# The Lutheran Pioneer_St. Louis_1890_S23 # Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration) The Lutheran Pioneer. Eee A Story to our Picture. She was knitting as hard as she could. Grandma could knit about as fast as she could think. Little Nell was fidgeting about the room, asking questions. She could ask ques- tions faster than grandma could think. ‘Oh, come!”’ she said at last; ‘‘you’ve asked questions enough to last all day; get the book and read a little to grandma; I've had no reading since morning.” ‘‘Well,’’ said Nell, with a very bright face, “*T will,” and she scampered after ‘the book’? —she knew very well what book she meant. ‘“Now, grandma, where shall I read?” ‘Well, dear, your brother commenced on the fourteenth chapter of Matthew, and he read to where Jesus sent His disciples away in a ship and He went up into a mountain to pray; then the bell rang and he had - to run.”’ “Tee the place, grandma,” and Nellie’s clear little voice read: ‘“ ‘But the ship was now in the midst of the sea, tossed with waves, for the wind was contrary: And in the fourth watch of the night—’ “What time was that, grandma?’’ ‘‘A bout four o'clock, I think, dear.” ‘«« Jesus went unto them walking on the sea,” “Oh, my! just to think, walking right on the water; I don’t see how He could have done it.”” ““*And when the disciples saw Him walking on the sea they were troubled—’ “T should have thought they would be. Wouldn’t you have been afraid, grandma? — ‘saying, It is a spirit, and they cried out for fear. But straightway Jesus is I; be not afraid.’ ‘Oh, mustn’t they have been glad to hear His voice? But I think after all they were | “How did heact? Oh, Isee! Why, grandma, | he was afraid after Jesus had called him! How silly to be afraid! would have walked right straight on.’ | 23 “Didn't I tell you? ‘Immediately’ He took | care of him, just the minute Peter wanted Him I wouldn’t have been; Ij to ; that’s always the Wway.”” “‘Grandma,’’ said Nell, soberly, ‘‘I should | ‘Yes, that’s just exactly the way Peter used like to have Jesus speak to me.’’ to talk; he never was afraid of anything until | |he had to go through it.”’ “But, grandma, do you think I could be so} |foolish, if Jesus had really told me I might | | walk on the water to Him?” | “Did you ever hear of a little girl who| was so foolish as to be afraid to go up stairs | I in the dark to bed, after Jesus had told her| that He had given His angels charge over | her?” Nell blushed, and kicked one of her kid toes | | against the hearth as she said: | Oh, well, that is different!’ “Yes,” said grandma, quietly; ‘‘it isn’t the spake unto them, saying, Be of good cheer; it|sea in a storm; it’s only your nice pleasant room; that might make a difference.’’ Miss Nell read on: ‘‘‘But when he saw the wind boisterous he was afraid; and, beginning very stupid people. I should think they might to sink, he cried, saying, Lord, save me.’”? have known that it was Jesus. Grandma, the next is about Peter.’’ ‘©* And Peter answered Him and said, Lord, if it be thou, -bid me come unto thee on- the water.’”’ . ‘How like Peter that is,’’ grandma said, knitting away. ‘He always wanted to do some queer thing or other; he never was content to act like other people. Well, let’s hear what Jesus said to him.’? ‘*¢ And He said, Come. “That's sensible in Peter anyhow,” said grandma, beginning to ‘‘toe off’’ her stocking. “TI think much better of him than I did; it isn’t every one who has brains to cry to the Lord to come and take care of him; if he couldn’t possibly have sense enough to trust Jesus in the first place, why, the next best thing to do was to cry to Him for help. I sup- pose he got it without any doubt?” ‘Grandma, what if the next verse should And when Peter} read: ‘But Jesus walked right on and let Peter was come down of the ship he walked on the | sink—,” water to go to Jesus.’ “Grandma, wasn’t it nice in Jesus to call him and Jet him go walking on the water like what nobody else could do? I would just have ’ liked that.’ 5 “I dare say you would,’’ grandma said, smiling. ‘‘And I think it’s very likely you would have acted just as Peter did.’ “Tt won't read so,”’ said grandma decidedly; ‘because you see nobody ever cried, ‘Lord, save me,’ really wanted to be saved, that Jesus didn’t attend to him right away.” ‘Well, He did this time. It says: ‘And immediately Jesus stretched forth his hand and caught him, and said unto him, O thou of little faith, wherefore didst thou doubt??”’ — |in a very few days! He will hold out his hand and say, blessed of my father,’ | ‘Depart from me.’ Don’t you let it be that “Why?” said grandma. “It makes me smile | to see how like Peter you are; he had dreadful little faith, you know. To think of the times and times that Jesus has spoken to you. Why you couldn’t begin to count them.’ “Oh, but, grandma, I don’t mean that way! mean real truly speak to me, so I can hear Him with my ears, just as Peter did.” “Oh, well, He will one of these days; maybe I don’t know how soon. ‘Come, ye or else He will say: last, Nellie. Grandma wants her little girl with her up there.”— 7. P. —s-——- o-oo George’s Prayer. A poor widow was once anxious about her rent. She had no money to pay. While she was one day sitting thinking what was to be done, she heard a low voice com- ing from the next room. She went to the door to listen. Lo, it was her dear little son George. He was engaged in prayer. He loved Jesus. He spoke to God about his mother. He thanked God for giving him such a dear, good mother. , Then he told the Lord how much his mother was troubled because she had no money to pay her rent; then he finished his prayer in this simple way: —‘‘O Lord, pay mother’s rent. Please do for Jesus’ sake. Amen.’ This prayer touched his mother. She went away and said nothing. The prayer was heard in heaven. The next day a lady came, who had heard of her troubles, and gave her enough money to pay the rent. God hears prayer. Children should be diligent in prayer. Olive Leaf. How Girls in India study. Mrs. Andrews, the returned missionary from India, in her reference to the mission schools there, said in Buffalo recently that a stranger on approaching one of these schools would im- agine from the racket that they were disorderly. But this is not the case. It is due to the fact that a girl in India when studying screams at _ the top of her voice and rocks back and forth, and the more interested she becomes in her lesson the louder she screams and the harder she rocks. + oo Curist is nct valued at all unless he is valued above all.— Augustine. ; .