The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1893, Page 3

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The Lutheran Pioneer.

Daily Strength.

‘*How can that be?’’ asked the missionary:
‘Shave you ever seen me before?”’

“Oh yes, I have,’’ replied the dying man:
“did you not preach in such a bazaar?’’ (or
market place).

“T can not really tell, I have no particular
recollection of it.’’

‘Do you not remember,’’ said the man,
**vou stood upon the steps of a house ?’’

waiting an hour or two beyond the usual time,
they went into the house. No table was set,
no coffee boiling on the fire, no cook over or
before it. The good wife was knitting quietly,
with the Bible on her Jap.

‘*What does this mean?’’ cried the husband ;
‘‘why isn’t our breakfast ready ?’’

“I thought you were in such a hurry about

As thy day thy strength shall be!
This should be enough for thee;
He who knows thy frame will spare
Burdens more than thou canst bear,

When thy days are veiled in night,
Christ shall give thee heavenly light;
Seem they wearizome and long,

Yet in Him thou shalt be strong.

Cold and wintry though they prove,
Thine the sunshine of Ilis love;
Or, with fervid heat oppressed,
In His shadow thou shalt rest.

When thy days on carth are past

Christ shall call thee home at last,

His redeeming love to praise,

Who hath strengthened all thy days.
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The Siberian Leper.

Siberia is a very cold country; it is also
very large; for it is more than three thousand
six hundred miles long, and nearly two thou-
sand miles wide, so that it is one hundred times
larger than England. It is not, however, so
pleasant a land: the ground is mostly covered
with snow, and the rivers are frozen over for
more than half the year; and the natives, in
winter, pass from place to place on sledges
‘drawn by reindeer.

Few flowers are found in the land, and the
trees bear but little fruit. Bears, wolves, and
other wild animals live in the forests ; they are
hunted for the sake of their skins, which the
people sell to make fur, or form into clothes
for their own use. ‘There are different tribes
thinly spread over this dreary country, but
the greater part are known by the name of
Tartars.

Most of these Tartars are the followers of
the false prophet Mohammed ; others worship
2 man, called the ‘‘grand lama,’’ wickedly
addressing him as ‘‘God, the everlasting father
of heaven ;’’ and many bow down before idols
of wood and stone, which their own hands have
made. Attempts have been made to bring the
Siberian Tartars to the knowledge of the only
Saviour, and God has blessed the labor of His
servants in the conversion of some of these
poor idolaters.

A missionary was passing one day among
the tents of some Tartars, when he saw a man
lying on the ground, nearly dead. He was a
leper. ‘This is a very sad disease; the body
is covered with large white sores, which burn
with pain; the eyes become red, the blood is

corrupted, and the flesh wasted away. Every-
body shuns the leper—there is no hospital to
receive him, no surgeon to try to cure him;
his own family turns from him with disgust,
and he is often left to perish. Our Lord, when
He was on the earth, had pity on lepers; and
love to Christ leads missionaries to feel pity
for them too.
The poor man lifted up his eyes, and fixed
them on the Christian teacher as he walked
along. ‘‘I know you,”’ he said.

who died to save sinners, and that men of every
nation might come to Him, and He would re-
ceive and save them.
such things before, I then believed in Jesus;

dying, and am looking to none other to help

“Oh yes, I do recollect it now.”’
**You told us,’”’ said the leper, ‘‘about Jesus,

Oh, sir, I never heard
I received Him as my Saviour—and now Iam

me.”’

Affected with what he had heard and seen,
the missionary went to a tent where he found
several Tartars drinking. He asked them,
“Why do you not go to your brother? he lies
there dying, with nobody to help him.’’

‘*Brother!’’ they cried, with scorn; ‘the is
no brother of ours: he is a dog!’’

The missionary could not prevail on these
crucl men to render any help, so he went back
alone to comfort the poor leper; but he found
he had just died. There was no one to bury
him, so he dug a hasty grave, and rolling in
the body, he covered it with the earth, and
departed. And there that body will lie till
the judgment-day ; and when the trumpet shall
sound, it shall rise to ‘‘glory, honor, and im-
mortality,’’ no more to suffer pain and disease,
but with the glorified spirits in heaven it shall
be forever with the Lord.

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Prayer and Breakfast.

Some years ago, when the country around
Cincinnati was newer than it is now, a pious
farmer was busy clearing his lands. He had
a number of hands employed, and was anxious
to accomplish a large amount of work while
the weather was favorable. He called them
early, and went out with them before break-
fast was ready. A horn was blown, and they
came and ate, and returned again to their work.

The farmer had been accustomed to have
prayer every morning in his family. But, to
keep so many men from chopping and log-
rolling while he read and prayed, was more
than he could afford ; so Satan suggested, and
the good man yielded. His pious wife saw
with grief that the family altar was neglected,
and her husband, in haste to get rich, was
departing from God. She talked with him,
pleaded with him, but in vain. At last she
determined to try another experiment.

The next morning the farmer and his men
went out as usual to their work. The sun
began to climb up the sky, but no breakfast
horn washeard. They grew hungry and looked
anxiously toward the house; they listened, but
still the expected summons did notcome. After

out praying.

Heaven as much as the body needs the bread
of earth.’’

your work that you hadn’t time to eat it!’’

‘*Haven’t time to eat it! Do you think we

can live without eating?’’

“You can live without eating as well as with-
The spirit needs the bread of

“Well, well,’’ said the farmer, ‘‘get us some

breakfast, and we will have prayer every morn-
ing, no matter how busy we are or how many
workmen I have.’’

She got the breakfast, and he kept his word.

The lesson was a good one, and never for-
gotten. — Selected.

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No Fear, No Hope.

Mr. Robert Owen once visited a gentleman

who was a believer. In walking out they came
to the gentleman’s family graveyard. Owen
addressing him, said: ‘*There is one advan-
tage I have over Christians—I am not afraid
to die; but if some of my business were set-
tled, I should be perfectly willing to die at
any moment.’’

‘*Well,’’ said his companion, ‘‘you say you

have no fear of death—have you any hope in
death?’’

After a solemn pause, he replied, ‘‘ No.’’
“‘Then,’’ replied the gentleman, pointing

to an ox standing near, ‘‘you are on a level
with that brute.
and stands in the shade, whisking off the flies,
and has neither hope nor fear.’”

He is fed till he is satisfied,

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A Boy’s Confidence.

A little boy came to his father looking very
much in earnest and asked: ‘* Father, is Satan
bigger than I am?’’

‘©Yes, my boy,’’ said his father.

‘Ts he bigger than you, father?’’

‘“Yes, my boy, he is bigger than your

father.’’

The boy looked surprised, but thought again,
and then asked: ‘‘Is he bigger than Jesus?’”’

‘*No, my boy,’’ answered the father, ‘‘Jesus
is bigger than he is.’’

The little fellow, as he turned away, said
with a smile: ‘‘ Then I am not afraid of him.’’

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Christ, the Only Door.

Though there were many rooms in the ark,
there was only one door. ‘‘And the door of
the ark shalt thou set in the side thereof.’’
And so there is only one door in the ark of
our salvation, and that is Christ.