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What news, what news this bitter night,<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n When all is No news except a baby born,<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n Who finds within an ox’s What men are these who hurry past?<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n What wonder do they Shepherds who heart the herald song,<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n Who haste in stable to adore What child is this who, sleeping, makes<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n The manger throne his None but the King of heaven high,<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n Born into dying to redeem our What shall I bring to honor Him?<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n What homage pay, what poor gift Naught but your heard which, dead in sin,<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n Finds in this Child redeeming The What news, what news this bitter night, When all is shuttered in the gloom? No news except a baby born, Who finds within an ox’s stall his narrow room. What men are these who hurry past? What wonder do they run to see? Shepherds who heart the … Continue reading What News This Bitter Night?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[2237,1881],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25201"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25201\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nshuttered in the gloom?<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n
\nstall his narrow room.<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n
\nrun to see?<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n
\nthe mystery.<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n
\nresting place?<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n
\nfallen race!<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n
\ngive?<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n
\nlove—and strength to live!<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n
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\npoem is by the late Dr. Henry Letterman, longtime professor of English at
\nConcordia Teachers College, River Forest, IL. Dr. Richard Hillert, of the same institution, put this poem to music for Grace Lutheran Church, River Forest, IL. It was recorded by the Schola Cantorum of St. Peter’s in the Loop in 1992.<\/i><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"