Chapter 171: 265 chapters, mistaken love and blessings

265 chapters, mistaken love and blessings...

265 chapters, mistaken love and blessings......

――――Liu Guozong

On the Christmas night of 18o1, in a secluded village in Oberndorf, Germany, there was a poor pastor named Mohr, gazing at the snowflakes drifting across the sky and the village lights, bright or dim, amidst the snowflakes, quietly contemplating, recalling his own unfortunate--humble and impoverished--origin.

Mohr was an illegitimate child. His father was a soldier in the archbishop's army, named Joseph. Because of Mohr's mother's misplaced affection, she had an illicit affair with Joseph and became pregnant. In medieval Germany, this was considered a heinous crime, punishable by extreme severity. To avoid punishment, Joseph, this heartless, unrighteous coward, fled far away.

Because of the pregnancy, Mohr's mother escaped punishment. Thus, after Mohr was born, he did not know who his father was. An orphan and a widowed mother--life's hardship is easy to imagine.

Because Mohr was intelligent and studious from childhood, and kind to everyone everywhere, he later became a pastor in the village church, a poor and obscure pastor.

He prayed to God--

God, oh God, you bestow upon the fortunate official luck, wealth luck, glory...

God ah, you grant the unfortunate hardship, kindness, peace....

Mohr prayed and prayed, and a great song, sung throughout the world, burst forth from his lips on Christmas night--

Silent night, holy night,

In the midst of darkness, light shines.

It shines upon the Holy Mother and also upon the Holy Infant,

As much love as there is, so much purity;

Quietly enjoying the heaven‑bestowed sleep,

Quietly enjoying the heaven‑bestowed sleep.

God ah, you grant the good a lifetime of peace. Peace is blessing. Therefore, this poor and unfortunate Mohr named the poem he wrote on Christmas night 'Silent Night'.

Why has this 'Silent Night' spread throughout the world and become an immortal song? Because the wish of all good people in the world is the same--

"Peace is blessing, blessing is peace."