# The Lutheran Pioneer_St. Louis_1913_S77
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The Lutheran Pioneer. 27

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up Brahman parents, has resigned “on account of
ill health.”

We cannot but admire the courage of Missionary
Stallmann, and rejoice with him in the victory
which God gave him in his hard battle. May God
at all times give our workers the firmness to cope
successfully with caste fanaticism and all the powers
of darkness!

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A Letter from Uncle Bob in New Orleans.

Dean Pronern: — No, I have not been sleeping
in Sleepy Hollow, as Old Rip did long ago. I just
“laid low” till something good came along.

are always fruitful of good results. We owe these
self-sacrificing ladies much gratitude.

There are not a few Northern friends who re-
member Uncle Bob's old friend, Mary C. Wright.
She dates hack over thirty years, back to Sailors’
Home. She has had her ups and downs. Once
upon a time, when Walker Wright, her husband
(and a fine specimen of the polite Virginian he was
indeed!), was living, she was the owner of a nice,
cozy home. God had blessed them both with means
then, but He also permitied these means to slip
away in THis inscrutable wisdom. Mary C. Wright.
however, had many friends among the people, and —
hence she always found an open door. While it is

CANDIDATE ARTHUR V. BERGER,
Newly Called Teacher of Mount Zion School, New Orleans.

Now, there, you know we have some good souls
here in Mount Zion who are giving their time for
a good purpose. They are making personal calls
upon delinquents, gathering funds for our treasu-
ries. It requires much time to do this, is often
inconvenient, too, just when it should be done; and
yet these good ladies never complain, but toil on
and on. ‘They have their reward, for God has
crowned their efforts with good success. But it is
not alone that they succeed in getting the funds;
the delinquents are also reminded that the Lord
wants them to come down to His temple to worship
and commune with the congregation. ‘These per-

sonal calls are needed in every congregation, and

CANDIDATE JOHN THOMPSON,
Newly Called Teacher of St. Paul's Colored School, New Orleans.f

natural for us to have regrets when good fortune,
as we call it, bids us farewell, yet she is happy and
contented in the consciousness that God has taken
her by the hand and led her safely so far *mid all
these changing years. His grace and His blessings
have been with her always anew. And to show her
faith and gratitude, she has on several occasions in
the past brought her offering of thanks to Him
who has attended all her wants these many years.
Lately again she brought her gift to the altar of
the Lord. This time she furnished the means for
a new bell, and was given a vote of thanks by a
rising congregation. + ‘he cost of the bell will ex-
ceed $100.00. Up and about, you Croesuses, North