# The Lutheran Pioneer_St. Louis_1907_S88 # Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration) 88. The Lutheran Pioneer. css ss ssajsw««>eeeeeeeeeeeeeeee From Darkness to Light. A missionary, who labored among the Indians in the West for many years, relates the following: “Some years ago an Indian stood at my door, and as I opened it, he knelt at my feet. Of course I bade him not to kneel. He said: ‘My father, I knelt only because my heart is warm to a man who pitied the red man. I am a wild man. My home is five hundred miles from here. I knew that all the Indians east of the Mississippi had perished, and I never looked into the faces of my children that my heart was not sad. My father had told me of the Great Spirit, and I have often gone out into the woods and tried to talk with him.’ “Then he said, so sadly, as he looked into my face: “You don’t know what I mean. You never stood in the dark, and reached out your hand and could not take hold of anything. And I heard one day that you had brought to the red man a wonder- ful story of the Son of the Great Spirit.’ “That man sat as a child, and he heard anew the story of the love of Jesus. And when we met again, he said, as he laid his hand on his heart: “Tt is not dark; it laughs all the while.’ ” BOOK TABLE. + PROCEEDINGS OF THE TENTH CONVENTION of the Evangel- ical Lutheran Synod of Missouri and other States. American Lutheran Publication Board, Pittsburg, Pa. Price, 20 cts. Besides encouraging zener on the important educa- tional and missionary work of our English brethren, this pamphlet contains an instructive doctrinal paper on Con- version, very clearly setting forth this important doctrine in accord with Holy Scriptures and the Confessions of the Lutheran Church. AMERIKANISCIER KALENDER fuer deutsche Lutheraner auf das Jahr 1908. Concordia Publishing House, St. Louis, Mo. Price, 10 cts. ~ This useful annual will, no doubt, again be welcomed in thousands of German Lutheran homes. Besides the usual calendar and statistical matter, it this year con- tains 27 pages of instructive and edifying reading matter. It brings also a beautiful colored picture representing the risen Savior with the two disciples at Emmaus, and illus- trating the pilgrims’ prayer: “Lord, abide with us!” From American Lutheran Publication Board, Pitts- burg, Pa., we have received two excellent Christmas Pro- grams: THE CuRisTsAs Messace. A Festival Service for English Lutheran Schools. THE Cneist-Cnitp. A Program for a Children’s Service at Christmas. Price, each 5 cts. per copy, tpaid; per dozen, not postpaid, 50 cts.; seed ater |p $3.50." Acknowledgment. Received for Colored Missions from Mount Zion Church at New Orleans, La., $35.00; St. Paul’s Church, New Or- leans, La., 35.00; St. Paul’s Church, Mansura, La., 12.50; St. Paul’s Church, Charlotte, N. C., 5.00; Mount Zion Church, Meyersville, N. C., 2.50; Grace Mission, St. Louis, Mo., 5.00; Holy Trinity Church, Springfield, Ill., 31.00; Grace Church, Concord, N. C., 10.00. St. Louis, Mo., October 19, 1907. A. C. Bureporr, T'rcas. NOTICE. All subscribers whose periodicals are mailed directly to their address will always find the date up to which their subscription has been paid on the wrapper of each number, “Jan. 08” means to say that the paper has been paid to January 1, 1908, while “Jan. 07” or “Jan. 06” calls attention to the fact that the subscription is still due for the entire year of 1907 or 1906, respectively. Those in arrears are asked to kindly remit at their ear- liest convenience; and since the year is drawing to a close, , the amount for next year’s subscription would also be welcome. Those subscribing through an agent will kindly pay their agent in the near future, so as to enable him to balance his accounts with us before the end of the year. 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