# The Lutheran Pioneer_St. Louis_1929_S105
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

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THE LUTHERAN PIONEER.

as he had lived, a noble, simple, courageous Chris-
tian. His last words were: “Father, forgive them,
for they know not what they do.” For an hour and
a half his body was left swinging in the air amidst
the derisive shouts of the fanatics. The other pris-
oners were later set free. The body of the faithful
missionary was decently buried.

In a few months this strange movement had died
out, but only after much harm had been done to
soul and body and property. F. J. L.

The Lure of Africa.

The Northern Presbyterians are carrying on
a most successful mission in Kamerun. In such

great numbers are people pressing into the Church,

that one of their missionaries says that they are
working in a “tumult of development.” The same
missionary describes the mass movement thus: “The
forest tribes and the tribes of the sea crowded into
the tribe of God.” Another sentence from the pen
of the missionary referred to breathes the very
atmosphere of success: “All these years to have been
praying, perhaps mechanically, ‘Thy kingdom come,’
and then one day to see it coming, crowding up the
old path that has been made straight and the way
of the Lord.”

Thus writes another missionary in Kamerun:
“The work is moving in a way that is absolutely
beyond human control. Tundreds are confessing
Christ every month. The Lord is doing glorious
things for Africa.”

Among the wonders of Kamerun is the develop-

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