# The Lutheran Pioneer_St. Louis_1888_S35 # Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration) The Lutheran Pioneer. 35 ee ee Answered Prayer. Inland Mission, Missionary Conference: ‘I have had all sorts of experiences in all sorts of circumstances, and when I have come to God and pleaded His own promises in His -own-Word, I have never been disappointed. T have been in circumstances of great difficulty, and have been led to ask Him for remarkable | help. I was nearly wrecked when I was going out to China for the first time. Our vessel was | becalmed, and gradually drifting upon the coast of New Guinea. “We could see the sav- -ages on the shore. They had kindled a fire, | and noticed that one of the sails was quivering | that way about God; %t is not right!”” The two with- the coming breeze. Said I: ‘Don’t you|men may perhaps not have blushed for many Rev. J. Hudson Taylor, founder of the China| see that the corners of the royals are already | years, but now the blood rushed to their faces coming, and we had better be ready for it.’ course the mate went to work, and soon the sailors were tramping over the deck. the sails were set the wind was down upon us. The captain came up to see what was the matter. He saw that our prayers had been answered; and we didn’t forget to praise God for so signal a deliverance from the perils to| which we were exposed. turn to this book (the Bible), and draw a check, and it is always honored.’’ and were evidently expecting a good supper that night. some of the other students used to jeer at me because I was going among the heathen, and they would talk about ‘cold mission- cary.’ Well, it did look that -night as if somebody was going to have a piece of hot missionary. The captain said to me, ‘We can’t do sanything else but let down the long boat.’ They had tried to turn the head of the vessel around from the ‘shore, but in vain. We had been becalmed for sev- eral weeks, with never a breeze, or any sign of one. In a few minutes we would be among the coral reefs. We would be at the mercy of those savages, and they didn’t look as if they had much mercy. ‘Well,’ I said,‘ there is one thing we haven’t done yet. Let the Christians on board pray about it.’ There was a black man on board, » steward, who was a very sweet Christian man, and the captain was a Chris- tian, and myself. I proposed that we should retire to our cabins, and in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ ask our Father, and His Father for a breeze immediately. They agreed. I went to my cabin, and told the Lord that I was just on my way to China; that He had ‘sent me; and that I couldn't get there if I was shipwrecked and killed; and then I was going ‘on to ask Him for a breeze, but I felt so con- fident about it that I couldn’t ask Him. So I went up on deck. There was the second officer, the chief mate—a very godless man. I went up to him and said, ‘If I were you I would let down the mainsail.’ Said he: ‘What do you want me to let down the mainsail for?’ I said: “We have been praying for a breeze, and it is coming directly, and the sooner. we are ready for it the better.’ With an oath he eaid he would rather see a breeze than hear of one. ‘As he was speaking I instinctively looked up, When I was a medical student] ; — - o< > A MISSIONARY STATION. What a Sermon a Child can Preach. ‘A noble Chiistian woman, who was always speaking about the Lord and his goodness to all about her, and who was very careful to teach her little children that ‘‘the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom,” once stopped with her little six-year-old daughter at a hotel in Baden, Germany. At the table sat many rich people, and among them two, who cared more for money and for the god of this world than they did for the God of Heaven. They at once began to talk very wickedly about God and religion. They talked as if they were very great men, and as if they meant to drive God from his throne and to wipe out all religion from the earth. To many, such talk seemed awfully wicked, and yet no one had the cour- age to say one word to those wicked men and to stand up boldly for Jesus. ‘As no one seemed to care for the honor of God, this little girl, as if moved by the Holy Ghost,.stood up and said: “‘You must not talk |) told the following at a recent| shaking? My dear fellow, there is a good breeze| and they sat silent and ashamed before this Of | little six-year-old preacher. Her voice seemed to them as a voice from the Other World; and Before | so it was, for the Holy Spirit must have taught that little girl what she should say. the room rejoiced at what the little girl—or preacher, as I must call her—said, and an aged man called out: ‘‘ Yes, my dear child, you are right; no one ought to talk that way We have been pen-| about God.”’ niless in the interior of China; but we simply | Many in Dear reader, never be ashamed to stand up boldly and to speak a word for Jesus. Olive Leaf. —_— -o