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The Lutheran Pioneer.

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Answered Prayer.

Inland Mission,
Missionary Conference:

‘I have had all sorts of experiences in all
sorts of circumstances, and when I have come
to God and pleaded His own promises in His
-own-Word, I have never been disappointed.
T have been in circumstances of great difficulty,
and have been led to ask Him for remarkable |
help. I was nearly wrecked when I was going

out to China for the first time. Our vessel was |

becalmed, and gradually drifting upon the
coast of New Guinea. “We could see the sav-
-ages on the shore.

They had kindled a fire, |

and noticed that one of the sails was quivering | that way about God; %t is not right!”” The two
with- the coming breeze. Said I: ‘Don’t you|men may perhaps not have blushed for many
Rev. J. Hudson Taylor, founder of the China| see that the corners of the royals are already | years, but now the blood rushed to their faces

coming, and we had better be ready for it.’
course the mate went to work, and soon the
sailors were tramping over the deck.
the sails were set the wind was down upon us.
The captain came up to see what was the
matter. He saw that our prayers had been
answered; and we didn’t forget to praise God
for so signal a deliverance from the perils to|
which we were exposed.

turn to this book (the Bible), and draw a check,
and it is always honored.’’

and were evidently expecting a good supper
that night.
some of the other students
used to jeer at me because
I was going among the
heathen, and they would
talk about ‘cold mission-
cary.’ Well, it did look that
-night as if somebody was
going to have a piece of hot
missionary. The captain
said to me, ‘We can’t do
sanything else but let down
the long boat.’ They had
tried to turn the head of
the vessel around from the
‘shore, but in vain. We
had been becalmed for sev-
eral weeks, with never a
breeze, or any sign of one.
In a few minutes we would
be among the coral reefs.
We would be at the mercy
of those savages, and they
didn’t look as if they had
much mercy. ‘Well,’ I
said,‘ there is one thing
we haven’t done yet. Let the Christians on
board pray about it.’ There was a black man
on board, » steward, who was a very sweet
Christian man, and the captain was a Chris-
tian, and myself. I proposed that we should
retire to our cabins, and in the name of our
Lord Jesus Christ ask our Father, and His
Father for a breeze immediately. They agreed.
I went to my cabin, and told the Lord that I
was just on my way to China; that He had
‘sent me; and that I couldn't get there if I was
shipwrecked and killed; and then I was going
‘on to ask Him for a breeze, but I felt so con-
fident about it that I couldn’t ask Him. So I
went up on deck. There was the second officer,
the chief mate—a very godless man. I went
up to him and said, ‘If I were you I would let
down the mainsail.’ Said he: ‘What do you
want me to let down the mainsail for?’ I said:
“We have been praying for a breeze, and it is
coming directly, and the sooner. we are ready
for it the better.’ With an oath he eaid he
would rather see a breeze than hear of one.
‘As he was speaking I instinctively looked up,

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A MISSIONARY STATION.

What a Sermon a Child can Preach.

‘A noble Chiistian woman, who was always
speaking about the Lord and his goodness to
all about her, and who was very careful to teach
her little children that ‘‘the fear of the Lord
is the beginning of wisdom,” once stopped with
her little six-year-old daughter at a hotel in
Baden, Germany. At the table sat many rich
people, and among them two, who cared more
for money and for the god of this world than
they did for the God of Heaven. They at once
began to talk very wickedly about God and
religion. They talked as if they were very
great men, and as if they meant to drive God
from his throne and to wipe out all religion
from the earth. To many, such talk seemed
awfully wicked, and yet no one had the cour-
age to say one word to those wicked men and
to stand up boldly for Jesus.

‘As no one seemed to care for the honor of
God, this little girl, as if moved by the Holy

Ghost,.stood up and said: “‘You must not talk |)

told the following at a recent| shaking? My dear fellow, there is a good breeze| and they sat silent and ashamed before this
Of | little six-year-old preacher.

Her voice seemed

to them as a voice from the Other World; and
Before | so it was, for the Holy Spirit must have taught
that little girl what she should say.
the room rejoiced at what the little girl—or
preacher, as I must call her—said, and an
aged man called out: ‘‘ Yes, my dear child,

you are right; no one ought to talk that way
We have been pen-| about God.”’
niless in the interior of China; but we simply |

Many in

Dear reader, never be ashamed to stand up

boldly and to speak a word for Jesus.

Olive Leaf.

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A Happy Deathbed.

What a precious thing it
is when it comes to this that
a poor darkened heart can
say: ‘‘For to me to live is
Christ, and to die is gain.”’
For example, we have heard
of a heathen girl who was
stolen from her home in
Africa and, through God’s
wonderful ways, came to
Germany. Here she was
baptized and spent her last
days in the house of pilgrims
in Basle. A burning desire
moved her to return to her
people in order to preach
the gospel to them. But
the Lord had willed other-
wise. <A slight illness was
looked upon by the doctor
as a mild fever. But she
said: ‘*No doubt, I shall

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get consumption, for I have

already been troubled with coughing and pains
in! the chest. Well, just as God wills, Til be
satiafied’ When the nurse stepped in, Pauline
laughed and joyfully clapped her hands. “Are
you laughing at me?”’ asked the nurse. SOT:
am not laughing at you,’ was the answer;
“TJ do not know what to do, for joy: [ama
child of God. Oh, you white people do not
have such joy as we colored people have. I
knew nothing about the Saviour; I can now
die easily, for I have a Saviour now. I am
glad that I can die.’’ As the attending sister
became worried about the sick girl, Pauline
said: ““You must not be downcast, Christians
should rejoice when one can go home.” For
every kind deed, for every word of God that
was spoken to her, she showed thankfulness by
the looks of her eyes, which she lifted towards
heaven. She said yet many things, but not
all could be understood; only these words were
heard: ‘‘Saviour—Hallelujah!’? Then she
softly fell asleep-

Gop is more willing to give than we are to ask.

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