The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1892, Page 30

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The Lutheran Pioneer. .

Letter from Concord, N. C.

girls is doing great work.

in buildings alone of nearly $45,000.

uated from the Normal Department.

theran youth? Ought we not to have a training-
school for such gifted boys that desire to work
among the colored people as ministers and
teachers?
On the 17th of July the corner-stone for the
new church in Reimertown was laid with ap-
propriate services. That day will long be
remembered by the people of that section.
Among the things that were confided to the
stone, that will ever bear testimony to the
glory of God and the truth as confessed by
the Lutheran church and that will also tell of
the love and liberality of our church for ‘‘the
brotlier in black,’’ the following may be men-
tioned: Luther’s Small Catechism, ‘‘Der Lu-
theraner,’’ ‘‘Die Missions-Taube,”’ ‘‘Lutheran
Witness,” “Ky. Luth. Kirketidende,’’ ‘‘Halfa
Century of true Lutheranism,’’ ‘‘The Lutheran
Pioneer,”’ ‘‘God Bless our Parochial Schools,’’
some political papers and a Luther-Medal of
1883 with the inscription ‘‘God’s Word and
Luther’s doctrine pure shall to all eternity en-
dure.’’ The sermon from Ephesians 2, 19—22.
was preached to'a large and appreciative audi-
‘ence of white and colored. On the same day
a number was baptized and confirmed.
May the word of the Apostles and Prophets,
_ of which Jesus Christ is the chief corner-stone,
' forever be the foundation of the Ey. Luth.
Se Immanuel Church of Cabarrus County!

Concord, July 18, 1892." Missionary.

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2 Letter from a Missionary ‘in China.

ear Children :—I remember that when the
mary collection was taken up in our

DEAR PIONEER :—The Northern Presbyteri-
ans are carrying on an extensive Mission among
the colored people of the South. Their higher
educational institutions are ably manned and

_ largely patronized. Biddle University in Char-
lotte, N. C., is a training-school for the future
ministry of the Colored Presbyterian Church.
The faculty of this institution is, with one or

_two exceptions, composed of efficient colored
men. Scotia Seminary at Concord for colored

The President,

Dr. Satterfield, and his assistants are northern
people. Last year another building, ‘‘Faith
Hall,’ was added at a cost of $25,000. This

_ together with the old one makes an investment

Last

session 260 pupils were in attendance. 21grad-

Tuition

is free, but each pupil pays for board and
other necessaries five dollars a month. What
power for good will these christian-trained girls
be among their people! Is it not time for the
Lutheran church, too, to take some active steps

-* toward establishing a higher institution for the

educational advancement of the colored Lu-

who had lived among them and hear them tell
about them.

I never thought I would ever live among
them myself, but here I am away in the western
part of China, in a big walled city, which has
thousands and thousands of people who don’t
know that there is any true God. They never
saw a Bible and have never even heard the
blessed name of Jesus.

By using the money you have given for the
missionary cause, we have built a real pretty
chapel, where several hundred people come
to hear the Gospel every Sunday, and every
day large numbers of men and women come
to hear about Jesus.

My room is only a few feet from this chapel,
and now while I am writing, I hear several
Chinese in it reading the Bible and praying
to God. They have been saved by the Gospel
of Christ which the missionaries have brought
to them, and you can’t think how changed
they are from what they used to be. Only a
short time ago they were bowing to ugly idols,
going out among the graves and burning paper
money, paper clothes, paper houses and many
other things made of paper, because they be-
lieved that their'dead friends had need of such
things in the spirit world; but now these same
people are happy believing in Jesus.

What I am about to write is so dreadful
that I don’t like to mention it, but I want you
to see how wicked these people are and how
sadly they need the Gospel to make their
lives better and to fit them for heaven. Many
fathers and mothers kill their own children,
because they don’t want to feed and clothe
them, and many that are not killed are sold
to be slaves. Only a short time ago a little
slave girl about seven years old ran away and
came to our house. She said she wanted to
live with us, but they came after her and she
cried piteously as they took her away.

Do you know that you are helping to make
these people better? We missionaries know
that you helped to send us here, and are all
the time helping to keep us here. We are
trying to work hard’ so that we may give the
Gospel to very many people. L. M.
Chung-King, China.

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The Watchmaker.

A person having remarked to Gotthold that
he often found it difficult to see the marks of
divine providence in the ordering of all events

in the world, Gotthold replied, Come, let us:

go to a watchmaker’s shop. Look, he has
prepared all the parts of a valuable watch;
wheels, springs and pins, all have been care-
fully measured, fitted and framed, to suit each
other. There lie all the pieces ready before
your eyes; they are all different in size, form
and use; each piece has its own appointed
place, into which it fits exactly. Can you now
take them up, put them together, and form
them into a perfect whole? I am sure you

can not; and if you try, you will begin to be-
lieve that a well-arranged whole can never be
framed from such disjointed parts. But let
the artificer come, and then see what his skill
can do. Thus is it with this world’s affairs.
God has formed all things in exact proportion,
number and weight. He has fitted cause to
cause; He has given to each of His creatures
their own appointed work; and then, by the
balance-weight of His own omnipotence and
all-seeing wisdom He has set and keeps the
whole works of His creation and providence in
motion. Think of this, if you would learn to
know something of the mighty pulse that beats
through all that has been created.

O my God, I thank Thee that Thy watchful
eye is over all, ruling and governing all things
by Thine infinite wisdom. I thank Thee that
all things happen, not as man wills, but as
Thou wilt. In whom can I trust with more sure
confidence than in Thee? However strange
the events in the world’s history, or my own,
may sometimes seem to my short-sighted eyes,
yet even though Thou slay me, I will trust in
Thee! I will say with the psalmist, ‘‘I was
dumb, I opened not my mouth; because ‘Thou
didst it.’’? (Ps. 39, 9.)

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The Power of Divine Grace.

Six years ago the Chief of the Indian tribe
Kitkatlas, on the western coast of British Co-
lumbia, burned the church, tore up the Bibles,
and refused to have anything to do with Chris-
tianity. The persecution grew hotter and hot-
ter. No teacher was suffered to land for more
than a year; but the life of the church could
not be stamped out. Last November the Chief
called together all the adult males to discuss,
as they supposed, plans for the winter. He
met them arrayed in a scarlet robe decked with
mother of pearl and curious embroideries. He
recounted the experiences of the past, showed .
how he had striven to crush out the Faith, and
then said that the end had come, and one by
one he took from him the scarlet robe and the
other insignia of a heathen chief, replaced his
clothing with the garb of a Christian and said:

‘‘What will cover my heart? I can wrap
nothing around it. God sees it and He knows
all the past and the present. He knows I am
ignorant and sinful. He has this summer made
me know it. I am now. dressed like a Chris-
tian. Those tokens of the dark past I will
never touch again. What shall I do next? I
am too old to goto school. I can not read; I
am like a child, knowing little but wanting to
learn. Will Jesus Christ haye me? Will He
help me? I will never turn back. I give my-
self to God. Now pray for me—pray, pray.
I want to know what will please Him. I must
know. Begin at once to pray.—Zx.

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Wen you find an unkind feeling towards
another person rising in your heart, ‘that is the
time not to'speak to a fellow-being, but to talk
to God in prayer. ii