# The Lutheran Pioneer_St. Louis_1930_S105
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

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THE LUTHERAN PIONEER.

worrying about her soul ever since, and now she is
so thankful that she cannot find words enough to
express her gratitude. She says: ‘I know that God
has sent you to me that I might still learn of my
God and be saved before I die. I should like to pay
you for this, but you will not take it, and so I thank
God on bended knee every night.’ Friends, these

Chinese Christian Children.

are some of the real joys of missionaries. Do you
think mission-work is in vain? This woman’s reason
for becoming a Christian is that she has noticed that
only Christians are truly happy. ‘Many others ap-
pear happy, but not like Christians. I want to
become a Christian.’ Will you not pray for her,
friends?

“At our home we have devotions every morning
and evening. On Sunday we have an English

service and on Monday night we conduct a Bible
class in English. Though it is primarily intended
for our own spiritual enlightenment, yet occasion-
ally others drop in.

“At our other stations your missionaries are also
working very hard. At Hankow our brethren have
a very difficult piece of work. There they are open-
ing our new Chinese Concordia
Seminary. Any one who has been
at one of our seminaries or colleges
knows that our professors have
a hard life; however, to teach the
same theology in Chinese is still
harder. But God will grant THis
blessing. We ask you all to pray
for us.

To-day my dear wife accom-
panied me to a Japanese
celebration across from our com-
pound. It was the fifty-eighth an-
niversary of the death of the grand-
father of their present emperor.
They celebrate this day because it
was the beginning of a new epoch
in Japan. Since then Japan has
been great among the nations.
There is a Japanese gunboat in our
harbor, and the sailors had many
contests, which were very interest-
ing. When we return on furlough,
we shall tell you some of the stunts

great

that would be excellent for any
Sunday-school picnic.
“Dr. Chiao is our next-door

neighbor. He has the only radio in
Shasi, and occasionally I go there to
listen to weird music from a Chinese
station, say in Shanghi, Nankin, or
Tientsin, or to some slow, droning
music from the powerful station at
Harbin, or to some good music
broadcast from a British station at
Canton. The doctor thinks I am
a radio engineer because I fixed his
radio so that the static was eliminated. He speaks
Chinese, Japanese, English, and some German.
“Some time ago my good wife invited a number
of the men from our mission in to celebrate my
birthday. A birthday is very important in China.
This celebration consisted in eating sweets and in
listening ‘to a fine speech by Mr. Hsue. This was
translated by our Mr. Pan, so that we could get the
whole benefit of it. I also spoke to them about