Christmas Light,
Christmas Peace
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n Christmas Eve more than a hundred years ago in a Belgium battlefield, the world stood at war on the Western Front. On one side of this bloody conflict huddled the British soldiers; on the other side, the Germans. As the sun began to dip and the fierce fighting of the day began to die down, the German soldiers laid down their weapons and
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THE CANADIAN LUTHERAN November/December 2020
by Mark Smith
began to decorate their trenches with Tannenbäume and Christmas wreaths. They lit candles and started to pray. As night approached, messages from the Germans were sent to the British troops that read: “If you don’t shoot, we won’t shoot.” Not long afterwards, the Germans began to sing Christmas carols. One of them caught the attention of
