The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1893, Page 23

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The Lutheran Pioneer. 23

About a Man who was not Afraid to Swear
Falsely.

that the wicked turn from his way and live ; | row will be Sunday, and you must come to

‘turn ye, turn ye from your evil ways; for|service.’’

why will ye die, O house of Israel?’’ “‘T surely will,’’ she answered, ‘‘if I am
After the sermon Mr. Kuhns confessed his | alive.’’

Mr. Kuhns was the owner of a beautiful
farm. He was not satisfied, however, with| great sin, asked the forgiveness of those he
only one farm. There was a tract of land ad-|had wronged most, and then asked the par-
joining it, which formerly belonged to it, that |don of the whole congregation. ‘Then he re-|

his heart was set upon. He supposed he could | ceived the holy supper. Let this story im-

Saturday night somebody stole Nya’s canoe,
and on Sunday nobody would lend her an-
other, yet she was in her place in church, and
in time. Her home was on the opposite shore

* sickly, and his finan~

‘

get possession of it by a process of law, al-|
though he had no right to doit. He accord-|
ingly entered suit, and by swearing falsely
managed to gain his point.

On leaving the court room a neighbor said,
‘*]Xuhns, how could you swear to such a false-

name in vain. Luth. Child’s Paper.

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Little Nyagandi.

hood?”? Hereplied: ‘‘Letme become acripple

ming.
On the shore of the Ogawe river, West} head bobbing up and down in the waves, or
Africa, in a mere hut, lives a little girl named |it is doubtful whether she would have said a

press us with the sinfulness of taking God’s/of the river, at that place a third of a mile
wide, with a current flowing deep and strong.
| How had she crossed?

In the simplest way in the world—by swim-
Some of the boys had seen the dark

if itisn’t true.’’ From that day his prosperity | Nyagandi. A lady who has gone as a mission-| word about her performance,

was at anend. He
himself became

cial affairs went

backward. His wife
died of grief. The
farm was sold to pay
debts, and his chil-
dren left him to
battle with the world
for themselves.

For a while he
could walk with a
cane, but soon he
could not do even
that. He grew worse
and worse, until his
knees were drawn
up against his chest,
and his arms and
fingers became so
‘stiff that he could
not feed himself.
His children having

left him, he was
taken in charge by
the man whom he
had formerly so

basely cheated.
Here he was well
cared for, and heard
God’s Word as it was read in this family at
morning and evening worship. The Chris-
tian walk and conversation of his benefactor

deeply impressed him, and almost drove him

to despair. One evening while eating sup-
per he burst into tears and exclaimed to his
hostess, ‘‘Mary, I am lost,’’ and then con-
fessed how he had sworn to a lie to cheat them
out of their farm. They could not quiet him.
So the pastor was called. He gladly listened
to God’s Word, and became a deeply penitent
sinner. Before receiving the Lord’s Supper,
at his own request, he made a confession of

“his sin publicly. On that day the church was

crowded. The minister preached on the text:
**AsT live, surely mine oath that he has de-
spised, and my covenant that he hath broken,
even it will I recompense upon his own head ;’”

-and, ‘‘As I live, saith the Lord God, I have

no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but

But, little women,
whosometimes pout
at wearing an old

NEGRO HUTS IN JAMAICA.

ary to her people has told a very pretty story
about her, which we are sure our girls will like
to read.

Nyagandi has never worn any clothing in
her life except a cloth tied around her waist.
It has been only lately that she had thought
of wearing anything else. ~

Since she has been attending school in the
mission house, and learning to read, she is an-
xious to wear a dress like her kind friends,
and so with slow but patient fingers she is
learning to make one out of some bright
calico. -

She owns a canoe, in which she darts here
and there over the creeks and rivers like a
graceful dusky bird.

One Saturday she paddled to the mission
house, and sold some bunches of plantains to
the ladies.

*tNow, Nya,’’ said one of them, ‘*to-mor-

bonnet or dress to
church, pleasethink
of the African girl,
so anxious to keep”
her promise thatshe
swam the Ogawe on
Sunday -morning
rather than be ab-
sent when the mis-
| sionaries expected
to see her at the
Christian worship.
Harper’s Young People.

How to Read
the Bible.

Luther used to
} teach his children,
to read the Bible in
the following way:
Firsttoread through
one book carefully,
then to study chap-
ter by chapter, and
then verse by verse,
and lastly word by
word, for he said,
“Tt is like a person shaking a fruit-tree. First
shaking the tree and gathering up the fruit
which falls to the ground, and then shaking
each branch, and afterwards each twig of the
branch, and last of all looking carefully under
each leaf to see that no fruitremains. In this
way, and in no other, shall we also find the
hidden treasurers that are in the Bible.”’

The World.

Love not the world, neither the things that
are in the world.

If any man love the world, the love of the
Father is not in him. For all that is in the
world, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the
eyes and the pride of life, is not of the Father,
but is of the world.

The world passeth away, and the lust
thereof; but he that doeth the will of God
abideth forever. : ;