# The Lutheran Pioneer_St. Louis_1921_S16
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The Lutheran Pioneer. 16

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they were rays of light in the lonely life that she
had to lead. But the main source of her delight
was her Bible. 'This Book was ever near her. When
lonely she would reach for it. She had read and
reread it until the binding was coming apart. From
this Book she gathered strength. From this Book
she also learned true Christian patience under cross
and aflliction. She was a truly patient cross-bearer.
Never once did she complain. A smile greeted the
visitor whenever he took time to stop in and see how
Mother Robertson was. God’s ways were always
right with her. She was ever thankful that while
confined to the bed and to her chair she did not
suffer much pain, she was able to see and hear, to
read and talk, and have others read and talk to her.

+ Mother Robertson. +

But her greatest delight and the source of her pa-
“tience and strength was her abiding faith in her
Savior. Her Savior was her all. She would never
tire of hearing of Him; she could never say often
enough how much she owed to Him and to His
great love for her. To this Savior she longed to go.
Often she expressed the desire to depart and to be
with Jesus, whenever Jesus was ready to take her.
Her wish was finally granted. While we were
gathered around the Christmas-tree in our church,
she who had for so many years been deprived of the
privilege of coming to the house of the Lord with
us to hear the singing and the sermons and to sec
the Christmas-tree, passed gently away, fell asleep
in Jesus’ arms, to awake under the everlasting
Christmas-tree in heaven. We mourn that we have
lost her, and we shall miss her cheery face, but our
loss is her gain. Let the example of her childlike
faith inspire us to greater faith in our Savior, then

we shall one day go where she has gone and join
her in praising the Lord, who has made all things
well. Her funeral text was: “Blessed are the dead
which die in the Lord from henceforth; yea, saith
the Spirit, that they may rest from their labors, and
their works do follow them.” Rey. 14, 13.

G. M. Kramer.

Items. of Missionary. Interest.
Activities OF THE Pubriciry SECRETARY. —
If any of our readers should ever have been tempted
to think that our Publicity Secretary, Rev. N. J.
Bakke, had but little to do, let him look over the
following account of his work done during the first
few months of his holding the office: In a little over
two months he delivered 22 sermons and lectures
before 4,575 hearers and wrote 18 articles for vari-
ous church periodicals; he attended three pastoral
conferences and sent reports of greater or less length
to 18 pastoral and teachers’ conferences that were
too far away for him to attend. Over and above
this, he wrote a number of letters in the interest
of our Colored Mission and sent out 1,000 circular
letters to our schoolteachers to enlist their services
in the spreading of the PronrEr and the J/issions-
faube. Fe traveled no less than 1,422 miles in these
few months.

A New Missionary For PitmapELrita. — On
Second Christmas Day, in an evening service held
in the church of Rev. Totzke’s white congregation,
Rev. Carl Stoll, the new missionary for Philadcl-
phia, was installed in the presence of his ‘small
colored congregation and a great crowd of white
friends of the colored work. All our white churches
in the city had dismissed their services, and the
pastors and many of their people were present to
encourage the new work by their presence. Under
Pastor Polzin, the city missionary of Philadelphia,
a small congregation of 25 Lutherans had been
gathered in the past few years, and at the earnest
solicitation of the little flock and the pastors of the
city, the Board has asked Pastor Stoll, who has been
serving several Southern congregations, to take
charge of the field. ‘The work in Philadelphia
promises to be very successful, since there are no
less than 100,000 Negroes in the city, while Wil-
mington and Chester, near by, have also large colored
populations..

Menerrtn, Va. — We were permitted to read a
very vivid description of the Christmas celebration

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