# The Lutheran Pioneer_St. Louis_1902_S43
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The Lutheran Pioneer.

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Rey. Doswell preach. Rev. Doswell is a na-
tive of Meherrin, Va., but by the request of
his pastor, Rev. D. H. Schooff, he came to
Greensboro, N. C., in the year 1895, to be
prepared for his entry into the Seminary at
Springfield, Ill. He was ready to enter the
Seminary in less than a year’s time, after be-
ing faithfully instructed by Rev. J. C. Schmidt.
Now, after studying
six years, he has grad-
uated from that insti-
tute with high honors.
Rev. Doswell and Rev.
Thalley are the first two
colored ministers that
have ever graduated at
any of our colleges, but
we hope they are not
the last. At present
there are about six or
seven more colored stu-
dents at Springfield,
Ill., who have also been
sent there from the
Greensboro congrega-
tion.

The day following the
ordination Rev. Dos-
well took his departure
from Greensboro, going
a few miles further
south, where he will
take charge of the sta-
tions Mount Pleasant,
Rimerstown, and Dry’s
School House. May
God’s blessings always
Test upon him, and may
He bless the labors of
his hands and mind,
that they be not in vain.

E. A. H. Buntrock.

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The New Testament
Conquered.

A Roman Catholic
priest in a village near
Morlax, France, warned
his flock that he had
power to give absolu-
tion to any of them who
might be guilty of theft,
lying, or any other sin;
but if any of them were guilty of reading the
New Testament, he could not absolve them.

In the audience was a young man who, from
his violent conduct, was the terror of the vil-
lage, even his parents having to defend them,
selves against their son. This young man,
hearing the priest’s statement, said to himself:
“T have committed all the sins the priest bas
mentioned, yet he will giye me absolution for
all, if I do not read the book. What kind of
a book can this be? I am going to get one
from the colporteur and read it.””

The colporteur, knowing his character, at
first refused, thinking he was only jesting;
but when he saw that he was in earnest and
explained his reasons, he gave him one.

A few days afterward his mother said, ‘‘How
is it that Jean is so quiet and sober lately? He
is never drunk, and retires to Lis own room

lafter dinner.”

CHRIST BLESSING THE CHILDREN.

The father replied, ‘‘I don’t know, but I
will follow him.”

The next day, going quietly to the door of
his son’s room, he found him intently reading
a book. :

He returned and told the mother. ‘‘He isin
his room reading some book; I believe itis a
New Testament.”

He came and did so. God blessed the
reading to the father, mother, and, lastly, to
| the son.
| The mother sent to the missionary, saying:
| «ey will take the furniture out of one of my
| rooms and place chairs in it if you will come
|and read the Word of God to the neighbors
} and tell them, though the priest refuses to give
them absolution, God
has forgiven us, and
will also forgive them.’’
The missionary did
so, and God blessed
the telling of the old,
old story to many souls.
Some time after this
the mayor sent for the
missionary, and said:
“T don’t know how it
is, but when the Bible
went into that house it
was the pest of the vil-
lage, but now it is the
paradise of the place.’’
This proves that the
Word of God is still
“quick and powerful,
and sharper than any
two-edged sword, pierc-
ing even to the dividing
asunder of soul and
spirit, and of the joints
and marrow, and is a
discerner of the
thoughts and intents of
the heart,’’ Hebr. 4, 12.

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An Infidel’s Prediction
Come to Naught.

Truly, the victorious
march of the Gospel
cannot be stopped. All
predictions to that ef-
fect are nonsense. ‘‘In
less than a hundred
years,” said Voltaire
in a bragging spirit,
‘Christianity will have
been swept from exist-
ence, and will have
passed into history.””

Well, infidelity held
high carnival in France,
untold misery following in its wake. More
than a century has passed. What has hap-
pened? Voltaire, the scoffer, has ‘‘passed
into history,”” history with rather an offensive
odor to it; but his printing-press has served
to print the Word of God, and his house,
which became a depot for the Geneva Bible
Society, has been stacked with Bibles many s

She replied, ‘‘If that is all the harm the | time over.

New Testament is doing, ask him to come and

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read it tous. Perhaps we shall get some good Tue last day lies hid; therefore watch every

from it.””

day. — Augustine.