# The Lutheran Pioneer_St. Louis_1929_S48 # Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration) THE LUTHERAN PIONEER. 47 All of us are hopeful and happy, and it is not long before a fresh young voice calls out: “Daddy, do look at that poor, tired man. Give him some money to get into a dandy.” Because all of us are well and strong, we stop by the side of the climber. It is a burning-hot day, yet he is clad in thick woolen garments. His head and feet are bare. It was a tragedy to encounter any one so obviously un- happy as this man. He would not even do as much as raise his eyes or stay his step as we all came up to him. Betty’s daddy was the first to speak. He stayed the man with a hand on his arm. “Friend,? he said, “allow me to offer you money for conveyance, as you seem to be very tired.” In a strangely muflled voice, one might almost say an unused voice, he thanked him for the offer and said he he could not accept it. “Every day,” the climber said, “I must climb to the top of this hill and back to the foot again.” “But why?” we all asked. “TI am looking for God,” was his reply. Looking for God on a narrow hill road, with his eyes fixed on the ground. “You cannot find Him thus,” we told him. “T saw Him on this road,” the climber went on to say, and into his eyes came a light that shone bright. As if thinking aloud, he continued: — “Twenty years ago I was a young man with brilliant prospects. My health broke down from overwork, and I had to leave college. The doctors advised me to come to the hills to regain my strength. “On this very road I was passing in a dandy near that little bridge there when I saw a coolie lying in an agony of pain. He had been carrying a heavy load and had stumbled and broken his leg, bruising his arms and head. I passed on because he was only a:chamar. One hundred yards I went past him; then, for some reason, I ordered my dandy to wapas jao [turn back]. Pity had overwhelmed the pride in my heart, for I-am a high-born Brahmin. I went to the suffering coolie, stopping, I moved the big load off him; clumsily I bandaged the broken limb and gave him water to drink. “T raised the man in my arms to place him in my dandy when, as I stood up, I saw a light on the hill there, a light brighter even than that of the sun. And somehow it seemed to shine round me too. I saw a face, and the eyes were soft with love for me -as they tenderly looked down. My heart was burst- ing with a joy I could not define. — “T put the coolie in the hospital and stayed my month up there, but that face was ever before me, smiling sometimes, appealing sometimes, but calling ever. I went back to my studies, but that face was always in front of my vision, calling me. So I left all to come here to find Him. Now I have grown old walking this hill, but I have never beheld that face again.” We were all awed by what we heard. But as the climber ceased speaking, how joyfully we told him of the true, living God, who has revealed Himself in the Scriptures, and especially of Christ, who bore the burden of sin for us, in whom we may see the face of the merciful and loving God, who is the Light of the world and the Sun of Righteousness, the Redeemer of all mankind, who opened the gates of paradise for us. BOOK TABLE. Synodical Reports of Missouri Synod, 1928. Tezas District. Papers: “Der siebte Artikel der Konkor- dienformel: ‘Vom heiligen Abendmahl’” (Rev. E. F. 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