# The Lutheran Pioneer_St. Louis_1908_S92
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

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‘he Lutheran Pioneer.

THE CHRIST-CHILD.

“See, my soul, thy Savior chooses +
Weakness here and poverty,
In such love He comes to thee,

Little Isaac and, the Christmas Gospel.

Isaac was the name given to a little boy in
Africa when he was baptized after being instructed
by the missionary. How did he come to the mis-
sion station for instruction and baptism? Let me
tell you the story as told by the missionary.

Nor the hardest couch refuses;
All He suffers for thy good,
To redeem thee by His blood.”

When Isaac was still a heathen boy and was
watching his father’s sheep, he one day saw in the
field nearby another boy who was a stranger to
him. As children are wont to do, they soon came
together to chat and play. After a while the strange
boy, whose parents had become Christians, took
a book out of his bag and began to read. Little