The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1898, Page 34

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The Lutheran Pioneer.

With the Lord.

From papers sent to us we learn the sad
news of the death of Lydia Bakke, only

daughter of our beloved missionary N. J.| and colored had gathered at the church, who,
Bakke. She departed this life to be with the lin unstinted measure, sympathized with him |
Lord on Aug. 2, at the age of seventeen and |

bate draped in black and white and the beau-
tiful casket was covered with fragrant roses
and flowers, tokens of love from her friends.
A large and appreciative audience of white

| whom God has so sorely visited.
a half years. ‘‘To her father she was all that}

‘The following schoolmates and friends

lof faith entire and uncorrupt; to which all
jeuings ought to give place, be it charity, an
| apostle, or an angel from heaven.

Dr. Martin Luther,

Zenana Work.

We have so frequently been asked what is

earth could furnish in immediate family ties.”’| acted as honorary pallbearers: The Misses| meant by zenana work that we quote the fol-
When smitten with such a deep wound, the | Ollie Cline, Bessie Stricker, Nora Fisher, Ollie | lowing from the Mission Worker:

sympathy of brethren can soothe, and assuage |
the pain, and call forth sincere gratitude to!

Fisher, Mamie Lentz, Rosa May Phillips.

‘At the grave the Rev. Mr. Geo. Schuetz, |

‘CA zenana is that portion of the home of
a high caste family in India which is devoted

God for Christian fellowship ; but still there} of Salisbury, conducted the services, consist-| to the use of the women and girls. The house
is a dreadful sense of loneliness and sorrow, | ing in the reading of a Scripture lesson, a/is built in a hollow square, the outer part,

and there is only One that can give true con- |
solation to the burdened soul. May He, our|
great High Priest, who is so easily touched |
with the feeling of our infirmities, who went |
down to the lowest depth of loneliness and |
drained the bitterest cup of suffering, comfort |
the bereaved and grant the ‘‘peace-
able fruit of righteousness.’’ ‘‘No
chastening for the present seemeth
to be joyous, but grievous; never-
theless afterward it yieldeth the
peaceable fruit of righteousness
unto them which are exercised
thereby,”’ Hebr. 12, 11.

The following description of the
funeral services we clip from the
Concord Standard :

“Rey. Jolin C. Schmidt, of
Greensboro, officiated at the
house. His brief but beautiful
address was based on John 5, 24.
The speaker showed that the de-
ceased from her infancy had heard
the word of God, believed it and
in her life put into practice what
she heard, and that according to
the promise of Christ she had
now secured the end of her faith,
which is everlasting life.

Rey. Prof. W. H. T. Dau, who

-two years ago officiated at the
funeral of Mrs. Bakke, conducted
the services in the church. On
that occasion he pleaded touchingly with the
bereaved husband and daughter to say from
their hearts ‘Thy will be done,’ now he im-
pressed upon the grief stricken father the
words from the Love Song of Paul, 1 Cor.
18,18: ‘And now abideth faith, hope, and
charity, these three; but the greatest of these
is charity.’ The exposition which the Rev.
Prof. gave of the three chief Christian graces
as well as the application he made on the be-
reaved one as Christian father and pastor was
something of the best we have heard. The
“sermon was replete with sound instruction
‘and tender comfort, which could not fail to
lift up the sinking spirit and bind up the
_ broken heart of him who mourned. He paid
" a high but well deserved tribute to the Chris-
tian lovely character of Miss Lydia, which all
ow her must substantiate.

The Lutheran Grace church was taste-

short address, and prayer.’’

“In the fullness, deep and wide,
Weary souls, by sorrow tried,
Knowing, shall be satisfied

In His rest:
Finding, in the perfect sweetness
Of an infinite completeness,
That God’s ways are always best.’’

Angel Guard.

“Amid the snares, amid the cares
That danger bring each day,
Our Lord an angel band prepares

To guard us on our way.’’

A Little Leaven Soureth.

“tA little leaven leaveneth [or maketh sour]
the whole lump of dough.’? This is an admo-
nition which Paul standeth much upon. And
we also ought greatly to esteem the same at
this day. For our adversaries object against
us that we are contentious, obstinate and in-
tractable in defending our doctrine, and even
in matters of no great importance. ‘To this
we answer with Paul, that ‘‘a little leaven
soureth the whole lump.’’ ‘‘A small mote in
the eye hurteth the eye.” And James saith,
“He that faileth in one point is guilty of all.’’
This place, therefore, maketh very much for
us against these cavilers, which say that we
break charity to the great hurt and damage
of the churches. But we protest that we de-
sire nothing more than to be at unity with all
men, so that they leave unto us the doctrine

opening on the street, being the dwelling of
; the men, and the inner part, opening on the
{court, the zenana, or home of the women.
‘In these zenanas there are sometimes fifty
women, all belonging to the same family, but
‘all of them wives of different individuals.
A missionary from Calcutta says
- that ‘It is not uncommon for a
household there to number 300
persons.’
‘These women have no com-
mon sitting-room, luxuriously fur-
nished, as have the women of a
Turkish harem, but each has her
own little room, in which she
spends all her life, and rears her
children. It is bare and comfort-
less, with no furniture but a mat
and a bed, with windows high in
the wall,.so that she may not look
out, nor others look in. The women
of a zenana are permitted to visit
each other, and the court is free
to them all; but only upon rare
occasions may they visit outside
of their own homes, and then so
closely covered that they can see
nothing of the outside world.
“In these prisons the little
Hindu girls are shut up, when
they are eight or ten years old, at
which age they are usually mar-
ried. As one of them has said:
‘Here we are born, brought up, married, and
have children and die—all within the same
walls.’

“This, then, is a zenana, into which women
missionaries must penetrate, if they would
reach the ‘high caste’ women of India.”

——2—+ oo

The Love of Jesus.

“Think of the love of Jesus! There are
those who stand very near to you, and who
love you more than words can tell. But there
is One who loves you more, infinitely more;
One who gives you a deeper and tenderer
sympathy; One who has loved you from the
beginning, and marked you for His own at
your baptism; One who has been pleading
with you all your life long: even that ‘Good
Shepherd who goeth into the mountains’ to
seek the one sheep that has gone astray-””