The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1896, Page 34

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‘The Lutheran Pioneer.

David Livingstone.

In our picture you see David Livingstone
led into his hut by two faithful servants. On
the 22d of April, 1873, he was taken ill in
Africa, and his attendants carried him on a
litter to Boga, led him into the hut, where he

not those of the ordinary missionary, but rather
those of a Christian explorer. He traveled
over this unknown heathen land, and prepared
the way so that other missionaries might fol-
low and labor to better advantage. He did
much to give the world a proper idea of the
geography of Africa, and much towards break-

died on the Ist of May, kneeling at the side ing up the slave trade of the Portuguese. The

of his bed in prayer.

But who was David Livingstone? He was,
says one of our exchanges, a missionary and
explorer, whose name will be honored until
the end of time. He was born in Scotland in
1813, and died in Africa in 1873. He studied
medicine’ and theology, preparing himself for
the great work of missionating among the
heathen. He had hoped to labor for the con-
version of the Chinese. However the London

Missionary Society which he joined preferred
to send him to Africa. He left England for
the dark continent December 8, 1840, at the
age of 27 years. The history of this man is
quite interesting, and we hope it has a place
in our Sunday-school libraries. On his first
journey he came to a village that was troubled
with lions. The people were anxious to kill
one of the wild beasts, for this was a sure way
of driving off the ravaging brutes. He there-
fore undertook to shoot one of the lions, but
while reloading his gun was attacked by one.
The savage creature pounced upon him and
bit and crushed his shoulder and arm. One
of the natives killed the lion, and in course of
time Livingstone was well again. In after
years, when his dead body was brought back
to England for burial, it was recognized by the
lion’s teeth-marks, and was given the honor
due to it.

Livingstone spent sixteen years in Africa,
laboring in the interests of the Missionary
Society that sent him forth. His labors were

wild natives learned to know him, and to love
and trust‘in him.
river, he met several bands of slaves.

to be sent north for sale. .He set these free,

and ever afterwards the slave hunters had rea-
son to fear this God-fearing explorer. The lat-|
ter part of his life was one of great pain, but|

Counterfeits.

Some time ago a number of people in a cer-
tain neighborhood discovered that they had in
some way and somewhere received counterfeit
money. ‘The fact was reported, and a detec-
tive came and lived in that vicinity a while,
and quietly watched until he learned that the
counterfeit money came from a certain man.
This man was arrested and his house searched,
and this revealed the fact that he made bad
money and gave it out as good money. He
was sentenced to spend some years in prison.

There is a good deal of counterfeit money.
One must be careful or he will get hold of
some of it, and not only lose money in that
way, but perhaps get into trouble. Counter-
feit money looks very much like good money.
Sometimes only those who are used to hand-
ling much money Can tell if a note or coin is
genuine or counterfeit. The reason that men
make counterfeit money is because money is
valuable. People never think of counterfeit-

he labored on, and at last died the death of the}
righteous,—died while on his knees at prayer.

ing that which is worth nothing. The goy-
ernment makes the good money, and the ofli-
cers of the government hunt up those who
make bad money, and have them punished.
It is almost impossible for a man to make
counterfeit money and not be found out, for
the oflicers of our government are very shrewd,
and find out the wrong-doer before he is aware
that any body knows of his bad work. An-

Once, while exploring a} other valuable thing that is often counterfeited
They}
were natives who had been captured and were} want to be looked upon as Christians, while

is religion. ‘There are people in the world who

all the time they have no love for God in their
hearts. We call them hypocrites. They go
to church services. Perhaps they join some
congregation. They call themselves God’s
children. But they are really children of the
devil. They may deceive men, but they can

not deceive God. He knows our hearts. If we
are hypocrites He is aware of it.

There are little folks who do this same bad
work. They want their parents and pastor
and teacher to think that they are very good.
However, when they get away from their eye
they will say bad words and do naughty things.
They are counterfeits. God is not pleased
with such children. I hope none of you are
counterfeits. I hope you love our Lord Jesus,
and for His sake desire to do what is right,
and nothing else. Do not forget that God
sees you all the time, and that you can not
deceive Him. —Luth. Child’s Paper.

Two Kingdoms.

‘The kingdom of this world, or the devil’s
kingdom, is the kingdom of iniquity, igno-
Trance, error, sin, death, blasphemy, despera-
tion and everlasting damnation. The kingdom
of Christ is the kingdom of equity, grace,
light, remission of sins, peace, consolation,
Saving health and everlasting life.” Luther.