Life and light for woman . s, it was with the desire that the truth and assurance of the last verse ofthis beautiful hymn might be ours always :— Silent night! Holiest night!Wondrous star, O send thy Light!With the angels let us singHallelujah to our King!Jesus Christ is here. A CHRISTMAS UNDER THE SOUTH-ERN CROSS. BY MRS. SARAH E. HOLBROOK. HE song of angels that echoed over Bethle-hems plain, and has been echoing on throughall the ages since the Christ-child came tobring peace on earth, good will to men,has been caught up by our dark brothersacross the seas ; and now, as in those landswhere
Life and light for woman . s, it was with the desire that the truth and assurance of the last verse ofthis beautiful hymn might be ours always :— Silent night! Holiest night!Wondrous star, O send thy Light!With the angels let us singHallelujah to our King!Jesus Christ is here. A CHRISTMAS UNDER THE SOUTH-ERN CROSS. BY MRS. SARAH E. HOLBROOK. HE song of angels that echoed over Bethle-hems plain, and has been echoing on throughall the ages since the Christ-child came tobring peace on earth, good will to men,has been caught up by our dark brothersacross the seas ; and now, as in those landswhere the glad time has been celebratedhundreds of years, the long-degraded sons ofAfrica accepting the gospel take up theangels song, and join all Christendom in the time of joy comes again in our own loved land, I think of the happyfestivities of a year ago at one of our mission stations in Natal, where Christ-mas carols are sung as joyously as here, but under a midsummer sky,,illumined by the southern
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