Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 December 1876 — What Love Has Done. [ARTICLE]

What Love Has Done.

In a certain district in Russia there is to be seen, in a solitary place, a pillar with this inscription: “ Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down' his life for his friend.” That pillar tells a touching tale, which many of you must have heara. It was a wild region, infested with wolves, and as a little party traveled along, it soon became plain that these were on the track. The pistols were fired; one horse after another was left to the ravenous wolves, till, as they came nearer and nearer, and nothing else remained to be tried, the faithful servant, in spite of the expostulations of his master, threw himself into the midst of them, and by his own death saved his master. That pillar marks the spot where his bones were found; that inscription records the noble instance of attachment. But there is another nobler still. There is another pillar, and on it I read, “ Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins.” That pillar is the Bible,— the noble pillar of Scripture,—written all over with loving words, and telling of salvation.—N. Y. Observer. u ; -