The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1885, Page 18

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18 The Lutheran Pioneer.
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Letter from Little Rock. | had been baptized on the 29th of December last How Do You Give?
; year, and was ready for confirmation as soon as
| he would be strong enough, died suddenly on| “Take heed that ye do not your alms before
DeEAR!PIONEER:— the 27th and was buried on the 30th of March. | men, to be seen of them; otherwise ye have

At;Jast I find time to let you hear something | He died very peacefully in firm reliance on his
again from our mission field. Mr. Burgdorf, | Saviour, whom he affectionately called his
who had taken charge of the mission in the|Great Physician. Another sad event was the
interval between the death of Rey. Meilaender | sudden death of Lilian Emma Jones. She was
and, the arrival of the present missionary, had | one of the most regular attendants in school.
endeared himself greatly to the members of The mission work is necessarily slow at pres-
our mission and his departure was deeply re-/ent as my school takes up almost all my time,
gretted:by all. |so that I-hardly find time to visit the members

It is rather Jate to give you any details about | and cheer them up toa more diligentattendance.
our Christmas festival. We will only say that;God grant that we may have a teacher next
it was an occasion of great joy to us all. year, for indeed we need one very much. The

no reward of your father which is in heaven,’’
Matthew 6,1. You may have seen the liberal
giver in chyrech. One of them, will not let the
left hand know what the right hand giveth—
he drops his money without show into the
basket; but the other one strokes the bill out
to its full proportions and flourishes it almost
overhead into the basket... During the late
yellow fever siege large contributions were
given for the afflicted. A large glass vase
stood in a public place in Philadelphia, it was

: Pupils of a Protestant Mission School in India.

The attendance in our day-school was very | night-school, which I started shortly after New
large about Christmas time; but it has some- | Year, has been pretty regularly attended by
what diminished, partly because some had to/7 scholars. The object is to fit them to read the
be expelled as incorrigible and partly because! Bible and enable them to sing in the services.
some voluntarily left for other schools, where | We have already begun to read the Bible. God
the discipline seems to be more congenial to | jgrant that this may become an overflowing
their disposition. Others have found work in | source of strength and consolation to them. It
the city, and others again have removed to the| i is simply appalling to think that only a few, a
country, so that at present the average daily | very few of the grown colored people are able
attendance isabout65. ‘Thenumber of scholars} to read or write, and their faith is therefore
in our Sunday-school is larger and we hope it| almost entirely dependent upon what others

’ willkeeponincreasing. Theaverage arenes passerls without being able to examine the doc-
is about 87, ranging between 20 and 50. trine according to the Light of the Holy Writ.

Mrs. Brooks, wife of Joseph Brooks, one of | ‘‘The harvest truly is plenteous, but the laborers

“our most diligent members, will In confirmed | are few, pray ye therefore the Lord of the har-
‘in a short time. : vest, that He will send’forth laborers into His

Our dear brother, J. Bransford, who had | harvest.” Matth. 9, 37. 38.

“received instructions from Mr. Burgdorf and Gro. ALLENBACH,

fast filling with silver, ?gold, and bills. An
anxious giver stood before it one day, but it
took so long until some one passed by to observe
his magnanimity of heart. He lingered with
the bill in hishand. At last a crowd gathered,
then he went up as if he had just come that
way, lifted it on high until all could see its
value, and when he had dropped the bill into
the vase, he proudly passed on. He gave his
money before men, to be seen of them. He
let the left hand know what the right hand
gave.—Selected.

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I LiKE that old Scotchman’s word, when he
was puzzled about a matter of duty and wanted
to end the debate: ‘‘Reach me the Bible; that
settles all.”’