# The Lutheran Pioneer_St. Louis_1887_S34
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34 The Lutheran Pioneer.

bf A Missionary Picture. I can always see them, and take them out and encouraged me, but the reverse; and eventhe |
LA air them. See, here-is the halferown I put in} truest friends and brethren hinted that I was :
Collections for mis- $5,000 collection for} the plate last Sunday; and the shawl I gave to| not quite in my senses. When Duke George _ ~
~ sions $8.67. ‘‘Best our newsteeple. ‘‘We/ the beggar girl; and the mittens I gave to the | of Saxony lay on his death-bed, and was yet in
that we can do on mustholdupthecross”| crippled boy; and the penny I gave to the/doubt to whom he should flee with his soul,
account of home ex- (on the steeple). organ-grinder; and here is even the benevolent | whether to the Lord Jesus Christ and His dear  ~
penses.”’ smile I bestowed on the crossing-sweeper at my| merits, or to the pope and his good works,
Collection for Col- $4,000 for new or- door; and’? — ‘ there spoke a trusty courtier to him: ‘Your —
ored Mission in the gan. Paid choir. ‘‘We “And what’s in the sack behind you?’’| Grace, straightforward makes the best runner.’ i
South, $3.99. ‘We must push ahead.’’ asked the first traveler, who thought his com-|That word had Jain fast in my soul. ‘I had is
have no money.”’ pou good deeds would never come to an ey at men’s doors, and found them aaa mae
0 ; end. and yet the plan was manifestly good and for F
: Gospel according to Gospel according to “Tut, tut,’’ said number two, ‘there is|the cee of God. What a a be done? 3
= St. Matthew, “Go ye Brother _Closefisted, nothing I care to look at in there! That sack Straightforward makes the best runner. I r
pcnerore ana. teach all ‘*The Lord have mercy holds what I call my little mistakes.’ prayed fervently to the Lord, Jaid the matter F
nations. St. Mark, alin the poor heathen. ‘Tt seems to me that your sack of mistakes|in His hands, and as I rose up at midnight
“Go ye into all the We cannot do anys is fuller than the other,’’ said number one. from my knees, I said with a voice that almost
_ World and preach the — thing for sper: Char Number two frowned. He had never thought |startled me in the quiet room: Forward now,
Gospel to every creat- ty begins at home. that, though he had put what he called his}in God’s name. From that moment there
ure: “‘mistakes’’ out of sight, every one else could | never came thought of doubt into my mind.”
. «The silver and the ‘“‘Let the mission-}see them still. An angry reply was on his|The ship was built, and October 28th, 1858, :
oor _gold is Mine, and the aries live on faith.| lips, when, happily, a third traveler—also car-|it left Hamburg with the first colony of mis- “§
cattleuponathousand Lord, keep  them/}rying twosacks, as they were—overtook them. | sionaries. f
hills.” ‘‘Give and it humbleand we'll keep| The first two men at once pounced on the Sone Fi
shall be given unto them poor.”’ _ | Stranger. — Bahlestinva Snow-Bank:
you.” ‘“What cargo do you carry in your sack?”
“Upon the firstday- | Church fairs, sup- cred rae hes Shall I tell you how the mammas away up
of the week let every pers, lectures, and pects LS aft Get, said the other. in Lapland keep their babies from disturbing
one of you Jay by him ~ many other devices. | With all’ my heart,” quoth the stranger; | the minister on Sunday? Poor babies! I sup-
in store, as God hath ‘for I have a goodly assortment, and I like | pose it is growing bad style every where to take
prospered him.’’ Mo ae them. This sack,’ ae he} Pointing |them out to church. And I suppose, too, that
“I determined not “If we don't enter- to the one hanging in Ee of him, “‘is full of | the ministers are privately as thankful as can
. P the gond deeds of others. be. But the Lapp mammas don’t stay at home
OT ONG an ia people they, “Your sack looks nearly touching the ground. | with theirs. The Lapps are a very religious |
SMCRE YOU: save Jeans wae is eae So-)Tt must be a pretty heavy weight to carry,” people. They go immense distances to hear
Christ and Him cru-  cred”’ concerts, danc-| ..:4 number one. a ih RE Rs ES A
| cified.... That your ing etc. ete. “There you sre mistaken,’’ replied the Sasa ccneael ane Dora eee ee an
i faith should not stand’ ‘ ‘ty pe rape , ; I 4 large audience, and an attentive one. He can ~
‘atte Shae ae Re : een D weig' 3 only a as = . tes hear a pin drop—that is, should he choose to
bathing thax power of oas 2 a are to an eagle. 1e'PS | drop one himself; the congregation wouldn't
God.” appa ; : make so much noise as that under any con-
i eae Well, your sack behind can be of little | sideration. All the babies are outside, buried
good to you,’’ said number two, ‘for it ap-/in the snow. As soon as the family arrives at 4
- The Two Sacks. pears: tobe empty; and I see it has a great the little wooden church, and the reindeer is
; hole in the bottom of it.” - secured, the papa Lapp shovels a snug little
ee _ here is an ancient legend that tells of an} ‘I did it on purpose,” said the stranger; |}oq in the snow, and mamma Lapp wraps baby

old man who was in the habit of traveling from | ‘for all the evil I hear of people I put in there, snugly in skins «md deposits it therein. Then
place to place, with a sack hanging behind his} and it falls through, and is lost. So, you see, papa piles the snow around it, while the parents
back and another in front of him. ; I have no weight to drag me down backward.” go decorously into church. Over twenty or ~_
In the one behind him he tossed all the kind Independent. | thirty babies lie out in the snow around the.
deeds of his friends, where they were quite hid lS church, and T never heard of one that suffo-
from view; and he soon forgot all about them. cated or froze. Smoke-dried little creatures,
In the one hanging round his neck, under) +7 I suppose they are tough! But how would our
Riggelinypbenroppedsalluthe sins) which’ the| 4° # sa os soft, tender, pretty, pink-and-white babies like
people he knew committed; and these he was} Louis Harms, a pious Lutheran minister of |i¢ qo you think?— Wide Awake.
‘in the habit of turning over and looking at as} Hermannsburg, had determined upon establish-
he walked along, day by day. ing a mission among the heathen. Twelve
: One day, to his surprise, he met a man wear- | young men had offered themselves for the work, Good Angels.
oe “ing, just like himself, a sack in front and onej and had already been educated by him and his ;
behind. He went up to him and began feel-| brother. He selected the Gallas, on the coast} The nature and character of the good angels
ing his sack. of Africa, as the objects of the mission, but} isa humble, loving, friendly nature, which does
*« What have you got here, my friend?” he| could not find the means to send the mission-/ not deem itself too high ‘to serve poor sinful
“asked, giving the sack in front a good poke. aries. He tells the story of the ship himself: | creatures, both men and women. For they are
"Stop, don’t do that!”’ cried the other:|‘‘One of the sailors said, ‘Why not build a| full of light, of the knowledge of God, and of;
you'll spoil my good things.” ship, and you can send out as many, and as| the wisdom of the divine goodness. ‘Therefore,
** What things?”” asked number one. often as you will?’ Ihe proposal was good; |all that God commands they understand to be —
my good deeds,” answered number] but the money! That was a time of great con-| perfect, and very good, because it pleases God.”
sp hem all in front of me, where| flict, and I wrestled with God. For no one Tnither. ~

Harms’ Mission Ship.

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