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acted upon it, and when, a year later, she} my life are in danger.’ So he came and sat
folded her hands to wait for the last great trum-| by the fire, and made up his mind that he
pet, she died in the triumph ofa living faith. |would not go to bed that night. The man
Two friends had spent a pleasant hour to-| urged him to retire. ‘‘It’s time to go to bed.”
gether. At parting, the visitor, a young mother, | “Ah!’’ he thought, ‘time for you, but not for
said: ‘We may not stay in our present home, |me.”’ He was going to sit up all night.
for we want our little boy to have just the right} ‘‘Very well,” said he, ‘young man, if you
kind of surroundings. Whatever we may be, | choose to sit here all night I shall not, and you
I want him to grow into a noble man.” The | certainly will have no objection to my doing
hostess replied in a gentle but earnest tone:|that which I have been accustomed to do for
“The only way to insure his being brought up| many years, reading a psalm out of the best of
right anywhere, Mrs. Campbell, is for his pa-} all books, and asking God’s blessing upon us.’
rents to be genuine Christians.’’ Mrs. Camp-|That very moment, infidel as he was, his fears
bell afterwards told me that ‘“‘the only way’’| were gone; he went to bed, and never thought
sounded in her ears all the way home. She|}of his money. And he was so impressed with
knew it was true. She knew, too, that nothing |it, that he wrote a letter to the newspapers re-
but her own indifference prevented her being | nouncing his infidelity, because of the power of
a Christian mother. She had neither minister | Christian example upon him on that occasion.
nor meeting, but she had the Bible and that ———+ +0 >
Listener whose ear is never dull to the faintest Simple Faith.
yearning toward his warm heart. So stepping
from the broad way she set her feet into the
narrow path, her new heart joyful in the
Saviour’s love. Then, with an earnestness that
would take no denial, she began to pray for
her husband’s conversion; to ‘pray without
ceasing’”’—to use her own words. Within a
fortnight of the time when that pebble of
thought was dropped into the well of her soul,
the family altar was set up in their home, and
its fires kept alive by praying father and mother.

(For the ‘‘Lutheran Pioneer.??)
Parochial Schools.

We are glad to learn that the cause of Pa-
rochial Schools is making progress in the English
Lutheran Conference of Missouri. Rey. L. M.
Wagner, shortly after taking charge of Zion
congregation in Wayne county, in 1877, opened
a Parochial School, and in connection with it
also a High School for the accommodation of
some more advanced classes, and also for the
purpose of giving a preparatory education to
some students for the ministry in our church,
a few such being in prospect within the Con-
ference.

Here it may be proper to say concerning the
Parochial School, by way of correcting a wrong
impression that was made on several minds, that
the article from Prof. Selle on Parochial Schools,
in the April number of the PronEER, must not be
understood as if Rev. Moser had stated that he
were teacher d&c. of the school, for such is not
the case; but he had written to Prof. Selle for
general instructions in regard to such schools,
and received a personal reply, full of wholesome
instructions, which, for the benefit of the other

needy congregations, was published in the Pro-
NEER. This statement is made only for the
purpose of setting all things in their right light.

Rey. A. Rader, in speaking of the kindness
shown by his friends, by which he was enabled

I was once called, said Mr. Jay, to attend the
dying bed of a young female. In answer to
my inquiries, she replied, “I have little to say
as to my experience. I have been much tried
and tempted; but this is my sheet-anchor:—
Jesus hath said, ‘Him that cometh to me I will
in no wise cast out.’ I know I came to Him,
and I know He will be as good as His word.
Poor and unworthy as Iam, He will not trifle
with me nor deceive me. It would be beneath

to rebuild his church, that was destroyed by the Selected. | His greatness as well as goodness.”
storm, says: ‘‘I am able to say to our kind
friends, that we have our church now finished

ieee 4 - ’| The Woodsman’s Family Prayer and the Tne Lord takes up none but the forsaken;
Poe apap balaaoree yjand) that Lam teaching, tendeie y makes none healthy but the sick; gives sight

to none but the blind; makes none alive but
the dead; sanctifies none but sinners, and to
all these He is precious. — Luther.
——— > eo
WE often wish to pass on our way without
trial, but this would bring great loss to us.
The Lord’s presence is never so sweet as in mo-
ments of great difficulty.

NOTICE.

We have come to the resolution to change the time of
the opening of the volume of our “Pioneer”. We shall
open our new volume in January instead of in March,
this arrangement being more convenient for our Publish-
ing House and for many of our readers. By publishing
this extra number in October and an extra Christmas
number in December we will give our subscribers the
twelve numbers of the second volume before Christmas,
and then open our third volume with the new year. We
hope all our readers will be satisfied with this arrange-
ment, and that during the coming weeks they will try to
increase the circulation of our little ‘‘Pioneer’’.

parochial school in it five days a week.’’

Rey. J. E. Rader, of Arkansas, is teaching
four days of the week, and the people are highly
pleased with their school. Surely, from these
schools much good will result. May the other
congregations of the English Conference follow
suit very soon. Perhaps it would be wise in
those congregations to select apt and suitable
scholars from their schools, and send them to
the High School], that our ministry may be
replenished. x.

A young man, an infidel, was traveling in
the western part of the United States with a
very large sum of money upon him, and he
was conveying it from one town to another,
across a very desolate district. He was much
in hopes of reaching a certain town before
night; night came on when he was five miles
away. He saw a light, and went to a log hut,
and asked if he could find shelter for the night.

A woman came, and said she guessed he
could; that her old man was away, but that if
he would put his horse up on the lee-side of the
cabin, he might come in. He came in, looked
about him, was yery suspicious—thought of his
money—‘‘What a place to rob me in!—what a
place to murder me, and nobody the wiser of
it.” And he sat there very uneasily, till the
man came in—a rough looking woodsman, a
Pioneer, or trapper. He gave him a sort of

The Only Way.

An elderly lady, but a short time resident of
a Western village, became bewildered and un-
certain of her way, and asked a young woman
walking near if she were right. ‘The person
addressed answered courteously that she too
was a stranger, and the two walked a little
distance in company. ‘The old Jady had in rough welcome; but looking, as these men will,
early life taken refuge among infidel authors, furtively out of the corner of his eye, he seemed
and after God’s Spirit showed her their sophis-|to take the measure of the young chap, and

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on his treasure, very nervous, very anxious,
very tremulous. The man said to him, “I will
show you where you can sleep, sir.’”? He rose
all timid and trembling; he did not like the
looks of it. ‘What a place that would be to
murder a man! Oh, dear!—my money and

The woman looked surprised, hesitated 2 mo-
ment, and said: ‘I think my mother does; and
Thave been a churchi-goer all my life; but you
are the first person who ever asked me such a
question. I ought to love him.’ She carried
the thought out to her new prairie home and