# The Lutheran Pioneer_St. Louis_1906_S53
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

have no Christian schools and hear nothing of
Jesus.”

“Aunt Fanny, do you have mission meetings and
services where you live?” asked Charlie.
replied Aunt

“O yes, we have a good many,”
Fanny.

“Why, Charlie,” exclaimed Katie, “of course
they have them there.”

“O yes!” said Charlie. “Do they have them
away out in the country ?”

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“Well, just think for a moment of the ones in
our own country. Some are held in large cities,
some in small towns, and some away out in country
places. Sometimes they are in a big church where
there are hundreds of people present, and some-
times they are in a small church or even a little
room, where there are not so very many. I have
also read of missionary services held in a beautiful
grove or out in the woods under the green trees,
where thousands are gathered. And nowadays we

Basketmakers at Work in India.

“In many parts of the country they do,” said
Aunt Fanny, “and sometimes people go a long way
to attend them. Don’t you remember, Mary,” she
said to the children’s mother, “hearing about that

woman who traveled twenty miles on horseback, -

carrying her baby and fording a river, to go to a
missionary meeting ?” ;

“That was very different from leaving the baby
at home with Sarah, and going only two squares,”
said Katie.

“-Tis wonderful to think of the missionary
meetings arid services in the different parts of the
world,” said mamma.

“Oh, tell us about them!” cried all the children.

hear about missionary meetings in lands which not
long ago were heathen lands. What was that you
read to me the other day about the Sandwich
Tslands, Fanny ?”

“A missionary lady in China said that she had
just received the second payment of five dollars
from the Sandwich Islands, and that it seems won-
derful to her, as it was not a great many years since
the first missionaries went there.”

“Some of the first missionary money sent to
Japan came from those islands, didn’t it?”

“Yes.” °

“Mamma,” asked Katie, “where’s that society
where the children brought money to the yery first