘Hallelujah! hail the King!
Jesus, the Saviour, is here!’’

God So Loved The World.

“God so loved the world, that he gave his
only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in
him should not perish, but have everlasting
life,’ John 3, 16. Who is it that loved? The
great God. How did He love? He so loved,
and that is unspeakable. What was it He did?
He loved. Whom did He love? The world
that hated Him. How did He manifest His
love? He gave His only begotten Son. For
what did He give Him? That whosoever be-
lieveth in Him. Is there any limit to whoso-
ever? It includes the vilest sinner on earth.
What is such a sinner todo? Only to believe
in Him. If he does believe, can he die forever?
He shall not perish. What will he get through
believing? Everlasting life. Is it life for a
day, life for a generation? -It is everlasting life,
expanding in bliss and glory while eternity
endures.

May many a poor sinner, who reads this,
ponder the great words of Christ and argue
thus: God loved me also in the dark sinful
world. He so loved me that He gave His only
begotten Son to bear my sins; I believe His
testimony to be true; I accept His Son as my
Saviour and my Lord; and I shall not perish,
but have even now, and shall have while Jeho-
vah exists, everlasting life. If there was not
another promise in the Bible, the believing
sinner might take that into the grave, and face
the judgment throne with it in his hand, as
confident of salvation as he must be that He
who sits upon the throne cannot lie.—J. H. B.

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Unselfishness.

During the height of the Crimean war, two
men were carried into the military hospital—
one evidently at the point of death, the other
in hardly better case.

The stronger of the two, on being asked by
one of the nurses what she could do for him,
replied quietly:

“Oh, I'll do well enough; just look after my
poor comrade there; neither bite nor sup has
he had for these three days.’’

The nurse accordingly hurried to the side of
the dying man, holding out to him a cup of
wine and water. With trembling hands the
poor fellow grasped it, and was about to relieve
his intolerable thirst by draining the refreshing
draught, when he suddenly stopped:

“There was a friend of mine came in with
me. He's fearful bad, and this would do him
a lot of good. Find him; will you, and give
it him.”

He knew not, for the dimness of death was
in his eyes, that his comrade lay in the next bed.
They are still lying side by side, these two

_| friends, in the burial-ground of Scutari.

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Tre Incarnation teaches man the greatness
of his misery, by showing how great a remedy
was needful.— Pascal. -