The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1880, Page 8

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8 The Lutheran Pioneer.

The poor baron was so near his end that he
could not speak, and therefore every time a
question was asked he only nodded with his
head. ‘‘There’’, said the monk to the son of
the dying man, “you see that this is the last
will of your father. He wants to give the
greater portion of his property to the cloister.”’

‘*Yes’’, said the son. ‘‘But now will you
please let me ask a question?’? And he ap-
proached the bed, saying, ‘‘Father, do you
want me to throw this monk down the door-
steps and into the streets?”’

As before, the man nodded. ‘‘There’’, said
the son to the monk, ‘‘You see it is my father’s
last will to have me kick you out of the house.”
And in a moment he had the door opened and
the “last will and testament’’ was duly ad-
ministered. The monk was kicked out, but
the cloister received no money.

If all sons were as shrewd as this young
baron, the fine palaces now occupied by monks
and nuns would be less numerous, and the
Papists would not be able to build so many ex-
pensive churches.—Lutheraner.

learn well, and be good, so that he may come
into the garden; but he has a cousin Lehne,
whom he must bring along with him. The
man said, Very well, go write to him. Now,
my dear little son, love your lessons, and your
prayers, and tell Philip and Jocelin to do so
too, that you may all come to the garden.
May God bless you. Give cousin Lehne my
love, and kiss her for me.
Your dear father,
Marty Luraer.”’

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“Trust in God.

‘‘Mother,”’ said a little girl, ‘‘what did David
mean when he said, ‘Preserve me, O God, for
in thee do I put my trust?’”’

‘Do you remember,’’ said her mother, ‘‘the
little girl we saw walking with her father in the
woods yesterday ?”’

“Oh, yes, mother; wasn’t she beautiful?”

“She was a gentle, loving little thing, and
her father was very kind to her. Do you re-
member what she said, when they came to the
narrow bridge over the brook?’’

“JT don’t like to think about that bridge,
mother; it makes me giddy. Don’t you think
itis very dangerous, just those two loose planks

laid across, and no railing? If she had stepped
a little on either side, she would have fallen
into the water.”

“Do you remember what she said?”’ asked
the mother. c

“Yes, ma, she stopped a minute, as if she
was afraid to go over, and then looked up into
her father’s face and asked him to take hold of
her hand, and said: ‘You will take hold of me,

dear father; I don’t feel afraid when you have
hold of my hand.’ And her father looked so lov-
ingly upon her, and took tight hold of her hand,
as if she were very precious to him.”
“‘Well, my child,” said the mother, ‘‘I think
David felt just like that little girl, when he
_ wrote those words you have asked me about.’’
“‘Was David going over a bridge, mother?”’
‘Not such a bridge as the one we saw in the
woods; but he had come to some difficult place
in his life—there was some trouble before him
that made him feel afraid, and he looked up to
God, just as that little girl looked up to her
father, and said: ‘Preserve me, O God, for in
thee do I put my trust.’ It is just as if he had
said, ‘Please take care of me, my kind heavenly
Father; I do not feel afraid when thou art
with me, and taking hold of my hand.’”’
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The Baron’s Son and the Monk.

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The Outlook from the Editor’s Window.

Rev. Dr. Boarpman, pastor of the First
Baptist Church in Philadelphia, lately held a
lecture on education before a large audience.
He maintained that unless religious instruction
be combined with secular education in the
schools, the population must be'made up largely
of moral monsters. And as the public schools
can not be used for bringing up children in the
Christian faith, he strongly favored the estab-
lishment of parochial schools by all the churches.
This is exactly what the Lutheran synods of
our Synodical Conference have been doing for
many years and are still doing. We Lutherans
establish parochial schools in connection with
our churches, because we wish to obey the
commandment of our Saviour: ‘‘Feed my
lambs.’’ We wish to educate our children, not
only for this world, but for heaven and for
Christ. We know, too, that a true Christian
is also the best citizen.

On Parocutau Scuoors.—By request we
publish in this number a copy of a letter on
Parochial Schools, written by Prof. Selle at
Addison, Il]. Rey. Selle has been professor in
our School Teachers’ Seminary for many years,
and is well acquainted with our parochial school
system. His advice should be well considered
by all that are called upon to organize and con-
duct a parochial school.

On the 8th of April, 1588, Dr. Martin Lu-
ther told the following:
, A’ monk visited a baron who was dying. The
first thing the monk did was to ask the dying
man how much and what portions of his prop-
erty he would give to the cloister. ‘“‘Sir’”, said
the monk, ‘‘will you give this to the cloister?
Will you give that-to the cloister?”’

Bap Booxs.—We should shun bad books
and papers as well as bad companions. How
many have been Jed astray by reading bad
books! Two white and two colored boys lately
left their homes in Missouri. By reading bad
books they got the notion into their heads to
roam about in the world and encounter all
kinds of adventure. They came as far as

Atchison, Kansas. Here they tried to jump
on a locomotive, which was slowly passing by.
But two of the boys were killed by the train.
The other two went back home. By the hor-
rible accident they were cured of their foolish
notion. We hope they were also cured of read-
ing bad books.

A Goop Boox Learnt By Hearr.—There
is a wonderful Chinese boy in one of the mis-
sion schools at Peking, in China. The mission-
ary writes this about him: ‘‘One boy at our
late examination repeated the entire New Testa-
ment without missing a single word or making one
mistake. He is a diligent student of the Bible,
and we have great hopes of his future useful-
ness.’ If there is any boy among our readers
that can do the same, we would like to hear of
him.

Tue GERMAN LUTHERAN Bisie Socrery has
given $50.00 for the purchase of Bibles and
other religious books, to be used in the Luth-
eran Mission among the colored people of the
South. Next?—We need many dollars for
this purpose. Our missionaries will bless the
kind donors for such gifts.

Tue LurHEerRAN ImmiGRANT Mission of the
Synodical Conference at New York distributed
12,000 tracts and a thousand Lutheran alma-
nacs, besides many church papers, during the
past year. $15,000 passed through the mis-
sionary’s hands. 734 persons were assisted on
their westward journey, and employment was
obtained for about 60 persons. $233 were given
to the entirely destitute and $1,307 loaned to
those in temporary need.

“Mr. Anonymous’ wrote us a letter. He
thinks we were ‘‘ very good at guessing’? when
we wrote that article in our last number about
what the Pronerr told us. ‘‘Mr. Anonymous’’
is mistaken, entirely mistaken. The talk of the
PIONEER is taken from letters which we re-
ceived during the past year. So the guessing
has been done by ‘‘Mr. Anonymous,’’. and he
is not ‘‘ very good at guessing.’”’ We fear ‘‘ Mr.
Anonymous”’ belongs to the large family ot
grumblers. Besides spending 25 cents for the
PionEER, he ought to spend 25 cents for a box
of liver pills. Farewell, ‘‘Mr. Anonymous’’!
We close our window.

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